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...
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The Society of the Army of the Potomac was a military society founded in 1869 which was composed of officers and enlisted men who served with the Army...
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The Potomac River (/pəˈtoʊmək/ ) is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia...
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chosen to design the monument while the statue was founded by Edmond Gruet Jeune. The Society of the Army of the Potomac paid for the costs associated...
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Reinforcements from the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Tennessee also arrived. Rosecrans had been a popular and respected commander, but because of his defeat...
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creation of the United States. Membership is largely restricted to descendants of military officers who served in the Continental Army. The Society has thirteen...
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Elisha Hunt Rhodes (category Grand Army of the Republic officials)
soldier who served in the Union Army of the Potomac for the entire duration of the American Civil War, rising from corporal to colonel of his regiment by war's...
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George Meade (category United States Army personnel of the Mexican–American War)
Army Major General who commanded the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865. He fought in many of the key battles of the...
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Samuel Baldwin Marks Young (category United States Army personnel of the Indian Wars)
Civil War. He was also a member of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. After the Civil War he rejoined the Regular Army as a first lieutenant in May...
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Horatio Collins King (category United States Army Medal of Honor recipients)
(1882); and edited Proceedings of the Army of the Potomac (1879–'87). In 1883, King was appointed judge-advocate-general of New York. At a time during which...
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