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".

Nov 9, 2009 · James Longstreet was a U.S. Army officer, government official and most famously a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-65).

Perhaps no Confederate officer is surrounded by more controversy than James Longstreet. Called “Old Pete” and “My Old War Horse” by Gen. Robert E. Lee, Longstreet was Lee’s trusted advisor and friend.

Nov 13, 2023 · And in 1998, an equestrian statue was installed of James Longstreet, one of the Confederacy’s most successful generals, present at the battle but never before memorialized at Gettysburg....

Dec 22, 2021 · James Longstreet, at the head of the largely black Louisiana state militia, is shot and briefly held prisoner during a riot in New Orleans, Louisiana. The rioters are members of the Crescent City White League, a white supremacist organization attempting to overthrow the government of Louisiana.

May 14, 2018 · Augustus Longstreet, a man of some political prominence, was a fierce states' rights partisan who supported South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis. Longstreet served with distinction in the Mexican–American War with the 8th U.S. Infantry.

Jan 4, 2025 · James Longstreet was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (1842), he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from the Union (December 1860); he was made a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.

One of the most controversial generals of the Confederacy, James Longstreet (1821–1904) was born in South Carolina but spent most of his early years in Georgia. An 1842 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Longstreet displayed conspicuous bravery during the Mexican War.

Mar 16, 2024 · Biography of James Longstreet, a Confederate General and one of the more controversial figures of the American Civil War.

Oct 19, 2006 · James Longstreet, a general during the Civil War, grew up primarily in Georgia, where from the age of nine he was raised by his uncle Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. He served as second-in-command to Robert E. Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia and in 1864 helped lead Confederate troops to victory at the Battle of Chickamauga, which was fought ...