Robert E. Lee

Because the British had said that if the Confederates were clearly going to win, the South should be given its independence without further bloodshed.

So Lee needed a big win on Northern soil to encourage Britain to mediate in their favour, or if that failed, to send military aid to the Confederates.

First time round (Antietam, Sept '62), they happened to come across a set of Lee's orders which had been dropped in the field. This showed that Lee's divisions were widely separated, and that McClellan could destroy them one by one, if he moved fast enough. (He didn't quite, but still retained the advantage, and won the battle.)

Second time round (Gettysburg, July '63), it was not Union efforts but a half-hearted performance by Lee's deputy, General James Longstreet, and a mistaken tactic by Confederate cavalry, that lost Lee the battle - and the campaign.

Because he wanted to remain faithful to his State, the Virginia.

He was the 5th child and the second to last child. He went to school for 3 years, and finally went straight from college into the war.

Even though he was born into a privileged aristocratic family, he did not have all the benefits of wealth. His father was absent for most of his childhood, and he had to assume many of the responsibilities for running the family businesses, including the plantation, to make ends meet. His mother instilled in him a work ethic, a sense of duty, and a fear of poverty. He spent any time that he was not working, studying to enter West Point so that he could receive a free, quality education. His mother also steered him toward marrying a woman with a large dowry in order to relieve the family's financial difficulties.

Jeb Stuart had his cavalry far away on a ride around Union forces, and took longer to return. In that age, cavalry's mobility kept commanders abreast of enemy activity, and Stuart failed Lee here.

He killed people

NO stupid

The character of Jimmy Lee Holt,yet another unknown Quartermaine son,was played by actor Steve Bond.

SS Robert E. Peary ended in 1946-12.

Robert e lee surrendered to Ulysses s grant at the Appomattox court house in Virginia.

Grant and Lee went head to head for the first time at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. Grant had assembled 120,000 men to Lee's 65,000. Grant lost 18,000 men to Lee's 11,000. Although Lee had won the battle, Grant, with his numerical superiority, inevitably won the war.

Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattax court house April 1865

Confederate General Robert E. Lee was concerned about the strength of the Union army that General George B. McClellan had amassed so close to Richmond. Lee believed that McClellan's left wing was strong and too strong to attack. He decided to build a strong line of fortifications to hopefully prevent a Union army advance against Richmond. Lee believed that this entrenchment was strong enough to allow him to take the bulk of his army to the north bank of the Chickahominy River and threaten McClellan's communications with the York River. As secure communications, especially when an army is far from home, are essential, Lee believed McClellan would be forced to retreat or engage in battle outside of his own fortifications. At the same time, Lee had ordered Stonewall Jackson to use stealth and advance his forces from the Shenandoah Valley and prepare for an offensive to drive McClellan into a massive retreat eastward along the same route he used to advance close to Richmond. The Confederate offensive would be a turning point in the Union's Peninsula campaign.

The situation early in the US Civil War in western Virginia did not involve any direct contact between generals Lee and McClellan.This changed in 1862, during the Peninsula Campaign. Union General George B. McClellan learned that Union prisoners at Confederate POW hospitals were suffering in that the Confederates lacked the proper medicines needed to treat wounded Union troops. There was an exchange of letters between generals Lee and McClellan, where the latter general informed Lee that he would be happy to send to the Confederates any medical supplies required to treat prisoners. Lee replied by letter that he thanked McClellan for the kindness, however, Lee had all the medical supplies required to treat all wounded soldiers, both his and the Unions. The letters were polite and proper.

At the siege of Petersburg, Virginia on 15 June 1864.

Born: 1942, in Orange, New Jersey.

Well, honey, I don't know about Robert E. Lee's dining preferences, but I highly doubt he was chowing down on worms for dinner. Maybe stick to asking about his military strategies instead of his potential taste for creepy crawlies.

It was essential to protect General Lee's logistic base, the region north of Richmond and its railroads to the fertile Shenandoah Valley. Union Major General Joseph Hooker would attempt to foil Lee's plans in the late Spring of 1863. This would result in the Battle of Chancellorsville.

After Lee's surrender at Appomattox , Grant had forbidden any demonstrations of rejoicing and sent following message to the Union soldier:

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The war is over, the Rebels are our countrymen again and the best sign of rejoicing after victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field.

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His sword

Grant let Lee his sidearm, his saber, and his horse.

He didn't. He resigned his commission as a colonel in the United States army and offered his service to the Virginia State Forces. He worked as a Military advisor and commanded a small army in modern-day West Virginia. In 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis placed him in command of the Confederate Army operating in eastern Virginia, which Lee would soon reorganize and rename the Army of Northern Virginia.

Robert E. Cornish died in 1963.

Traveller was an American Saddlebred. His second horse, the mare Lucy Long, was also.

yes he did.

General Lee was known to keep a pet chicken that layed an egg under his cot each day for his breakfast. Eggs are not apples so the question of "lucky" may still need to be answered.