Transcript Civil War Generals

Civil War Generals
Foldable Notes
General Robert E. Lee
• Leader of the
Confederate Army
• January 19, 1807 –
October 12, 1870
• Declined to lead the
Union Army because
he lived in the South.
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General Ulysses S. Grant
• Leader of the Union
Troops.
• April 27, 1822 – July
23, 1885
• Later became
President of the
United States.
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General Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson
• January 21, 1824 – May
10, 1863
• Confederate General
• Considered to be Robert
E. Lee’s Right Hand Man
• Died after the Battle of
Chancellorsville
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William Tecumseh Sherman
• Union General
• February 8, 1820 –
February 14, 1891
• Known for his “March
on the Sea”, which
destroyed much of the
South.
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Jefferson Davis
• President of the
Confederate States.
• Did not want to be the
President of the
Confederacy.
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