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Union:

Commander-in-Chief President Abraham Lincoln.

General-in-Chief Lieutenent General Ulysses Simpson Grant, appointed on March 9,

1865.

Grant's predecessors were: Major General Winfield Scott, Major General George McClellan, Major General Henry Wager Halleck.

Confederacy:

Commander-in-Chief President Jefferson Finis Davis.

General in Chief Army General Robert Edward Lee, appointed on Feb.6,1865.

Lee didn't have any predecessor because Jefferson Davis didn't appoint anyone to that office before him.

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