... an 88 mile pursuit. Grant was elected president in 1868 and served two terms. Robert E. Lee 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 ... led his troops on a spearhead attack on Cemetery Ridge that was supposed to break through the center of the union line. This has been called the Confederacy's "high-water mark". William Garrison William Garrison played a maj...

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... she rescued her then 70-year-old parents. Becoming friends with the leading abolitionists of that time, Harriet took part in antislavery meetings. She worked closely with black antislavery activist William Still in Philadelphia and with Underground Railroad conductor Thomas Garrett, a Quaker who lived in Wilmington, Delaware. Abolitionist John Brown gave her the title "General Tubman. On the way to such ... of black soldiers known as the Glory Brigade. She later received an official commendation, but no pay for her efforts. In 1869 she married an African American war veteran, Nelson Dav...

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