Archive for March, 2011

Robert E. Lee’s Arlington house becomes Arlington National Cemetery

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Joshua Chamberlain, the hero of Gettysburg, survives the Civil War to become Governor of Maine and then President of Bowdoin College

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Confederate Cavalry General Jeb Stuart is one of those individuals who does not survive the Civil War, having been killed at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia

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Confederate Cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest goes on to help found the Klu Klux Klan

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Union General Ulysses S. Grant Goes on to be elected President of the United States

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Union General Rutherford B. Hayes is elected President after Grant

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After Hayes, ex-Union General James A. Garfield is elected President, but becomes the second President to be assassinated

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Abraham Lincoln’s eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, goes on to become Secretary of War, Ambassador to Great Britain, and head of the Pullman railroad car company. He was present at the assassination of his father as well as the assassination of Presidents James A. Garfield and William McKinley.

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