Three. Major General Custis Lee, Major General Fitzhugh Lee, and Captain Robert Lee.
Three sons of Confederate General Robert E. Lee served in the Confederate army. Two were major generals and one was a captain.
Robert E. Lee is most remembered as a leading general of the Confederate Army. Before the Civil War he served in the U. S. Army, including a stint as the superintendent charge of the US Military Academy at West Point.
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One of the most well known generals was Robert E. Lee. Another famous Confederate general was Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. There were plenty of other generals, but we typically don't learn all of their names, just as with any other war.
Robert served as the Attorney General in his brother's cabinet.
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith graduated from West Point in 1845. Smith was ranked 25th in a graduating class of cadets numbering 41. Smith was instrumental in Confederate battles in the Western Theater. He and General Braxton Bragg led a raid into Kentucky in 1862. Kirby served in the Confederate victory at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee is most remembered as a leading general of the Confederate Army. Before the Civil War he served in the U. S. Army, including a stint as the superintendent charge of the US Military Academy at West Point.
Joseph Wheeler.
Leesville is named after its founder, General Robert E. Lee, who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The town was founded in the late 1800s and was named in his honor.
It was only late in the US Civil War that Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Lieutenant General Robert E. Lee as what can be considered to be the general in chief of the Confederate military forces. Prior to that, Davis himself acted as the South's general in chief. Most historians believe this was grave error by Davis. Davis was much to involved with the daily operations of the war. The South would have been better served if he had filled the position as the Confederate Congress had authorized.
One of the most well known generals was Robert E. Lee. Another famous Confederate general was Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. There were plenty of other generals, but we typically don't learn all of their names, just as with any other war.
The commanders that served during the Civil War on both the Union and Confederate sides, were called Generals. On the Union side his name was Ulysses S. Grant and on the Confederate side it was Robert E. Lee.
That was General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virgina.
Never, he was best known as the leader of the confederate army in the Civil War. Your probably mistaking him with General Ulysses S. Grant who fought against him and later served as president in 1869.
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Robert served as the Attorney General in his brother's cabinet.