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President Lincoln Originally Offered the Union Army Command to General Lee

##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Civil War Related Facts Text Version General Lee was offered the position of the head of the Union army by Abraham Lincoln, but decided to lead the Confederate army instead as he couldn’t bring himself to lead troops against his native Virginia.  Despite the Confederates being vastly outnumbered and not […]

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