Raphael Moses (1812-1893) Major Raphael Moses, who pioneered the
commercial growing of peaches in Georgia, was chief supply
officer for Confederate general James Longstreet, participated
in most of the major battles of the Civil War (1861-65) in the
east, and ended up carrying out the last order of the
Confederacy. In 1851 Moses helped initiated the marketing of
plums and peaches in the state and is reputed to have been the
first planter successfully to ship and sell peaches outside of
the South. In his history of antebellum Georgia, James C. Bonner
credits Moses with being the first to succeed in preserving the
flavor of shipped peaches, by packing them in champagne baskets
instead of in pulverized charcoal. Moses is best known as the
chief commissary officer for General James Longstreet, the man
General Robert E. Lee called "my old warhorse." Moses assumed
this position in November 1862, at the age of fifty, and served
at Chickamauga; Second Manassas, Virginia; the first battle of
Fredericksburg, Virginia;