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@War Horse, @Eleanor Rose and I have been thinking about a list of things named after James Longstreet.
While a lot of Confederate leaders where honored by naming numerous tanks, ships, forts, highways, even counties after them, our good General Longstreet seems to be a bit forgotten.
Take highways for example:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/upshot/honors-for-confederates-for-thousands-of-miles.html
So please help listing things that were named after James Longstreet. There will be precious few, I'm afraid.
I will start with that bridge I found a few days ago:
General James Longstreet Memorial Bridge, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia (probably the 0.2 mi of highway quoted above, because I could find not other stretch of road named after him)
http://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=georgia/longstreetbridge/
Then @War Horse contributed this awesome photo of the SS James Longstreet in another thread.
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/helen-dortch-longstreet-in-pictures.140632/page-5#post-1698833
Go ahead! Let's find more! Even CNN regrets that there are so few things that help commemorate James Longstreet:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/23/o...-general-longstreet-opinion-holmes/index.html
Is there more out there??
While a lot of Confederate leaders where honored by naming numerous tanks, ships, forts, highways, even counties after them, our good General Longstreet seems to be a bit forgotten.
Take highways for example:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/upshot/honors-for-confederates-for-thousands-of-miles.html
So please help listing things that were named after James Longstreet. There will be precious few, I'm afraid.
I will start with that bridge I found a few days ago:
General James Longstreet Memorial Bridge, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia (probably the 0.2 mi of highway quoted above, because I could find not other stretch of road named after him)
http://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=georgia/longstreetbridge/
Then @War Horse contributed this awesome photo of the SS James Longstreet in another thread.
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/helen-dortch-longstreet-in-pictures.140632/page-5#post-1698833
Go ahead! Let's find more! Even CNN regrets that there are so few things that help commemorate James Longstreet:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/23/o...-general-longstreet-opinion-holmes/index.html
Is there more out there??