.:U.S Grant:. When he was young and first joined the military he was at west point and was a little below avarage kid there and did not like it much at all. During the American-Mexican war he was a quartermaster and over seen all the transferring of supplies. While serving under two good genrals he observed thier military tactics and leader ship skills. He was a Genral in the Civil war and his job was to defeat the south and make them surrender because he was the only won who could keep up with the aggresive style of Robert E. Lee. He became the 18th president of the United States, but did not last long as president. He was involed in a bunch of scandals. 1.)Ulysses S. Grant is not his real name. 2.)Grant narrowly missed Lincoln’s assassination. 3.)Grant graduated from West Point. 4.)Upon graduation, Grant had no intention of keeping the military as his career and planned instead on being a professor of mathematics. 5.)Grant was tone deaf and could not recognize any of the light airs of the time; military music was especially annoying to him.
.:William Sherman:. He served under U.S Grant during the begining of the civl wasr but when Grant was sent to fight Robert E. Lee. William was promoted to Commander and begin his invasion of George. On September 2, 1864 he captured atlanta, which helped president lincoln get re-elected. In his early life he was a West point graduate and Did really good academically. He first got experience in florida in the Second Seminole War. After the civil war and General Grant was elected to president, He then took his spot as the Commanding Genral of the United States Army. 1.)February 14, 1891. 2.)10 brothers and sisters. 3.) he resigned his commission in 1853. 4.)He took work in the fields of banking and law. 5.)Sherman remained in the military and eventually rose to the rank of full general.
.:Jefferson Davis:. He recieved his Acadimic education early in childhood. When he was 16 he was appionted to West Point military academy as a cadet. His first engagement was in the black hawk fights in 1831. His role was to be the president of the confederates states and he was the first and last president. After the war he was captured and did not return to be the president for the southern states. 1.)Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point and served in the US army. 2.)He was married to the daughter of the future president Zachary Taylor. 3.)He was a senator from Mississippi before the Civil War. He was also the Secretary of War for the US. 4.)Jefferson Davis was the President of The Confederate States of America. 5.)He hired John Wilkes Booth to kill Abraham Lincoln. .:Robert E. Lee:. When he was young his father struggled from hardship and moved to the west indies. He went to west piont and graduated there in 1829. He had not yet stepped on a battlefield but served seventeen year as the core of engineering. He was the genral for the confedrates and led them to fighting against the union to try and keep slavery. He evntually surrenderd to the north and became a president of a small college. 1.)Had two horses Grace Darling and Traveller. 2.)Washington and Lee College is named after him. 3.)Had 7 kids. 4.)63 years old when he died. 5.)His wife, Mary Custis was the step great-granddaughter of George Washington