famous military leaders
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- Major Robert Anderson
- Commander of the Union forces at Ft. Sumter
- General PGT Beauregard
- Captured Union forces at Ft. Sumter
- General Stonewall Jackson
- Lee's right hand man. Shot by own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville
- General Albert S. Johnston
- Confederate General who bled to death under a tree at Shiloh. He requested that his own men be attended to first.
- JEB Stuart
- Lee called him the "eyes and ears of my army"
- General George B. McClellan
- Lincoln's first choice for commander of the Union forces/he prepared the men well, but he would never attack.
- General William Tecumseh Sherman
- Was the commander of the Union forces in the "March to the Sea". Fought a war against the civilians
- General Robert E. Lee
- Commander of the Confederate forces
- General Ulysses S. Grant
- Was the Union commander of the troops in the western theatre/became the commander of all the troops after Lincoln had gone through many generals
- General George Meade
- Union officer who stopped Lee's army at Gettysburg
- General George Pickett
- Confederate general who attacked at Gettysburg with 15,000 soldiers/called Pickett's charge/ended in failure
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Daring Confederate officer from TN/known for his fearless ways in battle