Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790–1870)

American author, born in Augusta, GA, on the 22nd of September 1790. In 1815 he was admitted to the Georgia bar; in 1821 he was a member of the legislature, and in 1822 became judge of the Ocmulgee judicial district. In 1838 he became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was stationed at Augusta. From 1839 to 1848 he was president of Emory College, Oxford, GA; then became president of Centenary College, LA; for six years, of the University of Mississippi; from 1857 to 1861, of South Carolina College; and then again of the University of Mississippi. He contributed extensively to periodical literature, and was the author of Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, etc., in the First Half-Century of the Republic, by a Native Georgian (1840), and Master William Mitten (1864). He died at Oxford, MS, on the 9th of September 1870.