Did the civil war top generals ( Grant, Lee) ever participate in a face to face combat

by ogad4u

I was wondering if these generals participate the battle field and actually faced the enemy at close range ( face to face ) .

dhmontgomery

u/Georgy_K_Zhukov wrote a few years ago about "Which US presidents have killed someone directly?," which addresses the Grant side of your question. As a general throughout the Civil War, Grant would not have seen frontline combat there. During his prior service in the Mexican-American War, Grant appears to have commanded artillery, which while perhaps fatal is not the hand-to-hand combat you're asking about.