The Army of the Potomac was the primary field army of the 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 di
Generals of the Army of the Potomac at Culpeper, Virginia in September 1863, including (from left to right): Gouverneur K. Warren, William H. French, George G. Meade, Henry J. Hunt, Andrew A. Humphreys, and George Sykes
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
An illustration of the Army of the Potomac celebrating Saint Patrick's Day with a steeplechase race among the Irish Brigade, drawn by Edwin Forbes on March 17, 1863
George Gordon Meade was an American military officer who served in the United States Army and the Union army as a major general in command of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from
Army of the Potomac
…including its division commander, who was captured by the Confederates, and two of its three brigadiers, John F. Reynolds, who was also captured, and George Meade, who was wounded. The III Corps fought at Glendale, however, the rest of the army was not heavily engaged in the week-long fight aside from Slocum's…
General Meade's horse, Old Baldy
Engraving by James E. Kelly of Meade and the Council of War - July 2, 1863
General Meade's headquarters, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania