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Gouverneur Morris had been a member of the New York Provincial Congress, With guerrillas harassing his line of communications back to Veracruz Scott decided not to weaken his army to defend Puebla but leaving only a garrison at Puebla to protect the sick and injured recovering there advanced on Mexico City on August 7 with his remaining force the capital was laid open in a series of battles around the right flank of the city defenses the Battle of Contreras and Battle of Churubusco After Churubusco fighting halted for an armistice and peace negotiations which broke down on September 6 1847 With the subsequent battles of Molino del Rey and of Chapultepec and the storming of the city gates the capital was occupied Scott became military governor of occupied Mexico City His victories in this campaign made him an American national hero; The Signers came for the most part from an educated elite were residents of older settlements and belonged with a few exceptions to a moderately well-to-do class representing only a fraction of the population Native or born overseas they were of British stock and of the Protestant faith, Many of the military leaders on both sides of the American Civil War of 1861-1865 had trained at the U.S Military Academy at West Point and had fought as junior officers in Mexico This list includes military men fighting for the Union: Ulysses S Grant George B McClellan William T Sherman George Meade and Ambrose Burnside Military men who joined the Southern secessionists of the Confederacy included Robert E Lee Stonewall Jackson James Longstreet Joseph E Johnston Braxton Bragg Sterling Price and the future Confederate President Jefferson Davis Both sides had leaders with significant experience in active combat in strategy and in tactics likely[original research?] shaping ways the civil-war conflict played out. Vte The Founding Fathers represented a cross-section of 18th-century U.S leadership According to a study of the biographies by Caroline Robbins:.