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General Ulysses S. Grant (union) -also became a US President General Robert E. Lee (rebel) General Stonewall Jackson (rebel) 1.GRANT 2.LEE 3.SHERMAN There were many leaders on both sides of the war. The top two leaders were Ulysses S. Grant (Union) and Robert E. Lee (Confederate). Some other significant leaders include Stonewall Jackson (Confederate), Sherman(Union), Chamberlin (Union), and others. In November, 1861 George McClellan, who was only 34 years old, was made commander in chief of the Union Army. Lincoln appointed "Fighting Joe" Hooker to the command of the Army of the Potomac on January 25, 1863. On 28th June, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln appointed George Meade to replace General Joseph Hooker in charge of the Army of the Potomac.
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∙ 11y agoJefferson Davis - ex-officer, who saw himself as a great military leader, but was kicked upstairs to President.
Sidney Johnston - regarded as the best General in America, but killed early on, at Shiloh, before his potential could be tested.
Joseph E. Johnston (no relation) - brave and brilliant, but identified with tactical retreats which were justified by events, but which did not seem like the Confederate way of doing things.
Robert E. Lee - a noble figurehead who fully embodied the Confederate tradition and inspired fantastic loyalty, beyond any hope of victory, right to the end.
T.J. ("Stonewall") Jackson - the essential other-half of the Lee-Jackson partnership, killed at Chancellorsville by his own men, whether intentionally is still hotly debated.
Braxton Bragg - a strict disciplinarian, personally unpopular, but identified after the war as the one who should have been Chief-of-Staff, if there had been any such appointment in the Confederate army.
James Longstreet - faithful supporter of Lee, but who disagreed with the invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863, and was blamed for the defeat at Gettysburg.
John C. Pemberton - commander of the Vicksburg garrison, last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi. When he surrendered it to his old comrade Ulysses Grant, he was accused of treachery on account of his Philadelphia (Northern) birth.
Bedford Forrest - wild, self-taught cavalry leader, mistrusted by the West Pointers, but whose rejection by Jefferson Davis for high command was acknowledged by Davis as the biggest mistake of his life.
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∙ 9y agoGen Robert E. Lee, Gen Albert Sydney Johnson, Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest, 'Stonewall' Jackson, Gen James Longstreet are the most famous. All of them were of Scot-Irish descent, and were skilled practitioners of 'maneuver warfare', which used speed, imagination, and enthusiasm to defeat the typically larger and better equipped (but poorly-led) Union Armies until Lincoln appointed Gen U.S. Grant to overall command of the Union forces.
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∙ 14y agoRobert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis - President of confed.
John. C. Pemberton
Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard
Gen. John Bell Hood
Joe Johnston
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