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
The Longstreet Society and The Historic Piedmont Hotel
827 Maple Street . Gainesville GA 30501
Open Tuesday through Saturday 10 to 4
Mailing address: P.O. Box 191 . Gainesville GA . 30503 . 770-539-9005 . oldpete@longstreet.org
JOIN US ON HIS HILLTOP.
Alta Vista Cemetery, Sunday, January 5 at 1 pm to remember General Longstreet on the 116th anniversary year of his death. Brief historical and memorial readings and music by our own Sharon Johns. GPS Address: 521 Jones Street Gainesville GA. Head for the flagpole. Then follow us to the General’s Piedmont Hotel home for hot chocolate and a bite.
Please go to our MEMBERSHIP page and join the cause.
We are a 100% volunteer staffed and run organization.
WHO WAS JAMES LONGSTREET?
- 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 2020.
It’s Booked. It’s Official.
It will take place Saturday and Sunday morning, Columbus Day weekend, October 10 and 11. Antietam/Sharpsburg MD. Headquartered at the Hilton Garden Inn Frederick MD. Details coming.
This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
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.