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It was October 12 October 12, 1870: Death of Confederate generalissimo Robert Edward Lee Born on January 19, 1807, on the Stratford Hall plantation, Robert Edward Lee, the most famous military man of 19th-century America, died on October 12, 1870, in Lexington. His bravery and consistently chivalrous attitude while commanding the Confederate armies during the Civil War earned him an almost mythical reputation. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he served as an engineer officer in the United States Army for more than thirty years before the outbreak of the Civil War, where he first distinguished himself as commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, then as commander-in-chief of the Confederate States Army. The son of Henry Lee III, a revolutionary officer during the American War of Independence, Robert Lee fought in the Mexican-American War. When Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to fight for his home state, despite his desire to see the country remain intact and despite being offered a command in the Union. During the first year of the war, Lee served as military advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Once he took command of the main field army in 1862, he quickly emerged as a skilled tactician and an excellent commander on the battlefield, winning most of his battles against numerically superior Union armies. Lee's long-term strategies were more debatable, and his two major offensives in the North ended in defeat. However, he was torn between the necessities imposed by the Richmond government to favor an elastic defense for diplomatic reasons, linked to the illusion of official recognition of the Confederacy by the states of Europe, and the material contingencies resulting from the chronic poverty and restrictions suffered by the Southern economy, which was poorly industrialized and stifled by the naval blockade imposed by the Yankee invaders. His aggressive tactics, which resulted in heavy losses at a time when the Confederacy was short of men, have sometimes been criticized in recent years. The campaigns of Union General Ulysses S. Grant dealt a severe blow to the Confederacy in 1864 and 1865. Despite inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, Lee was unable to change the course of the war. He surrendered to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. As Lee had assumed supreme command of the remaining Confederate armies, the other Confederate forces quickly surrendered after his surrender. Lee subsequently called for reconciliation between the North and the South. After the war, he became president of Washington College, which was renamed Washington and Lee University after his death. He supported President Andrew Johnson's program of reconstruction, while opposing the proposals of radical Republicans to give freed slaves the right to vote and to take away the right to vote from former Confederates. He urged a reconsideration of the position between North and South by promoting the reintegration of former Confederates into the political life of the nation. Lee became the great Southern hero of the war and a postwar icon of the “Lost Cause.” But his popularity grew especially after his death in 1870, even in the North. Source: 12 octobre 1870 : mort du généralissime confédéré Robert Edward Lee – Jeune Nation http://frontnationalsuisse.hautetfort.com/archive/2025/09/30/being-aryan-heroism-in-the-aryan-religion-6564756.html