Longstreet, James

James (1821-1904), an American soldier. He was born in Edgefield, South Carolina, January 8, 1821, and died at Gainesville, Georgia, January 2, 1904. He was graduated at West Point in 1842 and saw service in the West as well as in the Mexican War. In 1861 he resigned from the United States army and entered the Confederate army with the rank of brigadier-general. He was in both battles of Bull Run and served with credit in the peninsular campaign against McClellan. He commanded the Confederate right wing at Antietam and the left wing at Fredericksburg. At Gettysburg he held the rank of lieutenant-general and commanded the division that sustained the brunt of the fighting and furnished the memorable column that Pickett led. He saved the day for the Confederates at Chickamauga, met Burnside at Knoxville, and was back again with Lee in the battles of the Wilderness. Throughout the war he was one of the most dauntless fighters and hardest hitters on either side. After peace was established he accepted the results of the war in good faith. He settled in business at New Orleans, where he held office as surveyor of customs and again as postmaster. He removed to Georgia in 1875. He was United States minister to Turkey in 1880-1, and later marshal of Georgia and a United States railway commissioner. His reminiscenses of the Civil War appeared in 1896 under the title From Manassas to Appomattox. See Civil War

Looking Backward: 2000-1887, a story by Edward Bellamy, published in 1888. It is a story of communism. It purports to be written in the year 2000 in the midst of a communistic city. The plot is laid in a prior age, 1887, an age of competition, waste, and corruption. See Bellamy