Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

David Rachels (Newberry College)
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Today, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's fame rests on

Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic

, a collection of sketches that he published from the office of his newspaper, the Augusta, Georgia,

State Rights' Sentinel

in 1835. To Longstreet, however,

Georgia Scenes

was merely one item in a long and distinguished résumé. In 1859, when William Gilmore Simms asked him to write an autobiography for

The New American Cyclopædia

, Longstreet responded with a long paragraph that allotted only one sentence to

Georgia Scenes

:

[Augusts Baldwin Longstreet is] an American jurist and author, born in Augusta, [Georgia], Sept. 22, 1790. He was early sent to school, but made little progress in study, and was more expert as a cotton picker, a wrestler, and a

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Citation: Rachels, David. "Augustus Baldwin Longstreet". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 November 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2786, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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