General Lee KIA, WIA etc who takes over?

When Reading the last full meassure i saw that General Robert E Lee came Close to the battleline in the wilderness(unsure if that is true). What happens if a union Soldier fires at Lee and strike him down and Lee is carried dead or wounded from the field. What happens to ANV and who takes command of the CSA armies?

What if Lee suffers a heart attack sometimes druing the war, who takes over?
If it happens at Chancellorsville Before Jackson is wounded, is Jackson or Longstreet in command?
Gettysburg?
Wilderness Before Longstreet is wounded
Between Wilderness and Petersburg after Longstreet is wounded
Do the ANV become a guerilla force if Lee is not present at Appotomatox?
 
If it happens at Chancellorsville Before Jackson is wounded, is Jackson or Longstreet in command?
Longstreet was the senior of the two, but Longstreet was busy managing his corps at Suffolk so Jackson is going to take immediate command of the battle.
Gettysburg?
Longstreet will definitely be in charge. Joe Johnston was busy with the Army of Relief at Jackson, Mississippi, and was not going to relieve Longstreet (especially after his failure to relieve Vicksburg). Beauregard was hated by Davis and that wasn’t changing anytime soon.
Wilderness Before Longstreet is wounded
Again, Longstreet will be taking command of the Army of Northern Virginia. But it does create an awkward situation of having to work with Beauregard, his senior. But Davis would never allow Beauregard to command the premier army in the Eastern Theater.
Between Wilderness and Petersburg after Longstreet is wounded
This is a lot more difficult. Richard Ewell, by seniority, would have been entitled to take charge. However, Ewell later broke down at Spotsylvania and so command would fall to A. P. Hill. The issue is that A. P. Hill was so indisposed that he could barely ride his horse and had to be relieved. This leaves Richard H. Anderson to take command of the army.

What would happen next is beyond me. Richard Anderson may remain in command. Lee liked him, though his thorough combat record noted a lack of initiative. Johnston is busy fending off Sherman and Beauregard is a no go. Hood is a possibility; he outranks R.H. Anderson with his promotion to lieutenant general on September 20, 1863 and certainly was not an outsider to the Army of Northern Virginia. The last option is to bring Bragg from his position of military advisor to assume field command.

Do the ANV become a guerilla force if Lee is not present at Appotomatox?
For the love of... will this myth ever die? The officers were not suggesting guerilla warfare. The officers were discussing dispersing Lee's mostly surrounded army and fleeing in small parties to make their way to join up with other Confederates, such as Johnston's army in North Carolina. This is not the same thing as guerrilla warfare.
 
For the love of... will this myth ever die? The officers were not suggesting guerilla warfare. The officers were discussing dispersing Lee's mostly surrounded army and fleeing in small parties to make their way to join up with other Confederates, such as Johnston's army in North Carolina. This is not the same thing as guerrilla warfare.

So long as guerilla warfare is seen as an infallible and invincible military strategy, the idea that someone could turn to it when they're losing a conventional war will be more attractive than it should be.

I went to a fancy private school, and even in that history class, we were taught that the American Revolution was a guerilla war where the British had to retake all 13 colonies to win.
 
This is a lot more difficult. Richard Ewell, by seniority, would have been entitled to take charge. However, Ewell later broke down at Spotsylvania and so command would fall to A. P. Hill. The issue is that A. P. Hill was so indisposed that he could barely ride his horse and had to be relieved. This leaves Richard H. Anderson to take command of the army.

What would happen next is beyond me. Richard Anderson may remain in command. Lee liked him, though his thorough combat record noted a lack of initiative. Johnston is busy fending off Sherman and Beauregard is a no go. Hood is a possibility; he outranks R.H. Anderson with his promotion to lieutenant general on September 20, 1863 and certainly was not an outsider to the Army of Northern Virginia. The last option is to bring Bragg from his position of military advisor to assume field command.
This is a bit of a weird choice, but how about Richard Taylor? He did exceptionally well in the Red River Campaign, not sure how he would do in the East. Getting him out of the Trans-Mississippi could be a good thing, as he had trouble getting along with Kirby Smith, his superior.
 
This is a bit of a weird choice, but how about Richard Taylor? He did exceptionally well in the Red River Campaign, not sure how he would do in the East. Getting him out of the Trans-Mississippi could be a good thing, as he had trouble getting along with Kirby Smith, his superior.

It will be tricky getting him there at that late date. The rails are ruined, the Mississippi is under Union control and much of the area is under Yankee control and a lot of the rest heavily raided. It is a long way from Texas to Virginia on horseback, particularly if you have to be careful.
 
This is a bit of a weird choice, but how about Richard Taylor? He did exceptionally well in the Red River Campaign, not sure how he would do in the East. Getting him out of the Trans-Mississippi could be a good thing, as he had trouble getting along with Kirby Smith, his superior.
Richard Taylor was certainly a tactically capable general. However, in the aftermath of the Red River Campaign, Taylor, now promoted to Lieutenant General, had been assigned command of the Department of Mississippi, Alabama, and East Louisiana. Taylor's move stopped the crisis in command west of the Trans-Mississippi (with Taylor feuding with Kirby Smith and criticizing him openly) and also solved the vacancy created by the assignment of Polk's corps to the Army of Tennessee (which meant that Polk, the Department's nominal commander, would not be present).

Aside from the difficulties of getting Richard Taylor to Virginia, we don’t know how well Taylor would have done as army commander. In Louisiana, Taylor commanded essentially a small field army against Commissary Banks. Managing the Army of Northern Virginia against Grant and Meade would be another matter.
 
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