General George W. Casey, Jr. is the Chief of Staff of the Army.
John M. McHugh is the current Secretary of the Army.
General Washington was a general because the Continental Congress gave him that rank when it placed him in charge of the army.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
General Montgomery
The Continental Congress appointed him Commanding General of the Continental Army
The general in charge of the Continental Army was General George Washington. He was the leader of this army during the Revolutionary War.
Pickett himself was a General. But the army commander was Robert E. Lee.
ANSWER Major General George Gordon Meade was the Commander of the Union Army at Gettysburg.
The U.S. genral who was in charge of the war.
The Confederate general in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, surrendered to the Union general in charge of the Army of the Potomac, Ulysses S. Grant, at Appomattox Court House, in Virginia.
Appointed General-in-Chief March 1864
Yes. He was appointed General-in-Chief of all the Union armies in March 1864.
In the US a 2 Star or Major General is usually in charge of a Department of the Army in peacetime.