“Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter into the joy of thy Lord.”—Judge Norman G. Kittrell, Houston, Texas.
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“No soldier of Longstreet’s corps ever doubted his loyalty.”
No soldier of Longstreet’s corps during the war, whether he was one of the boys in the trenches, or wore the stars upon his collar, ever doubted either the courage, or the capacity, or the loyalty of James Longstreet. No man ever heard an insinuation of that kind. No, he was entitled to the splendid name the immortal Lee gave him of “old war-horse,” and he held in the very highest degree the implicit confidence of the men he commanded and who loved him.
I love to think of Lee and Jackson and Longstreet and Hill as the “Big Four” of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Many years have passed since that bloody conflict; we are now one people, with one common flag and one country and one destiny. But we ought not to forget, how can we forget! the glorious names which became as familiar as household words to us during that trying time. Among all the other great names, that of James Longstreet, the ranking lieutenant-general of the Confederate army, who earned that title in the field and worthily wore it to the end, must shine forever in that noble galaxy.—Captain John H. Leathen, Second Regiment Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade.
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(Gainesville, Georgia, Eagle.)
“Always a plumed knight without reproach.”
Nothing but sickness and a cold drive of twenty-five miles could have prevented me from attending the funeral obsequies of my old friend and great military chieftain and placing my humble tribute of flowers upon his grave.