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James Longstreet began the Siege of Suffolk, VA #OTD in 1863. With 25,000 men under his command, he was not able to take the city away from the 20,000 U.S. troops under his former West Point classmate, General John J. Peck. #ConfederateHeritageMonth🧵 
He was, however, successful in bottling up the U.S. troops in the city itself, leaving Longstreet's men free to forage for supplies to send back to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and protect @RichmondNPS from U.S. attacks.
The siege lasted for a month, before Longstreet's Corps was recalled to Lee's army to take part in the @GettysburgNMP Campaign.
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