Commands.
Brigade composed of the First, Seventh, Eleventh and Seventeenth Virginia Regiments Infantry, being the Fourth Brigade, First Corps, Army of the Potomac. Division composed of the brigades of Kemper, Pickett, Willcox, Anderson, Pryor and Featherston, Army of Northern Virginia. Commanding First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, from August 13, 1862, to August 15, 1863. At battle of Fredericksburg, November 19, 1862, corps composed of the divisions of Anderson, Pickett, Ransom, Hood and McLaws, and the artillery battalions of Colonels Alexander and Walton. In October, 1863, commanding corps in the Army of Tennessee, composed of the divisions of McLaws, Preston, Walker, Hood and Bushrod R. Johnson, and the artillery battalions of Alexander, Williams, Leyden and Robertson. Pickett's Division also constituted a part of this Corps. Commanding, from December 5, 1863, until April l2, 1864, the Department of East Tennessee. Commanding First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, January 13, 1865.

Longstreet, James, born in South Carolina, appointed from Alabama cadet United States Military Academy, July 1, 1838; graduated fifty- fourth in a class of fifty-six.
Brevet second lieutenant, Fourth Infantry, July 1, 1842.
Second lieutenant, Eighth Infantry, March 4, 1845.
First lieutenant, February 23, 1847.
Regimental adjutant, June 8, 1847, to July 1, 1849.
Captain, December 7, 1852.
Major and paymaster, July 19, 1858.
Brevet captain, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico, and
Major, September 8, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey.
Resigned June 1, 1861.