Iwas offered and rejected command of the union forces at the start of the civil war. i was a brilliant general and commander of the confederate forces. who am i?

The answer is Robert E. Lee. He worked as a military officer in the U.S. Army, a West Point commandant and the well-known general of the Confederate Army throughout the American Civil War. On April 20, 1861, at the outburst of the American Civil War, he resigned his command and three days after, he was chosen by Governor John Letcher of Virginia to be commandant in chief of the naval and military forces of the state. He ordered the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 up to his renunciation in 1865.

what are the choices?

europe would not recognize the confederacy as an independent nation.