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concept-142	none	No Army Inspired: The Failure of Nationalism at Antebellum West Point*	2003	18	.pdf	application/pdf	8577	296	52	Viewed in this light, Root’s words beg an interesting question: to what extent were West Point cadets in the antebellum era “inspired by the spirit of the Military Academy”? Although West Point cadets felt a sense of obligation to the federal government for the education they had received, Ambrose asserts, “it plainly was unreasonable to expect most southern graduates to 3 West Point graduates serving the Confederacy included Generals Robert E. Lee (class of 1829), Joseph E. Johnston (1829), P.G.T. Beauregard (1838), Lafayette McLaws (1842), James Longstreet (1842), Stonewall Jackson (1846), George E. Pickett (1846), A.P. Hill (1847), John Bell Hood (1853), and J.E.B. Stuart (1854).	cache/concept-142.pdf	txt/concept-142.txt