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Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870) was a former Confederate general during the Civil War and one the best strategists in all America at that  time. Even so, he lost major big battles that later enabled the Union to win the war. Later, he became the president of the Washington College in Virginia (now known as Washington and Lee College). He died in Virginia in 1870.