The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. It was created in July 1861 shortly after the First Battle of Bull Run and was disbanded in June 1865 following the See more

• First Bull Run Campaign or First Manassas: McDowell (as "Army of Northeastern Virginia")
• Peninsula Campaign, … See more

• Chamberlain, Joshua L. The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac. New York: Bantam … See more

The Army of the Potomac was created in 1861 but was then only the size of a corps (relative to the size of Union armies later in the war). Its nucleus was called the Army of Northeastern … See more

Because of its proximity to the large cities of the North, such as Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City, the Army of the Potomac received more contemporary … See more

Below is the grand recapitulation of the losses sustained by the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James, from May 5, 1864 to April … See more

• Army Organization during the Civil War
• Service of the cavalry in the Army of the Potomac (1882) at the Internet Archive
• Army of the Potomac: a history of its campaigns, the Peninsula, Maryland, Fredericksburg: the testimony of its three commanders, Maj.-Gen. G.B. McClellan, Maj.-Gen. A.E. Burnside, and Maj.-Gen. Joseph Hooker, before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War (1863) See more