0 Winfield Scott - Great General of USA

Winfield Scott was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential applicant of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he serve on active duty as a general longer than any further man in American history and many historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his forty seven year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, in brief, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to beat the Confederacy.

He served as superior General of the United States Army for twenty years, longer than any other holder of the office. A national hero after the Mexican American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature that, in 1852, the United States Whig Party passed over its own incumbent President of the United States, Millard Fillmore, to suggest Scott in the United States presidential election. Scott lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce in the common election, but remained a popular national figure, receiving a brevet promotion in 1856 to the rank of lieutenant general, suitable the first American since George Washington to hold that rank.

Nickname	Old Fuss and Feathers, Grand Old Man of the Army
Date of Birth	June 13, 1786
Place of Birth	Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Service/branch	United States Army, Union Army
Rank	Brevet Lieutenant General
Commands held	United States Army
Other work	Lawyer, Military governor of Mexico City, Whig candidate for President of the United States
Place of Death	West Point, New York
Date of Death	May 29, 1866

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0 History of Civil War and its Back Ground

In the spring of 1861, decades of rumble tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues counting states' rights versus federal influence, westward increase and slavery exploded into the American Civil War (1861-65). 

The voting of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 reason seven southern states to separate from the Union to form the associate States of America; four more joined them after the first shots of the Civil War were fired. 

 In the mid-19th century, while the United States understood an era of tremendous growth, an elementary financial difference existed between the country's northern and southern regions. While in the North, industrialized and industry was well recognized, and farming was mostly limited to small-scale farms, the South's wealth was based on a system of large-scale undeveloped that depended on the labor of black slaves to grow certain harvest, particularly cotton and tobacco. 

Though on the surface the Civil War may have seemed a irregular conflict, with the 23 states of the Union enjoying an huge advantage in population, developed (including arms production) and railroad construction, the partner had a strong military tradition, along with some of the best soldiers and leader in the nation. 

In the First combat of Bull Run (known in the South as First Manassas) on July 21, 1861, 35,000 partner soldiers under the authority of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson forced a superior number of Union forces (or Federals) to run away towards Washington, D.C., dashing any hopes of a quick Union victory and leading Lincoln to call for 500,000 more workers.

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