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About Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee was a Confederate general whose early actions in the American Civil War led to his appointment as the overall commander of the Confederate States Army near the end of the war. He led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's most powerful army, from 1862 until its surrender in 1865, earning a reputation as one of the war's most skilled tacticians.
Everything about Robert E. Lee →- Occupation
- military officer, military personnel, army officer, cartographer
- Position held
- General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
- Citizenship
- United States, Confederate States of America, United States
- Born
- January 19, 1807
- Died
- October 12, 1870