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There is a lot of confusion about this. People today usually do not know that both the Union and Confederacy had several field armies out fighting battles all through the war. Each of these field armies had a general in command. Usually when your question is asked people are looking for Robert E. Lee. For most of the war Lee actually commanded only a field army - the best and most famous one the Rebels had, the Army of Northern Virginia. Finally, in the last two months of the war Lee was made General in Chief over ALL the southern armies, but by then it was too late.
For most of the war the actual highest ranking Confederate general was a man few have heard of today, Samuel Cooper. Cooper was actually from New Jersey, but had married a Virginia girl, and went south with her when the war came. He was called the General in Chief for most of the war, but really spent the entire war in Richmond as a glorified clerk. This was because the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, considered himself to be as much a military expert as anyone on the south. He had graduated from West Point, become a hero in the Mexican War, and had first married a daughter of General (later president) Zachary Taylor. Davis liked to micromanage the army and left no room for his general in chief, or for his Secretary of War, to do much more than shuffle papers.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoFor most of the war, the Confederates had no post of General-in-Chief, and this function was performed by the President Jefferson Davis, who had a respectable record as a Colonel in the Mexican war, but was badly out of his depth trying to manage the quarrelsome Confederate Generals.
In January 1865, he eventually created the post of General-in-Chief, and gave it to the only possible candidate, Robert E. Lee. But it was too late to make any difference.
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∙ 14y agoJefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America. General Robert E. Lee was in charge of the CSA Army.
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∙ 13y agoJefferson Davis was their president if this is what you were asking
Their General was Robert E Lee
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∙ 15y agoThere were many. The most famous is General Robert E. Lee, who, near the end of the war, was made Commanding General of all Southern military forces.
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∙ 14y agoOne was General Robert E. Lee
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What was the name of the Southern army in the US Civil War?
Within the large parameters of the Confederate military, there were any number of names given to large armies in the US Civil War. For example, two large Southern armies were the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee.
Who Was The Leader Of The Royalist Army?
If you mean who was the leader of the royalist army during the English Civil War of 1642, then the leader was King Charles I. He was fighting against Parliment
Who were the bluecoats in the civil war?
The union, which is the north. the south were gray.
How did the northern and southern armies differ most in the civil war?
Well, to state the obvious, the northern army were fighting for slavery to end, and the southern army wanted slavery to continue.
What color uniforms did the South wear on the Civil War?
The Southern (Confederate) Army wore grey uniforms.
Who is the political leader for the southern states during the civil war?
Jefferson Davis
Who Was The Leader Of The Royalist Army?
If you mean who was the leader of the royalist army during the English Civil War of 1642, then the leader was King Charles I. He was fighting against Parliment
What was the name of the Southern army in the US Civil War?
Within the large parameters of the Confederate military, there were any number of names given to large armies in the US Civil War. For example, two large Southern armies were the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee.
Who was leader of the Red army?
Joseph StalinLeon TrotskyAnd there there was the Japanese red Army.......
Who were the leader Civil War army?
The Commanding General of the Union Army (for most of the Civil War) was General Ulysses S. Grant; the Commanding General of the Confederate Army was Robert E. Lee
Who is the leader of the union army civil war?
The actual leader was of the army was Ulysses S Grant. He took his orders from President Abraham Lincoln.
During the civil war what was the southern army called?
Army of Northern Virginia or the Army of Tennessee and Northern armies were called the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Tennessee.
Who were the bluecoats in the civil war?
The union, which is the north. the south were gray.
What southern leader surrendered at appomattox during the civil war?
Robert E. Lee
Who was the leader of the army of northern virginia during the civil war?
Robert E. Lee
What was Jefferson finis Davis Role during the Civil War?
leader of the conferderate army
What was Robert E. Lee's rank during the civil war?
His rank was that of General, the highest rank attainable in the army of the Confederacy during the Civil War. He held the rank of Colonel in the United States Army before he resigned his commission.
