What was general Robert e lee major contribution?

Answer 1

General Robert E. Lee contributed great sucess (sp) for the South during the Civil War. He was one of the most famous generals during the Civil War.


Brilliant military leadership in behalf of a lost cause.



General Robert E. Lee made his biggest contributions when he was Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee held that position for a majority of the war. He was tasked with protecting the Confederacy's capital city, Richmond, Va. from the invasion the Union Army would obviously attempt. Despite sometimes overwhelming odds he applied his brilliant tactics and cunning battlefield strategies in order to outwit the Union officers and decisively defeat Union armies. For example, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, his Confederates defeated a Union army that outnumbered them 3:1. Had he failed and have been defeated, the Union soldiers would march onward to Richmond and the South would have probably been defeated much earlier. He was a great leader as well in that his men loyally, bravely, and proudly fought for him until the end.

Answer 2

Commanded the Army of Northern Virginia - so successful at first that Britain and France came close to granting recognition to the Confederacy.

After his colleague Stonewall Jackson was killed at Chancellorsville, neither he nor his army was quite the same again, and he also confided to a few close friends that he was physically past his best.

In the last year of the war, Grant managed to keep him on the defensive and eventually took his surrender at Appomattox - the notional end of the Civil War. Although he had been appointed General-in-Chief of the Confederates by then, it was too late to make any difference.

Lee is now seen as the embodiment of the Lost Cause - a Southerner's legend of nobility and romance.

Answer 3

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870) was the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civl War.

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Answer 4

Confederate General Robert E. Lee was a major reason the Southern rebellion lasted as long as it did. He was a brilliant general and his battle victories and even his losses kept Union armies occupied and spent months trying to overcome Lee's army and his effective fortification that protected Southern cities and Southern armies.

Answer 5

Robert E. Lee became the leading General for the Confederate troops.

Answer 6

General Lee is known for leading the Confederate army against the Union army during the American Civil War.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

He was the general of the Confederacy.

Answer 9

He was a Confederate general