Yes, General Robert E. Lee was mad General in Chief of the confederate armies in Feb 1865.
Destroy the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley and lay waste to this fertile farmland, to starve the Confederate armies and undermine Southern morale.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia were planning to make a significant raid on Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Northern forces of the Army of the Potomac were sent to not allow that to happen. By strictly chance the two opposing armies met at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was a three day battle in which the North and Union General George Meade won. This forced Lee to retreat back to Virginia.
Grant was General-in-Chief of the Union armies, and Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House, which is taken as the effective end of hostilities.
Confederate General PT Beauregard commanded the Army of the Potomac and General Joseph Johnston commanded the Army of the Shenandoah at the first Battle of Bull Run.
Union General Sherman led three armies into Georgia. Each had a commander a sizable army. On the Confederate side, Major General Joseph Johnston led three smaller armies all part of the South's Army of the Tennessee. These generals were: 1. Hardee 2. Polk 3. Hood and 4. Wheeler.
Destroy the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley and lay waste to this fertile farmland, to starve the Confederate armies and undermine Southern morale.
Destroy the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley and lay waste to this fertile farmland, to starve the Confederate armies and undermine Southern morale.
General Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Armies of the Confederate States of America.
The Army of Northern Virginia, and eventually all the Confederate armies as General-in-Chief.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia were planning to make a significant raid on Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Northern forces of the Army of the Potomac were sent to not allow that to happen. By strictly chance the two opposing armies met at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was a three day battle in which the North and Union General George Meade won. This forced Lee to retreat back to Virginia.
There was so such army, as the armies were named after the states they orginated from. General Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the East, and General Braxton Bragg commanded the Army of Tennessee in the West.
No, they are two separate armies.
The confederate army and the union army.
Grant was General-in-Chief of the Union armies, and Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House, which is taken as the effective end of hostilities.
Confederate General PT Beauregard commanded the Army of the Potomac and General Joseph Johnston commanded the Army of the Shenandoah at the first Battle of Bull Run.
Union General Sherman led three armies into Georgia. Each had a commander a sizable army. On the Confederate side, Major General Joseph Johnston led three smaller armies all part of the South's Army of the Tennessee. These generals were: 1. Hardee 2. Polk 3. Hood and 4. Wheeler.
Yes. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia for most of the war. In January 1865, he was promoted General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies.