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Robert E. Lee was General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies.

He was not appointed till January 1865, too late to make any difference. Before that, there was no such post. The Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, tried to double as General-in-Chief, with no success.

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In the war's first pitched battle, the Confederate commander was Joseph E. Johnston, who delegated some authority to P.G.T. Beauregard on account on the latter's superior knowledge of the terrain.

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it was general lee

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