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.
1861
Confederate General Robert Edward Lee died in 1870at Lexington, Virginia.
Headmaster at West Point Academy
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.
General Robert E. Lee.
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.
After Stonewall Jackson became wounded General Robert E. Lee put General Jeb Stuart temporarially in charge of Stonewall Jackson's unit.