What was the relationship between Jefferson Davis and Robert elee?

Answer 1

Quite cordial - unlike Davis's relations with most of his other Generals, with whom he conducted vicious feuds.

At the start of the war, Davis appointed Lee as an advisor, and it was only when Joe Johnston was wounded and hospitalised that Lee was made an army commander.

In January 1865, when Davis finally recognised the need to appoint a General-in-Chief, Lee was the obvious choice, though it was too late to make much difference.

Possibly Davis recognised in Lee the qualities he believed he himself possessed, but didn't - the inborn nobility of the planter-aristocrat combined with a good battlefield record. (This was the largely mythical quality that the Confederacy was inclined to confer on itself.)

Under the test of surrender, Lee was a model of grace under pressure, while Davis scuttled away from his responsibilities and went into hiding (actually disguised in a woman's hat and cloak), talking wildly about continuing the struggle from somewhere in the West.