Robert E. Lee

Lee was a very private person and there are know records of his private aspirations.

Traveler is not a "symbol" of the South. Traveler is revered in the South because of the association with Lee.

Some may consider the second raid on the North as a risky maneuver, however, Lee believed if he could quickly outflank Hooker's army and sneak through the mountains. The Union would be surprised. Lee believed that Hooker would be forced to defend Maryland and Pennsylvania, thereby leaving Richmond safe. Of course unknown to Lee was that President Lincoln and Hooker both agreed that for that time in the war, and after the Hooker defeat at Chancellorsville, there were no plans at all for threatening Richmond.

General Robert E. Lee contributed great sucess (sp) for the South during the Civil War. He was one of the most famous generals during the Civil War.


Brilliant military leadership in behalf of a lost cause.



General Robert E. Lee made his biggest contributions when he was Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee held that position for a majority of the war. He was tasked with protecting the Confederacy's capital city, Richmond, Va. from the invasion the Union Army would obviously attempt. Despite sometimes overwhelming odds he applied his brilliant tactics and cunning battlefield strategies in order to outwit the Union officers and decisively defeat Union armies. For example, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, his Confederates defeated a Union army that outnumbered them 3:1. Had he failed and have been defeated, the Union soldiers would march onward to Richmond and the South would have probably been defeated much earlier. He was a great leader as well in that his men loyally, bravely, and proudly fought for him until the end.

Because the South needed a victory on Union soil to convince the British and French to intervene on their behalf...it would HAVE been a total Confederate victory had not a Union scouting party miraculously happened upon the Army of Northern VA's (Southern) marching orders wrapped up in a cigar case......divine intervention...Good luck for the North, bad luck for the South....sort of like the Germans losing at El Alemein, Stalingrad, and running out of fuel during Battle of the Bulge....

English, with a southern accent typical of Virginians, most likely.

NEW RESPONDENT.

Lee knew also classic Greek, Latin, French and Spanish very well.

Grant allowed Lee's men to go home with their horses. This was done to help Lee's men in Spring planting. He also ordered up 25,000 ration sets to feed Lee's soldiers.

When Lee was a Colonel in the Corps of Engineers, he built a fort on Cockspur Island, near Savannah (GA). The fort was called Fort Pulaski.

Lee was a traditional Southern aristocrat and military leader, noble, humourless, capable of inspiring fanatical loyalty.

Grant was the triumph of ordinariness - a simple man, who was good at simplifying problems, and well-suited to a long war of attrition.

Robert E. Lee Quotes

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A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

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Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

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Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

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Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

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Robert E. Lee spent most of his adult life as a professional soldier. He eventually was named as the Confederate Army's general in chief. He had experience in college education and had been the Superintendent of the USMA, West Point. Due to his fame and experience he was offered and took on the position of the president of Washington College in Virginia.

When the American Civil War started, he was offered a top appointment by Lincoln, but Lee said he would have to wait and see whether Virginia would secede. (He hoped it wouldn't; he disapproved of secession.) After Virginia seceded, Lee became a general in the Confederate army.

Lee was stuck in Petersburg, near Richmond, under siege by U.S.Grant. He had been kept on the defensive, and so was not free to conduct any of his famous bold thrusts. However he was costing Grant more casualties than Grant was costing him, although Lee was still the one running out of manpower, since Grant had ended the system of prisoner exchange.

No. That was General James Longstreet.

Secret Lovers

Douglass Southall Freeman wrote a biography of Robert E. Lee which was published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Wilson Bowser

it was at the appomattox courthouse

He surrendered to the Army of the Potomac at Appomattox Court House. Some say the surrender should have been taken by the army commander Gordon Meade, who had always felt somewhat crowded by General-in-Chief U.S.Grant travelling in a mobile HQ right on his tail. But as Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate forces, it did make sense for him to surrender to his opposite number on the Union side, by way of ending the war.

1870 at the age of 63

England

Robert E Lee died October 12, 1870 a week after having a stroke.

no he was never in Tennessee during the war

the band in the song the night they drove old dixie down is referring to the steamship named Robert E Lee the line is "there goes the Robert E Lee"

This last is not correct. The official lyrics of the song do not include 'the' after 'goes'. Also, the steamboat 'Robert E. Lee' was not built until 1866, so the singer couldn't be referring to that in the 'winter of '65'. However, it is true that the person, Robert E. Lee, was never in Tennessee during the Civil War.

The name of Robert E Lee's wife was Mary Anne Randolph Custis, great granddaughter of Martha Washington. The Lees had four daughters and three sons. All the sons were officers in the Confederate Army. Their names were George Washington Custis Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, and Robert E. Lee, Jr.

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