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Famous People of the Civil War

Robert E. Lee. General of the Confederate armyGraduated 2nd in his class from West PointAfter the War Lee became the president of Washington and Lee College. Ulysses S. Grant. General of the Union ArmiesTook Lee's surrender on April 9 1865Became the 18th presidentDied bankrupt. Frederic Douglass.

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Famous People of the Civil War

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    1. Famous People of the Civil War By Greig Spuhler

    3. Ulysses S. Grant General of the Union Armies Took Lee’s surrender on April 9 1865 Became the 18th president Died bankrupt

    4. Frederic Douglass His oratorical and literary brilliance thrust him into the forefront of the U.S. Abolition movement Escaped from slavery in 1838 The first black man to hold high ranking office in the U.S. Government

    5. Edward Porter Alexander Helped design the signal flag system Was given command of the I Corps His well placed cannons at Fredericksburg helped defeat the union army

    6. Abraham Lincoln Had no formal education President during the Civil War His Goals during the war were to preserve the union Shot at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865

    7. Jefferson Davis Educated at Transylvania University President of the Confederate States of America Took little part in secession until Mississippi seceded

    8. William Tecumseh Sherman Graduated from West Point When Louisiana seceded he rejoined the U.S. army as a colonel Thought by many to be the greatest general of the Civil War

    9. Stonewall Jackson Taught at the Virginia Military Institute Relatively unknown before the Civil War Command at Harpers Fairy Got his name from the Battle from the Battle of Bull Run

    10. David Glasgow Farragut Though he was born, lived and married in the south he “stood behind the flag Quoted as saying “Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead”

    11. George Edward Pickett Graduated last in his class from West Point Lead Pickett’s charge at the Battle of Gettysburg

    12. The End

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