PERSONAL LETTERS

“Every inch a man.”

New York, January 12, 1904.

Mrs. James Longstreet,
Gainesville, Georgia:

My Dear Mrs. Longstreet,​—​Permit me to offer my sympathies in your great bereavement, and to add my tears to yours. I have always loved and admired General Longstreet, and considered him one of the greatest general officers in the Confederacy. He was indeed every inch a man.

With kindest regards I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Edward Owen.

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“His great heart had nothing but kindness for all that was American.”