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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 1 : the Ante-bellum life of the author. (search)
Chapter 1: the Ante-bellum life of the author.
Birth
Ancestry
school
boy days
appointment as cadet at the United States military Academy
graduates of historic classes
assignment as brevet Lieutenant
gay life of garrison at Jefferson Barracks
Lieutenant Grant's Courtship
annexation of Texas
Army of observation
Army of occupation
camp life in Texas
march to the Rio Grande
Mexican War.
I was born in Edgefield District, South Carolina, on the 8th of January, 1821.
On the paternal side the family was from New Jersey; on my mother's side, from Maryland.
My earliest recollections were of the Georgia side of Savannah River, and my school-days were passed there, but the appointment to West Point Academy was from North Alabama.
My father, James Longstreet, the oldest child of William Longstreet and Hannah Fitzrandolph, was born in New Jersey.
Other children of the marriage, Rebecca, Gilbert, Augustus B., and William, were born in Augusta, Georgia, the adopted hom