Robert E. Lee

:For the author of Inherit the Wind and other works, see Robert Edwin Lee.

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Inherit the Wind - Robert Edwin Lee

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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. He eventually commanded all Confederate armies as general-in-chief. Like Hannibal earlier and Rommel later, his victories against superior forces in an ultimately losing cause won him enduring fame. After the war, he urged sectional reconciliation, and spent his final years as a devoted college president. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy, and in some senses of the Southern United States, to this day.

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January 19 - 1807 - October 12 - 1870 - Confederate - American Civil War - Confederate - Hannibal - Rommel - Southern United States

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