ROBERT E. LEE

STONEWALL JACKSON

Robert E. Lee (1807 – 1870) was a Confederate general who led the Army of Northern Virginia. Before the Civil War, he served in the Mexican-American War. Robert E. Lee was invited by Lincoln to lead the Union Army in the Civil War, but he declined and instead took up leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia. He is remembered as both a strong leader and the man who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and ended the war.

Stonewall Jackson (1824 – 1863) was also a Confederate General. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and fought in the Mexican-American war alongside Robert E. Lee. He earned his nickname at the Fist Battle of Bull Run, where organized his troops “like a stone wall.” He lost an arm to an accidental bullet from one of his troops, and died soon after of pneumonia.