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 * Contents of this page:** Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard;[|Clara Barton]; [|Mary Ann Bickerdyke]; Frederick Douglass; Gen. Robert E. Lee; Gen. Irwin McDowell; Gen. George Meade; Gen. George Pickett

Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard-

 * Born New Orleans, Louisianna, 1818
 * Graduated from West Point
 * Fought in Mexican War.
 * 1861, resigned form U.S Army and joined the Confederate Army
 * He ordered the South Carolina troops to fire on Ft. Sumter
 * Second in command at the Battle of Bull Run
 * Took the command after Shiloh.
 * Nicknamed "the Napolean of the South"
 * After the war, became President of the New Orleans, Jackson and Mississippi Railroad

Clara Barton

 * she served as a nurse in the war; she was also kind, sweet, and loving to the wounded soliders as she would operated.

Frederick Douglass
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Gen. Robert E. Lee-

 * was born January 18,1807 in Strattford, Virginia.
 * Graduated form West Point in 1829.
 * Was involved in the Mexican War and was wounded in 1847
 * Called to Washington by President Lincoln to command the Union in 1861.
 * 1861 he turned down the offer to lead the Union Army
 * He made commander for the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and he remained the general until the Confederate Army surrended in 1865 to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
 * After the war became President of Washington College
 * His home was confiscated by the federal government and never returned. It is now surrounded by Arlington National Cemetary.
 * Died October 12, 1870

Gen. Irwin McDowell-

 * was born in Columbus, Ohio on October 15, 1818
 * earned his early education in France
 * He attended at West Point in 1834
 * Fought in the Mexican War
 * Was the commander of the Army of the Potomac at the first Battle of Bull Run
 * Was promoted to general after winning the battle of Buena Vista
 * He was appointed as commander of the Department of the East in July 1868
 * Died on May 4, 1885 in San Francisco

Gen. George Meade-

 * Meade was born in Cadiz, Spain in 1815
 * Attended West Point
 * In 1836 he spent the next six years conducting survey work in Mississippi
 * In 1842, Meade rejoined the army as a topographical engineer
 * He became commander of the Army of the Potomac five days before the Battle of Gettysburg
 * Meade died in Philadelphia of complications arising from his Frayser's Farm wound.

Gen. George Pickett-

 * Pickett was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 25, 1825
 * He led his "Gamecock Brigade" at the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, and Gaines' Mill but was severely wounded in the last battle
 * His division led the charge against the Union Army on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
 * In the spring of 1864, Pickett was placed in charge of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina
 * He hanged 22 Confederate deserters who were caught serving in the Union Army
 * Pickett fled to Canada as to avoid being tried for war crimes in connection with his execution of the Confederate deserters
 * Died in Norfolk, Virginia on July 30, 1875