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I believe that Robert E. Lee became general in the April of 1861.
Lee was the top Confederate general. Grant eventually became the top Union general.
Robert E. Lee
Not till January 1865 did the Confederates appoint a General-in-Chief - which had to be Robert E. Lee.
General Robert E. Lee was from Virginia.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was appointed to be the major general of the military and naval forces of Virginia. When Virginia officially seceded, Lee became a general in the Confederate Army.
The Confederacy was in good shape before General Robert E. Lee became its commander. By all accounts however, Lee was one, if not the best general in the US Civil War considering each side's general staffs.
The Confederacy was in good shape before General Robert E. Lee became its commander. By all accounts however, Lee was one, if not the best general in the US Civil War considering each side's general staffs.
General Robert E. Lee.
After Stonewall Jackson became wounded General Robert E. Lee put General Jeb Stuart temporarially in charge of Stonewall Jackson's unit.
Ulysses S. Grant became the eighteenth U.S. President for two terms. (1869-1877) having ground his enemy Robert E Lee into the dust during the Civil War.