Question

4 facts about Robert E. Lee please!

Answer 1

here is a biography of him
http://www.biography.com/people/robert-e-lee-9377163

Answer 2

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/robert-e-lee

Answer 3

Thank you both!

Answer 4

1.Born in Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia 1807

2.Died in Lexington, Virginia, 12 Oct., 1870

3.In early 1861, President Abraham Lincoln invited Lee to take command of the entire Union Army but he didn't because since he was born in Virgina he was on that side of the war.

4. He married Mary Anna Randolph Custis

5.A top graduate of West Point,

6.He is best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.

7.Lee's greatest victories were the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg, and the Battle of Chancellorsville

8.After the war, as a college President, Lee supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction and inter-sectional friendship, while opposing the Radical Republican proposals to give freed slaves the vote and take the vote away from ex-Confederates

9.Lee's victories against superior forces won him enduring fame as a crafty and daring battlefield tactician, but some of his strategic decisions, such as invading the North in 1862 and 1863, have been criticized by many military historians.



10. He is buried in West Point

Answer 5

true

Answer 6

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