Robert E. Lee: Timeline

1807   Born

1859   Troops under Colonel Robert E. Lee Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee was a career U.S. Army [i] officer and the most successful general of the Confederate [i] ... 

 overpower Brown John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown was an American [i] abolitionist [i], the first white abolitionist to advocate ... 

 at the Federal arsenal.

1862   American Civil War American Civil War

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: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate Confederate States of America

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 General Robert E. Lee leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union United States

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 troops in Chantilly, Virginia, driving them away.

1862   American Civil War American Civil War

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: In the Confederacy Confederate States of America

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's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia Army of Northern Virginia

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 across the Potomac River Potomac River

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 at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland Maryland

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1863   May 4 - American Civil War American Civil War

The American Civil War was a sectional conflict in the United States of America [i] between the federal ... 

: General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville with 13,001 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson Stonewall Jackson

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 lost to friendly fire, and 17,500 Union casualties.

1863   3 - American Civil War American Civil War

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: Union forces under George G. Meade turn back a Confederate invasion by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg

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, the largest battle of the war. 28,000 Confederate casualties, 23,000 Union.

1864   American Civil War: Battle of Petersburg begins - Union forces under General Grant and troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee battle for the last time.

1865   American Civil War: General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant

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 at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.

1865   American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch - In far south Texas Texas

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, more than a month after Confederate Confederate States of America

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 General Lee Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee was a career U.S. Army [i] officer and the most successful general of the Confederate [i] ... 

's surrender, the last land battle of the civil war Civil war

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 ends with a Confederate victory.

1870   Died

1972   Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis was an American [i] statesman and advocate for slavery [i] and, until he ... 

, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson Stonewall Jackson

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate [i] general during the American Civil War [i] ... 

 are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia Georgia (U.S. state)

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