One set of this man's instructions ended with the phrase "if practicable," making Richard Ewell overcautious.
One set of this man's instructions ended with the phrase "if practicable," making Richard Ewell overcautious. Defending Marye's Heights, this commander remarked, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." This rider of the horse Traveller withstood frontal assaults at Cold Harbor. This general, whose estate was confiscated for a veterans' cemetery, captured John Brown at Harpers Ferry. As he won using a flanking maneuver at Chancellorsville, his corps commander Stonewall Jackson was shot; two years later, he surrendered at Appomattox courthouse. For 10 points, name this loser at Gettysburg, the Confederacy's senior general.
One set of this man's instructions ended with the phrase "if practicable," making Richard Ewell overcautious.
Robert Edward Lee 