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 * Robert Edward Lee** (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career united states officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause." A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for 32 years. He is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.Lee's eventual role in the newly established Confederacy was to serve as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. Lee soon emerged as the shrewdest battlefield tactician of the war, after he assumed command of the Confederate eastern army . His strategic vision was more doubtful, his invasions of the North in 1862 and 1863 depended on the conviction that northern morale was weak hoping that a handful of rebel victories could shatter the North's willpower.