Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee was born on January 18th, 1807 in Stratford Hall, Virginia. He was destined for a military life as his father was a Revolutionary War hero. Colonel Henry Lee led cavalry in battles and won praise from General George Washington. When Lee turned 18, he enrolled in West Point Academy where he had major success, graduating with 5 other cadets in his class. After school, he married Mary Custis in June of 1831 and went on to have seven children. Lee went all around the country…

The battle of Gettysburg was the major turning point in the American Civil War. It was a 3-day engagement. J.E.B. Stuart, chief scout for the Confederate army, failed to do his job for General Lee. Because of this, the Union was able to gain control of the high ground for the remainder of the battle. It was the bloodiest battle of the war, and the bloodiest battle ever fought on North American soil to this day. The bloodiest single-day battle was the battle of Antietam. The first major…

The Confederates shot from the Wilderness at the Union soldiers.The trees and underbrush made moving hard because of the difficulty the troops faced to move in an orderly fashion and was extremely rough on the cavalry and artillery. Right after 5 am the Union second corps, led by Winfield Scott Hancock, drove back the Confederates nearly a mile. James Longstreet arrived to aid the Confederates helping the fighting to be even more intense than the first day of the battle. Unfortunately for…

casualties and went on for three days. General Robert E. Lee won over the Union forces at Chancellorsville in May, 1863, so he thought it to be fit to invade the North. In June, Lee began to send his troops northward. He headed up the Shenandoah valley, overran the union Garrison at Winchester and moved behind the Blue Ridge Mountains, which were used as a shield for their movements. But it was not the union forces that were in the dark but rather Lee. Lee had always counted on his cavalry, led…

The Battle of Gettysburg was an astonishing three days of fighting, some of the biggest battles occurred in these days. There is a lot of history about how the Union took control of the battle on day two until the war ended. Major General George Meade lead the Union and General Longstreet lead the Confederates, each had a great impact during the war. In the morning before fighting started, both sides were getting into position for the battles that day. There was absolutely no fighting the…

loss, of the Confederates ,of the three day battle of Gettysburg is completely on General Robert E. Lee. There are many reasons of why General Lee is the one to blame for the loss of the three day battle at Gettysburg. One reason Lee loss the battle for the Confederates is he refused to take the defense for one time. According to Killer Angels it states, “ And yet it was not a loss. And Longstreet knew that Lee would attack…

General Robert E. Lee and his confederate army marching to Gettysburg that was southwest of their location. Before marching to Gettysburg, General Lee had successful win over the Union army in Chancellorsville. Lee would join another army of the confederates that…

General Robert E. Lee and Colonel Walton had accomplished quite a feat. The Union army outnumbering the Confederates proved not to be a factor due to the effects of artillery. It appeared as if the Confederates had the Union army “right in the palm of their hands”.…

irregular brigades. General Stuart assigned the two irregular brigades to support General Lee and the two regular brigades to be in the Shenandoah Valley defending the supply lines for the Army. The reason he did so was because of a personal conflict he had with these commanders, Beverly Robertson and William Edmondson “Grumble” Jones, and he did not want them to gain glory despite the fact that General Lee did not have a high regard for the irregular cavalry units who he viewed as…

fighting occurring from July 1, 1863, until July 3, 1863. Confederate General Robert E. Lee made the decision to take the offensive side and led an army of 60,000 rebel soldiers to the North. General Lee believed that advantage could be created by taking control of important military posts of the North, but General Lee made some poor choices and due to those mistakes, the South lost the Battle of Gettysburg. General Lee had headed North in hopes of taking control of Union posts, while…