Famous People Of The Civil War

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army in Virginia. In Richmond Lee drove the unionist
away from the capital in the Seven Days' Battles. In August he
defeated the Northern army in the second Battle of Bull Run. In May
1863 Lee won his greatest victory but also suffered his worst loss in
life. The Unionist were driven back with heavy casualties. The
following year Lee led his army against a series of bloody attacks
against the Northern Army commanded by Ulysses S. Grant. Robert Lee
was one of the best commanders during the Civil War and was an
American hero.


Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson was a confederate general in the American
Civil War. He joined the Confederate army in 1861 and later fought in
the first battle of Bull Run. There he earned his nickname, "like a
stone wall". In 1863 Jackson commanded a Confederate army in the
Shenandoah Valley, and he defeated Federal generals whose strength was
several times his own. In May of 1863 Jackson was in ...

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for Pickett's charge at the Battle of
Gettysburg. Pickett graduated from West Point in 1846 and remained in
the U.S. Army until 1861, when he joined the Confederate army. On July
3, 1863 he led his troops on a spearhead attack on Cemetery Ridge that
was supposed to break through the center of the union line. This has
been called the Confederacy's "high-water mark".


Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist and a fugitive slave. She
was born to slave parents and escaped to freedom. In the 1850's she
made many journeys to free slaves through the Underground Railroad.
She was aided by abolitionists and Quakers, and John Brown who
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