Longstreet
JAMES, an American military com military military officer; born in Edgefield district, S. C., Jan. 8, 1821. He was graduated at the United States Military Acaddemy in 1842. He served with distinction in the Mexican War, and after obtaining his captaincy, was brevetted major. After serving for some time in Texas, Longstreet was appointed, in 1858, paymaster in the regular army.
Resigning his commission at the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederates with the rank of Brigadier-General.
He distinguished himself in the battle of Bull Run. In 1862 he was made Major-General, and earned great celebrity under General Lee, in the campaigns against Generals Pope, McClellan, and Burnside. After the battle of Fredericksburg, General Longstreet was given the command of a corps, with the rank of Lieutenant-General. With this force he took an active and distinguished part in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. In the battle of the Wilderness, General Longstreet was dangerously wounded. After the fall of Richmond he surrendered, and lived in comparative retirement till 1869, when he was appointed Supervisor of LONGUEVAL Customs at New Orleans. Later he was at the siege of Pavia, 1525. LEONARD, made Minister to Turkey, and United States Marshal for the District of ditenco haowban GEN. JAMES LONGSTREET Georgia. In 1897 he was appointed United States Commissioner of Railroads.
He published "From Manassas to Appomattox" (1904). He died near Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 2, 1904.