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Born
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School
James enters the United States Military Academy at West Point. -
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War
Serving with the 8th U.S. Infantry, James Longstreet wins repeated brevet promotions for conspicuous bravery during the Mexican War. -
Wife
James gets married to Maria Louisa Garland -
Moving up
James rises to the rank of major in the United States Army, serving mostly on the western frontier. -
James's Ranks
He resigns his commission in the United States Army and enters Confederate service as a brigadier general. -
General
James has now become a Major General -
Promated
James got promated to of lieutenant general -
Moving the troops
Confederate general Robert E. Lee reorganizes his Army of Northern Virginia, placing James Longstreet in command of the First Corps and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in command of the Second Corps -
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Divisions
James leads three divisions of Confederate troops in a siege of the Union garrison at Suffolk, Virginia. -
Victory
After the victory first day at Gettysburg, James Longstreet urges Robert E. Lee to disengage. -
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Fails to recapture
James Longstreet's service in the West is marred by quarrels with his commander, Braxton Bragg. Detached from Bragg, Longstreet fails to recapture Knoxville, Tennessee, in November. He rejoins Robert E. Lee in Virginia in time to defend against Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant's spring offensive. -
Wounded
James Got wounded in the neck. -
Rejoins
He rejoins Robert E. Lee in Virginia in time to defend against Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant's spring offensive. -
Leaves to the south
James moves to New Orleans, Louisiana. He works as a cotton broker and in the insurance business. He also becomes a member of the Republican Party. -
Gettysburg
a former Confederate general who led a division at the Battle of Gettysburg, gives a speech at Washington and Lee University in Lexington criticizing James Longstreet's conduct at the 1863 battle. -
Riot
James at the head of the largely black Louisiana state militia, is shot and briefly held prisoner during a riot in New Orleans, Louisiana. -
General
a former Confederate general turned Republican Party member, is nominated to be ambassador to the Ottoman Empire by U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes. He will hold the position until June 1881. -
Wife Dies
wife of forty-one years, Maria Louisa Garland Longstreet, dies. -
Remarries
now seventy-six years old, marries thirty-four-year-old Helen Dortch in the governor's mansion in Atlanta, Georgia. -
Dies
James died