James Longstreet

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James Longstreet

Confederate general

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Born:: January 8, 1821, Edgefield district, South Carolina, U.S.

Died:: January 2, 1904, Gainesville, Georgia (aged 82)

Role In:: Battle of Antietam; Battle of Chickamauga Creek; Battle of the Wilderness; Peninsular Campaign; Second Battle of Bull Run

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James Longstreet (born January 8, 1821, Edgefield district, South Carolina, U.S.—died January 2, 1904, Gainesville, Georgia) 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. He fought in the first and second battles of Bull Run, called First and Second Manassas by the Confederates (July 1861; August–September 1862); was a division commander in the Peninsular Campaign (March–July 1862); and at Antietam ...(100 of 278 words)

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