He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia so successful at first that Britain and France came close to granting recognition to the Confederacy. After his colleague Stonewall Jackson was killed at Chancellorsville, neither he nor his army was quite the same again, and he also confided to a few close friends that he was physically past his best.
In the last year of the war, Grant managed to keep him on the defensive and eventually took his surrender at Appomattox - the notional end of the Civil War. Although he had been appointed General-in-Chief of the Confederates by then, it was too late to make any difference.
"What did Robert E Lee contribute to the Civil War."
The Q&A wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 May 2012. <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_Robert_E_Lee_contribute_
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