Lee, Robert E(dward)

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US military strategist and Confederate general in the American Civil War. As military adviser to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, and as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, he made several raids into Northern territory, but was defeated at Gettysburg and surrendered in 1865 at Appomattox.

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