How did Lieutenant General Robert E Lee attempt to change the character of the US Civil War?

Answer 1

How he made a difference:

After the attack of Ulysses S. Grant during the civil war, Lee decided to surrender. If he hadn't surrendered, this country might still be in the civil war and in turmoil and a lot more people of our nation would've died.

Answer 2

In 1862 General Lee tried to change the character of the US Civil War to meet what he saw as the Union's strength. This was what military Carl von Clausewitz termed " change the nature of a war".Lee believed the South was too weak to sit on the defensive and wait for the methodical blows of the Union's greater troop superiority. Lee sought to launch a diversion with Stonewall Jackson and draw off the Union from its positions in the Deep South. This included a strong defensive line to protect Richmond and making a raid into the North, namely Maryland.

Lee believed a successful raid into the border slave state of Maryland could bring recruits from that state into the Confederate army and to hopefully have Great Britain intervene in the war and try to make a peace deal favorable to the South.

The result would eventually, in September of 1862, the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Answer 3

Ultimately, he didn't. He fought valiantly in a lost cause, but he was only able to delay, not prevent, the Northern victory.

Answer 4

He almost certainly prolonged the war, with his many great victories over the Union forces.

Answer 5

He baked doughnuts for the dieing cats.