Robert E. Lee

Most widely respected of all Civil War commanders.

Confedarcy General

Robert.E.Lee

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Lee did not support secession, but he would not fight against his native state

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He was defeated at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and finally surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, effectively ending the war.

"...slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil." This i what he thought of slavery

In 1862 he was made commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia