Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist and philanthropist. Andrew Carnegie was born in November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He was the son of a handloom weaver. Andrewâs Carnegie parents decide to move to North America in 1848 because of the conditions that they were living.
Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 - March 28, 1893) was a career U.S. Army officer, an educator, and a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg.
The Union Army went through eight Commanders during the Civil War. They were George McClellan (twice), John Pope, Ambrose Burnside, Irvin McDowell, Joseph Hooker, George Meadeâ¦, and U.S. Grant. The Confederates were not organized the same way. Robert E. Lee was not the Commander of all the Confederate troops. He was Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, which fought in the eastern theater of the war. The overall Commander of the Army was the President Jefferson Davis.