At Chancellorsville the Army of Northern Virginia(Confederate) commanded by General Robert E. Lee engaged and defeated the Army of the Potomac(Union) commanded by General Joseph Hooker.
General Lee did not "surrender the Civil War". He surrendered his army, the Army of Northern Virginia, when it was clear that he could no longer effectively fight against the Army of the Potomac commanded by Ulysses Grant.
Lee was defeated by the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George Meade. But the Union General-in-Chief, U.S. Grant, was travelling with them in a mobile HQ, and it was Grant who took the surrender. Some said it should have been Meade. General Joshua Chamberlain commanded the 1st Division of 5th Corp of the Army of Potomac which gave the Honour of The Arms formally accepting the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, on Apr.12, 1865.
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.
General Joshua Chamberlain commanded the 1st Division of 5th Corp of the Army of Potomac which gave the Honour of The Arms formally accepting the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, on Apr.12, 1865.
Lee commanded he Army of Northern Virginia. Mead commanded the Army of the Potomac.
George Meade
Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg.
George Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac.
Meade commanded the army of the Potomac.
In 1862 the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, pitted the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac. General Robert E. Lee commanded the former army and General Ambrose Burnside commanded the latter army. As it turned out, it was a rushing defeat for the North and it premier army, the Army of the Potomac.
At Chancellorsville the Army of Northern Virginia(Confederate) commanded by General Robert E. Lee engaged and defeated the Army of the Potomac(Union) commanded by General Joseph Hooker.
At Chancellorsville the Army of Northern Virginia(Confederate) commanded by General Robert E. Lee engaged and defeated the Army of the Potomac(Union) commanded by General Joseph Hooker.
General Robert E. Lee commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. General George B. McClellan commanded the Union Army of the Potomac.
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.
Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac (Union). Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederacy).
The Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Major General George B. McClellan won the battle along Antietam Creek.