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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790–1870)

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin. An American lawyer, clergyman, educator, and author; born in Augusta, GA, Sept. 22, 1790; died at Oxford, MS, Sept. 9, 1870. In 1838 he entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry, and later was president of several Southern universities, chief among them being the University of Mississippi. His works include: ‘Georgia Scenes’ (1840); ‘Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts.’