The Most Senseless and Disastrous Move Ordered by Robert E

question 23

Multiple Choice

The most senseless and 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 decision to send a group of over 12,500 men to break the Union line at Gettysburg-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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