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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 13, 2023 · Longstreet’s understanding of the lessons and consequences of Confederate defeat, Varon writes, helps explain the mystery of how a man who went to war to destroy the nation and protect slavery...
Synopsis. The series starred James Franciscus as insurance investigator Mike Longstreet. After a bomb hidden in a champagne bottle kills his wife, Ingrid, and leaves him blind, the title character pursues and captures the killers. He then continues his career as an insurance investigator despite his blindness.
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 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 ...
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 ...
Longstreet: Created by Stirling Silliphant. With James Franciscus, Marlyn Mason, Peter Mark Richman, Ann Doran. The cases of a blind insurance investigator.
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.
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 ...
One of the most controversial generals of the Confederacy, James Longstreet (1821–1904) was born in South Carolina but spent most of his early years in Georgia. An 1842 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Longstreet displayed conspicuous bravery during the Mexican War.
