After Louise's death, and after bearing criticism of his war record from other Confederates for decades, Longstreet rebutted their arguments in his memoirs entitled "From Manassas to Appomattox", a labor of five years that was published in 1896. Piston describes the prose as "entertaining, if occasionally labored". In the book, Longstreet praises several Civil War officers but frequently disparages others, most heavily his postwar detractors Jubal Early and Fitzhugh Lee. Although Longstreet expressed personal affection for Robert E. Lee, he was at times sharply critical of his strategy. The quality of the book was said to have been diminished by bitterness and a lack of objectivity, and it did little if anything to alter the views of Longstreet's opponents.