It was Lee himself - except he wasn't quite himself.
He was not feeling well at the time of this battle, and it seems that his health may have been undermined by the death of his essential team-partner Stonewall Jackson a few weeks earlier.
After Stonewall's death, Lee's chief associate was James Longstreet, who did not believe in this Northern campaign. (He thought they should have headed West, to save the Vicksburg garrison.)
At Gettysburg, Longstreet seems to have been sulking, and moving slower than expected. Other Confederate Generals also seemed to be unmotivated, and even the heroic and historic charge by George Pickett is now seen as a piece of vainglorous gung-ho Confederate showing-off that had no chance of success.
General Robert E. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg.
General Robert E. Lee was in command of the Confederate army at Gettysburg.
Lee commanded the Confederate forces.
Gettysburg and Antietam
The Battle of Gettysburg was just one (though a very important one) battle in the US Civil War, which was a bitter struggle between the northern states (United States) and the southern states (Confederate States).
General Robert E. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg.
Robert E. Lee
General Robert E. Lee was in command of the Confederate army at Gettysburg.
Lee commanded the Confederate forces.
Gettysburg and Antietam
The First Corp of the Army of Northern Virginia.
No he was in command of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The Battle of Gettysburg was just one (though a very important one) battle in the US Civil War, which was a bitter struggle between the northern states (United States) and the southern states (Confederate States).
Robert E. Lee
70,000 troops of the North Virginia army under General Robert E. Lee's command.
The Union armies of the James and the Potomac under the overall command of Grant end the Confederate Army of the Northern Virginia, under the overll command of Lee.
The Northern army was called the Army of the Potomac and was under the command of General George G. Meade.