commander, 42 engagements

Battles of Robert E. Lee

Confederate States general (1807–1870)

Robert E. Lee is recorded as a commander at 42 placed engagements in the atlas between 1861 and 1865: 35 battles, 3 sieges and 4 campaigns, all in present-day United States. Taken in date order, the sites lie 3,898 km apart end to end, 97 km between engagements on average. Most belong to American Civil War (39), Maryland in the American Civil War (3).

42 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

41 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1861	Battle of Cheat Mountain	Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States		Union victory
1862	Battle of Fredericksburg	Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States	213 km E	Confederate victory
1862	Second Battle of Bull Run	Prince William County, Virginia, United States	58 km N	Confederate victory
1862	Battle of Fort Pulaski	Chatham County, Georgia, United States	814 km SW	Union victory
1862	Seven Days Battles	Hanover County, Virginia, United States	709 km NE	Confederate victory; (see #Aftermath)
25 June 1862	Battle of Oak Grove	Henrico County, Virginia, United States	31 km SE	Inconclusive
26 June 1862	Battle of Beaver Dam Creek	Hanover County, Virginia, United States	10 km N	Union victory (See aftermath).
27 June 1862	Battle of Gaines's Mill	Hanover County, Virginia, United States	7 km E	Confederate victory
30 June 1862	Battle of Glendale	Henrico County, Virginia, United States	16 km S	Inconclusive
July 1862	Peninsula Campaign	Virginia Peninsula, Virginia, United States	59 km E	Confederate victory
1 July 1862	Battle of Malvern Hill	Henrico County, Virginia, United States	59 km W	Union victory
1862	Northern Virginia Campaign	Virginia, United States	157 km N	Confederate victory
14 September 1862	Battle of South Mountain	Frederick County, Maryland, United States	75 km N	Union victory
17 September 1862	Battle of Antietam	Washington County, Maryland, United States	11 km W	Union victory (see aftermath)
1862	Maryland Campaign	Maryland, United States	104 km SE	Union victory
1863	Battle of Williamsport	Washington County, Maryland, United States	112 km NW	Inconclusive
1863	Stoneman's 1863 Raid	Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States	162 km S	Confederate victory
30 April 1863	Battle of Chancellorsville	Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States	15 km N	Confederate victory
3 May 1863	Battle of Salem Church	Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States	11 km E	Confederate victory
1863	Gettysburg campaign	Maryland, Pennsylvania, United States	171 km N	Inconclusive; (see Aftermath section)
1 July 1863	Battle of Gettysburg	Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States	1 km E	Union victory
1863	Pickett's Charge	Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States	1 km W	Union victory
7 November 1863	Second Battle of Rappahannock Station	Culpeper County, Virginia, United States	151 km S	Union victory
27 November 1863	Battle of Mine Run	Orange County, Virginia, United States	22 km S	Inconclusive
1864	Battle of Chaffin's Farm	Henrico County, Virginia, United States	109 km S	Union victory
1864	Overland Campaign	Virginia, United States	144 km W	See Aftermath
5 May 1864	Battle of the Wilderness	Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States	142 km NE	Inconclusive
13 May 1864	Battle of Spotsylvania Court House	Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States	17 km SE	Inconclusive
26 May 1864	Battle of North Anna	Caroline County, Virginia, United States	39 km S	Inconclusive
28 May 1864	Battle of Totopotomoy Creek	Hanover County, Virginia, United States	33 km SE	Inconclusive
31 May 1864	Battle of Cold Harbor	Hanover County, Virginia, United States	5 km S	Confederate victory
9 June 1864	Siege of Petersburg	Petersburg, Virginia, United States	42 km S	Union victory
15 June 1864	Second Battle of Petersburg	Petersburg, Virginia, United States	0 km N	Confederate victory
30 July 1864	Battle of the Crater	Petersburg, Virginia, United States	0 km S	Confederate victory
14 August 1864	Second Battle of Deep Bottom	Henrico County, Virginia, United States	26 km N	See Aftermath
7 October 1864	Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads	Henrico County, Virginia, United States	6 km W	Union victory
1865	Appomattox campaign	Virginia, United States	128 km W	Decisive Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on...
31 March 1865	Battle of White Oak Road	Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States	116 km E	Union victory
2 April 1865	Third Battle of Petersburg	Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States	5 km NE	Union victory: End of the Siege of Petersburg and opening...
7 April 1865	Battle of Cumberland Church	Cumberland County, Virginia, United States	83 km W	Confederate victory
9 April 1865	Battle of Appomattox Court House	Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia, United States	36 km W	Union victory
date unknown	Bristoe Campaign	Virginia, United States		Union victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Julian Vannerson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.