When Robert E. Lee do when he heard Five Forks had been taken by the Union army He told Jefferson Davis he should leave Richmond.
<h3>Who was Robert E. Lee?</h3>
This man was the army general and the commander of the confederate army. He was the one that the Confederate president put in charge of the force that fought against the union during the civil war in the United States.
The civil war was the war that was fought between the North and the South because the North did not want the South to secede from the Union.
