"No other terms than
unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your
works." - U.S. Grant to General S. B. Buckner, Fort Donelson, Feb. 16,
1862.
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S. GRANTwas born on
April 27, 1822 in a two-room log cabin in Point Pleasant in southwestern
Ohio. His father, Jesse Root Grant, ...
Feb 19, 2013 -Robert
E. Lee. (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American
career military officer who is best known for having commanded the ...
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Jonathan "Stonewall"
Jacksonfought
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Gustave Toutant (PGT)
Beauregardwas a
ConfederateGeneralbest
known for...General
Winfield ScottHancock
was a US Army officer for his entire career and ...
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Accustomed to the brilliant and imaginative leadership ofStonewall
Jackson, dead now for two months, Lee had fallen into the bad habit
of suggesting rather ...
Civil War generalsnumbered
in the hundreds during the war. Generals of the Civil War either won or
lost battles due to their competence as commanders or ...
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Nearly 1,400 Federal
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brigadier or major, during the AmericanCivil
War.A brevet has been defined as “a ...
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and fell, new portraits were produced and dutifully...Burnside
ended hisCivil
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One of the defining
events in American history, theCivil
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men who served the United States and the Confederate States. Millions of
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UnionGeneralBenjamin
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