Timeline for Were any of the historical figures of the American Civil War close at West Point?
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| Mar 22, 2016 at 16:55 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | General Grant: 'I met you once before, General Lee, while we were serving in Mexico, when you came over from General Scott's headquarters to visit Garland's brigade, to which I then belonged. I have always remembered your appearance, and I think I should have recognized you anywhere.' 'General Lee, 'I know I met you on that occasion, and I have often thought of it and tried to recollect how you looked, but I have never been able to recall a single feature.'" At Appomattox | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 16:47 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Grant, Jackson and Lee all served in the Mexican War of 1846-1848. So too did Pickett and IIRC Longstreet. Lee (a captain at the time) was on Winfield Scott's staff, the others not. Lee would probably have known of them if he did not know them personally, though Lee had attributed to him a laconic response at Aptomattox when Grant mentioned that they had met some years before. "I don't recall" or something like that. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 12:57 | comment | added | CGCampbell | However, as my Colonel put it one day, once a Pointer, always a Pointer <ring knock> | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 2:20 | vote | accept | BoddTaxter | ||
| Mar 21, 2016 at 1:09 | history | edited | Pieter Geerkens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 0:59 | history | edited | Pieter Geerkens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 0:53 | history | answered | Pieter Geerkens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |