Robert E. Lee

In April 1861, General Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union Army by Abraham Lincoln. Lee declined this offer writing “I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children,” (p.81). The General a few days later, accepted his appointment as commander in chief to Virginia;s military. Lee knew that the North was plentiful in resources so they would win a war of abrasion. With this in mind, he hoped that the south could win a few battles and pressure Lincoln to stop the…

Lost Cause and historians often share one figure when discussing the Lost Cause and it is Robert E. Lee. Lee may not have wanted the notoriety after the Civil War, but there was little he could do as he became the embodiment of the Confederacy and the Lost Cause. Desjardin considers Lee to be the Greek heroic figure who becomes the godlike figure for the South accented by his virtuous ways. Desjardin writes, “Lee was elevated in postwar literature to a height that no mortal could ever possibly…

The big invasions of Robert .E. Lee in the North and why he invaded the North. George McClellan fought lots of big attacks against Robert .E. Lee's army by Sharpsburg Garyland , on September 1862. In the West Woods and through Miller's Cornfield, is where the Confederate counterattacked. Lee was outnumbered two to one at Gettysburg, after he heard that he split his Confederate army into two. Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, and on May 2nd he sent Thomas Stonewall Jackson to attack a lot…

On July 28, 1863 the army of Potomac were defeated in Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee raising the confidence of the confederates and lowering the union’s. July 1st the army of Potomac were on their way to Gettysburg Virginia, news of this: Lee planned to assemble his men to intercept the union army at the the railroads. The Union corps had arrived later that day at “Cemetery Ridge”, soon after their arrival more corps arrived to strengthen their forces. The next day they were well…

Robert. E. Lee was a very important person of the Civil War. Robert E Lee had a very successful life; with war and with wits. Robert E Lee was born in Virginia, the fifth child of Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee. In 1829 he was graduated as the salutatorian of his class at West Point without having a single demerit in his four years there. Commissioned in the Corps of Engineers, he served under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican War, in which he distinguished himself in the Battles of Veracruz,…

The Battle of Gettysburg was Robert E. Lee’s most ambitious attempt to try and invade Union territory. After this battle the Confederate’s military never held the same amount of strength they held at Gettysburg. General Robert E. Lee’s first attempt to win at The Battle of Antietam was a failure. So in June 1863, General Lee decided to try again. This time he would march North to Pennsylvania and have the Union army of Potomac pursue him. When they did follow him Lee would chose a ground that…

There is plentiful discourse as to why the Northern Union won the Civil War in 1865 against the Southern Confederacy. Although the military leadership from Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant in the North and Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee in the South both impacted the outcome, Jefferson Davis’s poor political leadership both as president and commander in chief led to the Northern victory, particularly his defective judgements regarding military affairs and his moderate leadership as…

Hello Lies and Gentlemen. I am Robert E.Lee. I was the head General for the confederate states of america . today i am speaking to you from my office at Washington College. It is may, 5, 1870, only 5 years after my role in the last few battles of the great Civil War, which ultimately led to my Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. today i want to start of my telling you about the events leading up to my famous surrender of the army of north virginia. well it had been a bloody 4 year war i saw my…

United States students learn about Robert E. Lee. He is studied as a great general in the Civil War who fought for the Confederates. He is a traitor even though he thinks about both sides for a long time. He has pro-South and pro-North influences in his family, he even has different beliefs on succession that all influence his decision. Every different component of the Civil War complicates the conclusive statement that Lee is a traitor. Before studying the life of Lee, the word traitor must be…

This comic was illustrated by Tom Toles for The Washington Post in August of 2017. It shows a crane removing a statue of Robert E. Lee from a post with “White Racism” engraved in it. The statue is easily removed but the base is not. I believe the claim is; try as you might, you cannot erase history. The cartoon depicts a crane removing a statue of Robert E. Lee from a base with “White Racism” on the front. Next to the crane, there is a lady asking “Are you also going to remove the base?” As the…