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Who are the generals appointed by Abraham Lincoln in the civil war for the confedrate army?
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∙ 13y ago
Lincoln did not select Generals for the Confederates. That job was done (badly) by the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis.
You may be thinking of Robert E. Lee, to whom Lincoln offered a senior command before Lee's home state of Virginia had seceded, and Lee said he would have to wait to see how the vote came out.
When Virginia voted Confederate, Lee reluctantly turned down Lincoln's offer, resigned from the US Army and threw in his lot with the South.
It was a narrow decision - one of the great 'What ifs?' of the war is how much sooner it would have ended if Lee had accepted that senior command for the Union.
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