Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, lawyer, author, and college president, was born 22 September 1790, in Augusta, Georgia, and died 9 July 1870, in Oxford, Mississippi. His sketches of late eighteenth century Georgia life, GEORGIA SCENES, appeared in Georgia newspapers (1833-1836), but later writings were more political or religious. He was ordained a Methodist minister (1838) and became president of four Southern colleges: Emory College (1839-1848), Centenary College in Jackson, La. (1849), the University of Mississippi (1849-1856), and South Carolina College (1858-1861; now the University of South Carolina).

Native of Augusta, Ga.; graduate, Yale University, 1813; attorney; judge; Georgia state legislator; newspaper editor and founder of Augusta Sentinel; ordained Methodist minister, 1838; elected president, Emory College, Oxford, Ga., 1839; elected president, Centuary College, 1848; elected president, University of Mississippi, 1850; elected president, South Carolina College, 1857; re-elected president, University of Mississippi, 1861; author, Georgia Scenes.

Augusta (Richmond Co.), Ga. resident.