talents-Augustus+Longstreet



He became president of Emory College (in Oxford, Georgia). When he gave his inaugural speech, he reflected upon ideals of the roles youth would play in molding southern culture; its government and respectful state of being.

His talent was knowledge. He held the power in his hands to shape so many opinions of people into something better and educated. His work was not mediocre, he went for more than everyone else's effort. Because of that effort, he won over many people's decisions about the antebellum, the civil war, and the southern culture.

He was also was successful as a lawyer, a superior court judge, the main editor of //The States Rights Sentinel:// his newspaper used as a main publication of all of his political views, president of four prestigious schools: Emory College in Georgia, the University of Mississippi, the University of South Carolina, and the Centenary College in Louisiana, and he was also a Methodist Minister.

He had many talents, all of which he used mostly for the greater scheme of things.