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Robert E. Lee reached the level of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. During the US Civil War he was considered the leading Southern general and as the war neared its ending, he was given charge of all the Confederate forces. He became the South's general in chief. This was the role that President Jefferson Davis informally held during most of the war.

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