The answer is Robert E. Lee. He worked as a military officer
in the U.S. Army, a West Point commandant and the well-known general of the
Confederate Army throughout the American Civil War. On April 20, 1861, at the outburst
of the American
Civil War, he resigned his command and three days after, he was chosen by
Governor John Letcher of Virginia to be commandant in chief of the naval and
military forces of the state. He ordered the Army of Northern Virginia in
the American Civil War from 1862 up to his renunciation in 1865.
