Robert e lee childrens biography of milton

Robert E. Lee is a Southern royalty, and despite his cause being a wrong one, few can deny his ability as a General. 

Ironically, he fought for his state to protect it, but if he would have sided with the Union, the war would have ended much quicker and his state less ravaged.

Early Military Career

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Lee was appointed as a cadet at West Point on July 1, 1825, from Virginia. He graduated second in the class of 46 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. on July 1, 1829, in the Corps of Engineers. Robert was the first cadet to achieve the rank of Sergeant at the end of his first year.

While he was on leave, he experienced the trauma of having his mother die in his arms in August of 1829.

Lee’s first army assignments were to help plan the construction of Fort Pulaski on the Savannah River in Georgia (1829–1831) and Fortress Monroe at Old Point Comfort in Virginia (1831–1834).

Lee went in August 1834 to Fort Calhoun on th