Army of the Potomac

On the Union side, General Ambrose Burnside had just recently been made into the General of the Potomac Army. Reasons for Union Loss: Miscommunication, The union needed pontoon bridges to cross the Rappahannock river, and due to miscommunication the bridge were delayed, giving the South time to be able to heavily fortify positions on Marye’s Heights.…

On July 28, 1863 the army of Potomac were defeated in Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee raising the confidence of the confederates and lowering the union’s. July 1st the army of Potomac were on their way to Gettysburg Virginia, news of this: Lee planned to assemble his men to intercept the union army at the the railroads. The Union corps had arrived later that day at “Cemetery Ridge”, soon after their arrival more corps arrived to strengthen their forces. The next day they were well…

Ulysses S. Grant was by far one of america’s generals. He had many battles. Grant’s victory at vicksburg was an amazing win. On May 1, 1863, Grant’s army crossed the mississippi river at the battle of port gibson. Little did Grant know that confederate forces were there. Grant sent a portion of his army under General William T. Sherman to capture the state capitol, Jackson, while setting his sights on vicksburg with a view toward permanently closing the confederate supply base. When initial…

Just as George Washington, Lee tried to cross the Potomac River in Virginia. Tens of thousands of men were either captured, wounded, or killed just on the Confederate side during the Battle of Antietam. Then, in early May of 1864, the Battle of the Wilderness began. The Army of the Potomac, led by General Ulysses Grant, made a bloody attack on Confederate Forces. Lee was restrained and taken away by his men after one…

On December 1st, 1861, Abraham Lincoln sends a memorandum inquiring on the Potomac Campaign to George B. McClellan, Commanding General of the Army of the Potomac. In the memorandum Lincoln, asks three questions to McClellan, but his first question, “.. how long would it require to actually get in motion?” followed by the subsequent campaign plan to attack the Confederate Army at Centerville, highlights an underlying tone of anxiety. Furthermore, Lincoln suggests that the Confederates, if…

As if by accident, elements of the Army of the Potomac happened upon a column of confederate infantry and artillery on the outskirts of Gettysburg. This unit, a cavalry division under the command of Major General John Buford, was able to hold off the confederate troops until they could be reinforced…

The book The Killer Angels by Micheal Shaara is about the battle of Gettysburg and attempts to convey the historical event by presenting it in a fashion that feels fictional, but is based on documents and letters that were set around that time. The book covers the event through the eyes of different confederate and union officers, and is told in such a way that you feel sympathetic to the characters because you can see their panic, and the decision making process that each officer uses. This…

Confederate General Robert E Lee found a hole in the Potomac army and outsmarted Hooker causing surround him and lose the battle. 12,000 soldiers died in that single battle alone and yet again the end is shining for Lee. Abraham Lincoln being very angry at Hooker for not pursuing Lee's army front head on because Hooker was behind Lee's army tailing him. For those action Lincoln fired hooker. General Meade is replaced by thought to be a much better…

after routing the Union Army of Virginia under Major General John Pope, General Lee led his own Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac into Maryland. Reasons for this assault included taking strain off the Shenandoah Valley which was referred to as” The Breadbasket of the Confederacy” during the harvest time. Believing the directed Union Army would require necessary time to rebuild after the difficult conflict, Lee took the courageous step of separating his own army and sending portions to…

conduct battle analysis of Lee’s Second Invasion of the North which led to Gettysburg Campaign during the American Civil War and to identify how this battle’s outcome could have changed had intelligence been used differently. I assert that had the Army of Northern Virginia of the Confederate States of America utilized its attached intelligence support in the form of cavalry more appropriately prior to the battle, that it is possible that the Battle of Gettysburg or another battle in the same…