Lee renamed his command the Army of Northern Virginia, and under his direction it
On both ends, Lee's rebel defenders turned back the Union assault with heavy
Meanwhile, Lee ignored an offer of command from the Confederacy.
In May 1863, Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had
Though Blount was never a Civil War buff, he says “every Southerner has to make his
In March and April 1861, Lee was offered command of the principal Union Army. Yet, after Virginia seceded on April 17, he determined that "to lift my hand ...
A time line of the American Civil War.
While it was the most significant surrender to take place during the Civil War, Gen .
... battles of the American Civil War as Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern
What would General Lee have done, as the head of the Union Army in