General Lee Relationship

General Robert E. Lee built a relationship with his generals through trust as Commander in chief. By allowing the generals to conduct missions on his behalf without giving them orders. This allowed General Lee and his army to be felixable during the war. General Lee divided his army in to four divisions and expanded them out thourgh the battlefield. The plan was to have the bulk of his army to cross Chickahominy and attack the Union north position. General Lee wanted General Jackson and his division to attack General Porter’s right position and allowing General Hill to move to Beaver Dam Creek follows right into Chickahomny. While attacking General Porter’s division General Lee had Gerneral Huger and General Magruder hold the line against McClelans

General A.P Hill attacked Beaver Damn and was able to defeat the light line defending the damn. Taking the damn allowed General Lee continue his offensive attack with 57,000 men to take Gaines’s Mill. General Jackson was late to the battlefield and forced General Lee to order General Longstreet to distract General Porter men and to stabilize the front lines until General Jackson could arrive and attack from the north. General Slocum’s division was sent to reinforce General Porter and defend Gaines’s Mill. General Lee plan of attacking Gaines’s Mill with 57,000 men caused the federal army to withdraw and seize Gaines Mill. General Magruder made General McClellan to focus his attention on him by employing diversionary attacks from the south, while the main focus of General Lee army was attacking the north. General McClellan ordered his army to withdraw back into Harrison’s Landing during the night on June 27th. While McClellan was withdrawing, General Magruder moved forward to perform an reconnaissance to locate McClellan army. Conducting the reconnaissance Magruder orderd General Toombs’ brigade to attack McClellan army. General Toombs’ brigade was easly stopped and made them retreat back. Magruder ordered Toombs’ brigade to conduct a reconnaissance on June 28th. The reconnaissance turned to an attacked lead by General Toomb and resulted in a defeat for the

Lee’s plan was to have his Generals (A.P. Hill and Longstreet) divisions to move around Richmond and move southeast while General Holmes division go farther south to Malvern Hill. Lee ordered Magruder’s division attack the rear guard of the Federal army from the east. General Jackson was ordered to rebuild the bridge at Chickahominy and link up with Magruder division. The plan was to have General Jackson and General Magruder to attack the Union Army with a heavy blow at Savage’s Station. While the attack from Lees Generals was being conducted, General Jackson was not moving south, because he was under the impression from General Lee’s Chief of staff that Lee wanted his division to build and guard the bridge. General Magruder was attacking 14,000 men against General Summer’s 26,650 men causing a stalemate. On June 30th General Jackson arrived to the battlefield to late to defeat the Union Army as General Lee