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The Army of the Potomac – Our Outlying Picket in the Woods, an illustration of the Army of the Potomac by Winslow Homer published in Harper's Weekly on June 7, 1862 Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac, an October 1863 illustration by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. The Army of the Potomac was founded in 1861.
There were five corps in the Union Army designated as II Corps (Second Army Corps) during the American Civil War.These formations were the Army of the Cumberland II Corps commanded by Thomas L. Crittenden from October 24, 1862, to November 5, 1862, later renumbered XXI Corps; the Army of the Mississippi II corps led by William T. Sherman from January 4, 1863, to January 12, 1863, renumbered XV ...
On June 26, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln ordered that "the troops of the Mountain Department, heretofore under the command of General John C. Frémont, shall constitute the First Army Corps, under the command of General Frémont." The corps thus formed was, for the most part, the same as the one afterward known as the XI Corps, and within a ...
Joseph Hooker (September 6–12, 1862) In the Army of the Ohio: Charles C. Gilbert (September 29 – October 24, 1862) In the Army of the Cumberland: Charles C. Gilbert (October 24 – November 5, 1862) The other, the III Corps, Army of the Potomac (March 13, 1862 – March 24, 1864), is the subject of this article.
After the Gettysburg Campaign, the Army of the Potomac pursued Robert E. Lee into Virginia, the XII Corps joining in the pursuit, pushing forward until it reached the Rappahannock. While encamped there, on September 23, 1863, the XI and XII corps were detached from the army and ordered to Tennessee as a reinforcement for William Rosecrans ...
Northern Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania (1861–1865) Gettysburg campaign, (1863) Shortly after Lee's Army of Northern Virginia defeated Hooker's Army of the Potomac during the Chancellorsville Campaign (April 30 – May 6, 1863), Lee decided upon a second invasion of the North.
Shortly after the Army of Northern Virginia won a major victory over the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30 – May 6, 1863), General Robert E. Lee decided upon a second invasion of the North (the first was the unsuccessful Maryland campaign of September 1862, which ended in the bloody Battle of Antietam).
In December 1864, the VI Corps returned to the Army of the Potomac in the Petersburg trenches, built their winter quarters, and went into position near the Weldon Railroad. On the April 2, 1865, the corps was assigned a prominent and important part in the final assault on the fortifications of Petersburg.