"Pierced By a Dozen Balls" As He Tried to Stop a Surrender Flag at Gettysburg 

Ha!!

Lee was made acting colonel! This means he was not an actual colonel! At the time he was an acting colonel he was only a captain! Afterwards Lee was removed as acting colonel and he was then promoted to major! This explains how the promotion of Lee transpired!

Custer was only a captain and an acting general

Yes. There are many lists online of engagements. Best place to start is Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles

The historical record shows that Leigh was killed by solders of the 7th Ohio stationed on Culp’s hill. The regimental commander of the 7 Ohio ordered his men to cease-fire so that the prisoners could be brought into the lines. Colonel of the 7 Ohio wrote, “At the time the white flag was raised, a mounted rebel officer… was seen to come forward and endeavor to stop the surrender, when he was fired upon by my men and instantly killed.”

The damn yankees

... that's why more Black's fought for the South... It was not a "civil war" by definition! A "civil war" is when 2 or more groups fighting for control of the government. The Southourn army, although north of DC, never attacked it, because they weren't interested in "control" of "the government", they legally SUCCEEDED! It is the war on "northern agression!" The war was about States Rights, and the unproductive north BANKERS putting export tariffs on Southern cotton. The South produced 3 to 4 times more (food ++l than they used, while NYC imported nearly everything! Source: "Pre-war America', Princeton Press 1916. FACTS! Also, slavery was dying with the "Missouri Compromise." So... really the war was about the bankers (international cartel) en-SLAVING southerners. You don't know history!!! p.s. my family was forced to use their schooners to move yankee troops and supplies, but were never paid, even after filling out forms and petitioning after the war. That's SLAVERY!

Exactly.

He died fighting for southern independence and constitutional rule of law what a moron the same old tired wore out nonsense from you holier than thou yankees.

It's interesting that the Confederacy is always vilified for condoning slavery, but actually the United States of America in the 19th century as a whole condoned slavery; the North benefitted from the institution by their needs of cotton and sugar and use of tobacco. The abolitionist movement, while vocal about the evils of slavery and the need to abolish it were not as effective as some have tried to describe them. Even Abraham Lincoln was quoted that he "didn't want to be painted by the abolitionist's brush." Lincoln's primary goal was to preserve the Union; he was very clear about that by his reply to New York Tribune founder and publisher Horace Greeley. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." Those were Lincoln's words to Horace Greeley, the noted publisher of the New York Tribune and an abolitionist. Lincoln's "forbearance" about slavery meant that he was willing to condone it if it would help preserve the Union and while people throughout 19th century America had various opinions about slavery, it was tolerated by the country as a whole.