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Civil War

__Robert E. Lee __  __﻿ __Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19, 1807. He was a combat engineer and later became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War. He was a top graduate of West Point, and he was known as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. army for 32 years. In early 1861, President Abraham Lincoln invited Lee to take command of the entire Union Army. Lee declined, for his homestate was the state of Virginia, which was one of the states that seceded.