Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Born on this day: James Longstreet
Shotgun's Civil War Home ^

Posted on 01/08/2005 7:02:11 AM PST by Valin

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

1 posted on 01/08/2005 7:02:11 AM PST by Valin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Valin

intersting . thanks
no idea he was ambassador to turkey and lived till 1904


2 posted on 01/08/2005 7:11:26 AM PST by beebuster2000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Valin

Longstreet's stategic and tactical thinking beautifully anticipated the First World War 50 years before its time. It cost the European nations millions of lives to discover what paying attention to Longstreet could have taught them.


3 posted on 01/08/2005 7:22:18 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Their women give good lamentation, maybe we can conquer them again sometime.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Valin; stainlessbanner
May he forever rest in peace. Deo vindice!
4 posted on 01/08/2005 7:23:53 AM PST by 4CJ (Laissez les bon FReeps rouler)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: beebuster2000

5 posted on 01/08/2005 7:28:07 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: 4ConservativeJustices

He shares a birthday with two other great Americans - Elvis Presley and ME! :)


6 posted on 01/08/2005 7:29:27 AM PST by Littlejon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Littlejon

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.


7 posted on 01/08/2005 7:35:58 AM PST by Valin (Sometimes you're the bug, and sometimes you're the windshield)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Valin

Thanks for the post, there were some things that I didn't know about Longstreet. Reading "Last Full Measure" now.


8 posted on 01/08/2005 7:47:40 AM PST by KTpig
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Valin
After the war he befriended Grant...

Wasn't he best man at Grant's wedding, before the war?

9 posted on 01/08/2005 7:50:28 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NaughtiusMaximus
Also inventor (in large part) of the transverse trench. Probably the one true tactical innovation to emerge from the Civil War.

Which saved a lot of lives.

10 posted on 01/08/2005 7:57:50 AM PST by The Iguana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DeaconBenjamin

They were certainly friends before the war. In FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX, Longstreet says that his(Longstreet's) wife and Grant's wife were childhood friends; and, it was suggested, at one point, that the two ladies meet in order to discuss ways to bring the war to a conclusion.


11 posted on 01/08/2005 8:02:21 AM PST by izzatzo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: KTpig

I've pointed people to "Gods and Generals, "The Killer Angels, "The Last Full Measure", as a good place to read about the Civil War, they're good for people who don't read history books.

The movie "Gettysburg" is one of my favorite movies, OTOH "Gods and Generals" was a...disappointment.


12 posted on 01/08/2005 8:04:53 AM PST by Valin (Sometimes you're the bug, and sometimes you're the windshield)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Valin

"After the war he befriended Grant "

Longstreet and Grant were well aquainted years before the war, IIRC, Longstreet attended Grant's wedding.


13 posted on 01/08/2005 8:05:19 AM PST by Rebelbase (Who is General Chat?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DeaconBenjamin

Grant/Longstreet friendship:

http://www.mscomm.com/~ulysses/page46.html


14 posted on 01/08/2005 8:06:48 AM PST by Rebelbase (Who is General Chat?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Valin

Codington's "Gettysburg: A Study in Command" remains the best analysis of the Lee-Longstreet debate.


15 posted on 01/08/2005 8:07:56 AM PST by Eternal_Bear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Littlejon

Happy Birthday! :o)


16 posted on 01/08/2005 8:12:47 AM PST by BigCinBigD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Valin

In Missouri where I was born, there were no nicey, nicey make up feelings after the second war of independence. It was the Balkans before, during, and for many a decade afterwards. The book and movie titled, "Ride With The Devil" best depicts it all.

Come to think on it, to this day in some parts, it still does not pay to scratch too far beneath the thin veneer of civility, old and bitter hatreds die hard.


17 posted on 01/08/2005 8:46:54 AM PST by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 4ConservativeJustices

Amen. But may his memory continue to live on.


18 posted on 01/08/2005 8:50:23 AM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Ursus arctos horribilis

I understand your Missouri comment very well. In my childhood in Kansas we didn't trust those Damn' Redlegs who had burned Lawrence twice. That was some 80 years after the war.
In those days I lived within a few miles of the site of the Battle of Mine Creek. Now I am located almost exactly where Price tried to cross the Big Blue.
On the north side of MO Highway 119 is a gate with two stone towers. One (on the left) supports a pole always flying the American flag. The other supports a pole with the Confederate Battle flag. I must admire the person who keeps these two flying.


19 posted on 01/08/2005 9:20:38 AM PST by AntiBurr ("I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against ...Tyranny over the mind of Man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Littlejon

...and David Bowie


20 posted on 01/08/2005 9:24:02 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson