Longstreet was linked to the prewar generation of country gentlemen who preceded the specialization of the new South. He was a farmer, businessman, newspaper editor, lawyer, politician, clergyman, edu...
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Perhaps no book did more to shape the style and subject matter of Southwestern humor than Longstreet's collection of sketches, Georgia Scenes, which went through eleven editions between 1835 and 1897....
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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet held four college or university presidencies and was a lawyer, a judge, a captain in the Georgia militia, a state assemblyman, a farmer, a teacher, a polemicist, a newspape...
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In his sketch "The Dance" Augustus Baldwin Longstreet relates that the meal "consisted of plain fare, but there was a profusion of it." Tracing his career, one might be inclined to relate similarly ab...
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