In 1863, the General-in-Chief was still Henry W. Halleck, the unpopular intellectual whose excessive caution had taken the momentum out of U.S.Grant's Tennessee campaign the year before.
In March 1864, his place was taken by Grant, who put into effect the simplified strategy that eventually ended the war. Halleck was demoted to Chief-of-Staff, and it is to his credit that he was willing to serve - effectively too - under his one-time subordinate.
Grant stayed in the job for the rest of the war, although he travelled with the Army of the Potomac (somewhat eclipsing its commander Gordon Meade), and it was Grant who finally took the surrender of Robert E. Lee.
Ulysses S. Grant
Organize the army different.
Irvin McDowell
Ambrose Burnside.
The Commander in Chief of the Confederacy was his President, Jefferson Davis. Robert E. Lee became the commander of the Army of the Northern Virginia in 1862 and General in Chief of the Confederate Army on February 6,1865.
no robert lee was not the commander of the union army? he had many chances to go into what ever branch, but didnt take it.
The first commander of the entire Union army was Winfield Scott.
Grant was commander of the union army.
George McClellan
George McClellan
George McClellan
Ulysses Grant was commander of the Union Army.
The president of the Union. The commander-in-chief of the Union Army.
Winfield Scott
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
William S. Rosecrans was the commander of the Union army at Chickamauga.