James Longstreet

The New Netherland Ancestors of

JAMES LONGSTREET



Ambassador, Confederate General




			   __Dirck Stoffelszen Langstraat1
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		      __Stoffel Dirckszen Langestraat1
		     |    |
		     |    |__Catharina Van Lieuwen1
		     |
		 __Stoffel Longstreet1
		|    |
		|    |          __Mattys Janszen Laenen Van Pelt1,9
		|    |         |
		|    |     __Gysbert Thyssen Van Pelt1,9,10
		|    |    |    |
		|    |    |    |__Marykens Gysberts1,9
		|    |    |
		|    |__Maiken Lane1,10
		|         |
		|         |     __Adriaen Lambertszen10
		|         |    |
		|         |__Jannetje Adriaens1,9,10
		|              |
		|              |__Willemke Jans10
		|
	    __WILLIAM LONGSTREET1
	   |    |
	   |    |__Abigail Wooley1
	   |
       __James Longstreet1
      |    |
      |    |          __Isaac Fitz Randolph1
      |    |         |
      |    |     __James Fitz Randolph1
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |     __James Seabrook1
      |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |__Rebecca Seabrook1
      |    |    |         |
      |    |    |         |          __James Grover1,4
      |    |    |         |         |
      |    |    |         |     __Joseph Grover1,4,5
      |    |    |         |    |    |
      |    |    |         |    |    |__Rebecca Jaspers1,4
      |    |    |         |    |
      |    |    |         |__Rebecca Grover1,4
      |    |    |              |
      |    |    |              |     __William Lawrence1,4,5
      |    |    |              |    |
      |    |    |              |__Hannah Lawrence1,4,5
      |    |    |                   |
      |    |    |                   |__(__)1,5
      |    |    |
      |    |__Hannah Fitz Randolph1
      |         |
      |         |          __Hugh Coward1
      |         |         |
      |         |     __John Coward1,2
      |         |    |    |
      |         |    |    |          __John Throckmorton1,4
      |         |    |    |         |
      |         |    |    |     __John Throckmorton1
      |         |    |    |    |    |
      |         |    |    |    |    |__Rebecca (__)4
      |         |    |    |    |
      |         |    |    |__Patience Throckmorton1
      |         |    |         |
      |         |    |         |     __Richard Stout1
      |         |    |         |    |
      |         |    |         |__Alice Stout1
      |         |    |              |
      |         |    |              |__Penelope Van Princis1
      |         |    |
      |         |__Deliverance Coward1
      |              |
      |              |          __Nathaniel Britton1,2,6
      |              |         |
      |              |     __Nathaniel Britton1,6
      |              |    |    |
      |              |    |    |     __Nicholas Stillwell1,2,3,6
      |              |    |    |    |
      |              |    |    |__Anne Stillwell1,2,6
      |              |    |         |
      |              |    |         |__Ann (__)3
      |              |    |
      |              |__Alice Britton1,2
      |                   |
      |                   |__Elizabeth Gerritszen2,7
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JAMES LONGSTREET1
      |
      |__Mary Dent1



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Biography of JAMES LONGSTREET

 
LONGSTREET, James, soldier, born in Edgefield district, South Carolina, 8 January 1821. He removed with his mother to Alabama in 1831, and was appointed from that state to the United States Military Academy, where he was graduated in 1842, and assigned to the 4th Infantry. He served at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, in 1842-1844, on frontier duty at Natchitoches, Louisiana, in 1844-1845, in the military occupation of Texas in 1845-1846, and in the war with Mexico, being engaged in the Battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, the Siege of Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, San Antonio, Churubusco, and Moleno del Rey. For gallant and meritorious conduct in the two latter battles he was brevetted captain and major, and he had previously been promoted 1st lieutenant, 23 February 1847. At the storming of Chapultepec, 8 September 1847, he was severely wounded in the assault on the fortified convent. He served as Adjutant, 8th Infantry, from 8 June 1847, until 1 July 1849, and on frontier and garrison duty, chiefly in Texas, until 1858, being made Captain, 7 December 1852. He became paymaster, 19 July 1858, and resigned, 1 June 1861. He was commissioned Brigadier-General in the Confederate service, and at the first battle of Bull Run commanded a brigade on the right of the Confederate line, where he held a large force of the National army from operating in support of McDowell's flank attack. On General Joseph E. Johnston's retreat before McClellan at Yorktown, Longstreet commanded the rear-guard, having been made a Major-General. On 5 May 1862, he made a stand at Williamsburg, and was at once attacked by Heintzehnan, Hooker, and Kearny. He held his ground until his opponents were re-enforced by Hancock, when he was driven back into his works. He took part in the seven days' battles around Richmond, and at the second Battle of Bull Run, when in command of the 1st corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, came to the relief of Jackson, when he was hard pressed by Pope's army, and by a determined charge in flank decided the fortunes of the day. At Fredericksburg he held the Confederate left. In 1863 he was detached with two of his divisions for service south of James River. On Hooker's movement, which led to the Battle of Chancellorsville, Longstreet was ordered to rejoin the army of Lee, but did not arrive in time to participate in the battle. He commanded the right wing of the Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Gettysburg, and tried to dissuade Lee from ordering the disastrous charge on the third day. When Lee retreated to Virginia, Longstreet, with five brigades, was transferred to the Army of Tennessee under Bragg, and at the Battle of Chickamauga held the left wing of the Confederate Army. He was then detached to capture Knoxville, but found it too strongly fortified to be taken by assault. Early in 1864 he rejoined Lee, and was wounded by the fire of his own troops in the Battle of the Wilderness. He commanded the 1st corps of the Army of Northern Virginia in all the operations in 1864, and was included in the surrender at Appomattox, 9 April 1865. He was known in the army as "Old Pete," and was considered the hardest fighter in the Confederate service. He had the unbounded confidence of his troops, who were devoted to him, and the whole army felt better when in the presence of the enemy it was passed along the line that "Old Pete was up." After the war General Longstreet established his residence in New Orleans, where he engaged in commercial business in the firm of Longstreet, Owens and Company. He was appointed surveyor of customs of the port of New Orleans by President Grant, supervisor of internal revenue in Louisiana, postmaster at New Orleans, and Minister from the United States to Turkey by President Hayes, and United States Marshal for the district of Georgia by President Garfield.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Mayes, Edward, Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with its related
       families : of Van Liewen, Lanen Van Pelt, Van Laer, Verplanck, Wooley,
       Potter, Tucker, Fritz-Randalph, De Langton, Blossom, Dennis, Moore,
       Seabrook, Grover, Lawrence, Stilwell, Van Dyck, Coward, Throckmorton,
       Stout, Van Printz, Briton, Parke, Elmsley, Hawkins, and others.  Rutland:
       Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., (copyright uncertain).  Note:  this book
       contains errors.  The pedigree of Jannetje Adriaens through the Van Laer,
       Verplanck, and Vigné is untrue.
   2.  Stillwell, John E., History of Captain Jeremiah Stillwell, Anne Stillwell
       Britton, Alice Stillwell Holmes, Mary Stillwell Mott, Daniel Stillwell,
       John Stillwell, Children of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell and Appendix
       of Allied Families.  New York:  Privately Published, 1931.  43-55.
   3.  Stillwell, John E., The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell,
       Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America with some Notices of the
       Family in the Kingdom of Great Britain..  New York:  privately
       published, 1930.  35-90.
   4.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  653.
   5.  Ibid., p. 913.
   6.  Ibid., p. 191.
   7.  Stillwell (op. cit.) believes that the parents of Elizabeth
       Gerritszen are Cornelis Gerritszen and (__).  Riker (op. cit.), in his
       discussion of the Britton family, speculates that they may be Gerrit
       Gerritszen and Annetje Hermanse.  However, he does not list Elizabeth
       as a child of Gerrit and Annetje when he address that family (p. 612).
   8.  Coggeshall, C.P., "Material Towards a Genealogy of the Coggeshall
       Family," The Rhode Island Historical Magazine, 5 (1884):  173-190.
   9.  Riker, op. cit., p. 1632.
  10.  Ledley, Wilson V., and B-Ann Moorhouse, "Early Dutch Smiths and Van
       Boerums," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 103 (1972):
       65-78, 138-146.

   A special thanks goes out to Daniel E. Schillinger for alerting me to the New
   Netherland ancestry of James Longstreet, and sharing his findings with me.

 

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