If Lee had lived in Western Virginia, he would have gone with the West when they left Virginia, As Such He Probably would have accepted Lincoln's offer of a generalship [to late for the AOP ] But probably one of the Mississippi commands.
Pulled back east by Lincoln in 1863, He lead the AOP north and at a little town in Pennsylvania, Meet his old friend Longstreet in the climactic Battle of the ACW
] But probably one of the Mississippi commands.