2007-03-22 13:37:08 · 5 answers · asked by kaylabobayla♥ 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Just by being an officer in the Confederate army seriously influenced the Civil War. He was offered the generalship of the Union army but when he heard that Virgina would secede he told Washington DC that he would not lift up arms against his native state. This is interesting in that it shows he valued ones state more than the nation as a whole.
During the war itself he used two basic tactics to win battles and to inflict heavy casualties on the North. In the first he used defensive positions to strengthen his numerically inferior army. Examples of this include Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania and North Anna.
The second way was to use lightening attacks, usually from an enemies flank to devastating effect. The greatest example of this was at Chancellorsville. His aide during this attack was Gen. Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson.
Unfortunately for the Confederates in his two northern battles, Gettysburg and Antietam, Lee abandoned these two tried and proven strategies and therefore lost these battles, militarily or strategically.
2007-03-22 13:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by John B 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fitzhugh Lee, Robert E. Lee's nephew, wrote a good book on General Robert E. Lee: 'General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee'. General Robert E. Lee worked together with, and sometimes acted independently of, President Jefferson Davis in the military and political affairs of the C.S.A.
2007-03-22 14:09:55 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word you're looking for is affect (verb), not effect (noun).
2007-03-22 13:45:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
EFFECT THE WAR? LEADERSHIP AFFECTS BUT YOU CAN HAVE THE EFFECTS OF HIS LEADERSHIP.
2007-03-22 13:43:51 · answer #4 · answered by cork 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jeepers! Doesn't anybody do their own homework anymore?
2007-03-22 13:44:57 · answer #5 · answered by Kat 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋