Gen Omar Bradley and Gen Bernard Montgomery were the Commanding generals on D-Day.
George B. McClellan & Robert E. Lee
Gen. Gerd von Rundstedt, commanding the German forces in the west, and Gen. Erwin Rommel, commanding the forces in France.
Union generals McClellan, Burnside and Hooker were all graduates of West Point and all of them had been appointed by President Lincoln to lead the Army of the Potomac. Each of them had also been relieved of being commander of that same army. In order there was 1. McClellan 2. Burnside and 3. Hooker.
They were all senior Union Generals. Apart from that, nothing much. Scott, Halleck and Grant all occupied the post of General-in-Chief. McClellan and Burnside both commanded the Army of the Potomac.
I can give a partial answer. The Union Army in the East had the following Commanding Generals- Winfield Scott,Irwin McDowell,George McClellan,John Pope,George McClellan(again),Ambrose Burnside,Joseph Hooker,George Meade,and Ulysses Grant. Of the several other Union Armies in the West I am ignorant as to their Commanding Generals.
The Generals-in-Chief were, in sequence, Winfield Scott, George McClellan, Henry Halleck, Ulysses Grant.
Gen Omar Bradley and Gen Bernard Montgomery were the Commanding generals on D-Day.
The Battle of Antietam, an important battle of the Civiil War, was fought by the Army of the Potomac, part of the Union Army, under the command of General George McClellan, and Confederate forces under the command of General Robert E. Lee on September 17, 1862.
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These are major Generals Union: Generals Pope, McClellan, Burnside, Thomas, Grant Confederacy: General Lee
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Command of all US armies changed hands a few times during the war. From McClellan to Helleck to McClellan to Meade to Grant. For the Union's premier army, the Army of the Potomac, it had multiple commanders. Once again US President Lincoln seemed to do a poor job in selection commanding generals.
These are major Generals Union: Generals Pope, McClellan, Burnside, Thomas, Grant Confederacy: General Lee
George McClellan, commanding Union Army of the Potomac. Ambrose Burnside Joseph Hooker Edwin Sumner Abner Doubleday Albert Pleasonton Robert E Lee, commanding Army of Northern Virginia. Stonewall Jackson James Longstreet AP Hill Jeb Stuart DH Hill
George b McClellan was a Union general. All the generals do is command their troops.