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Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his army of Northern Virginia.
he was general of confederate forces during the civil war
General Earl Van Dorn lost the Confederate attempt to control northwestern Arkansas. He later lost the Second Battle of Corinth. He was never given command of another Confederate army. He did receive the command of a cavalry unit in 1863. That same year he was murdered by a man claiming Van Dorn was having an affair with his wife.
Confederate General led the Confederate army at the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862. Lee lost the battle and had to retreat back to Virginia. Union General George B. McClellan led the Union army to the victory.
Confederate General PT Beauregard had strong opinions as to why the South lost the US Civil War. He wrote after the war that faulty military strategies and and the poor leadership of President Jefferson Davis caused the Confederate defeat. He did not believe that the numerical troop disadvantages of the South was the main cause at all.
Lieutenant General Braxton Bragg, for whom Fort Bragg, North Carolina was named, and who is my Great grandfather several times removed.COMMENT.Sorry to contradict you but Lieutenant General Braxton Bragg was relieved from his command after the Battle of Chattanooga and not after that of Chickamauga.The general who lost his command after Chickamauga was the Union General Rosencrans.
In mid-July of 1864, Union General William Sherman was headquartered outside of Atlanta. There a Union spy informed him that Confederate General Joseph Johnston was being replaced with General John Bell Hood. Sherman knew little about Hood, except that he lost a leg at the Battle of Chickamauga.
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Confederate Jefferson Davis was surprised with the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Shiloh. Jefferson had been in contact with the now late Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston as they planned their concentration of troops on Union forces in Tennessee. Davis sent one of his aids, Colonel William Johnston to investigate what had happened in the aftermath of Shiloh and ask what plans the Confederate generals in the Western Theater had planned. Davis was seeking a way to recover lost Confederate territory. He sent Colonel Johnston, who happened to be the nephew of the fallen Confederate General Albert S. Johnston.