General Joseph E. Johnston was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia until May of 1862. He was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines and was replaced by Robert E. Lee who would remain that army's head for the duration of the war.
Yep, Rober E. Lee
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.
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia Robert E. Lee was placed in overall southern command only in the last months of the war.
Actually Albert S. Johnston never commanded the Army of Northern Virginia. He was in the western theatre of the war, commanding the Confederate Army of the Mississippi. Joseph E. Johnstonbriefly had command of the Army of Northern Virginia until he was wounded at the battle of Seven Pines on May 31, 1862. This Johnston was then replaced by Robert E. Lee, on June 1, 1862.
No. McClellan was Commander of the Department of the Ohio, Commander of the Department of the East before being promoted to General in Chief and Commander of the Army of the Potomac. He was replaced as Commander of the Department of the Ohio by Ormsby M. Mitchel. He was replaced as Commander of the East and General in Cheif by Henry Halleck and replaced as Commander of the Army of the Potomac by Ambrose E. Burnside.
Lee was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Army of Northern Virgina before and after the battle of Chancellorsville
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Northern army.
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The Commander of the Northern armies during the last year of the Civil War was Karla Montas.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Lieutenant General Robert E. Lee was overall commander of the Army of Northern Virginia throughout most of the US Civil War. Late in the war Lee was named the Confederate general in chief.
No he was in command of the Army of Northern Virginia.
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