Robert E. Lee

Because it would have taken the fighting out of Virginia, and let the south go on to invade the north and where they could pillage and commandeer supplies without harming/annoying confederate citizens. Plus, it would have shown the north that the south serious about their independence and would fight the Yankees on their own ground about it.

FURTHER MOTIVATION

The Confederacy firmly hoped that a decisive victory at Gettysburg would led itself to be recognized as an independent State by France and Great Britain.

The Seven Days' Battles were fought from June 25th through July 1st 1862. From early April McClellan's Army had been making it's way up the York/James Peninsula(the so-called Peninsular Campaign). By the end of May some parts of the Union Army were within about 7 miles of the Confederate Capitol of Richmond. On May 31st the commanding General of Confederate troops-Joseph Johnston-was seriously wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines. The next day, June 1st President Davis appointed Robert E. Lee to command of Confederate troops. Over the next 3 weeks or so Lee brought in more troops from other areas,organized them and devised a plan to relieve Richmond of McClellan's threat.The attack was launched against that part of the Union Army north of the Chickahominy River(5th Corps under Gen.Fitz-John Porter). Despite shortcomings in the execution of Lee's plan the main objective was achieved as McClellan in a somewhat hurried fashion moved back southward,going to Harrison's Landing on the James River. Richmond could breathe easier.

General Hood

Not so. This has been wrongly attributed to Robert E Lee but there is no record of Lee ever saying that about Hood. The first reference to Hood being too much lion and too little fox was in a post-Civil War poem that was actually complimentary of Hood.

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Ulysses S. Grant. He was ruthless and never stopped fighting until either side was completely demolished. He completely disregarded the unwritten rule that the winning side should allow the other side to retreat and regroup. he just pushed forward as far as he could. this raised contorversy and they asked lee to release him but he refused becasue he said he was the only one of his generals who would fight

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I know he had more than one but I am only going to name one cause it's family. Robert Morris is my 6th great grandfather and his daughter born in 1776 was Christine Morris who married a McKenzie....and cause of them 200 years later in 1976 I was born!

Looks like I'm related to you- he's my 5th great grandfather! One of his daughter's name was Sarah and she married a Rowe....so now in 1998 I was born! :D

He and his Army crossed over the Potomac and reentered Virginia.

The objectives of the invasion of Maryland were the following:

1 - Threaten the vital centers of the enemy, taking away any possibility of sending troops against Richmond.

2 - Make his Army to live on the resources of Maryland, giving relief to the devastated and impoverished Virginia.

3 - Encourage and provoke the people of Maryland to actively siding with the South.

4 - Draw the Army of the Potomac far away from the entrenched camp of Washington trying to inflict them a decisive defeat.

5 - Thanks to this victory to get the Confederacy recognised as independent state by Great Britain and France and making probable their intervention in the conflict.

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They were very generous terms. All prisoners were paroled, if they swore an oath never again to take up arms against the United States. The officers were allowed to keep their side-arms.

Pure accident.

A Confederate officer had dropped a set of Lee's orders in the field, and they were discovered by Union troops.

These orders revealed that Lee's divisions were widely separated, giving McClellan a chance to destroy them piecemeal.

He did not move quite fast enough to achieve this. Also a Confederate spy in the Union camp was able to get word to Lee of what had happened, and he hastily concentrated his forces.

But the result was a Union victory - and a very historic one.

Before it became Arlington Cemetery, the land was the Custis Estate. It belonged to Lee's wife's family, but it was confiscated during the Civil War and turned into a military cemetery.

Robert E. Lee surrendered before Lincoln's assassination. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1856 in Appomatox Court House. Then Lincoln was assassinated on April 14,1865 then died the next morning (April 15, 1865.)

Confederate General Robert E. Lee's main theory of war was intensively focused on several major ideas. It emphasized the necessity of gaining and holding the strategic initiative. It involved the control of timing and directions of military operations. Lee always wanted to engage the enemy on a battle field of his own choosing, and using the idea of concentrating his forces on weaker Union armies and defeating their parts to complete detail. He wanted to destroy Union armies in this fashion.

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He is not dead, he is in his 70's but he probably will die of heart failure or a bypass in November next year.

General Robert . Lee knew he would need to face the approaching Northern Army of the Potomac under the command of General George B. McClellan. Lee believed that a specific position at Sharpsburg, Maryland would be the best place to fight a defensive battle with General McClellan.He found a natural position in which to form a concentration of his troops. The position he chose would also provide a good way of retreat if that was required. He saw that many of the approaching enemy troops could be artillery targets if he set up his artillery batteries on high ground.

Lee E. Branscome has written:

'The impact of greenhouse climate change on the energetics and hydrologic processes of mid-latitude transient eddies' -- subject(s): Eddies, Climate, Greenhouses

Andrew E. Lee died in 1934.

Robert Southey wrote "After The Battle of Blenheim" as a critique of the glorification of war and the devastating impact it has on innocent civilians, particularly children. The poem reflects Southey's anti-war sentiments and his belief that war should not be celebrated or romanticized.

Chancellorsville. He split his army, and whipped a Union army twice as large as his own.

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Robert E. Kowalski died in 2007.

Robert Lee Perrill goes by Bob, and Robert Perrill.