Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - I te 4 o Poutu-te-rangi, 1845, i whakanekehia a Lee ki te rangatira tuatahi. I whakawhitihia tana roopu ki Texas i te marama o Hepetema o taua tau ka tukuna ki raro i a General Zachary Taylor. I ngā pakanga o Palo Alto
I Resaca de la Palma, i whakahaua e ia tetahi kamupene o te pu, e mahi tahi ana me te 1st Lieutenant James Longstreet. Ka tuhituhi ia i tētahi whiti e pā ana ki ēnei pakanga e rua.