Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in a small home in Staunton, Virginia. His father, Joseph, was a minister at a Presbyterian church, and his mother, Janet, was a Civil War nurse for the confederacy. He had two older sisters and a younger brother. A year after he was born, the Wilson family moved to Augusta, Georgia. Some of Woodrow's earliest memories include watching the Union Soldiers march into his town near the end of the war. He watched General Robert E. Lee walk back through Georgia under Union guard after his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. During the early years of Reconstruction, Wilson saw devastation and poverty in the Confederate State of Georgia. Due to this, his family moved to South Carolina in 1870, and then North Carolina in 1874. Despite Wilson's poor eyesight and mild dyslexia, he had a passion for learning and schoolwork. Unfortunately, due to the poverty caused by Reconstruction of the South, he was not able to attend public school. Instead, he learned from his father. Through this learning, he was able to attend Princeton University, graduating with a PhD. He later became the first and only president with a PhD.