[DOC] [TLE] who was the fiest person lincoln asked to lead the union army ... [PAR] May 30, 2009 ... Since he could not lead the army in the field, the first person Pres. ... to go against 
his own state(Virginia) Lincoln's second choice was General... [DOC] [TLE] President Lincoln Originally Offered the Union Army Command to ... [PAR] Jan 27, 2011 ... President Lincoln Originally Offered the Union Army Command to General ... 
Lincoln, but decided to lead the Confederate army instead as he... [DOC] [TLE] World Cultures: Civil War Flashcards | Quizlet [PAR] April 30 to May 6, 1863; 30,000 casualties, Lee's defensive strategy leads to ... 
Lincoln's first choice to command the Union army; eventual commander of the... [DOC] [TLE] Civil War Notes Flashcards | Quizlet [PAR] Who was LIncoln's 1st choice to lead the Union Army? Robert E Lee ... What did 
Lincoln do when the Chief Justice said he had exceeded his authority? Ignored... [DOC] [TLE] Lincoln signs Ulysses S. Grant's commission to command the US Army [PAR] ... then-Commanding General Henry Wagner Halleck to lead the Union Army, 
which ... As lieutenant general of the U.S. Army, Grant was answerable only to 
Lincoln. ... As a student at West Point, he never expected to graduate, let alone 
lead the entire .... Masaryk was born in 1886, the son of Czechoslovakia's first 
president. [DOC] [TLE] Timeline . Robert E. Lee . American Experience . WGBH | PBS [PAR] In September of 1836, he is promoted to First Lieutenant. ... Lincoln mandates 
that all states provide troops to stop the rebellion, forcing those states that had ... 
Despite rumors of a strong Union army led by McClellan, Lee refuses to retreat. [DOC] [TLE] Robert E. Lee: Virginia Soldier, American Citizen by James I ... [PAR] Nov 1, 2005 ... In 1861 Lee was Lincoln's first choice to lead the Union troops in .... As war 
approached, he declined to lead the Federal forces, instead... [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief - Abraham Lincoln's ... [PAR] As tentative as he was early on, he eventually became one of the most audacious 
of ... Second, many of the most talented Union army officers such as Robert E. 
Lee ... Indeed, Lincoln had little choice at the outset but to create political 
generals, ..... to help to command the war and needed to take more direct action 
to lead it. [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln: First Republican President and Civil War Leader [PAR] The role of Abraham Lincoln: First Republican President and Civil War Leader ... 
In 1832, he led a militia contingent in the Black Hawk War, but saw no action. ... In 
1858, Lincoln was the Republican Party choice for the Senate seat then held by 
... for the Republican nomination with a speech he delivered at Cooper Union in... [DOC] [TLE] Making Sense of Robert E. Lee | History | Smithsonian [PAR] (When he was superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, Lee acquiesced to 
Mrs. ... When Lincoln called on the loyal states for troops to invade the South, ..... 
Aided by a union general who suffered and emotional collapse on the first day of 
.... of fighting for the Confederacy, he definitely made the wrong choice and lost,... [DOC] [TLE] Civil War - Civil War Academy - American Civil War [PAR] Inexperienced troops lead to a disastrous first battle for the Union. ... To discipline 
the Army of the Potomac's green troops during the Civil War, Lincoln picks ... He 
tolerates McClellan's delays because he knows how vital troop morale and... [DOC] [TLE] Lincoln's Do-Nothing Generals - The New York Times [PAR] Nov 27, 2011 ... Yet as the leading Union generals in the field refused to directly ... He quickly 
built up an army demoralized by the First Battle of Bull Run into a... [DOC] [TLE] The Civil War 150th Blog: Lincoln Offers Lee the Command [PAR] Apr 18, 2011 ... Robert E. Lee was offered the command of the United States army. ... He would 
follow the choice of his state even though he personally disagreed with it. He 
viewed his service to the South not as a fight

Question: He was Lincoln's first choice to lead the Union army
Answer: Robert E. Lee