Army of the Potomac

Confederate army, failed to do his job for General Lee. Because of this, the Union was able to gain control of the high ground for the remainder of the battle. It was the bloodiest battle of the war, and the bloodiest battle ever fought on North American soil to this day. The bloodiest single-day battle was the battle of Antietam. The first major engagement of the battle was the fight for Cemetery Hill. Union General John Buford’s cavalry scouts reported that the main body of the Army of…

but was delayed because of the wait for pontoons to arrive, which took 10 days. When they finally did arrive and they started to build along the river, the Union army faced great resistance from Mississippians. Burnside ordered the town to be shelled and using a total war tactic, injured and killed many. When the Union army of Potomac finally did cross the river, they fought at Prospect Hill, where the Confederates had the upper hand on top of a slope, while the Union fought below on muddy…

geographer, who would go on to become the first female board member of the National Geographic Society. In 1885, after returning from her first trip to Japan, Scidmore approached the U.S. Army Superintendent of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds with the idea of planting Sakura trees along the Potomac River waterfront. Her proposal was initially rejected. However, she continued to suggest the idea to every new superintendent over the next 24 years.…

Angel Army Logistics University SLC 18-526 The Battle of Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle that took place in North America. The Battle of Gettysburg began in Pennsylvania on the 1st of July, and it lasted until the 3rd of July in 1863 (Staff, 2009). The Union’s Army of the Potomac under Major General George Gordon Meade consisted of about 85,000 troops. On the other hand, the Confederacy Army from…

war in the Overland Campaign was the Battle of the Wilderness.Midnight on May 3-4, 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Independent Ninth Corps, with approximately 120,000 men, left camps in Culpeper County and headed south toward the Rapidan River fords. They fought in the dense thickets known as the Wilderness of Spotsylvania against the Army of Northern Virginia. Over the course of two days, the armies fought an extremely bloody battle, introducing a new era of violence in the war in the…

The Union Army entered the war with a strong advantage in artillery. It had ample manufacturing capacity in Northern factories, and it had a well-trained and professional officer corps manning that branch of the service. Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt, who was the chief of artillery for the Army of the Potomac for part of the war, was well recognized as a most efficient organizer of artillery forces, and he had few peers in the practice of the sciences of gunnery and logistics. Another example was…

campaign of these battles the Army of the Potomac again was pulled back north to Washington. By the time of the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Confederates had plans to cut off Buell's supply lines and destroy both his and Grant's armies in the west, coinciding with a similar push north by Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Both attacks were intercepted by Union Forces: Bragg's push into Kentucky by Buell's command in a Meeting engagement and Lee by the Army of the Potomac at Antietam; both…

Lee’s soldiers crossed the Potomac River in Virginia and began to make their way toward the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania (The Gettysburg Foundation). This epic battle was three days long and resulted in a retreat to Virginia by Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Just two months prior to the Gettysburg battle, Lee had dealt a stunning defeat to the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, Virginia. The battle started on the first of July when Lee took his army to…

that General McClellan hard a strong resolve. With great tension between him and the white house, mainly because his strong democratic views, he preserved and created the Army of the Potomac. As relations with Washington, DC worsened, he was removed as General- in-Chief and was only left with the Army of the Potomac. With this army he fended off…

of casualties than the original Battle of Bull Run. Taken place in Northern Virginia it was a battle between Union and Confederate Armies on August 28-30 1862. John Pope led the Union army, and on the Confederate side General Robert E. Lee led the way. The Union army had the most casualties while the Confederate army suffered loses but minimal compared to the Union army. Major General George B McClellan demoted from overall command by President Abraham Lincoln, would only command the…