The stars are used for the various ranks of General, and may be of 1 to 5 stars.
Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, and General - one through four stars, respectively. If there should be another General of the Army (five stars), they would, as well.
Grant wore a private's uniform of dark blue, with stars sewn on the shoulders to show his rank.
Currently, the higest attainable rank is General (four stars). General of the Army (five stars) is still an available rank, but reserved for special wartime situations.
General of the Army (five stars). However, this is a special rank used only in wartime. Currently, General (four stars) is the highest achievable rank.
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General (four stars)
An enlisted rank in the U.S. Army that wears a single strip on the uniform would be a Private, specifically a Private (E-1) or Private First Class (E-2). This is the lowest rank in the Army and is denoted by a single chevron or strip on the uniform.
An officer in the United States Army who wears a silver eagle is typically a Colonel, which is a rank above Lieutenant Colonel and below Brigadier General. The silver eagle is worn on their collar insignia denoting their rank.
The rank is simply Private (E2), referred to informally sometimes as "second class". There are three grades of Private in the Army - Private (E1), which wears no rank insignia, Private (E2), which wears one chevron, and Private First Class (E3), which wears one chevron and one rocker.
General of the Army/General of the Navy/Admiral of the Fleet (five stars), which is a special rank reserved for wartime. The highest rank currently is General/Admiral (four stars), with the possibility of holding the position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The United States Army Band (Pershing's Own) wears Civil War-style rank on its dress uniforms. The uniform itself is designed after 19th-century Army uniforms.
The highest rank in the army is general. Unless in a real war than it it general of the army which is 5 stars. Jointcheif and all that is just a title not a rank
Lieutenant General