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James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".
Burnside was born in Liberty, Indiana, and was the fourth of nine children [1] of Edghill and Pamela (or Pamilia) Brown Burnside, a family of Scottish, Scotch-Irish and English origins. [2] His great-great-grandfather Robert Burnside (1725–1775) was born in Scotland and settled in the Province of South Carolina. [3]
The First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (or Longstreet's Corps) was a military unit fighting for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. It was formed in early 1861 and served until the spring of 1865, mostly in the Eastern Theater. The corps was commanded by James Longstreet for most of its existence.
Richard H. Anderson was appointed a "temporary" lieutenant general on May 31, 1864, and given command of the First Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Gen. Lee (following the wounding of Lee's second-in-command, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet on May 6 in the Battle of the Wilderness.) With Longstreet's return that October, Anderson ...
Finally, on September 19–20, 1863, Bragg, reinforced by two divisions from Mississippi, one division and several brigades from the Department of East Tennessee, and two divisions under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet from Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, turned on the pursuing Rosecrans in northeastern Georgia and at high cost defeated ...
It is about James Longstreet. Branda Wineapple, in a book review in The New York Times, wrote that the work "is not so much about Longstreet’s character or his motivations [...] but about a symbolic Longstreet" related to the disputes about history after the American Civil War, especially how different people perceived him differently. [1]
Politico said retired Gen. Robert Harward was the best man. Married to the Marine Corps Military Times reminded readers that “Mad Dog” Mattis, 71 , was famously said to be married to the ...
General Longstreet and Ellen Dortch Longstreet. Having met General James Longstreet, through her school roommate, she married him on September 8, 1897, [12] when she was just 34 [13] and he was 76. She was widowed in 1904, childless. Ellen Dortch Longstreet, 1905. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division