My final reason on how the Southern generals were superior to the Northern generals is the experienced gained in the Mexican War. Many southern general greats served in the Mexican War and gained experience the helped them throughout The Civil War. ... Lee, Thomas Jackson, and Ambrose Hill all served in The Mexican War. ... The Mexican War was also the first time the Jackson and Lee met4. ... Some Generals like Ambrose Hill severed in both The Mexican War and the Seminole War, fighting in both of those sure readied up Hill for the Civil war. ...

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As soon as he received his commission as lieutenant of artillery, Jackson was assigned to the war zone in Mexico. ... Jackson served at Veracruz, Contreras, Chapultepec, and Mexico City, and rose to the temporary rank of major within a year. In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. ... The Confederate army had won the battle in which Jackson had fallen, but the chances of winning the war had grown very small. ... Some say if Stonewall Jackson didn't die, the South would have won the war. ...

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This started the Civil War. ... This caused the war on sea to a close. ... The only problem was that the two forts guarded the approach to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. ... The war has lasted around six weeks. ... As he signed the Union cheered and the civil war was finally over....

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Brief summary of Jefferson Davis" life and achievements Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Kentucky. He attended school at a Roman Catholic boarding school although he was a Protestant. For college Davis went to Transylvania University and then West Point in 1824. Four years later Dav...

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After West Point; General Pickett served with honor in the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. ... A few days later General Lee surrendered at Appomattox and the Civil War ended. After the war General Pickett worked as an insurance salesman. ...

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Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) Eighteenth president of the United States of America, he was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio and died at New York; he graduated at West Point Military Academy, and participated to some point in the Mexican-American war. Retired from the army after this war in 1854, he went bankrupt. ... In the Eastern theater at Gettysburg the fate of the war was decided, although it was a General Meade victory over General Lee's army. ... Grant accepted General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, The war was over. ... S. economy to be a world leader coming back from...

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After he left from West Point he left to join the Mexican War. ... After serving in the Mexican War he served as a superintendent of West Point military academy. ... In the very end Lee might have lost the war but he gained immortality. ... It was seized by the Union Force during the war. ... He might have lost the war but he still gain respect though out the country south, and north. ...

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Serving various military duties in Georgia, Virginia, New York, Texas, and Mexico over the next 23 years, Lee's reputation increased in recognition and respectability, and in 1852 he was named superintendent of West Point. ... To recall briefly Richmond's history prior to the Civil War: Captain John Smith first landed here in 1607 at the falls of the James River. ...

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