He didn't "control the confederacy." He was the commanding general of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. He had been asked by Lincoln to command the Union Army instead, but he felt a greater loyalty to his home state of Virginia, even though he personally thought the secession was a bad idea.
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General Robert E. Lee.
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R.E. Lee was the military commander whereas Jefferson Davis was the political leader of the Confederacy .
No, Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy. General Lee was the military Commander.
Robert E. Lee was the President of the Confederacy.
He was a major general in the civil war.