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=General Robert E. Lee "CHIP"=

Robert Edward Lee was born January 19, 1807. He was born in Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia he was the the son of son of [|Major General] [|Henry Lee III] "Light Horse Harry".

In 1861 when the Civil War started president Lincoln asked Lee to take command of the entire Union Army, Lee declined because he lived in Virginia, and to lead the Union (though he did not agree with the succession of the eleven southern states) would in his opinion ne going against his neighbors.

After the war he became a college President, Lee supported President [|Andrew Johnson]'s program of [|Reconstruction] and believed in and inter-sectional friendship, he oppsed the [|Radical Republican] proposal to give freed slaves the right vote and take the vote away from ex-Confederates. He urged them to re-evaluate their position between the North and the South, Lee became the great Southern hero of the war, and his popularity grew in the North as well after his death in 1870. On September 28, 1870 Lee suffered a stroke that left him without the ability to speak. On October 12, 1870 he died of pneumonia.