Transcript Who was Robert e. lee

Who was Robert e.
lee
By KHADIM MBAYE
Who was Robert E. Lee
Robert e. Lee was born on
January 19 1807, in Stratford
hall Virginia, he was in the
united states army officer. Lee
entered West Point in 1825 and
graduated second in his class in
1829. Serving various military
duties in Georgia, Virginia, New
York, Texas, and Mexico over
the next 23 years, Lee's
reputation increased in
recognition and respectability,
Robert’s hardest period
Robert E. Lee had some
difficulty in adjusting to the
new form of warfare that
unfolded with the Civil war,
but this did not prevent him
from keeping the Union
armies in Virginia at bay for
almost three years
During the civil war
During the Civil War he worked
closely with Jefferson Davis. He
is best known for his victories in
the Battle of second Manassas
(second Bull Run), and the
Battle of Chancellorsville.
By his achievements Lee won a
high place among the great
generals of history. On the field
of battle he was as energetic in
attack as he was constant in
defence, and his personal
After the civil war
After the war he was employed
in engineer work at Washington
and Baltimore, during which
time, as before the war, he
resided on the great Arlington
estate, near Washington, which
had come to him through his
wife. In 1852 he was appointed
superintendent of West Point,
and during his three years here
he carried out many important
changes in the academy.
Lee’s home state of
Virginia
Robert e. Lee was actually a
man who loved his home state
of Virginia. In early 1861,
President Abraham Lincoln
invited him to take command of
the entire Union Army. he
declined because his home state
of Virginia was seceding from
the Union, despite Lee's wishes.
When Virginia seceded from the
union in April 1861, Lee chose
to follow his home state. Lee's
Conclusion
in conclusion On September 28,
1870, Lee suffered a stroke that
left him without the ability to
speak. Lee died from the effects
of pneumonia, a little after 9
a.m., October 12, 1870, two
weeks after the stroke, in
Lexington, Virginia. He was
buried underneath lee chapel at
Washington and lee university
where his body was remained.