Famous for the Gettysburg "Charge" named for him, after the Civil War he became an insurance agent
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Post War Lives - Civil War Trust  The wounds he suffered at Gettysburg and Chickamauga would cause him ... In 1872 he became the Major General of all militia and state police in New ... During the war his cavalry was first a part of the Army of Tennessee, but after the ... In 1868 he started an insurance company in Savannah, Georgia, acting as an agent...
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George Pickett - Wikipedia  George Edward Pickett (January 16, 1825  July 30, 1875) was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. ... Near the beginning of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, and he attained the rank of brigadier general...
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George Pickett - American Civil War - HISTORY.com  After Gettysburg, Pickett commanded troops in North Carolina and later ... and after the Civil War, Pickett lived his later life as a farmer and insurance agent. He ... Pickett was known as a jovial and likable cadet, but he was a poor student and ... of the most famous military figures to have finished last in his class at West Point.
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Pickett's Charge Gettysburg Civil War Pickett's Charge Map  Pickett's Charge Battle of Gettysburg Cemetery Ridge, General George ... Pickett's Charge is named after Maj. ... the hopes of the North and South were determined in this famous battle. .... with insurance agents in other Virginia cities from whom he drew a commission. ..... What did he know that caused him to act as he did?
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General, I have no division - The Fame of Pickett's Charge  -Major General George Edward Pickett to General Lee at Gettysburg July 3, 1863 ... The names of the places associated with the charge are deeply indented on the ... of Virginia until the close of the war, after which he returned to his law practice. ... The life of an insurance agent was distasteful to the man who once led...
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World history - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  1625-1649 Charles I, his last years were marked with civil war and he was ...... numerical term for secret enemy sympathizers comes from the Spanish Civil War.
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Free Flashcards about CIVIL WAR - StudyStack  ELIHU WASHBURNE, WHO SPONSORED A BILL MAKING THIS MAN A CIVIL WAR GENERAL, BECAME HIS SECRETARY OF STATE, GRANT. PRINCESS...
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
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Ulysses S. Grant | HistoryNet  During the Civil War, Longstreet became a renowned general of the Confederacy as Grant's star was rising in the Union Army. In 1880, Grant convinced...
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Joseph Hooker - Wikipedia  "Fighting" Joe Hooker in an 1863 engraving. Joseph Hooker (November 13, 1814  October 31, 1879) was a career United States Army officer, achieving the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. ... Hooker began to pursue Lee at the start of the Gettysburg Campaign, but his poor...
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Ulysses S. Grant - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  General Ulysses S. Grant parlayed his celebrity after the Civil War into a ... as his real name, although he maintained that the S did not stand for anything. ... attempt at farming, followed by a failed stint in a St. Louis real estate office. ... moved to Galena, Illinois, where Ulysses worked in his father's leather goods business.
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Abraham Lincoln's Invitation to Gettysburg and the Meaning of the ...  Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, ... that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. ... Lincoln's main goals were to dedicate the battlefield to the men who died .... Abraham Lincoln never knew that his Gettysburg Address would become one...
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Free Flashcards about GENERALS - StudyStack  BEFORE COLIN POWELL, THE 2 4-STAR GENERALS WHO WENT ON TO BECOME ... ALTHOUGH THE CHARGE UP CEMETERY RIDGE IN GETTYSBURG IS NAMED ... HE ASSUMED COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC JUST 3 DAYS ... IN THE EARLY DAYS OF WWI, GENERAL ERICH LUDENDORFF...
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Redoubt Enterprises  After his childhood education, he went to Springfield, Illinois to study law, but .... Pickett's division arrived at the Battle of Gettysburg on the evening of the ... "Up, Men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia" ... After the war, it is said that he met once with General Lee in a meeting described as "icy.
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Ben-Hur and Lew Wallace: How the scapegoat of Shiloh became ...  Mar 26, 2013 ... It took four years, but in 1880, Wallace finished his incidental employment. ... A lawyer by training, he served on the tribunal that tried the Lincoln .... troops to the field of battle, and he shouldered a heavy portion of the blame for the dire toll. .... shunpike that led to Shiloh Church, where Sherman was camped.
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Emerson: The SC backstory to Gettysburg | The State  Jul 3, 2013 ... The conflict was greater than any fought in the history of the western ... Robert E. Lee moved his Army of Northern Virginia into southern Pennsylvania. ... More than 150,000 men converged on the small town of Gettysburg. ... legendary charge that defined the most famous battle of the war precipitated by the...
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Lincoln as Emancipator | IIP Digital  Feb 2, 2009 ... ... continues on whether or not Abraham Lincoln was indeed the Great Emancipator, ... President Lincoln invited a visiting free black delegation to consider ... On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued what became known as the...
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Gettysburg Address Displayed at Smithsonian | Arts & Culture ...  The only known image of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg was uncovered in 1952 at ... A copy of that speech, in Lincoln's handwritingthe version generally ... at the battlefield dedication, to be sold for the benefit of wounded Union soldiers. ... States in the 1930s, bought it at auction in 1949 for $54,000 (roughly the cost of a...
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Chronology on Life of James Butler HICKOK, Wild Bill Hickok, Old ...  He also took a job working for a neighbor with a last name of Carr. ... Apparently, the joining of the Kansas Free Staters was not a full time occupation for young James. ... This is the first known time he was referred to as "William". ... Another version of how Hickok obtained the "Wild Bill" title is given by Mr. George Hance,...
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Biography of Baron von Steuben - USHistory.org  His experiences as a General Staff member in the Prussian Army gave him a wealth of ... His training would eventually bring to the American soldiers the technical ... The bulk of the fighting in the Revolutionary War was a stand up and slug match. ... mortgage on the property he was given in New York (about 16,000 acres).
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Articles about Battle Of Gettysburg by Date - Page 2 - tribunedigital ...  The fighting at Gettysburg, Pa., began on July 1, 1863, when a Confederate division ... Newt Gingrich imagines an alternative ending to the Battle of Gettysburg. ... the former House speaker, who will sign copies of his new book, Gettysburg: A ... In Gingrich's version of events - co-written with historical fiction writer William R.