Robert E. Lee

Appomattox agreement between Grant and Lee. The terms of the agreement signed at Appomattox on April 9th 1865 were:

- The delivery of the Army of Northern Virginia's armaments materials and flags, with exception of the officers' individual weapons, the horses belonging to the cavalry troopers and those of the artillery men, which were considered private property because they had to be compulsory furnished by those soldiers.

- After having sworn, pledging their owns word, they would have never more fought against the USA, Confederates' officers and soldiers were free to return back to their homes and remaining there undisturbed.

- The supplying of 25.000 ration of food to the Army of Northern Virginia, whose

soldiers were starving.

- The agreement provided the surrender of only The Army of Northern Virginia.

Robert E. Lee was against slavery. He actually freed all the slaves he had. The only reason he fought for the Confederacy was because he wanted to stay loyal to his home state of Virginia.

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The Confederate army commander in the American Civil War. Lee was the son of Henry "Light-horse" Lee, a hero of the American Revolution. The Lee family was friends with Washington and even lived close to each other. REL was a war hero, many battles known; battle of Bull Run, battle of Shiloh, battle of Gettysburg, and many others to lead his troops into battle. He is often seen as one of the greatest generals the USA has ever seen (at the outbreak of war he was offered to be general of the Union army, but declined feeling that he could not leave his home country of Virginia). REL knew that was coming to an end after the battle of Gettysburg. In April 9, 1865 when he met with Grant to sign the surrender.

1. Lee is related to Helen Keller

2. His last words were ''strike the tent''

3. His nickname is Marble Man

4.Graduated 2nd in his class at West Point

5. His favorite horse's name was Traveller

Robert E Lee was interested in winning the civil war.

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"Lighthorse" Harry Lee, Washington's top cavalry commander, was Robert E. Lee's father. He gave Washington's eulogy.

Yes. The father was Richard Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, a hero of the Revolution. As a delegate to the Second Continental Congress he had offered the Resolution that led to the Declaration of Independence from Britain. He was a brilliant man but terrible with money. He was involved in one impractical scheme after another. A few of these, such as one for developing land in the vicinity of Washington DC, were merely ahead of their time. Many prominent men of that era were perpetually in debt, owing far more than they could ever repay, and got by only by continually negotiating new loans from their peers.

Light Horse Harry Lee died of the lingering effects of a beating he sustained from a mob at the time of the War of 1812. Lee's friend and political ally was a Baltimore newspaper editor. The Baltimore mob got the idea that this editor was pro-British. Lee had gone to his offices to help him defend his business when the mob overran the place and beat him severely. He lived for a time and traveled to the Caribbean, probably to avoid further imprisonment for debt. He was returning by ship when he grew ill, and the ship's crew put him ashore at the Amelia Island plantation of his old Revolutionary comrade, Nathaniel Greene, off the coast of Georgia. Lee died in Greene's house and is buried on the Island. Robert E. Lee visited his father's grave for the first time as a Confederate general.

Harry's profligacy cost him the home where Robert was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, which still stands. This was the ancestral home of the Lees, Stratford Hall. It was Robert's lifelong dream to recover this house, but he was never able to do so. After the house was lost the family went to live with relatives in Fredericksburg. Had Robert not obtained an appointment to West Point he would have had little opportunity for higher education. The traumas of these early days go far to explain aspects of Robert's character.

first of all it's because robert e lee was supposed to surrender to ullysses s grant.And that's because grant had kept fighting and fighting till he finally got lee to surrender.there's the answer DUH you should know listen to your teacher!

The proximity of the Union army to Lee on June 28, 1863 was a surprise. General Lee didn't have contact with JEB Stuart during the early part of the invasion of Pennsylvania. Stuart's cavalry usually supplied important information such as the position and strength of the enemy. Lee was informed of the Union Army's exact position and relative strength via a spy "Harrison" employed by General James Longstreet.

more then a life lol.

"He may have lost his left arm, but I have lost my right"

Lt. General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

Clearly the Confederate General Robert E. Lee earned his fame and was respected by almost everyone. Respected, however, as much as it could be since he was a leader of the Southern rebellion. Lee was once a West Point superintendent.As an aside, Lee was not in favor of secession. As a loyal son of Virginia he became an adversary of the North reluctantly.

With the landing at Port Royal and its conquest the Federal were able to threaten the vital railroad that connected Charleston to Savannah, and these cities as well. It seemed that nothing could prevent their conquest.

Lee solved the problem in a simple and ingenious way.

He designed and built with extraordinary rapidity a large line of fortifications covering the line Charleston-Savannah . But unlike all previous coastal defenses of the Confederacy, not close to the sea, but several miles inland, completely out of the reach of naval artillery. In so doing Lee managed to solve the serious problem of fighting an invasion by an enemy who possessed the dominion of the sea.

The line put up by Lee in South Carolina and Georgia withstood four years and only fell when it was taken from behind by a superior army, coming from the hinterland.

Despite sharing the same name, they are not related.

He was appointed commander of the Army of Northern Virginia in summer 1862, after Joseph E. Johnston was seriously wounded and hospitalised.

He continued to command that army until April 1865, when he surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox.

He was also appointed to the new post of General-in-Chief of the Confederates in January 1865, a job which he thoroughly merited, but it was too late to make any difference.

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Robert Edward Lee was the commander of the Confederate forces. Other important leaders include Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, James "Old Pete" Longstreet, Lewis Armistead, P.T.G. Beauregard, George Picket, J.E.B Stuart, Braxton Bragg, Jubal Early, R.S. Ewell, A.P. Hill, J.B. Hood, and Stand Watie. This is not even close to the number of commanders, but this is a taste of some of the best.

Mexican- American War and the Civil War.

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