The Quirky History,Savannah,Georgia And The United States

Drawing shows General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant standing near a large tree, possibly on the "old stage road to Richmond, between the picket-lines" of both armies with officers for each standing nearby; Lee is shown holding a paper, reviewing the terms as set by Grant for surrender, as Grant gestures toward the Union forces on the right.

Photograph shows Thomas Coleman "Cole" Younger (1844-1916), a Civil War Confederate guerrilla and later a leader with the James-Younger gang who died on March 21, 1916.

Civil War veteran Powhattan Perkins Pullen of Co. B, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, Spanish-American War veteran David Ferrell Quillin of Co. D and Co. G, 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, and World War I veteran John Luke Browning, all of Paris, Tennessee

  William McKinley  was a Civil War veteran himself. President McKinley, who had fought for the Union, showed no animosity toward men who had fought for the other side.Incidentally,  William McKinley  was a Civil War veteran himself. President McKinley, who had fought for the Union, showed no animosity toward men who had fought for the other side.

Thomas Lafayette Rosser left West Point without waiting to graduate with the class of 1861. Accepting a commission in the Confederate army, he was in a number of famous battles, including First Manassas (Bull Run), the Seven Days, Beaver Dam Creek, Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Appomattox. He was wounded three times. Thirty-three years later, McKinley made Rosser a brigadier general of United States volunteers in the Spanish-American War. Peter Conover Hains didn’t see as much action as his Southern counterparts, but no other officer had the distinction of serving in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the First World War. Hains graduated from the United States Military Academy on June 24, 1861, two months after the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. His West Point classmates included George Armstrong Custer and Thomas L. Rosser. Hains was commissioned a second lieutenant and promoted to first lieutenant, Light Battery M,...

Joseph Wheeler , another Confederate officer in the Civil War, served in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. Wheeler (West Point, 1859) commanded the 19th Alabama at the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth, and went on to command the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in Braxton Bragg’s Army of Mississippi. General Wheeler clashed repeatedly with Nathan Bedford Forrest, but retained Bragg’s faith in his ability. Joe Wheeler’s Civil War career ended in 1865, when Union troops captured him at Conyer’s Station, near Atlanta. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, President William McKinley appointed Wheeler major general of volunteers. General Wheeler took charge of the cavalry division (Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were part of his command). In 1899 Wheeler headed to the Philippines to command the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division in the Philippine-American War.

Maj. Gen. Matthew Calbraith Butler , Confederate States Army, became a major general of U.S. Volunteers in the Spanish-American War—despite having lost his right foot in the battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863.

Fitzhugh Lee , son of Robert E. Lee’s elder brother Sydney Smith Lee, was a Confederate cavalry general in the Civil War and a major general of U.S. Volunteers in the Spanish-American War. (The War Department appointed Fitz Lee commander of the Seventh Army Corps, and authorized him to establish Camp Cuba Libre near Jacksonville, Florida.)

Maj. Gen. Peter Conover Hains served in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and World War I