Longstreet, JAMES, an American general, born in South Carolina in 1821, graduated at West Point in 1842, fought in the Mexican war, and in 1861 entered the Confederate service. He took part in both battles of Bull Run, that of Williamsburg, those around Richmond, and at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and the Wilderness. Known to the soldiers as 'Old Pete,' he 'was considered the hardest fighter' in the Confederate service. He was minister to Turkey in 1880-81.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 713
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