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The commanders of the Confederate Armies were:
President Jefferson Davis - General in Chief - 1861- January 1865
Samuel Cooper - Adjutant General - 1861-1865 (End of War)
Albert Sidney Johnston - Commander of the Department of the West -1861-1862 (Death)
Commander of the Army of Mississippi - 1861 - 1862 (Death)
Robert E. Lee - Commander of the Virginian State Militia - 1861
Commander of Confederate Forces in Western Virginia - 1861
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia - 1862-1865 (Surrendered)
General in Cheif of the Confederacy - January 1865 - April 1865 (Surrendered)
Joseph E. Johnston - Commander of Virginia State Militia - May 1861
Commander of the Army of the Shenandoah - May 1861- June 1861
Commander of the Con. Army of the Potomac - June 1861- May 1862
Commander of the Department of the West - 1863-1864
Commander of all Con. Forces in Mississippi - May 1863- July 1863
Commander of the Army of Tennessee - December 1863 - July 1864
Commander of the Department of the West - March 1865 - April 1865 (Surrendered)
P.G.T. Beauregard - Commander of the Provisional Army of the Confederacy - 1861
Commander of the Con. Army of the Potomac - 1861
Commander of the Army of Mississippi - 1862
Commander of the Department of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida - 1862-1864
Commander of the Department of the West - 1864-1865 (Surrendered)
Braxton Bragg - Commander of the Louisana State Militia - 1861
Commander of the Army of Mississippi 1862-1863
Millitary Advisor to the President - 1863-1865
John Bell Hood - Commander of the Army of Tennessee - 1864
Edmund Kirby Smith - Commander of the Army of Eastern Tennessee - 1862-1863
Commander of the Department of the Trans-Mississippi - 1863-1865
Earl Van Dorn - Commander of the Army of the West - 1862
Sterling Price - Commander of the Army of Missouri - 1865
Richard Taylor - Commander of the Con. Forces in Louisiana - 1862-1864
Commander of the Army of Tennessee - 1864-1865 (Surrender)
Jubal Early - Commander of the Army of the Shenandoah - 1864
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson - Commander of the Army of the Shenandoah - 1862
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∙ 13y agoConfederates
- Robert E. Lee: General-in-chief of the Confederate armies; commanded the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862-1865; led Southern forces to victory in many battles including the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the 2nd Battle of Manassas, and the Battle of Cold Harbor.
- Stonewall Jackson: Lee's right-hand man; commanded the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia; led many daring assaults for Lee while Lee was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; led one of the boldest maneuvers in military history when Lee divided his forces at Chancellorsville; was killed by friendly fire in the ensuing battle.
- James Longstreet: Arguably the best defensive general of the war; commanded the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia; defended Marye's Heights in the Battle of Fredericksburg; remained with Lee until the end of the war at Appomattox.
- A.P. Hill: Originally a division commander in Stonewall Jackson's corps, Hill was an aggressive Confederate general who wasn't afraid to attack the enemy even when the enemy was present in force; commanded the Third Corps of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia; was killed in the Siege of Petersburg.
- Joe Johnston: First commanded what would become the Army of Northern Virginia until he was wounded in the siege of Richmond; directed a defense of the South against William T. Sherman until Jefferson Davis relieved him of command.
- John B. Hood: Took over from Johnston defending the South against Sherman's invading forces; was in command of the Confederate troops in the final major battle for the South's survival at the Battle of Franklin; oversaw the Confederate defenses during the siege of Atlanta.
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- Ulysses S. Grant: Worked his way up from being a brigadier general to the post of general-in-chief; directed the Army of the Potomac personally in the final onslaught against the Confederacy in the East from 1864 to the end of the war; commanded the Union forces that captured Forts Donelson and Henry, Vicksburg, Cairo, and Chattanooga.
- William T. Sherman: Grant's right-hand man; a Southerner who chose to go with the North; took over from Grant as commander in the West in 1864 upon Grant's promotion to general-in-chief; led a Union army against first Joe Johnston and then Hood; marched his army on a path of destruction through the South to cripple the Confederate economy and make it no longer capable of assisting the war effort.
- George G. Meade: Commanded the Army of the Potomac in the bloodiest overall battle of the entire Civil War at Gettysburg; was responsible for preventing Lee's invasion of the North from being a success; took a backseat to Grant when the latter personally took command of the Army of the Potomac; was the most difficult enemy Lee had faced before Grant took charge of the Army of the Potomac.
- George H. Thomas: Commanded the Union army that kept the Confederates from taking Chattanooga and that destroyed the remnants of Hood's army when Hood threw it in a futile assault to try and break the Union defenses around Nashville.
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∙ 12y agoGeneral Robert E. Lee
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∙ 12y agoThe two most famously known generals during the civil war were:
South: Robert E. Lee
North: Ulyess S. Grant
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∙ 16y agoRobert E Lee & Ulysees Grant. Prince Rupert of the Rhine & Oliver Cromwell to mention just 2 of many many civil wars..............
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∙ 11y agoRobert E. Lee was the commanding general for the Confederacy and Ulysses S. Grant was the commanding general for the Union.
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∙ 13y agoUlysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.
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Casualty rates among Confederate generals during the US Civil War were high. In the war, 55% of all Rebel generals were either killed or wounded . This amounted to 235 of the 435 generals. Most of the Confederate losses among generals occurred as they led their troops into battle.
What was one of the primary problems affecting US Civil War commanders?
The failure of US Civil War generals and commanding officers to effectively communicate with each other and with their troops was a major problem in the US Civil War and in fact with any army in any war. And, it was not specifically related to any special form of tactics. With that said, physical obstacles placed special problems for linear tactics in the US Civil War. The large sweep of compact linear lines and even long columns, plagued commanders on each side of the war.
Who was a general in the US Civil War?
Richard MontgomeryRobert E. Lee was the commanding general for the Confederacy and Ulysses S. Grant was the commanding general for the Union.
Was the Mexican War the first battle of the US Civil War?
The Mexican, or its other name, the Mexican-US War, was in 1846. There is no direct connection to the US Civil War, other then that many of the generals of the Civil War, fought together and came to know each other.
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Prior to the US Civil War, generals Stonewall Jackson and George B. McClellan graduated from the USMA, West Point in the same year. They would face each others armies during the early campaigns of the US Civil War.
What was the war both Lee and Grant were in?
Generals Lee and Grant were each in the Mexican War as US officers. Later they both were in the US Civil War as opponents.
What tactical system did US Civil War generals practice?
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How many generals were in the US Civil War?
There are 40 Generals Currently on Active Duty. This does not count the Generals that are in the National Guard and Reserve who have been activated or otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_duty_United_States_four-star_officers
The famous general of the civil war on the north side?
Many were famous, but the Commanding General of the Union Army was US Grant
Many of the earlier appointed Union generals were what?
At the beginning of the US Civil War, President Lincoln appointed generals for political reasons, not based on military experience.
