Robert E. Lee: Was born to Henry Lee known as Light-Horse Harry in Stratford Hall Virginia. Robert Edward Lee was determined to be in the military. Even though he had financial difficulties which made him and his father move to the west indies he went to the united states military academy and graducated second in his class. Two years later he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, who was related to George Washington's adopted son John Parke Custis. He served seventeen years as an officer in the Corps of Engineers, supervising the construction of the nation's coastal defenses but the service during the 1846 war with Mexico changed that. Lee distinguished himself of General Winfield Scott's staff earning three brevets for gallantry, and emerging from the conflict with the rank of colonel. |
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stonewall Jackson: He was born january 21st 1824 in clarcksburg virginia. Him and his father struggled financially. In 1842,when he was 18, he became constable of Lewis County briefly but was also one of four local residents to test for an appointment to the West Point Military Academy. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate lieutenant general in the Civil War. He saw himself as an instrument of God’s will, an Old Testament style commander of armies in the service of his Lord.
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