Good Service

Longstreet, you served alongside me well. While I was alive, that is. I'm dead now, so you don't really do that anymore. But anyway, you, me and Lee, were almost unstoppable, it was so nice. I had the offense, you had the defense, Lee had the plans. Man, I wish I never died, that was just horrible. Oh, and I'm not jealous that Lee called for your promotion to lieutenant general to be a day early, just so you could be the senior lieutenant general of the Confederate Army, at all. It's totally okay, I mean, it's not like I did a lot of work too, possibly even just as much, maybe more. But anyway, thanks for all the service you did with me, I will never forget you. Mainly because I died during the war, but still, take it as a compliment.

- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Yo Longstreet

Yo man, what's up? Dude, we're so perfect fighting alongside each other. Without you, my defense in these battles would be totally whack man. You're literally my best defense in this war, and even though you tried to defy my orders whenever I issued the only slightly unsuccessful Pickett's Charge, I still need you alongside me for the rest of this war, because who knows what's going to happen here now after Gettysburg? What if they try to attack us again man!? I need your defense or else we might get crushed. Oh, and if we ever have to surrender for some weird reason, I really hope you're there with me. Because that would be so nice to not be alone in a somewhat awkward situation like that.

- Robert E. Lee

My Charge...

General Longstreet! Hey, you remember that charge that you commanded me to do, even though we both knew it was a horrible idea? Where I had about 50% casualties in such short time? Yeah, well, I forgive you for not refusing that order, man! I understand and everything, you don't want to make our lead general look bad and everything, and there would probably have been crazy consequences for you not following orders, so don't worry about it anymore. It might have cost us the battle and everything, but hey! that's okay. Anyway, let's catch up some time! Later dude.

- George Pickett

July 3,

     Well, this really sucks. It's a few days into the battle, and Lee and I just aren't see eye to eye on what's going on here in Gettysburg. Hours ago, since his morning attack obviously wasn't going to work out, he gave an order for me to send George Pickett's men straight into Hell; somehow he thought we could miraculously break through the center of the Union line. That's exactly the line I had in Fredericksburg! It crushed any assault that was thrown at it, and somehow Lee has forgotten that experience completely.
     I even went up to him and said, "General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position." Of course, he wouldn't listen. And I had to follow my orders, no matter how questionable they were. So, it was time, I ordered Pickett to charge his men out to their own death. Except I couldn't bring myself to say it, to just tell them to go die; instead, I motioned the order, and already knowing the plan from previous debriefings, he carried it out. I just hope Lee realises the grave mistake he made today.

Lieutenant General James Longstreet

      James Longstreet was a true Southern American man, born in Edgefield, South Carolina, on January 8, 1821. During his younger life, he lived in more than just South Carolina though, Georgia and Alabama were also called home by him, due to just moving, and his father dying at one point. Throughout his life, Longstreet's father and uncle pushed for him to join the military, as his father was a militaristic person. In 1837, his uncle Augustus, and another relative, Reuben Chapman, appointed James to join the United States Military Acadamy, of which Longstreet had extremely bad academic performance, finishing 54 out of 56 in his graduating class of West Point in 1842. Even with his horrible scores, Longstreet befriended much of the important men who would later serve in the Civil War, with and against him, including Ulysses S. Grant. Despite his graduation and it's probable shamefulness, Longstreet later served in the United States Army in the 8th Infantry during the Mexican-American War, earning him early military action.

     During the Civil War era, Longstreet was actually not extremely supportive about secession from the Union, but learned to accept it because of his uncle Augustus' enthusiasm about states' rights, which most likely helped him to resign from the U.S. Army to join the Confederate Army in June of 1861. Longstreet's first action was in the First Battle of Bull Run, where he was just recently promoted to a brigadier general, and although not playing a major role in the battle, was again promoted months later to a rank of major general; with this, he took lead of a section in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Later in the war, while fighting under Robert E. Lee, Longstreet and "Stonewall" Jackson were considered his best men; Longstreet being his defense, and Jackson being the heavy offense. James' defensive tactics proved especially useful in the Battle of Antietam, where he held the line against almost twice as many Union soldiers, until finally falling back to Stonewall's position. After this battle, Longstreet was greeted by Lee with "Ah! Here is Longstreet; here's my old war-horse!", leaving him with the nickname of 'Lee's Old War-Horse'. It was also after this battle that Longstreet was promoted to lieutenant general, becoming the senior lieutenant general in the entire Confederate Army; a huge accomplishment. Longsteet's most controversial, although smartest action took place during the Battle of Gettysburg, when Robert E. Lee ordered for Pickett's men to break open the Union line, with infamous Pickett's Charge; Longstreet didn't want to carry down this order, but had to, even while knowing it was going to be an indefinite slaughter of his own troops. Longstreet followed orders, but disagreed greatly with Lee, and expressed it greatly before and after the Charge. This did not interfere with the rest of the war, Lee and Longstreet fought greatly with each other, Longstreet still being considered Lee's Old War-Horse. James Longstreet was injured accidentally by his own men in 1864, taking him out of action for quite a few months, but he returned just in time during the end of the war, fighting in the Seige of Petersburg, and riding with Lee to Appomattox, where they later surrended, ending the war.