Army of the Potomac is a two-to-six-player skirmish map in Yuri's Revenge.
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| - Army of the Potomac is a two-to-six-player skirmish map in Yuri's Revenge.
- The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
- The Army of the Potomac was the United States's largest army in the American Civil War. It was the main Union force in the storied battles and campaigns of the Eastern Theater. From the winter of 1861 through the spring of 1863 it launched a series of invasions of northern Virginia. Each of these invasions ended in decisive defeat, usually at the hands of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and its commander Robert E. Lee. It technically won a tactical victory against the ANV during Lee's Maryland Campaign in the autumn of 1862, but the army's commander, the ineffective George McClellan, passed up opportunities to make the victory decisive.
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| - Premier Union Army in Eastern Theater
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| - Commanders of the Army of the Potomac at Culpeper, Virginia, 1863. From the left: Gouverneur K. Warren, William H. French, George G. Meade, Henry J. Hunt, Andrew A. Humphreys, George Sykes.
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| - Potomac River, Washington D.C., United States
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| - Army of the Potomac is a two-to-six-player skirmish map in Yuri's Revenge.
- The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
- The Army of the Potomac was the United States's largest army in the American Civil War. It was the main Union force in the storied battles and campaigns of the Eastern Theater. From the winter of 1861 through the spring of 1863 it launched a series of invasions of northern Virginia. Each of these invasions ended in decisive defeat, usually at the hands of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and its commander Robert E. Lee. It technically won a tactical victory against the ANV during Lee's Maryland Campaign in the autumn of 1862, but the army's commander, the ineffective George McClellan, passed up opportunities to make the victory decisive. In the summer of 1863, Lee launched a second invasion of the loyal states. Bare days before the Army of the Potomac was forced to offer battle (at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Abraham Lincoln replaced the army's commander, General Joseph Hooker, with General George Meade. Meade won a decisive victory against Lee and drove him back into Virginia, never to threaten the loyal states again. In the spring of 1864 the newly promoted General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant personally led an invasion of Virginia. The Army of the Potomac was the main force of this invasion; despite having had some units transferred to other commands since Gettysburg, it remained the US's largest army. Meade continued to command the Army but it was Grant who was ultimately responsible for field command decisions during this campaign. The Overland Campaign saw Union forces cross to the southern shore of the Rapidan River and lay siege to the city of Petersburg. After nine months of siege warfare, the Army of the Potomac broke through and put its archrival the Army of Northern Virginia on the run, finally attaining its longterm objective of capturing the Rebel capital of Richmond. A short while later, Army of the Potomac forces ran down the Army of Northern Virginia and forced Lee to capitulate at the town of Appomattox, ending the war in the Eastern Theater.
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