Grant's diplomacy failed him, however, when he jokingly suggested to his wife that, perhaps if she met with Mrs. Louise ( James ) Longstreet, they could restore peace.

Following Chancellorsville and the death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet and Lee met in mid-May to discuss options for the army's summer campaign.

When the two met at Bragg's headquarters in the evening, Bragg placed Longstreet in command of the Left Wing of his army ; Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk commanded the Right.

He met the Generals Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, and Stonewall Jackson.

Grant soon visited the Confederate army, then he and Lee sat on the McLean home's porch and met with visitors such as Longstreet and George Pickett before the two men left for their capitals.

At about the same time as Longstreet began courting Garland, Grant became acquainted with and courted Longstreet's fourth cousin, Julia Dent, and the couple eventually married.

James Longstreet ( January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904 ) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his " Old War Horse.

John Y. Simon, editor of Julia Grant's memoirs, concluded that Longstreet " may have been a groomsman ," and Longstreet biographer Donald Brigman Sanger called the role of best man " uncertain " while noting that neither Grant nor Longstreet mentioned any such role in either of their memoirs.

Lee's plan for July 2 called for Longstreet to attack the Union's left flank, which would be followed up by Hill's attack on Cemetery Ridge near the center, while Ewell demonstrated on the Union right.

Alexander called the removal of Longstreet the critical juncture of the battle: " I have always believed that, but for Longstreet's fall, the panic which was fairly underway in Hancock's Corps would have been extended & have resulted in Grant's being forced to retreat back across the Rapidan.

Longstreet called off the disastrous attack after 20 minutes.

Following parallel routes, Longstreet and Burnside raced for Campbell's Station, a hamlet where the Concord Road, from the south, intersected the Kingston Road ( now called Kingston Pike ) to Knoxville.

Although their marriage would last for over 40 years and produce 10 children, Longstreet never mentioned Louise in his memoirs and most anecdotes about their relationship came to historians through the writings of his second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet.

That December Louise Longstreet died.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee, under siege.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet.

* Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946 – 1996 by Frederick Allen ( Longstreet Press, 1996 ) ISBN 1-56352-296-9

** American Civil War – Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet.

* November 16 – American Civil War – Battle of Campbell's Station: Near Knoxville, Tennessee, Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attack Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside.

* November 17 – American Civil War – The Siege of Knoxville begins: Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege ( the 2-week-long siege and 1 failed attack are unsuccessful ).

Many contemporary inventors attempted to develop a design that would process short staple cotton, and Hodgen Holmes, Robert Watkins, William Longstreet, and John Murray had all been issued patents for improvements to the cotton gin by 1796.

Longstreet followed up with a surprise flanking attack from an unfinished railroad bed that drove Hancock's men back to the Brock Road, but the momentum was lost when Longstreet was wounded by his own men.

In 1837 Augustus attempted to obtain an appointment for James to the United States Military Academy, but the vacancy for his congressional district had already been filled so James was appointed in 1838 by a relative, Reuben Chapman, who represented the First District of Alabama ( where Mary Longstreet lived ).

Longstreet spent his first two years of service at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where he was soon joined by his friend, Lieutenant Grant.

Pope came to believe that Jackson was starting to retreat and Longstreet took advantage of this by launching a massive assault on the Union army's left flank with over 25, 000 men.

Additionally, Longstreet positioned his men behind a stone wall at the foot of Marye's Heights and held off fourteen assaults by Union forces.

In the early spring of 1863, Longstreet suggested to Lee that his corps be detached from the Army of Northern Virginia and sent to reinforce the Army of Tennessee, where Gen. Braxton Bragg was being challenged in Middle Tennessee by Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, Longstreet's roommate at West Point.

The division of George Pickett started for the capital in mid-February, was followed by John Hood's, and then Longstreet himself was ordered to take command of the detached divisions and the Departments of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.

Meeting with Lee, Longstreet was concerned about the strength of the Union defensive position and advocated a strategic movement around the left flank of the enemy, to " secure good ground between him and his capital ," which would presumably compel the Union commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, to attack defensive positions erected by the Confederates.

Postbellum criticism of Longstreet claims that he was ordered by Lee to attack in the early morning and that his delays were a significant contributor to the loss of the battle.

Although Longstreet's motivations have long been clouded by the vitriol of the Lost Cause partisans ( see Legacy ), many historians agree that Longstreet did not aggressively pursue Lee's orders to launch an attack as early as possible.

" Military historians Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones wrote, " Unenthusiastic about the attack, Longstreet consumed so much time in properly assembling and aligning the corps that the assault did not commence until 4 p. m. During all the time that passed, Meade continued to move in troops to bring about a more and more complete concentration ; by 6 p. m. he had achieved numerical superiority and had his left well covered.

" An alternative view has been expressed by John Lott, " General Longstreet did all that could be expected on the 2nd day and any allegations of failing to exercise his duty by ordering a morning can be repudiated.

Regardless of the controversy regarding the preparations, however, once the assault began around 4 p. m., Longstreet pressed the assault by McLaws and Hood ( Pickett's division had not yet arrived ) competently against fierce Union resistance, but it was largely unsuccessful, with significant casualties.

In New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1913, the Longstreet family, consisting of Mama, Papa, Mama's younger sister Fran, and her college boyfriend Oggle, is affected when a con man, Harrison Floy, and his shill, Mr. Pontdue, come to town.

Tragedy struck the Longstreet family in January 1862.

After the war, Longstreet and his family settled in New Orleans, a location popular with a number of former Confederate generals.

In 1875 the Longstreet family left New Orleans with concerns over health and safety, returning to Gainesville, Georgia.

The story concerns the comic entanglements of the Longstreet family with two con men in Atlantic City.

* 1821 – James Longstreet, American Confederate general and diplomat ; and former United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire ( d. 1904 )

* February 1 – Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent a steamboat.

* January 2 – James Longstreet, Confederate Civil War general ( b. 1821 )

** James Longstreet, American Confederate general ( d. 1904 )

Burnside's former command, the IX Corps, was transferred to the Virginia Peninsula, a movement that prompted the Confederates to detach troops from Lee's army under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, a decision that would be consequential in the upcoming campaign.

At dawn on May 6, Hancock attacked along the Plank Road, driving Hill's Corps back in confusion, but the First Corps of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet arrived in time to prevent the collapse of the Confederate right flank.

* First Corps, under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, including the divisions of Maj. Gen. Charles W. Field and Brig.