General-in-Chief of al the Union armies was U.S. Grant.
Commander of the Army of the Potomac, which forced Lee's surrender (effectively ending the war), was George Meade.
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Sherman's army was the civil war army commanded by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
During the US Civil War, there were several Union generals in charge of the Union's war efforts in the East. They were:* George B. McClellan;* Henry Halleck;* Ambrose Burnside;* John Pope;* George Meade; and* US Grant.
commanded the confederate army
No, the Army of Northern Virginia. He was eventually defeated by the Army of the Potomac. Under US Grant, the Army of the Potomac forced the surrender of Robert E. Lee. Lee's army was desolated by the heavy combat in Virginia. With no food or reinforcements, Lee had no choice. Grant handled this well with kindness.
Ulysses S. Grant
The Commander In Chief of the Union army during the Civil War was President Abraham Lincoln; the ranking general in the field was Ulysses S. Grant.
He did not. The war was ended by the Union Army defeating the Confederate Army.
Ulysses S. Grant commanded the winning union army and was swept into the presidency because of his victory.
Grant was commander of the union army.
U.S. Grant. He was travelling in a mobile HQ with the Army of the Potomac, which was commanded by Gordon Meade. (Some say Meade, not Grant, should have taken Lee's surrender.) The other Union army was commanded by W.T. Sherman, and he took Joe Johnston's surrender in North Carolina about a fortnight after Appomattox.
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Grant commanded the Union army in the latter part of the Civil War (North).He also served in the Mexican War.
Ulysses Grant, appointed General-in-Chief in March 1864.Travelling with the Army of the Potomac (commanded by General Meade, as people often forget), he took the surrender of Robert E.Lee at Appomattox.
Robert E. Lee was offered command, but turned it down.
No, he commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. But, at the begining of the war, he was offered command of the US Army forces, but declined.
Robert E. Lee