Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

U.S. railroad commissioner, army officer, and diplomat.

James Longstreet, military man, businessman, diplomat, and railway commissioner, was born 8 January 1821, in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and died 2 January 1904, in Gainesville, Georgia. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (1842) and served in the Mexican War before he resigned from the U.S. Army to become a general in the Confederate Army. After the war he was president of an insurance company and was a cotton factor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served as U.S. minister to Turkey (1880-1881), authored FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX (1896), and was U.S. Railway commissioner (1898).

Confederate general.

Lt. Gen. Confederate Army.

Confederate officer.

James Longstreet (1821-1904) was a Confederate general. Longstreet was born in South Carolina and educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He served in the United States Army during the Mexican War. His command during the Civil War, particularly at Gettysburg, has stirred historical controversy. After the Civil War, Longstreet served as a Republican politician and United States diplomat.

James Longstreet was born in Edgefield District, South Carolina on January 8, 1821. Longstreet graduated from West Point in 1842, and served in the U.S. Army until his resignation on June 1, 1861. He was commissioned into the Confederate Army on June 17, 1861. Longstreet was originally a Confederate division commander under Joseph E. Johnston and he became Robert E. Lee's most distinguished lieutenant following the death of Stonewall Jackson, May 10, 1863. While with Lee, Longstreet was blamed for the Confederate failure at Gettysburg. Longstreet created a new life for himself following the Civil War. He held a variety of public offices throughout the South. Longstreet died on January 2, 1904 and is buried in Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville, Georgia.

Confederate Army general.

Born in Edgefield District, S.C.; graduated, 1842, from West Point, and served in the U.S. Army until his resignation, 1 June 1861; commissioned into the Confederate Army 17 June 1861; following the Civil War, Longstreet held a variety of public offices throughout the South and was buried in Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville, the seat of Hall County, Georgia, a town that developed as a mountain health resort during later 19th century, and in 1900, shortly before Longstreet's death, welcomed the textile mill industry.

Confederate army officer.

Robert William Hughes was born at Muddy Creek Plantation, Powhatan County, Va. in 1821. His parents died in 1822 and he was raised by Edward C. Carrington and Eliza Preston Carrington. He attended Caldwell Institute, Greensboro, N. C. and studied law in Fincastle, Va. He married Eliza M. Johnston, niece of Joseph E. Johnston and the adopted daughter and niece of John B. Floyd. Hughes' son was Robert Morton Hughes. Robert William Hughes was a newspaper editor and federal district attorney. Involved in post Civil War Republican Party politics, he was nominated for governor of Virginia and for Congress but did not win. He was appointed judge of the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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