Famous+Generals

By: Breanna, Desiree, Savanah, Katelynn, and Dimitrius

To start out we are researching on famous generals and soliders of the Civil War. If you don't know what a General or Soldiers are then I'll tell you. A General is the head or leader of a troop. A soldier is a person who serves in the military to fight or has a spot but not to fight. Did you know that some people who had slaves would force the slaves to join the military or they would sign their selves up for the military but put their slaves in their place. Robert Smalls was a slave and was forced to be in the Confederacy army which is against the Union. If you don't know who was the North or South, then here it is, Union was the North and the Confederacy was the South. On May12, 1862 Robert Smalls escaped from the confederacy. How he did it you ask? Well, he put on a captain's uniform and acted like the captain. He carefully guided the steamboat called the Planter out of Charleston Harbor. He safely made his way off the Confederate lands and made his way over to a union ship and offered them his steamboat. He later became a U.S. Congress Men. During that time African American slaves or people could not join the Union Military. On July 17, 1862 the congress said that they could enlist (which means sign up or enroll) to the Union army. Later on June 15,1864 congress allowed equal pay for African American soldiers.How cool, everything changed since then. If you want to know about some generals then read on. Some generals are (I'll give you 5 generals) Braxton Bragg, Jubal Anderson Early, George Pickett, U.S. Grant or as some people know him one of our former generals Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert Edward Lee. This is General Robert Edward Lee. Found by Desiree and Breanna. This is General Braxton Bragg. Found Desiree and Katelynn.

This is General and Former President U.S. Grant. Found by Desiree.

Lets talk about the generals that we picked. Now do know that there is over 50 generals and doing all of those will take a long time so we just randomly picked some. So lets start with Braxton Bragg, now we are going to give a few facts and then the website where you can read all about him.

General Bragg was one of the eight men that ranked full general on the Confederate army. He must have been a good general out of all the people who were in the army.I will give you one of his Confederate war missions are Louisiana Militia During the early 1861. He was a very strong General.

General Robert Edward Lee is next. Robert is actually our teachers great great great uncle. How cool. Lee was the Confederate General but at some point was against slavery.He was in charge of supervising all southern forces in Virginia. He died on Oct. 12,1870.