The correct options are:
A.) Morale in the North was at an all-time low.
B.) Davis was getting impatient with his losses.
C.) A big win on Union soil would end the war.
When Virginia declared her secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to position herself with her home state, despite her wish that her country remain intact and that she was offered a position in the Union's high command. During the first year of the Civil War, Lee served as a prominent adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Once he took command of the main Confederate army in 1862, he immediately distinguished himself as a cunning strategist and commander on the battlefield, defeating most of his battles and always against far superior Union armies. His strategic foresight was more questionable and his two major offensives against Union territory ended in defeats. Lee's aggressive tactics, which caused numerous casualties among his troops when the Confederates had fewer men, have been criticized in recent times. Lee surrendered his entire army to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. By then he had assumed command of all the remaining armies of the Confederates and other southern forces surrendered shortly afterwards. Lee rejected the proposal to maintain an insurgency against the Union and called for reconciliation between both sides.
