Grant than Confederate General Robert E ... Lee instead entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. There, he quickly rose in the ranks and graduated second in the class of 1829.

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point ... in the Confederate service. Quickly promoted to colonel and then brigadier general, he ...

Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the ... was carefully worded so as not to anger the president. West Point graduate Robert E. Lee of Virginia was such a celebrated ...