The world: historical and actual . j. t. (Stonewall) jackson. beginning of the war, and South Caro-. General James Longstreet,lina in 1820,a West Pointerand a soldierin the Mexicanwar, bore aprominent partin the Confed-erate a r m y,from Bull Runto Appomat-tox. He camevery near shar-ing the fate ofJackson, forhe was severe- james lonqstkeet. ly wounded by the blundering of his own men in oneof the battles of the Wilderness. After the war,Longstreet accepted the political situation and be-came a Republican. In 1880 he was appointedXJ. S. minister at the Turkish court. There were two Johnstons i
The world: historical and actual . j. t. (Stonewall) jackson. beginning of the war, and South Caro-. General James Longstreet,lina in 1820,a West Pointerand a soldierin the Mexicanwar, bore aprominent partin the Confed-erate a r m y,from Bull Runto Appomat-tox. He camevery near shar-ing the fate ofJackson, forhe was severe- james lonqstkeet. ly wounded by the blundering of his own men in oneof the battles of the Wilderness. After the war,Longstreet accepted the political situation and be-came a Republican. In 1880 he was appointedXJ. S. minister at the Turkish court. There were two Johnstons in the war on the Con-federate side who rivaled Lee and Jackson in pop-ularity, Albert Siduey and Joseph E. The warfound the former in command of the Federal forcesat San Francis-co. He was anative of Ken-tucky, born in1803, a gradu-ate of WestPoint, and aMexican lie resign-ed to join theConfederacy hewas a brigadier-general in theregular was killed inthe battle of Shiloh, early in 1862. Jefferson Davisand Alexander H. Stephens unite in pronouncinghis death a great calamity t
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