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.
A: The commander of the Confederate army was General Robert E. Lee. Lee was originally offered command of the Union Army by President Lincoln, but he rejected... Full Answer > Filed Under: