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Robert E. Lee, US military leader, Confederate commander in the American Civil War, and military strategist, has been considered by many to be the finest military leader the United States has ever produced.

In 1859 he suppressed John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Although Lee had freed his own slaves long before the war began, and he was opposed to secession, his devotion to his native Virginia led him to join the Confederacy. At the outbreak of war he became military adviser to Jefferson Davis, and in 1862 commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee actually had been offered command of the Union armies, but he resigned his commission to return to Virginia.

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