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Virginia Vignettes
Vista. Junior officers Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jackson won plaudits for their soldiering Nicholas Trist, who had married Jefferson’s granddaughter and lived at Monticello when he was studying law with Jefferson, was President James Polk’s envoy to conclude a peace. Despite being recalled, Trist stayed and successfully negotiated the treaty that ended the war and gave the United States a vast empire u. California and the Southwest
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