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Several Confederate Generals proposed ways to assault Washington DC, in order to slow down the advances of the Union army in the South. One plan was offered by Confederate General Braxton Bragg.He called upon Jefferson Davis to begin an assault on Washington DC with all available forces not required to defend key points in the South.
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What Confederate General was offered to be a Union General but refused?
Robert E Lee
When Lafayette arived in Philadelphia from France he offered his seves to?
General Washington
What was one advantage the proposal for the Peninsula campaign offered to the Union?
The McClellan proposal offered the Union the advantage of beginning its assault on Richmond from a point only sixty miles away from the Confederate capital. Lincoln had preferred a direct attack by the Army of the Potomac under McClellan from Washington DC. McClellan was concerned that Confederate forces at Manassas, would thwart a direct attack on Richmond. Lincoln reluctantly agreed to the Peninsula campaign if McClellan left behind a sufficient force to guard Washington DC.
What position did the state of Mississippi offer to Jefferson Davis before he became the provisional Confederate president?
The Confederate state of Mississippi offered Jefferson Davis the position of major general. This was just prior to the Confederate Congress naming Davis the provisional president of the Confederacy.
To whom was the opportunity to join the union offered?
I believe you are referring to Ulysses Grant. He was a great general, and the Union wanted him to command their troops. However, he decided to go with his native Virginia and became a confederate general.
Is it true that Robert E. Lee was a confederate general in the civil war?
Yes. He didn't want to be. But he reckoned he was a Virginian first and an American second. Lincoln had actually offered him the job of General-in-Chief of the Union armies, which he wanted to accept. But he said he would wait to see if Virginia voted Confederate. Unfortunately, it did.
Was Robert lee a union general?
No. At the start of the war, he was offered the job of General-in-Chief of all the Union armies, but turned it down because his state of Virginia had voted Confederate. In the last weeks of the war, he was made General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies - the obvious choice for that newly-created post, but too late to make any difference.
What was Robert E. Lee's profession?
Robert E. Lee spent most of his adult life as a professional soldier. He eventually was named as the Confederate Army's general in chief. He had experience in college education and had been the Superintendent of the USMA, West Point. Due to his fame and experience he was offered and took on the position of the president of Washington College in Virginia. When the American Civil War started, he was offered a top appointment by Lincoln, but Lee said he would have to wait and see whether Virginia would secede. (He hoped it wouldn't; he disapproved of secession.) After Virginia seceded, Lee became a general in the Confederate army.
I was offered and rejected command of the Union forces at the start of the Civil War. I was a brilliant general and commander of the Confederate forces. Who am I?
robert e lee
What caused Confederate General James Longstreet to offer his resignation at the end of 1863?
In a letter to General Samuel Cooper, General James Longstreet offered to be relieved of duty due to the defeat at Knoxville, Tennessee. Longstreet took responsibility for the attempt to be successful in Tennessee.
Who was the confederate leader that was offered the command of union forces at the beginning of the civil war?
Lee declined the job and resigned his commission to fight for Virginia instead.
How did Union General George B McClellan seek to impress the new secretary of war?
General McClellan soon realized that the new secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, had no background in military affairs. Soon after Stanton's appointment to the war department, McClellan sought to explain to him why President Lincoln's orders to launch a frontal assault on the entrenched Confederate forces of General Joseph Johnston was not a sound idea. He put together a twenty-two page report on this to Stanton and offered to him his own plan to capture Richmond.
