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No. He and JEB Stuart are the two popular villains of Gettysburg, who helped Lee to lose the most crucial battle of the war.
Longstreet thought that all the Confederate armies should be helping out in the siege of Vicksburg on the Mississippi. So he was against the whole Pennsylvania campaign, and his heart wasn't in it. This is taken as the reason for his slow reactions to Lee's orders in the battle. (It should be noted that Lee never had a bad word to say about Longstreet for the rest of his life.)
Longstreet was also criticised in the South for voting for Grant as President, and agreeing to work with him. But Grant had been a friend of his from the time they attended West Point, when Grant married one of Longstreet's cousins.
Only recently has his reputation been reassessed and somewhat de-vilified.
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