American Governors for $2000

Only one American has served as the governor of two different U.S. States. Who is it? Hint #1 He was also the President. Hint #2 He was not the President of the United States.

The Answer of course is Sam Houston. He was the governor of Tennessee from 1827 to 1829 and the governor of Texas from 1859 to 1861. He was the President of the Independent state of Texas twice from 1836 to 1844.

At the start of the Civil War he refused to join with the confederacy but also refused to give support for the Union. He died in the middle of the war.
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Lee's Retreat From Gettysburg

Following the devastating Confederate losses at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee's army needed to make a hasty retreat into Virginia. With as many as 15,000 wounded, there were not enough wagon's to carry the most disabled. In order to prevent the total loss of his army, Lee chose to leave around 6,000 of his men in the hands of the Union Army.
One of the nurses who cared for Confederate soldiers wrote, "There are no words in the English language to express the suffering I witnessed today " Few records exist of what happened to those men. Very few of them ever made it back to their families in the South. Horrible infection, amputation without anesthesia, imprisonment and ultimately death was the fate of most.