You probably mean Robert E. Lee. He was a regular US officer, whom Lincoln wanted to appoint as an army commander and likely future General-in-Chief. Lee said he would have to wait to see whether his home-state of Virginia voted Confederate - which he hoped it wouldn't, as he disapproved of secession. However, the vote went that way, and Lee resigned to join the Confederates.
Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard for the South and Major Robert Anderson for the Union.
Although there were many commanding officers for both the North and the South during the Civil War, the most famous, an I believe the two for which you are searching, and most respected were General Ulysses S. Grant for the North and General Robert E. Lee for the South.
The South was the Confederacy - the eleven states that had seceded from the USA. The North meant all the other states, and these included four states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. But their loyalty was often uncertain (a major worry to Lincoln), and all of them recruited some regiments of Confederates.
the draftwas then started and the people didnot have a choice they had to go
General Robert E. Lee resigned from commanding Union forces due to his loyalty to the South. Despite being offered command of the Union Army by President Abraham Lincoln, Lee chose to side with his home state of Virginia when it seceded from the Union. His decision was rooted in his strong sense of duty and allegiance to his state, leading him to become the commanding general of the Confederate Army.
You probably mean Robert E. Lee. He was a regular US officer, whom Lincoln wanted to appoint as an army commander and likely future General-in-Chief. Lee said he would have to wait to see whether his home-state of Virginia voted Confederate - which he hoped it wouldn't, as he disapproved of secession. However, the vote went that way, and Lee resigned to join the Confederates.
You probably mean Robert E. Lee. He was a regular US officer, whom Lincoln wanted to appoint as an army commander and likely future General-in-Chief. Lee said he would have to wait to see whether his home-state of Virginia voted Confederate - which he hoped it wouldn't, as he disapproved of secession. However, the vote went that way, and Lee resigned to join the Confederates.
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When South Carolina forced the surrender of Fort Sumter.
Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard was commanding the South in the Battle at Fort Sumter. Beauregard had received permission from Jefferson Davis to assault Fort Sumter.
The Cherokee were not actually forced south, other than from crowding with settlers, they were forced west on the Trail of Tears.
Robert Edward Lee for the South(Confederacy) and George Gordon Meade for the North(Union).
USA Gen's Harkins, Westmoreland, Abrams.
I am not aware that he made any memorable quote at this time. He resigned in order to accept his election as US Senator by the South Carolina legislature.