Gen. Longstreet was laboring under several burdens when he set his troops the task of capturing Fort Sanders. One of them was the tragedy of his adult life: the death of his three youngest children from scarlet fever in the winter of 1861-62.
I had scarlet fever in 1946 when I was two years old and spent a week in the hospital with it. I survived because of the antibiotics then newly available for such old bacterial killers. Longstreet’s children were not so fortunate.
Their graves can be found in the officer’s section of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond (where the graves of officers and privates are as segregated as their impromptu ones were on the battlefield). But, according to the Longstreet Society, just who buried the children there is a mystery.
KNOXVILLE 1863, the novel 
My name is Deborah Longstreet and I would like to know if the daughter of General James Longstreet married? I would also like to know what son or daughter married into General Lee’s family? General James Longstreet is my great great uncle. Please respond to my e-mail address(debmartin70@aol.com.) Thank you!
I didn’t get to finish the first question…If the daughter of Gen. James married a president?
Sorry, Deborah, I have no idea. Try exploring the site at the link there. Thanks for commenting.