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).

From the description of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet papers, 1844-1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557040

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