What happened in Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North?
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In Mar., 1862, Davis recalled him to Richmond. Lee's plan to prevent reinforcements from reaching Gen. George B. McClellan , whose army was threatening Richmond, was brilliantly executed by T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley. When Joseph E. Johnston was wounded at Fair Oaks in the Peninsular campaign , Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia (June 1, 1862). His leadership of that army through the next three years has placed him among the world's great commanders. Lee immediately took the offensive, and after ending McClellan's threat to Richmond in the Seven Days battles (June 26-July 2), he thoroughly defeated John Pope at the second battle of Bull Run (Aug. 29-30). McClellan, however, checked him in his first Northern invasion, the Antietam campaign (Sept.). Advances by Ambrose E. Burnside and Joseph Hooker were brutally repulsed in the battles of Fredericksburg (Dec. 13; see Fredericksburg, battle of ) and Chancellorsville (May 2-4, 1863), though in the latter victory Lee lost his ablest lieutenant, Stonewall Jackson.
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