Summary Of Offensive War Tactics By Robert E Lee

Robert E. Lee’s Offensive War Tactics Almost everyone would know what someone was talking about if the word war were heard. Not everyone would know that there are many different types of wars that exist. Revolutionary war is when a large portion of the population in a country up rise against the government. A war is classified as a civil war when two large groups within a country fight against each other. War of resources is just what the name says, a country fights another for the resources that they have. World war is usually the largest war and it is when two countries fight each other with the help of their allies. A world war is not a surprise; both sides know about it in advance and have time to prepare, apposed to all the other types

Lee during the Civil War are used in battlefields still today. General Lee knew that the resources of the South were limited compared to the North. Lee’s tactic to overcome the disadvantage was to attack the North rather than waiting for the North to attack them. He divided his troops into smaller groups and made many attacks instead of one, thinking it would throw them off guard and be more effective to command several small groups than it would be to command a larger one. General Lee studied at West Point University where he studied war and tactics. He transformed what he learned to the conditions he faced. Later he was a professor there, and taught others how to study war and how to face it when or if it comes. Lee’s offensive and his defensive war tactics and strategies are still used in some form today in order to win battles and

The Union was under the command of General Joseph Hooker who was new to the Union Army. General Lee and Jackson met together to discuss the battle and how to defeat the enemy. The two decided that Jackson would take 30,000 troops and attack from the side. Lee took 15,000 men and went around to the backside of the Union army . This was one of Lee’s tactics that he used the most, which was divide and conquer. The Confederates were victorious at The Battle of Chancellorsville, but they still lost around 13,000 troops in the battle. The defeated Union army lost around 13,500 troops during the battle . The loss that Lee had suffered the most was the loss of his right hand man, Stonewall Jackson. Jackson was mistakenly shot by the troops he was commanding in the arm. He had to get his arm taken off and from that he got a disease and could not recuperate, which resulted in his death three days after The Battle of