GENERALS OF THE CIVIL WAR

ROBERT E LEE FACTS

• Was born a Virginian
• Served in the US Mexican wra
• Didn't like slavery
• Nephew of revolutionary war general, Charles Lee.
• Son of revolutionary war hero, Henry Lee.

EARLY LIFE

• Born January 19, 1807
• Went to West Point
• Was top of his class
• Went to schools with Ulysses S Grant.

SIGNIFICANCE

• Fought in two wars
• Mexican American, civil war.
• Abe offered generalship of Union
• Very strategic.

GREATEST WINS

• Battle of Chancellorsville
• Battle of Second Manassas
• Friedricksburg

GREATEST LOSSES

• Gettysburg
• Siege of Petersburg
• Battle of Appotomattox Court House.

ULYSSES S. GRANT

FACTS

• He was very shy in his youth.
• He was engaged for four years.
• Before the civil war he resigned from the militawee.
• Born with the name Hiram Ulysses Grant.

EARLY LIFE

• Born April 27th 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio.

TOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON

STONEWALL FACTS

• He was quiet thoughtful man
• Was the right had man to general Robert lee
• Was a teacher for 4 years at Virginia military institute.

EARLY LIFE

• Born on January 21, 1824 on a Virginia farm
• Parents died at very young age
• His family owned 6 slaves

BATTLES

• Battle of Chancellorsville
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Fredericksburg
• Battle of the falling waters

SIGNIFICANTS

• Helped to try to win the war but was shot by own soldiers during the battle of Chancellorsville but fought the best he could and was recalled for that