{"id":4299,"date":"2011-01-27T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:34:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:34:58","slug":"president-lincoln-originally-offered-the-union-army-command-to-general-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/president-lincoln-originally-offered-the-union-army-command-to-general-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lincoln Originally Offered the Union Army Command to General Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/general-lee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4300\" title=\"general-lee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/general-lee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/general-lee.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/general-lee-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Civil War Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/sullivan-ballous-letter\/\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Civil War Related Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t bring himself to lead troops against his native Virginia.\u00a0 Despite the Confederates being vastly outnumbered and not as well equipped as the North, Lee and his right hand man, Stonewall Jackson, managed to post victory after victory against the North, primarily due to Lee\u2019s brilliance, Jackson\u2019s audacity, and the North\u2019s moronic Generals.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##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\u2019t bring himself to lead troops against his native Virginia.\u00a0 Despite the Confederates being vastly outnumbered and not [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1036,1198,757],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-civil-war-facts","tag-civil-war-history","tag-president-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7034,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions\/7034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}