Hooker crossed the river and took up position at Chancellorsville.Īlthough outnumbered two to one, Lee opted to split his Confederate Army into two groups. In April, 1863, General Joseph Hooker, the commander of the Army of the Potomac, decided to attack Lee's army that had been entrenched on the south side of the Rappahonnock River since the battle of Fredericksburg. For the next two years, Lee with inferior numbers, frustrated attempts by the Union Army to capture Richmond. Johnston was badly wounded at Fair Oaks Lee was given command of the Army of Northern Virginia. It was Lee's plan that was carried out by Thomas Stonewall Jackson that prevented reinforcements from reaching George McClellan and the Union Army, whose army was posing a serious threat to the capital of the Confederacy. President Jefferson Davis recalled Lee to Richmond in March, 1862. In July he was asked to organize the Confederate Army defending the South Atlantic coast. He returned to the South and became military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. Lee declined the offer and although he opposed slavery and secession, he felt that his first loyalty was to Virginia and resigned his commission. In February, 1861 Winfield Scott recalled Lee to Washington and President Abraham Lincoln offered him the post of field commander of the Union Army. Marines that captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Lee was appointed superintendent at West Point from 1852 to 1855 when he left to become lieutenant colonel in the 2nd Cavalry in Texas. He served under Winfield Scott in the US Army and saw action in the Mexican War (1846-48) where he won three brevets for gallantry. Military Academy at West Point in 1829, he was commissioned into the Engineering Corps. After graduating second in a class of 46 from the U.S. Lee, the fourth son of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter, was born in Stratford, Virginia on 19th January, 1807.
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