Robert E. Lee

In late 1863, Lee now safe in Virginia, for the time being, was able to refresh his army from the ill fated raid into Pennsylvania. He positioned the Army of Northern Virginia in a strong defensive posture. On the other hand, General Meade, head of the Army of the Potomac wanted to advance against Lee, unless Lee had created a favorable position for his army which he did. Nevertheless, Meade believed by advancing he would abort the number of drafted Southern recruits into Lee's forces. At the same time Meade was concerned that the Army of the Potomac would not be able to take advantage of the Union's draft law to reinforce his own army. Also, the fortifications constructed by Lee, although not overwhelming, detered Meade as well.

Here then was a rift between Lincoln and his general in chief , Henry W. Halleck. Halleck believed that an advance was necessary, while Lincoln was more cautious and advised Meade to "act threatening" but not to advance. Lincoln had come to the conclusion that a stalemate in Virginia was acceptable. It is another case of the President, with good intentions, not following the advice of his general in chief. It was these types of interference that hampered the Union's war efforts.

At the courthouse town of Appomattox, Virginia. The formal surrender took place in the parlor of Wilmer McLean. Interestingly, First Battle of Bull Run was fought on property owned by him. McLean moved to Appomattox in the spring of 1863 to escape the seat of war in northern Virginia.

Additionally, for all practical purposes this ended the war, however, there were other armies and naval vessels that surrendered later in April and even far into 1865.

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Because Jefferson Davis realized, too late, that there should be someone in the job of General-in-Chief. Up to then, he had being trying to include that role in his own function as President.

Because his home state of Virginia had voted Confederate, and he was not willing to draw his sword against Virginia.

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Generals Lee and Grant were each in the Mexican War as US officers. Later they both were in the US Civil War as opponents.

Lee graduated from West Point without a single demerit. He was a hero of the Mexican War and served as the Commandant of West Point between the wars. Having been offered the command of what was to become the Army of the Potomac at the beginning of the Civil War, he resigned his commission rather than fight against Virginia when it seceded from the Union. Later, he took over command of the Army of Northern Virginia and along with Stonewall Jackson, fought a series of brilliant victories over the Army of the Potomac in what were essentially spoiling attacks that kept the Union forces at bay for three years. Less successful on the offensive, losing at Antietam and Gettysburg, he eventually surrendered to Grant ant Appomattox, and, surprisingly, helped many former Confederates to reintegrate into the Union by his example of taking the oath of allegiance. He became the President of Washington College which changed its name to Washington & Lee after his death.

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In November of 1861 Lee was placed in charge of a new military department covering South Carolina, Georgia, and the Atlantic side of Florida. He realized that Confederate coastal fortifications could not withstand Union naval bombardments. He evacuated many of them, except those defending major cities. He built new fortifications inland and out of the reach of Union ship cannons. He had certain waterways blocked as best as possible and concentrated forces inland with the ability to be shifted to threatened areas.

As an aside, Lee's strategy has been compared with German western front defenses during World War II.

he believed in the confederacy (the rights of southern states) and secession from the union

because of everything he did

Most of the terms were covered by the president Lincoln. Who was shot 5 days after the war ended.

Morale in the North was at an all-time low.

Davis was getting impatient with his losses.

A big win on Union soil would end the war.

Never, he was best known as the leader of the confederate army in the Civil War. Your probably mistaking him with General Ulysses S. Grant who fought against him and later served as president in 1869.

His full name was, Robert Edward Lee.

All were against slavery

When the Civil War was lost, Robert E. Lee wanted his troops to go home and live in peace. The United States is far better off where Lee's army lost gracefully and the defeated troops went home to work, than is a nation like Iraq where the defeated troops went home to fight a protracted civil war. Defeated Confederate solders did not turn themselves into guerrilla warriors or suicide bombers.

No, he had two daughters named Isabel and Ann Carter Lee.

Abraham Lincoln was US President, and therefore leader of the North.

Robert E.Lee resigned his commission to join the Confederates, and ended up as General-in-Chief.

Lee determined to engage in the battle despite being in a poor position with inferior numbers. Meade failed to pursue Lee after the battle proper, when he might have crushed the retreating Confederates.

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Confederate General Johnston was badly wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines. Aside from that, Lee was the better General. Johnston gave up ground when he did not have to, and he did not work and play well with others.

Yes he was a slave owner, part of the "Lee Myth" is that Lee didn't personally own slaves. Not true.

In late 1857, Lee inherited some 63 enslaved Africans from his father-in-law, G.W.P Curtiss.

Technically, these slaves were the property of Lee's wife, Mary. However, it would be hard to seriously argue that a white man of property in pre-Civil War Virginia didn't also own and control his wife's property. These men, women and children were forced to labor on Lee's plantation, and were brutally punished by him if they attempted to escape.

Curtiss' will specified that the slaves were to be freed within five years of his death, which occurred on Oct. 10, 1857. The five-year period was to allow the will's executors to take care of the legal paperwork for emancipation "in such manner as may to [them] seem most expedient and proper."

Lee was one of the executors. He did file a "deed of manumission" with the Court of the City of Richmond, but waited until Dec. 29, 1862 - more than five years after Curtiss' death.

In other words, this man whose apologists claim was opposed to slavery kept these scores of human beings in bondage as long as he legally could, and then some.