The Union General-in-Chief was Ulysses S. Grant.
Grant was commander of the union army.
General U. S. Grant
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army. This effectively led to the end of the Civil War.
Ulysses S Grant, who went on to become President.
The Confederate Army surrendered to the Union Army on April 9, 1865. This historic event took place at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively marking the end of the Civil War.
In the US Civil War, it was the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, not the Union General, who surrendered.
Grant was commander of the union army.
The overall commander of the Union Army was Gen. U.S. Grant.
At the end of the US Civil War Lieutenant General US Grant the the chief commander of Union forces. He was the so-called general in chief. Others had held that title but none had been promoted to Lieutenant General.
As might be expected, the Union had a number of officers with the rank of general in the US Civil War. At the end of the war, however, US Grant was in charge of the Union's fighting forces.
General U. S. Grant
In the end the top Union General was Ulysses S. Grant. The top confederate general was Robert E. Lee.
The general in chief of all Union armies at the end of the war was Ulysses S. Grant.
U.S. Grant - appointed General-in-Chief in March 1864.
Ulysses S Grant. That is who Lee surrendered to at Appomattox.
Civil Service Union ended in 1988.
Once in position as the Union's general in chief, he designed an offensive strategy that he believed would end the US Civil War by the end of November of 1864.