Scope and Contents General and commander of the Confederate States Army of Northern Virginia during the United States Civil War. Lee began his career in the military when he entered the United States Military Academy. He graduated second in his class. When war broke out with Mexico, Lee was attached to General Winfield Scott. During his tour in Mexico he met Longstreet, Jackson, and Pickett who he would fight with in the Civil War and Grant who he would surrender to at Appomattox, Virginia. After the Civil...