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Robert E. Lee, the best known CSA general.Lee is shown with the insignia of a Confederate colonel, which he chose to wear throughout the war. Much of the design of the Confederate States Army was based on the structure and customs of the United States Army [1] when the Confederate States Congress established the Confederate States War Department on February 21, 1861. [2]
Lee did not wear the insignia of a Confederate general, but only the three stars of a Confederate colonel, equivalent to his last U.S. Army rank. [108] He did not intend to wear a general's insignia until the Civil War had been won and he could be promoted, in peacetime, to general in the Confederate Army.
A general officer is an officer of high military rank; in the uniformed services of the United States, general officers are commissioned officers above the field officer ranks, the highest of which is colonel in the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force and captain in the Navy, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
The exception to this is that the proper titles and abbreviations of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Surgeon General, and Deputy Surgeon General are always those of the U.S. Public Health Service [4a] - US DoD, The United States Military Rank Insignia All Warrant Officer grades are authorized, but not used by the Air Force
four-star general. The rank of general (or full general, or four-star general) is the highest rank normally achievable in the United States Army. It ranks above lieutenant general (three-star general) and below general of the Army (five-star general). There have been 260 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. Army.
Major General Lee M. Ellis [222] [a] U.S. Army: Army National Guard: Junior Special Assistant to the Director, Army National Guard for XVIII Airborne Corps Matters (ARNG)
For example, Lieutenant General Lee K. Levy II relinquished his three-star command in 2018, [323] but remained on active duty for over a year after his retirement ceremony in his permanent grade of major general [o] pending an investigation by the Air Force inspector general, [324] before being allowed to retire as a major general. [325] [326]
The General William C. Lee Airborne Museum is located in Dunn, in his former home. [9] On October 11, 2004, the U.S. Senate passed a bill to rename the Dunn Post Office, the "General William Carey Lee Post Office." Lee Residence Hall, one of the largest dormitories at North Carolina State University, is named after William C. Lee.