Joseph Wheeler
. . . . . . . . . . Confederate General Lee personally believed himself responsible for the 23,000 killed at Gettsyburg, Pennsylvania. - S0L . . . . . . . . . .
Pickett himself was a General. But the army commander was Robert E. Lee.
The senior Confederate General in Charleston was P.G.T. Beauregard, closely supervised by his president, Jefferson Davis, who saw himself as a notional General-in-Chief. The commander of the Union garrison on Fort Sumter was a Major Anderson, reporting to the Union General-in-Chief in Washington, the distinguished but elderly Winfield Scott.
Americans defeated Burgoyne at Saratoga where American General Benedict Arnold distinguished himself and suffered a great wound.
Philip St. George Cocke was the Confederate general who committed suicide during the American Civil War. He killed himself on December 26, 1861.
This legend is attributed to General Braxton Bragg.
General Robert E. Lee I take it you mean in the US Civill war.... Robert E Lee
Washington was selected because he had previously distinguished himself as a general. There were no other generals in the colonies willing to do the job.
Confederate General Felix K. Zollircoffer was engaged in battle with advanced Union forces of General George H. Thomas.This was near the of January 1862 in Kentucky. As Zollicoffer was rallying his troops he rode too far ahead and accidentally found himself unknowingly on the Union lines. Sadly the Confederate general was nearsighted and he rode up to a mounted Federal officer, Colonel Speed Fry. and proceeded to give him orders. The Union officer, seeing that he was facing a Confederate general immediately shot Zollicoffer who died on the spot. Soon after Confederate forces retreated south out of Kentucky to Tennessee.
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The American who distinguished himself by successfully waging a war with Tripoli was Thomas Jefferson. The command of the US Navy was under Edward Preble.
They did not appoint a General-in-Chief till 1865, when it went to Robert E. Lee. The Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, considered himself a notional General-in-Chief.