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James Longstreet
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Confederate Army general (1821–1904)
OverviewAI-generated
James Longstreet (1821–1904) was an American military officer, diplomat, and ambassador. Born in Edgefield County, he was educated at the United States Military Academy and served in the United States Army before holding the rank of lieutenant general and general in the Confederate States Army. His political affiliation included the Republican Party (United States). He participated in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War, with his allegiance to the Confederate States of America.
Longstreet authored nine works, including *The seven days' fighting about Richmond*, *From Manassas to Appomattox*, *General James Longstreet at Antietam*, *General James Longstreet at Gettysburg*, and *General James Longstreet at Second Bull Run*. He spoke English and died in Gainesville.
Synthesized by Vinony from 32 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 Jan 1821
- Died
- 2 Jan 1904
- Works
- 9
Top works
- The seven days' fighting about Richmond
- From Manassas to Appomattox
- General James Longstreet at Antietam
- General James Longstreet at Gettysburg
- General James Longstreet at Second Bull Run
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11
- Total plays
- 16
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,647x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,217x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,769x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,423x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,702x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.”
- “That man Grant will fight us everyday and every hour until the end of the war.”
- “The highest of human laws is the law that is established by appeal to arms. The sword has decided in favor of the North, and what they claimed as principles cease to be principles, and are become law. The views that we hold cease to be principles because they are opposed to law. It is our duty to abandon ideas that are obsolete and conform to the requirements of law.”
- “Great God! I thought to myself, how my heart swells out out to such magnanimous touch of humanity. Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?”
- “If it wasn't about slavery, then I don't know what else it was about.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- President
- Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield
- Preceded by
- Horace Maynard
- Succeeded by
- Lew Wallace
- Born
- ( 1821-01-08 ) January 8, 1821, Edgefield District, South Carolina , U.S.
- Died
- January 2, 1904 (1904-01-02) (aged 82), Gainesville, Georgia , U.S.
- Resting place
- Alta Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, Georgia, U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouses
- Maria Louisa Garland ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1848 – 1889 ) Helen Dortch ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1897 )
- Alma mater
- United States Military Academy ( BS )
- Allegiance
- United States Confederate States
- Branch service
- United States Army (USA) Confederate States Army (CSA) Louisiana State Militia
- Years of service
- 1842–1861 (USA) 1861–1865 (CSA)
- Rank
- Major (USA) Lieutenant-General (CSA) Major General (Louisiana State Militia)
- Unit
- 4th U.S. Infantry 8th U.S. Infantry
- Commands
- Longstreet's Brigade Longstreet's Division First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Department of East Tennessee
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Confederate States of America
- Place of birth
- Edgefield County
- Place of death
- Gainesville
- Position held
- ambassador
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Conflict
- American Civil War
- Military branch
- Confederate States Army
- Military rank
- lieutenant general
- Image
- James Longstreet.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- James Longstreet
- date of birth
- 1821-01-08
- date of death
- 1904-01-02
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- allegiance
- Confederate States of America
- name in native language
- James Longstreet
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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". He served under Lee as a corps commander for most of the battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater, and briefly with Braxton Bragg in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater.
After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point, Longstreet served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War. He was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec, and during recovery married his first wife, Louise Garland. Throughout the 1850s, he served on frontier duty in the American Southwest. In June 1861, Longstreet resigned his U.S. Army commission and joined the Confederate Army. He commanded Confederate troops during an early victory at Blackburn's Ford in July and played a minor role at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “James Longstreet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.