Robert E. Lee

Robert E Lee declined the offer of Union forces because he was originally from Virginia, and they had joined the Confederacy. He felt that it was not loyal to fight for the Union, when his own state was part of the Confederate States of America.

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The Confederate defeat in the US Civil War resulted in a severe personal loss for Robert E. Lee. His family plantation was taken by the Federal government. His former land on the Potomac River is now the site of the Arlington National Cemetery.

General Robert Edward Lee ( Robert E. Lee ) died 12 October , 1870 in Lexington , Virginia , at age 63 from the effects of Pneumonia . .. He dies shortly after 9 am . ...One month before his death , on 28 September , 1870 , Lee suffered a stroke that left him without the ability to speak . ..He is believe to be buried underneath Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University in Lexington , Virginia .

A hard-driving energy that was in the full Confederate spirit.

A noble streak that inspired fanatical loyalty.

A particular skill at wrong-footing and unnerving the enemy.

No. He was considered a traitor to the Union and lost his plantation for back taxes of 99.00. He tried to pay it, but they wanted him to pay in person so he couldn't since he commanded the southern troops. His home was taken and the graves of Union soldiers were placed there. It is now known as Arlington where the presidents and fallen soldiers of war are buried. When he surrendered it was VERY lucky to be able to go home instead of prison.

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Only to add something interesting it is worth remembering that, in 1863 after Chancellorsville Lee was donated a precious Sword of Honor by "a Marylander" as a sign of gratitude for his great military accomplishments in defence of the Confederacy.

An example to the young - perhaps the finest American soldier ever born.

And an image of the best side of the Confederate character - a sincere, honourable Southern planter-aristocrat, who inspired deep loyalty to the very end, when his men were barefoot and starving. When the final defeat came, he faced it in a manly and responsible style, forbidding the troops to start guerrilla operations in the hills, but to hand in their weapons and go home in an orderly fashion.

He was the embodiment of the Lost Cause.

Probably something near the beginning of the Mexican-American war. Before that, Lee was an Army engineer designing and building forts along the east coast of the US.

I don't think that Lee was part of the US invasion of Veracruz, but was heavily involved in the later US march to, and capture of Mexico City. The American forces were commanded by Gen Winfield Scott, and Lee (Then Captain Lee) was one of Scott's favorite soldiers.

Not at all. His father was "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, a famous Revolutionary War general. While Harry squandered his money on various vices, Robert still was not poor. His good name helped him marry into George Washington's family. Custis-lee you mean. No. Robert Lee's home was the Curtis-Lee mansion that is now located at Arlington Cemetery. The Union began burying their dead at his home as a way of punishment so it would never be occuppied again.

At that time of his career, Robert E. Lee was in the engineer corps. He helped make preparations for battle. At one time he was trapped behind enemy lines and came close to being captured. Good reference book: "So Far From God" by John Eisenhower(son of the President)

Because he was a Virginian. His primary identity, the way he defined himself, was as a Virginian rather than as an American. Virginia was his country and it just happened to be part of something called the United States. When Virginia left the United States, Lee went with her and was compelled by loyalty to defend her against invasion. To us today, even Southerners, it can be difficult to imagine this sort of national definition but that is the way many people thought and felt then. Michael Montagne

Lee never was a drinker, it was Grant that drank. But historians say Grant drank no more than his peers, and it was blown out of proportion about his drinking.

They never 'seized' him. He surrendered his forces to the Union Army at the Appomattox Courthouse (which is now a historical park... the current Appomatox Court House was built in 1892) approximately three miles east of Appomattox, Virginia.

The motivations were:

Resupply his army by living on the country.

By means of the strategic intimidation against Washington, attract the Army of the Potomac to give battle from an unfavourable position inflicting them a decisive defeat, thus "convincing " Great Britain to acknowledge the Confederacy as an independent State and intervene in the conflict.

Chancellorsville - a brilliant tactical triumph that completely wrong-footed the Union General Joe Hooker.

But it was also the beginning of the end for Lee. His 'right arm', Stonewall Jackson, was mortally wounded in this battle, and this is given as a major cause of Lee's defeat in the next big battle, Gettysburg.

Also this was when Lee's health started to fail - possibly because of this psychological blow.

The Union, or the Northerners meaning Ulysses S. Grant.

Robert E. Lee - along with many other Virginia-born officers and politicians.

Battle of the Wilderness in Northern Va.

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Robert E. Lee had graduated from the United States Military Academy. He had been an active officer in the United States army, taking part in many battles with the Indians and other uprisings. He was respected by all who knew him because of his fine moral character. He loved the United States and used his influence to prevent the division of the states. He was opposed both to slavery and to secession. It was very difficult for him to decide whether to stay with the Union or go with his native state, Virginia. He was offered the position of field commander of the United States army.

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The Seven Days Battles of the Peninsula campaign - followed by Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg.

In Grant's Overland Campaign, the battles were The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Coldharbour and the Siege of Petersburg.

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Lee attended the US Military Academy at West Point, New York from 1825-29, graduating second in the Class of 1829. For the next thirty-two years Lee was an officer in the US Army. Graduates who did well at West Point were often assigned to the Corps of Engineers, and this was Lee's first work as an army officer. He made improvements to the waterfront in St. Louis and worked for several years building Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, Georgia. The army was small and there was no system of retirement pay. This meant that officers stayed in the service until they died or were very old. Promotion was possible only when someone left the service, creating an opening. After twenty years in the army Lee was still only a captain. He served brilliantly in the Mexican War on the staff of the Commanding General of the Army, Winfield Scott. Scott led an expedition of only 9,000 troops from Vera Cruz, on the Mexican east coast, over the mountains and into the great central valley of Mexico. Scott's small army had to several times defeat the Mexican army, which was two to three times as large, and then fight their way into Mexico City, which had a quarter million people. Scott captured Mexico City and dictated peace terms to the defeated Mexicans. Twice on this campaign Lee scouted and found a path by which American troops were able to outflank (get around) the Mexican Army in prepared defenses, which it would have been very costly to attack head on. Scott was so impressed with Captain Lee that fifteen years later (Scott was still commanding the US Army, after fifty-three years in the service) Scott offered Lee command of the US field army which was to do battle with the Rebels. A large amount of territory was taken from Mexico in the peace settlement of the Mexican War, and the US had to create two new cavalry regiments to patrol this new region, full of hostile Comanches and Apaches. This was an opportunity for promotion, and the Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis (later Confederate president, and himself a West Point graduate) was able to select the best officers from the army to fill these new positions. Lee was promoted from captain to lieutenant-colonel, and was second in command of the new Second Regiment of US Cavalry. This regiment is legendary - of the eight men who became four star Confederate generals, four served in the Second Cavalry in the years just before the war. Lee had to take an extended leave in the late 1850s to administer the estate of his wife's mother. Lee's wife was a great granddaughter of Martha Washington and she had inherited Arlington, an estate, later confiscated by the US government and turned into Arlington Cemetery. Lee was at Arlington when John Brown made his raid on Harper's Ferry. The Secretary of War sent a young lieutenant, JEB Stuart, who was in Washington awaiting orders, across the Potomac River to fetch Lieutenant Colonel Lee. Lee and Stuart then took some Marines from the Washington Navy Yard and went to Harper's Ferry and captured John Brown and his group. This was the first time Lee and Stuart worked together, but Stuart would soon be a Lieutenant General commanding all the cavalry in Lee's army.

In 1870 at the age of 63, Robert E. Lee died. The date was October 12, 1870. He suffered from a stroke and later pneumonia. He was laid to rest at the chapel of Washington & Lee University.