Fulton-Richmond County GaArchives Obituaries.....Longstreet, Augustus B. July 9, 1870
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Atlanta Constitution, 20 July 1870
Hon. A. B. Longstreet is Dead.

We regret that a notice of the death of Hon. A. B. Longstreet, prepared for 
yesterday's issue, was crowded out.  Though he had attained to four score years 
of his life, the news of his death comes to his numerous friends and admirers 
alas! too soon.  He died at his residence at Oxford, Mississippi, on the 9th 
instant, closing a long life of continued and uninterrupted usefulness.  Though 
a venerable representative of a past generation, the association of his name 
always called up gave to the character of Judge Longstreet an youthfulness that 
rendered him a great favorite with the present generation, as he was with the 
companions of his youth and vigorous manhood, by who he was almost idolized.
He was not (as too often the aged permit themselves to become) "the wreck of a 
past age drifted upon the present."  At every step of his honorable career he 
was an active, useful citizen.  Well educated by the various and varied 
experiences of a career of great mental activity, he was ever ready and 
competent to meet the responsibilities of the current moment.  Hence the secret 
of his continued and uninterupted popularity to the end of his earthly days.  
He was one of Georgia's sons of whom every Georgian is justly proud.  Amid the 
mourning for the departure of a great and good one from this earth, the virtues 
which rendered Judge Longstreet's presence joyful to all, who came in contact 
with him, suggest the cheering consideration, that his passage "through the 
dark valley of the shadow of death" was illuminated by the Christian's well-
founded hope.


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