American Civil War: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" id="mwbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a> becomes general-in-chief of all Confederate armies.<sup about="#mwt55" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_31#cite_note-9" id="mwbw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcA">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt52" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFEicher2001">Eicher, David J. (2001). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1p94XzYASDAC" id="mwBv8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBwA">The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War</i></a>. New York: Simon &amp; Schuster. p.<span id="mwBwE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>786. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBwI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBwM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780684849454" id="mwBwQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780684849454"><bdi id="mwBwU">9780684849454</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt52" class="Z3988" id="mwBwY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Longest+Night%3A+A+Military+History+of+the+Civil+War&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=786&amp;rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=9780684849454&amp;rft.aulast=Eicher&amp;rft.aufirst=David+J.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D1p94XzYASDAC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+31"></span></span>