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Appomattox campaign. Battle of Sailor's Creek. Battle of Appomattox Court House. Battle of Liberty Place. James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general who served during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".
Nov 9, 2009 · James Longstreet was a U.S. Army officer, government official and most famously a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-65). One of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted...
Nov 13, 2023 · Books. The Confederate General Whom All the Other Confederates Hated. James Longstreet became a champion of Reconstruction. Why? By Eric Foner. Illustrations by Justin Jenkins. November 13, 2023....
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James Longstreet. Title Lieutenant General. War & Affiliation Civil War / Confederate. Date of Birth - Death January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904. Perhaps no Confederate officer is surrounded by more controversy than James Longstreet. Called “Old Pete” and “My Old War Horse” by Gen. Robert E. Lee, Longstreet was Lee’s trusted advisor ...
Nov 20, 2023 · Nov 20, 202311:30 AM. Gen. James Longstreet. Mathew Brady/U.S. National Archives. It’s hard to see Elizabeth Varon’s new biography of James Longstreet becoming a runaway bestseller, and that ...
May 2, 2024 · James Longstreet (born January 8, 1821, Edgefield district, South Carolina, U.S.—died January 2, 1904, Gainesville, Georgia) was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (1842), he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from the Union (December 1860 ...
Jan 14, 2021 · At Gettysburg’s 1888 grand reunion, Confederate outcast James Longstreet turned man of the hour. but his memory tour was almost fatal. by John Banks 1/14/2021. Sporting long whiskers but no beard, 67-year-old James Longstreet poses with other Gettysburg veterans at the inaugural Grand Reunion.
