Columbia-Richmond County GaArchives Biographies.....Longstreet, Augustus 1790 - 1870
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AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET (1790 - 1870)

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was born in Augusta, Georgia, where he attended 
local schools before entering Dr. Moses Waddel's well-known academy in 
Willington, South Carolina. He continued his education at Yale University, and 
after studying law in Connecticut, he returned to Georgia to practice law. In 
the 1830's, he began publishing humorous sketches in The Milledgeville 
Southern Recorder. He soon acquired his own newspaper in Augusta, The State's 
Rights Sentinel, whose title reflected his own long-standing political 
position. In 1835, The Sentinel published his Georgia Scenes, Characters, 
Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Re public, which was 
reprinted in 1840 by Harper & Brothers. With Georgia Scenes, Longstreet 
launched the "Southwestern humorist" school of Southern writing. At the end of 
his life he presided over several Southern universities, including Emory 
College and the University of Mississippi. Among his other works are a 
pamphlet, Letters on the Epistle of Paul to Philemon, or the Connection of 
Apostolic Christianity with Slavery (1845), and a minor novel, Master William 
Mitten; or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck 
(1864). "The Fight" is taken from Georgia Scenes.



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