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General Robert F. Hoke: Lees Modest Warrior
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Neglected by modern historians, Robert F. Hoke was a towering figure in his time. Mustered into Confederate service as a second lieutenant in April 1861, he was a major within five months, a lieutenant colonel within nine months, a colonel within sixteen months, a brigadier general within two years, and a major general within three yearsbecoming, at age twentysix, the youngest Southern officer of that rank in the Civil War. Of the 125,000 men his state contributed to the Confederate cause, it was Hoke who was called the North Carolina Lee and the most distinguished soldier in North Carolina. In a facetoface meeting after the war, U. S. Grant admitted that Hoke had administered the worst drubbing I ever got, at Cold Harbor. He fought in nearly every significant battle in the Eastern theaterGaines Mill, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Plymouth, Petersburg, Richmond, Cold Harbor, Fort Fisher, Bentonville. He witnessed the first Confederate casualty at Bethel and provided the rear guard as Joseph E. Johnston met Sherman at Bennett Farm to arrange the surrender. Back home, Hoke hitched his warhorse to a plow and quietly set about rebuilding the South, a cause that later inspired him to leadership positions in industry. A private man, he declined every major honor offered him by North Carolinians, including the governorship. He rarely spoke about the warespecially about his most notorious claim to fame, the stilldisputed rumor that he was picked as Lees successor should anything ever happen to the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. The personification of reserve, Hoke was once described thus: Get you a hero, and I give you General Robert F. Hoke...as an ideal in peace and war.
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