LONGSTREET
LONGSTREET
where he resumed his law practice and established
a weekly newspaper, the Sentinel, which was
united with the Chronicle as the Chronicle and
Sentinel in 1838. He became a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church in 1838, and preached
in Augusta and ministered to the sufferers from
the epidemic of yellow fever that visited the city
that year. He was president of Emory college,
Oxford, Ga., 1839-48; of Centenary college,
Jackson, La., 1848-49, and of the University of
Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., 1849-56. He engaged in
agricultural pursuits, 1856-57, and was president
of South Carolina college, 1857-61, and again pres-
ident of the University of Mississippi as successor
to Frederick A. P. Barnard for a short time in
1861. His library with valuable unpublished MS.
was destroyed by fire during the civil war. He
took part in the debate in the general conference
of 1844 in New York city which resulted in
the separation of the Methodist church north and
south. He received the honorary degrees: A.M.
from the University of Georgia in 1823, LL.D.
from Yale in 1841 and D.D. from the University
of Mississippi in 1856. TJie Methodist Quarterly,
The Southern Literary Messenger, The Southern
Field and Fireside, The Magnolia and The Orion
published his Letters to Clergymen of the North-
ern Methodist Church, Letters from Georgia to
Massachusetts, and A Revieiv in the Decision of
the United States Supreme Court in the Case of
McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland; and he is
also the author of: Georgia Scenes (1840), and
Master William Mitten (1864), humorous pro-
ductions. He died in Oxford, Miss., Sept. 9, 1870.
LONGSTREET, James, soldier, was born in
Edgefield District, S.C, Jan. 8, 1821; son of
James and Mary Ann (Dent) Longstreet; grand-
son of William and Hannah (Randolph) Long-
street, and a descend-
ant of the Long-
streets and Randolphs
of New Jersey and
of the Dents and
Marshalls of Mary-
land and Virginia.
Richard Longstreet,
the progenitor of the
name in America,
settled in Monmouth
county. New Jersey.
James Longstreet re-
moved with his par-
ents to Alabama in
1831 and was gradu-
ated from the U.S.
Military academy in 1842. He was promoted
in the army as brevet 2d lieutenant of the 4th
infantry, July 1, 1842, and served in garrison at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 1842-44; on frontier duty
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at Natchitoches, La., 1844-45; was promoted 2d
lieutenant of the 8th infantry, March 4, 1845;
was in military occupation of Texas, 1845-46, and
served in the war with Mexico, 1840-47. He
participated in the battle of Palo Alto, May 8,
1846; the battle of Resaca de la Palma, May 9,
1846; and the battle of Monterey, Sept. 21-23,
1846; was promoted first lieutenant, 8th infan-
try, Feb. 23, 1847, and participated in the siege of
Vera Cruz, March 9-29, 1847; the battle of Cerro
Gordo, April 17-18, 1847; the capture of San An-
tonio, and the battle of Churubusco, Aug. 20, 1847;
the battle of Molino del Rey, Sept. 8, 1847; and
the storming of Chapultepec, Sept. 13, 1847, where
he was severely wounded in the assault on the
fortified convent. He was brevetted captain,
Aug. 20, 1847, " for gallant and meritorious con-
duct in the battles of Churubusco and Contreras "
and major, Sept. 8, 1847, " for gallant and meri-
torious conduct at the battle of Molino del Rey."
He served as adjutant of the 8th infantry, 1847-
49; was in garrison at Jefferson Barracks, 1848-
49, and served on frontier duty in Texas in 1849.
He was chief of commissariat of the Department
of Texas, 1849-51, and served on scouting duty in
Texas, Kansas and New Mexico, 1851-61. He was
promoted captain Dec. 7, 1852, and major of staff
and paymaster July 19, 1858. He resigned his
commission in 1861 and was appointed briga-
dier-general in the Confederate army, and com-
manded a brigade at Blackburn's Ford, Va., from
July 18 to and including July 21, 1861. He was
promoted major-general and commanded the
rear guard of Joseph E. Johnston's army during
the retreat from Yorktown, Va. He commanded
the Confederate forces in the field composed of
his own and part of D. H. Hill's divisions and
Stuart's cavalry brigade at the battle of Williams-
burg, May 5, 1862, commanded the right wing of
Johnston's army at Seven Pines, May 31-June 1,
1862; his own and A. P. Hill's divisions in the
seven days' battles before Richmond, and com-
manded the right wing of Lee's Army of Northern
Virginia in the second battle of Bull Run, Aug.
29-30, 1862; and in the Maryland campaign, Sep-
tember, 1862; the first corps (Confederate left) at
the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. He
was on duty south of the James river in April,
1863, and was ordered to rejoin General Lee at
Chancellorsville, Va., but Lee, without awaiting
his return, made precipitate battle May 2-4. 1863.
He commanded the right wing of the Army of
Northern Virginia at the battle of Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863. He served under General Bragg
in the Army of the Tennessee and commanded the
left wing of that army composed of Hindman's
division, Polk's corps, Buckner's corps, and two
divisions and artillery of Longstreet's corps, at the
battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19-20, 1863. He
