General Robert E Lee
The southern commander was General Robert E. Lee.
He was commander of confederate troops.
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia Robert E. Lee was placed in overall southern command only in the last months of the war.
General Robert E Lee of Virginia
General Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Southern army.
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Robert E. Lee
Confederate General Robert E. Lee was the top commander in the Confederate Army. In early April of 1861 he found his army surrounded and surrendered to US General Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1861. This effectively ended the Civil War.
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Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, but there was no overall Confederate commander to coordinate strategy between various armies.
Ultimately, per the US Constitution, Abraham Lincoln as the Commander In Chief of the US armed forces; but for most of the Civil War, the field commander was General US Grant
No one. He was dead well over a 100 years by 1861. Washington was commander of the American troops in the revolution.