Robert E. Lee

There he was praised for his galantry and good conduct. In the war with Mexico he was wounded in the Storming of Chapultepec in 1847. The Mexican war was suposed to be the help that Lee needed in the experance of commanding troops. After the Mexican war Lee was assigned to Baltimore in 1848, he was to supervise the construction of Fort Carrol for nearly four years. In 1852 the United States military academy at West Point became Lees home when he was appointed superintendent.

He was upgraded into a colenel and within months was given the rank of brigadier general. General Jackson got the nickname "Stonewall" from the First Battle of Bull Run (1861), where his troops stood against the Union forces "like a stonewall," as told from Brig. General Barnard E. Bee. While Jackson was commanding, the "Stonewall Brigade," during a campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in the Spring of 1862, Jackson made a very controversial and remarkable tactical maneuver against three Union armies. People say Jackson met his "right hand man," General Robert E. Lee, when they teamed up to defeat of General George McClellan in the Seven Days' Battle at Richmond.

Little did he know, only one year later the name Arthur St. Clair would mean so much to him. General Arthur St. Clair, whom was the governor of Northwest Territory, authorized Clark as a captain in the Indiana Militia. He later became an ensign and lieutenant for two Generals in 1791: Charles Scott and James Wilkinson. In 1792, he enrolled in the new Continental Army. The same year, he became a lieutenant of infantry for General Anthony Wade, as he was commissioned by President George Washington.

For Virginia! Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807 at the Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Lee is the son of Revolutionary War hero Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee. In 1825, Robert entered the United States Military Academy. In 1829 he graduated second in his class of forty-six.

Lee graduated number two in his class from the U.S. Military Academy in 1829. Commissioned a brevet lieutenant of engineers, he spent a few years at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, and Fort Monroe, Virginia. At Fort Monroe on June 30, 1831, he married Mary Ann Randolph Custis, with whom he had seven children. Lee worked in the chief engineer's office in Washington, D.C., from 1834 to 1837. He was transferred to Fort Hamilton, New York, where he remained until 1846.

Sherman's march to the sea was probably the most celebrated military action, in which about sixty thousand men marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the Atlantic ocean, then north through South Carolina destroying the last of the souths economic resources. Bedford Forrest was in Tennessee, and with Atlanta secured, Sherman dispatched George H. Thomas to Nashville to restore the order there. John B. Hood threatened Thomas's supply line, and for about a month, they both fought north of Atlanta. Sherman decided to do the complete opposite of what the strategic plan laid down by Grant six months earlier had proposed to do.

In July of 1861, Lincoln called McClellan to D.C. to be given command of Union troops. In August, he formed the Army of the Potomac and became its first and best loved commander. McClellan replaced Winfield Scott as general-in-chief of Union armies in November, and a month later was infected with typhoid fever and at the same time was under pressure to give war plans to Lincoln. In January of 1862, McClellan came up with a plan to take... ... middle of paper ... ...support of the men he was commanding. He was also good at logistics, tactics, and strategy.

Four months later, they promoted him to lieutenant colonel. After defeating the French scouting party in southern Pennsylvania, they promoted him to colonel. He was then in charge of all the Virginian troops. Colonel Washington led the attack at the war known as the French and Indian war. In October, he resigned as colonel and returned to Mount Vernon.

There were many commanders in the First Battle of Bull Run. One of the more famous was Colonel Thomas Johnathan Jackson, a confederate leader. Jackson graduated from West Point in 1846, then began his military career in the Mexican-American War. He resigned in 1851 and became a professor, but when the Civil War started he was accepted to lead troops at the Battle of Bull Run. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was also a southern General, but he was also a civil servant, politician, and inventor.

When the mounted arm was expanded in 1855, Lee accepted the lieutenant colonelcy of the 2nd Cavalry in order to escape from the painfully slow promotion in the engineers. Ordered to western Texas, he served with his regiment until the 1857 death of his father-in-law forced him to ask for a series of leaves to settle the estate. In 1859 he was called upon to lead a force of marines, to join with the militia on the scene, to put an end to John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid. Thereafter he served again in Texas until summoned to Washington in 1861 by Winfield Scott who tried to retain Lee in the U. S. service. But the Virginian rejected the command of the Union's field forces on the day after Virginia seceded.