We are a 100% volunteer run and  staffed organization and are funded entirely by membership fees and donations. Please join. Please donate.

​​​Welcome to ​​​​The Longstreet Society

Moving forward into the past...
​Renovation and redesign on General Longstreet’s historic Piedmont Hotel and the Longstreet Museum has begun. We will be closed to visitors through summer but oh what a grand reopening we will have.​

​​​The Longstreet Society and 
The Historic Piedmont Hotel 
 827 Maple Street .  Gainesville GA  30501
​Currently closed for renovation. See you soon for the Grand Opening


 Mailing address:  

​​​P.O. Box 191 . Gainesville GA . 30503 . ​770-539-9005


​ oldpete@longstreet.org​​​​​​​
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BE A PART OF HISTORY

ENGRAVED PIEDMONT WALKWAY BRICK. PERSONALIZED.
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We are a
100%
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staffed and ​run organization.​​​

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2025 . 2025 . 2025 . 2025 . 2025

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​Come spend a crisp, autumn north Georgia weekend touring many of the James Longstreet historic sites as well as interesting Gainesville points of interest. Your tour guides, longtime Longstreet Society president and museum curator, Richard Pilcher, and University of North Georgia Political Science Professor Emeritus Dr. Douglas Young, will guide you on a narrated bus tour of the city. 


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​WHO WAS JAMES LONGSTREET?
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  • ​​​Major United States Army 
  • Lt. Gen. Confederate Army
  • Businessman
  • Surveyor of Customs 
  • Major Gen LA State Militia
  • Minister to Turkey
  • Postmaster Gainesville
  • United States Marshall
  • Commissioner of Railroads​
  • Author

SEMINAR . SEMINAR . SEMINAR


​​​​​The Longstreet Society is dedicated to the study and celebration 
of the life of 
Lt. General James Longstreet, CSA  
and especially his skill and valor as a soldier 
and as commander of the famous old 
First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia; 
his fervent dedication to the
​restoration of the American Union; 
his love of his
Southern homeland; 
his advocacy for the ideals of peace and understanding
among all peoples and his belief 
​   in the ​brotherhood of man. 
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