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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 1: the Ante-bellum life of the author. (search)
oy 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 umber being sixty. I was assigned to the Fourth United States Infantry as brevet lieutenant, and found my company with seven others of the regiment at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, in the autumn of 1842. Of the class graduating the year that we entered were G. T. Beauregard and Irvin McDowell, who, twenty-three years later, crivate citizen around the earth; of noble, generous heart, a lovable character, a valued friend,--Ulysses S. Grant. I was fortunate in the assignment to Jefferson Barracks, for in those days the young officers were usually sent off among the Indians or as near the borders as they could find habitable places. In the autumn of