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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".
In 1863 Lieutenant General James Longstreet was placed in command of the Confederate Department of Virginia and North Carolina. Longstreet was given four objectives: (1) to protect Richmond, (2) give support to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia if and when needed, (3) forage and gather supplies for the Confederate armies, (4) to capture the Union garrison at Suffolk if possible.
The book has more content about Longstreet's activities after the Civil War, in the Reconstruction Era, compared to his activities during the war. [2] Varon also argued that people in the Southern United States chose to suppress the memory of Longstreet because of his postbellum pro-civil rights activism.
The last Confederate general in the field, Stand Watie, surrendered on June 23, 1865, and the war's last surviving Confederate full general, Edmund Kirby Smith, died on March 28, 1893. [31] James Longstreet died on January 2, 1904, and was considered "the last of the high command of the Confederacy". [32]
Lieutenant general (temporary) rank, nom: May 31, 1864 conf: June 1, 1864 USMA, 1842. Mexican–American War. Resigned as captain, U.S. Army, March 3, 1861. Wounded at Antietam. Promoted to lieutenant general with temporary rank after Longstreet was wounded at the Wilderness. Reverted to major general on Longstreet's return to duty. Anderson ...
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 Knoxville campaign [1] was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee, United States, during the fall of 1863, designed to secure control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that linked the Confederacy east and west, and position the First Corps under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet for return to the Army of Northern Virginia.
Lee directed General Longstreet to assemble a force of three divisions for the attack—two divisions from the corps of Lieutenant General A. P. Hill, under the temporary command of J. Johnston Pettigrew and Major General Isaac R. Trimble, which had both seen action on July 1, and Pickett's fresh division from Longstreet's own corps. [43]