2 Quotes & Sayings By James Longstreet
James E. Longstreet was a lieutenant in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was a close friend and confidant of General Robert E. Lee
He was captured at the Battle of Five Forks and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, until paroled in 1865. Longstreet later became a lawyer and politician in Alabama, where he served as the attorney general from 1872 to 1874.