Robert E. Lee - appointed much too late to make any difference.
Yes, General Robert E. Lee was mad General in Chief of the confederate armies in Feb 1865.
Jefferson Davis was the Commander in Chief of all Confederate armies. He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
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.
Grant never surrendered. He took the surrender of Robert E. Lee, General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies.
He was appointed General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies in January 1865 - much too late to make any difference. Before that, there had been no such post. The Confederate President Jefferson Davis considered that he himself ought to be directing the armies, but made a bad job of it.
Yes, General Robert E. Lee was mad General in Chief of the confederate armies in Feb 1865.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America. As such he would have been the Commander in Chief of the Armies of the Confedracy.
No. He was eventually made General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies, although much too late to make any difference. Leader of the Southern states was the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis.
Jefferson Davis was the Commander in Chief of all Confederate armies. He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
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.
Robert E. Lee - in a post not created till January 1865, far too late to make any difference.
The last Genenral-in-Chief of the Union armies was Ulysses S. Grant. After the war, he continued as General-in-Chief of the United States armies.
Robert E. Lee was appointed chief of the Confederate Armies on February 6th 1865.
The Army of Northern Virginia, and eventually all the Confederate armies as General-in-Chief.
There were hundreds of them - remembering that Brigadiers were of General rank. General-in-Chief of the Union armies in the final year of the war was Ulysses Grant. General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies in the final weeks of the war (a newly-created post) was Robert E. Lee.
Grant never surrendered. He took the surrender of Robert E. Lee, General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies.
No. At the start of the war, he was offered the job of General-in-Chief of all the Union armies, but turned it down because his state of Virginia had voted Confederate. In the last weeks of the war, he was made General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies - the obvious choice for that newly-created post, but too late to make any difference.