• Born in Washington D.C. in 1817
• Graduated from West Point
• Fought on the Frontier and in the Mexican War
• Made it to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army before he resigned at the start of the Civil War to Join the Confederate Army
• Was Commissioned into the Confederate Army as a Colonel
• Was promoted twice in 1861, and again in 1863 to accend to Lt. General
• Commanded a division under Gen Stonewall Jackson
• Wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862 and didn't return until May of 1863
• Assumed command of II Corps after the death of Stonewall Jackson
• Led the Army of Northern Virginia by pushing back the Union Army all the way to Gettysburg, where he was stopped
• Fought in the Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, where he was wounded again
• Left command of II Corps after his wounding at Spotsylvania, to command the Richmond defenses
• Captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, in 1865, by Gen Sheridan
• Released from captivity four months after the War
• Lived a private life in Tennessee until his death in 1872

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