Stiles/Akin
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2016
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
Gary Casteel
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce the next portrait for the National Civil War Memorial, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet. Born, Jan. 8, 1821, Edgefield Dist., SC. Died, Jan. 2, 1904,...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce the next portrait for the National Civil War Memorial, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet.
Born, Jan. 8, 1821, Edgefield Dist., SC.
Died, Jan. 2, 1904, Gainesville, GA. (Buried in Alta Vista Cemetery)
A West Point graduate with service in the Mexican War and was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec.
After the war, healing from the wound, he served out west.
In June 1861 with the secession movement underway, he resigned his US Army commission and accepted a command in the Confederate Army.
Serving in many command positions under Gen. Robert E. Lee.
At Gettysburg he disagreed with Lee's choice of tactics, including Pickett's Charge.
After Gettysburg he requested transfer to the Western Theater. After Chickamauga, he and his command we're sent back to Lee.
After the surrender at Appomattox, he enjoyed a post war career as a Republican working as a government diplomat under President U S Grant, a long time friend. Other positions would follow over the years.
He would ultimately settle in Gainesville, Ga. And after death, be buried in Alta Vista Cemetery. Gen. Lee called him, " His Old War Horse