TJ Goree Thomas Jewett " TJ " Goree ( November 14 , 1835 – March 5 , 1905 ) was a Confederate Lieutenant in the First Corps , Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War . By the end of the War he was promoted to the rank of Captain . He was one of Lt . General James Longstreet ' s most trusted aides . Early life . Thomas J . Goree was born on November 14 , 1835 in Marion , Alabama . At age 15 , he and family moved to Huntsville , Texas . At age 18 , he attended Baylor College , from which he graduated with a Law degree . With other partners , he formed a law firm in Montgomery , Texas in 1858 , later moving it to Houston . At the start of the American Civil War in 1861 he left his law firm and headed for Virginia to volunteer for the Confederacy . Civil War Service . On the boat from Galveston , Texas to New Orleans , he met Maj . James Longstreet , who had resigned his commission in the United States Army and was also traveling to Virginia to offer his services to the Confederate states . Lt . Goree , who was eventually promoted to captain , served as Longstreet ' s aide throughout the war and was involved in almost every battle in which Longstreet ' s division took part , from Blackburn ' s Ford to Appomattox . He was never wounded , although he had several horses shot out from under him and his clothing was riddled with bullet holes . Postbellum . After Appomattox , Goree accompanied Longstreet home to Alabama . Goree returned to Texas in 1865 and took over operations at the Raven Hill Plantation near Huntsville , which his mother had purchased in 1858 . He ran the plantation and continued to practice law until 1869 . On June 25 , 1868 , Goree married Elizabeth Thomas Nolley who was head of Andrew Female College at Huntsville . The couple spent a year at the Raven Hill Plantation and then moved to the Moffattville Plantation near Midway in Madison County . In Midway , Goree operated a general mercantile business , Goree and Wakefield , while his wife organized a school . In 1873 , the Goree family returned to Huntsville , where he formed a law partnership with Col . Leonard Anderson Abercrombie . That year , Goree was appointed a member of the board of directors , later board of commissioners , of the Texas State Prisons . In 1877 , Governor Richard B . Hubbard appointed Goree superintendent of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville , a title that was later changed to superintendent of penitentiaries . He served in that position for the next fourteen years . In 1891 he became the general agent for the Birmingham Iron Company , New Birmingham , Texas , and in 1893 he was named assistant general manager of the Texas Land and Loan Company at Galveston . The Goree Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice , was named in honor of TJ Goree in 1935 . The unit houses the state ' s Sex Offender Treatment Program and U . S . Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice . The unit is accredited by the American Correctional Association . Death . Thomas Jewett Goree died of pneumonia in Galveston on March 5 , 1905 . He and Elizabeth had five children . One grandchild was the noted Texas artist and author John W . Thomason , Jr . Thomas J . Goree and Elizabeth Goree are buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville , Texas . In popular media . Goree was portrayed by Ivan Kane in " Gettysburg " the 1993 film version of Michael Shaara ' s " The Killer Angels " .