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Robert E. Lee was the commanding general for the Confederacy and Ulysses S. Grant was the commanding general for the Union.
William Tecumseh Sherman was a general in the US Civil War. He was a Union general.
The civil war general president was Ulysses Grant. He served as the US commander and general of the Union armies. He later on became the 18th US president.
General Robert E. Lee was the Confederate General in the US Civil War. He was born on January 19, the same day as Dolly Parton.
As might be expected, the Union had a number of officers with the rank of general in the US Civil War. At the end of the war, however, US Grant was in charge of the Union's fighting forces.
See: US Civil War
General Lee's last victory in the US Civil War was at Deep Bottom on August 14, 1864.
Abner Doubleday was a general in the US Civil War that also made great contributions to baseball.
Confederate General Robert Seldon Garnett was the first general from either side to die in the US Civil War. He was killed shortly after the Battle of Rich Mountain in 1861.
In the US Civil War, it was the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, not the Union General, who surrendered.
The US Civil War
General US Grant's first assignment in the US Civil War was in Missouri. In September of 1861 Grant took command of the Southeast Missouri District.
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