South
In the Civil War, Robert E. Lee was part of the Confederate side.
Robert E. Lee
It wasn't. Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate Armies. The Union was the name given to the other side - thestates that had not quit the USA.
He was on the Union side but then, when war came, he decided to go to the Confederacy because he didn't want to fight against the place he called home. He didn't even want war in the first place!
Confederates. Lincoln had offered him the job of General-in-Chief of all the Union armies. He said he would only accept it if Virginia voted to stay loyal to the Union - which he hoped it would. But Virginia voted Confederate, and Lee went with his state. He felt he was a Virginian first and an American second.
Robert E Lee declined the offer of Union forces because he was originally from Virginia, and they had joined the Confederacy. He felt that it was not loyal to fight for the Union, when his own state was part of the Confederate States of America.
Confederate.
the general for the north(Union, U.S.A) is Robert E. Lee
No. Lee was a confederate general
No. Lee was a confederate general
For the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee For the Union, George Meade