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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...
May 2, 2024 · James Longstreet 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); he was made a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.
Mar 16, 2024 · Civil War Officer. When the Civil War erupted, Longstreet was serving as a paymaster in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He resigned his commission in the United States Army on June 1, 1861, and returned to Alabama where he offered his services to the Confederacy.
Longstreet's post-war account of the fight on July 2, 1863 in the Civil War's most famous battle, Gettysburg.
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.
Dec 22, 2021 · SUMMARY. James Longstreet was a Confederate General who served as Robert E. Lee’s second-in-command for most of Lee’s tenure as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Longstreet fought in many of the most important battles of the conflict and ended the war as a respected figure.
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May 21, 2018 · General James Longstreet (1821-1904) fought on the side of the Confederacy in almost every major battle of the U.S. Civil War.
