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 school 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 military.

EARLY LIFE

• Born April 27th 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio.
• Born with the name of Hiram Ulysses Grant.
• Very shy during youth.

SIGNIFICANCE

• He got many generals to surrender.
• He fought and charged the confederacy rather than hesitating.
• Won many major battles.

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