West Point Applications Go On Line

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For History buffs this is probably a treasure trove of information. Enjoy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101110/ap_on_hi_te/us_west_point_old_applications

By CHRIS CAROLA, Associated Press Chris Carola, Associated Press – Wed Nov 10, 10:23 am ET
ALBANY, N.Y. – Years before leading his vastly outnumbered troops to their doom at Little Bighorn, a young [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]George [COLOR=#366388 ! important]Armstrong [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 ! important]Custer[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] was described as accurate in math.
Nearly 30 years before his March to the Sea laid waste to a large swath of Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman was deemed a "fine energetic boy."
And two decades before he would earn the nickname "Stonewall," Thomas J. Jackson's dreams of a military career got a boost from a man who would help start the Civil War.
Those are some of the tidbits gleaned from more than 115,000 U.S. Military Academy application documents being posted online for the first time by Ancestry.com. The Provo, Utah-based genealogy website said Tuesday that the information can be viewed for free starting Thursday — Veterans Day — through Sunday.
After Sunday, it will cost $12.95 a month for unlimited access to the [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]West [COLOR=#366388 ! important]Point[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] records and the website's more than 100 million military documents, company officials said.
The oldest West Point documents being posted online date to 1805, three years after the academy's founding, and run through 1866, a year after the Civil War ended. The records and other related documents from that period were culled from the [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]National [COLOR=#366388 ! important]Archives[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] in Washington, D.C., said Quinton Atkinson, director of content acquisition for Ancestry.com.

 

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stonewall jackson, i remember reading about him from american histokry class.