A Disastrous Move Ordered by Robert E

question 48

Multiple Choice

A disastrous move ordered by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War was:

• A)his advance toward Washington, D.C. during the Seven Days' Battles.
• B)his decision to move into Pennsylvania to relieve the Virginians who had been in the midst of so much of the fighting.
• C)the Battle of Antietam, where Lee had overextended his forces into Maryland and was forced into a retreat.
• D)his order to break the Union line at Gettysburg with a charge involving 12,500 men-two-thirds of whom were killed, wounded, or captured.
• E)leading Grant on a military chase that lasted for weeks and eventually put Lee's men in trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, for nine long, miserable months.

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