army at Monterey during the Mexican war. Right when the war began

Grant obtained a position on the staff of General George McClellan.

During the war he showed courage in both physically and morally

manners. In February 1862 Grant captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

with help from the Federal navy. In October he was appointed commander

of the Department of Tennessee, and told to take Vicksburg,

Mississippi. Earl Van Dorn captured Grant's base at Holly Springs and

he had to retreat. In 1864 Grant was promoted to lieutenant general

and named general in chief of all federal armies. In April 1865 Grant

forced Lee to surrender after an 88 mile pursuit. Grant was elected

president in 1868 and served two terms.

During the Mexican war Lee was an engineering officer with

Winfield Scott's force. Jefferson Davis appointed Lee a general in the

southern army in 1861. He was not successful in preventing an invasion

of western Virginia, so he was sent to the Atlantic Coastal defense.

In 1862 when Joseph E. Johnston was wounded, Lee became commander of

the confederate army in Virginia. In Richmond

Henry Clay was a key figure in U.S. politics in the early 19th

life. The Unionist were driven back with heavy casualties. The

Civil War. He joined the Confederate army in 1861 and later fought in

during the United States Civil War. Davis wanted Mississippi to leave

was born into slavery and given the name Isabella Baumfree. Sojourner

century. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1811. Clay

wide and attacked the Confederacy on the unprotected Georgia

legal freedom for 150 ponds and he came back to the United States.

was the leader of the "War Hawks" in Congress who wanted to go to war

Brown's adult years he wandered from job to job, but in the 1850's he

was the Reconstruction policy. During the Civil War he fought for

have the power to nullify federal laws. In 1828 Calhoun was reelected

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