Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

David Rachels (Newberry College)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 22 Sep 1790
Died 1870
Activity 1810-1870

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Educationalist
Essayist
Humorist
Journalist
Pamphleteer
Political writer
Politician
Proprietor (of publishing house)
Story-writer
Teacher/ Professor

Other

Clergyman
Jurist
Lawyer/ Barrister/ Solicitor
Preacher
Religious writer

Resources

Longstreet's Works

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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 21 November 2024.]