Sep 7, 2008
Article abstract: Military significance: As commander of the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 to 1865, Lee executed the offensive component of the Confederacy’s strategy. His battlefield successes kept the Confederacy militarily viable, preserving its prospects for independence.
The son of Henry Lee, a war hero of the American Revolution, Robert E. Lee graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1829, then served with distinction in the peacetime army and the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and as superintendent of West Point....
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