James Longstreet Biography
General (1821–1904)
James Longstreet was a successful Confederate general. During Reconstruction, some Southerners started to feel he was responsible for the loss at Gettysburg.
“Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the Battle of the Wilderness—that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war—being shot at since the war, by many officers, was worse.”
—James Longstreet
Synopsis
James Longstreet was born in South Carolina's Edgefield district on January 8, 1821. In 1861, he resigned from the U.S. Army in order to join the Confederacy. By the end of the war, he was Robert E. Lee's second-in-command. During Reconstruction—which he accepted—many Southerners began to blame him for the defeat at Gettysburg. He died in Gainesville, Georgia, on January 2, 1904, at the age of 82.
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