He was confederate.
He's a Confederate general.
General Robert E. Lee viewed Union General John Pope's army in northern Virginia to be a threat to the Virginia Central Railroad. This was an important line of supply and communications between Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley. While General McClellan was slow to move his troops out of the Peninsula, Lee decided to focus his attention on Pope and prepare an assault on his Union army.
Confederate= Alpheus Baker Union= Robert Allen
· Zollicoffer, Felix (Confederate General) · Zook, Samuel (Union General) · Zouave regiment
During the US Civil War James Longstreet was a general in the Confederate Army.
General Pope (Union) and General Lee (Confederate).
The Union's Confiscation Act was passed in July of 1862. Union General Pope is now empowered to seize Confederate property, including slaves. As far as Confederate Jefferson Davis is concerned, these potential confiscations are "infamous". Davis threatens to treat Pope's officers responding to Pope's seizure orders, as "felons".
General John Pope (Union) and Robert E. Lee (confederate)
Union- John Pope Confederate- Robert E. Lee
Confederate General
· Alexander Stephens (Vice President of the Confederate States of America) · Braxton Bragg (Confederate General) · Cadwallader Washburn (Union General) · Davis, Jefferson (Confederate President) · Edward M. Stanton (Union Secretary of War) · Forest, General Nathan Bedford (Confederate General) · General George McClellan (Union General) · Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's Vice President during the war) · Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall" (Confederate General) · Kane, Thomas (Union General) · Lee, Robert E. (Confederate General) · Mallory, Stephen R. (Confederate Secretary of the Navy) · Philip Kearny (Union General) · Quantrill, Confederate Captain William · Richard Taylor (Confederate General) · Stuart, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" (Confederate General) · Taliaferro, William B. (Confederate General) · Ulysses S. Grant (Union General) · Van Cleve, Horatio (Union General) · Wadsworth, James S. (Union General) · Zook, Samuel (Union General)
ANSWER No, he was an Union General.
He's a Confederate general.
union
He was a union general and later became the 18th president
Confederates under Lee, who defeated a General he had known and despised in the old army, John Pope.
General Robert E. Lee viewed Union General John Pope's army in northern Virginia to be a threat to the Virginia Central Railroad. This was an important line of supply and communications between Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley. While General McClellan was slow to move his troops out of the Peninsula, Lee decided to focus his attention on Pope and prepare an assault on his Union army.