James Longstreet

Birth Date

1821-01-08

Death Date

1904-01-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

South Carolina, soldier. South Carolina native. Married to Maria Louisa Garland Longstreet. Father of John G. Longstreet, Augustus B. Longstreet, James Longstreet Jr., Robert Longstreet, and James Longstreet. Resident of Alabama in 1831. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1842. Served in the 4th Infantry (U.S.A.). Veteran of the Mexican-American War (U.S.A). Served in the 8th Infantry (U.S.A.) from 1847 to 1858. Major in the United States Army in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in San Antonio in 1850. Served as Paymaster (U.S.A.) from July 19, 1858, to June 1, 1861. Soldier in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1860. Employed Coleman Malone as a servant in Albuquerque in 1860. Resigned from the United States Army on June 1, 1861. Commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in June 1861. Served in the Confederate Army as a brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general from June 1861 to April 12, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Texas, Bexar County, San Antonio, p. 203A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Texas, Bexar County, San Antonio, p. 82.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New Mexico Territory, Bernalillo County, Albuquerque, p. 8.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Louisiana, Orleans County, New Orleans Ward 10, p. 390A.
"Famous Rebel Chieftain Dead," Boston Sunday Globe (Boston, MA), January 3, 1904, p. 8.
“Gen. Longstreet Dies Suddenly,” Chicago Tribune(Chicago, IL), January 3, 1904, p. 6.
"Longstreet, James," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. IV, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 16.
Jeffry D. Wert, General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 32, 58, 403-4.
"James Longstreet Jr. (1821-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial 642, accessed September 27, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/642.

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