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.
In 1862 General Lee tried to change the character of the US Civil War to meet what he saw as the Union's strength. This was what military Carl von Clausewitz termed " change the nature of a war".Lee believed the South was too weak to sit on the defensive and wait for the methodical blows of the Union's greater troop superiority. Lee sought to launch a diversion with Stonewall Jackson and draw off the Union from its positions in the Deep South. This included a strong defensive line to protect Richmond and making a raid into the North, namely Maryland.
Lee believed a successful raid into the border slave state of Maryland could bring recruits from that state into the Confederate army and to hopefully have Great Britain intervene in the war and try to make a peace deal favorable to the South.
The result would eventually, in September of 1862, the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Ultimately, he didn't. He fought valiantly in a lost cause, but he was only able to delay, not prevent, the Northern victory.
He almost certainly prolonged the war, with his many great victories over the Union forces.
He baked doughnuts for the dieing cats.
AnswerGeneral Robert E. Lee was the leader of the forcesJefferson Davis was the real leader, he was the senator of Mississippi.Robert E Lee was but Jefferson Davis was not a general he was the president of the confederate states.
Robert E. Lee, for most of the Civil War the commanding general of the Confederate Army, was in command at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). His forces failed to defeat the Union's Army of the Potomac and retreated back to Virginia.
Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant as General of the Army accepted General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865. Grant would later be elected president in 1868 and serve two terms.
General Robert E. Lee led Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The order of battle continued with Lieutenant General James Longstreet commanding the First Corps, the Second Corps under Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell and the Third Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill. An independent Cavalry Division was under the command of Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart.
Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell was born on February 22, 1857.
Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell was born on February 22, 1857.
Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell died on January 8, 1941 at the age of 83.
Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell died on January 8, 1941 at the age of 83.
Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell was born on February 22, 1857 and died on January 8, 1941. Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell would have been 83 years old at the time of death or 158 years old today.
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He was a lieutenant general He was possibly the most successful general of the Confederate army.
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AnswerGeneral Robert E. Lee was the leader of the forcesJefferson Davis was the real leader, he was the senator of Mississippi.Robert E Lee was but Jefferson Davis was not a general he was the president of the confederate states.
Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
Robert E. Lee, for most of the Civil War the commanding general of the Confederate Army, was in command at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). His forces failed to defeat the Union's Army of the Potomac and retreated back to Virginia.
Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.