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What was the name of general lees army?
Army of Northern Virginia.
What is the name of the general in command of the army of northern virginias confederate forces at Gettysburg?
General Robert E. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg.
What caused Lieutenant General US Grant to avoid the task of commanding in Virginia in 1864?
As the commanding officer of the Union army, General Grant was expected to mange Union military operations in Virginia. Because the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee was the foremost army of the Confederacy, Grant was expected by the government, the newspapers and the public, to challenge Lee in Virginia. He was not looking forward to this for a number of reasons. One was that he expected no warm welcome from the Army of the Potomac. To the officers in that army, Grant was an outsider. He later wrote that in the West, he knew the terrain, the generals, and his total resources available to him. He knew the capabilities of the generals he commanded in the West.
What member of the second continental congress was also the commanding general of the Continental Army?
The only commanding general of the Continental Army was George Washington.
What was the first name of the Army of Northern Virginia?
The first name of what would become the Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederate Army of the Potomac. That was in 1861. As early 1862 came about the name was changed to the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who was the southerner leader for Antietam?
Robert Edward Lee was the Commanding General for the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at this battle.
Who were the genarals in the Battle of Gettysburg?
General Robert E Lee, Commanding Officer The Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America Lt. General George Meade, Commanding Officer, The Army of the Potomac, United States
Who was the South's commanding general at the Battle of Chancellorsville and who was the North's?
Lee, of course, for the Army of Northern Virginia. The latest luckless commander of the luckless Army of the Potomac was Joe Hooker. Michael Montagne
Who was the commanding general of the confederal army?
There were several generals during the Civil War who were leaders of confederate troops, but probably you are thinking of Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Army that general lee commanded?
The Army of Northern Virginia
What was the name of general lees army?
Army of Northern Virginia.
Who won the battles at fredricksburg and chancellorsville?
The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E Lee commanding.
The general of the northern troops during the Civil War was who?
The Commanding General of the Union Army was Ulysses S. Grant
General of the northern troops during civil war?
The last Commanding General of the Union Army was Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the commanding officer of the continental army for the northern campaigns?
The general in charge of the Continental Army was General George Washington. He was the leader of this army during the Revolutionary War.
Who was the northern general in the Battle of Antietam?
Major General George B. McClellan was commanding the Federal Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Antietam.
In 1865 what did general grant accept from general lee?
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
