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000008A0: 20 20 20 2A 20 20 2A 20 20 2A 0D | * * *. |
..... ROBERT EDWARD LEE..
(1807-1870)... GENERAL ROBERT
E. LEE WAS A MAN OF.MAGNIFICENT PRESENC
E WHO CAME TO.EPITOMIZE THE BEST TRADITI
ONS OF THE.SOUTHERN CAUSE. GRADUATING S
ECOND IN.HIS CLASS AT WEST POINT IN 1829
, HE.SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN THE.MEXI
CAN WAR (1846-48). AFTER THE.SECESSION
OF HIS NATIVE VIRGINIA,.HOWEVER, HE RESI
GNED HIS COMMISSION..THEN HE WAS OFFERED
COMMAND OF U.S..(UNION) FORCES BUT HE T
URNED IT DOWN.... INSTEAD LEE CAST HIS
LOT WITH THE.CONFEDERACY, BECOMING MILI
TARY ADVISOR.TO PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVI
S. LEE.HELPED ORGANIZE DEFENSES OF THE.
ATLANTIC COAST, BUT HIS FIRST FIELD.COMM
AND CAME IN JUNE 1862 AT AGE 55,.WHEN HE
WAS NAMED TO HEAD THE ARMY OF.NORTHERN
VIRGINIA. UNION FORCES.UNDER GENERAL GE
ORGE MCCLELLAN WERE.ADVANCING ON RICHMON
D, AND LEE MOVED.QUICKLY AND DECISIVELY,
COLLABORATING.WITH STONEWALL JACKSON TO
FORCE THEM.TO WITHDRAW. LEE WENT ON TO
DEFEAT.GENERAL POPE'S ARMY AT THE SECON
D.BATTLE OF BULL RUN (USUALLY REFERRED.T
O AS THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS IN THE.SOUTH
).... LEE'S NEXT CAMPAIGN TOOK HIM ON
AN.INVASION OF THE NORTH WHEN HE ADVANCE
D.INTO MARYLAND, BUT WAS STOPPED BY.UNIO
N FORCES UNDER GENERAL GEORGE.MCCLELLAN
AT ANTIETAM. LEE THEN.DEFEATED UNION FO
RCES AT FREDERICKS-.BURG AND AT CHANCELL
ORSVILLE. IT WAS.DURING THIS LATTER BAT
TLE THAT HE.LOST HIS ABLEST LIEUTENANT,
GENERAL.STONEWALL JACKSON... LEE'S SEC
OND INVASION OF THE NORTH.ENDED IN DEFEA
T AT GETTYSBURG WHICH.HAD SUCH AN EFFECT
ON HIM THAT HE.OFFERED TO RESIGN HIS CO
MMAND...... THE FOLLOWING YEAR (1864)
HE.DEFEATED GRANT IN THE WILDERNESS.CAMP
AIGN, BUT BY THEN THE SOUTHERN.CAUSE WAS
ALL BUT LOST. IN FEBRUARY.1865 LEE WAS
NAMED GENERAL-IN-CHIEF.OF ALL CONFEDERA
TE ARMIES, BUT WHEN.FORCED TO EVACUATE P
ETERSBURG AND.RICHMOND IN APRIL, SURREND
ERED TO.GENERAL U.S. GRANT AT APPOMATTOX
,.VIRGINIA... OFFICIALLY INDICTED FOR
TREASON,.LEE WAS NEVER BROUGHT TO TRIAL,
AND.AFTER THE WAR HE ACCEPTED THE.PRESI
DENCY OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE (NOW.WASHING
TON AND LEE UNIVERSITY)..... A MAN OF
FAITH, DIGNITY AND HONOR,.ROBERT E. LEE
INSPIRED CONFIDENCE AND.EVEN GREATNESS I
N OTHERS... HE REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST
REVERED.COMMANDERS OF ALL TIMES....
* * *.
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