Civil War Leaders North and South

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Civil War LeadersNorth and South
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General George McClellan

• Brilliant engineer
• Capable organizer
• West Point graduate
• Created Army of the Potomac
• Very slow to move army
• Mac the Unready
• Command taken away
• Antietam
• Ran for president in 1864

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General George Meade

• West Point graduate
• Engineer
• Peninsular Campaign
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Courthouse

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William Tecumseh Sherman

• West Point graduate
• Superintendent of a military school in LA
• Fought in the West
• create havoc and destruction of all resources
  that would be beneficial to the enemy
• March to the Sea
• Most hated despised man in the history of
  Georgia

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Ulysses S. Grant

• West Point graduate
• Artist
• Son of abolitionist who married a slave owner
• Western campaign
• Unconditional Surrender
• Command of all Union forces
• Appomattox Courthouse
• Grant Web Site

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General Joseph Hooker

• West Point graduate
• most immodest and immoral

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General Ambrose Burnside

• West Point graduate
• Refused commands because he knew he was not
  qualified

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Admiral David Farragut

• Son of Spanish immigrant
• Career in Navy
• Spoke Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic
• Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!
• Farragut Web Site

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Thomas Stonewall Jackson

• West Point graduate
• Taught at VMI
• Commander at Harpers Ferry
• There stands Jackson like a stone wall
• Shot by own men, left arm amputated in attempt to
  save his life

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General Joseph Johnson

• West Point graduate
• Lived in Texas
• Fought in many major battles of the War
• Personality problems with Jefferson Davis

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General Robert E. Lee

• West Point graduate
• Son of Light Horse Harry Lee
• Offered command of Union forces
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Courthouse
• Man of great dignity

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Jefferson Davis

• West Point graduate
• Married daughter of Zachary Taylor
• Held several government positions
• Viewed south as a country within a country
• First and only President of the Confederacy