Because Cecil Calvert stayed in England, they stayed ,too.
They knew the land that they were fighting on and they had the high ground.
The Confederate army lost more generals in combat than the Union did in the entire war.
The most famous general next to General Robert E. Lee, is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Jefferson was one of four presidential candidates. ... Jefferson was not alone in believing that the election of 1800<span> was crucial. On the other side, Federalist</span>Alexander Hamilton<span>, who had been George Washington's secretary of treasury, believed that it was a contest to save the new nation from “the fangs of Jefferson.”</span>