Robert E. Lee

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.

He believed in quick, bold thrusts that would take the enemy by surprise.

He made a speciality of refusing to be shunted towards a battlefield of his enemy's choosing.

He was felt to embody the spirit of the Confederacy - a noble aristocratic leader with an outstanding war record.

He inspired fanatical loyalty - his men followed him till they were barefoot and starving.

He maintained a dignified outward bearing - except at Fredericksburg, where his victory was so decisive that he was seen dancing around, hugging other officers, for the only time in his life.

Three. Major General Custis Lee, Major General Fitzhugh Lee, and Captain Robert Lee.

Robert E. Clary died in 1890.

Lee decided to make a stand and fight Burnside at Fredericksburg to keep Union forces from advancing on Richmond and to preserve a good part of Virginia from which he could draw supplies a recruit soldiers.

Once General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were safe and resupplied in Virginia, Lee decided to reorganize his army. He did this by forming two corps. One under General Longstreet and the other under Stonewall Jackson.Each corps would consist of four divisions. Major generals in the revamped Army of Northern Virginia were generals:

McLaws, Hood, Pickett, Anderson among several others. All generals within the four divisions would report to either Longstreet or Jackson.

After the Battle of Antietam Creek, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Grant was known as "The Unconditional Surrender" Grant, yet he was generous at the surrender. He allowed Lee's troops to keep their side arms. He allowed them to also keep their own horses to work their little farms. Grant also promised 25000 rations for Lee's troops. As a final gesture of respect and admiration for the older officer, General Brant allowed General Lee to keep his sword. Lee graciously accepted Grant's terms; both men parted in dignity.

While the above is not incorrect, it reflects what happened to Lee nearly two and a half years later. Immediately following the battle , Lee and his army retreated back to Virginia.

How he made a difference:

After the attack of Ulysses S. Grant during the civil war, Lee decided to surrender. If he hadn't surrendered, this country might still be in the civil war and in turmoil and a lot more people of our nation would've died.

The primary advantage for the South in its 1862 offensive into Maryland was the demoralized state of many of the Northern troops in the opposing army, as well as the inexperience of the new recruits who had just been called up in order to make good on recent Union losses. Additionally, the outstanding leadership of General Robert E. Lee remained a key Southern strength.

Robert E. Lee, the leader of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to the leader of the Army of the Potomac, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on April 9, 1865. This effectively ended the US Civil War. He soon after explained to Confederate President Jefferson Davis the reasons why.

Mexican-American War I believe

yes his childrens names were Mary and john