Robert E. Lee

Born January 19, 1807 in VA

Died 1870

• Commander of the Confederate States Army (‘the South’) from 1862 until his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865.

• Conflicted West Point graduate who made the difficult decision to leave the Union Army to fight and defend his home state instead.

• After the Civil War, was successful president of Washington College.

“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.”