Georgia Scenes by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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Overview: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was born in Augusta, Georgia on September 22, 1790. He left his southern home to attend Yale University, where he entertained others with stories of his Georgia youth. After graduating in 1813, Longstreet studied law for two years at Tapping Reeves’ law school in Litchfield, Connecticut before gaining admittance to the Georgia state bar in 1815. He was elected to the state legislature in 1821. Named a Superior Court judge of the Ocmulgee district, Longstreet traveled the back roads of rural Georgia on horseback for three years to visit the courthouses within his district. However, the sudden deaths of his eldest son and mother-in-law in 1824 caused him to retreat from public life and turn to farming and religious study. In 1827 he returned with his family to Augusta, where he resumed his law practice and began writing humorous sketches of frontier Georgia. He purchased the North American Gazette in 1834, which he renamed the State Rights’ Sentinel. After publishing several of his humorous sketches in the Sentinel, he used the paper’s printing press to self-publish a collection of nineteen sketches titled Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents &c. in the First Half of the Republic (1835). Though Longstreet would later be ordained a Methodist minister and serve as president of several southern colleges, he is best known for documenting rural Georgian life and inaugurating the literary style of old Southwest humor that Mark Twain would later make famous. He died in Oxford, Mississippi on July 9, 1870.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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