Some Union Generals of the Army of the Potomac

These Generals led Federal troops during the American Civil War (1861-1865) in such battles as Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and The Wilderness.

• George Armstrong Custer (born 1839, died 1876)

  American general who served the Union in the Civil War and led troops in the Indian wars of the American West.

  • Cavalry general in the Army of the Potomac
• Ulysses S. Grant (born 1822, died 1885)

  Supreme commander of the Union Army in the Civil War, and 18th President of the U.S.

  • Commander of all Union armies, he made his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac during its final campaigns
• George Gordon Meade (born 1815, died 1872)

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • Hard-hitting corps commander who was appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac on the eve of Gettysburg, where he held on to gain a victory
• Henry J. Hunt

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • Commander of artillery in the Army of the Potomac
• Andrew A. Humphreys (born 1810, died 1883)

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • A career army officer who served as a division commander for the Army of the Potomac
• Nelson A. Miles (born 1839, died 1925)

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• Gouverneur Warren

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • As commander of engineers, his quick eye saved the army at Gettysburg; later commanded a corps in the Army of the Potomac
• Joshua L. Chamberlain

  American soldier, educator and political leader.

  • A Union hero at Gettysburg as colonel of the 20th Maine, he was made a general in the Army of the Potomac
• Horatio G. Wright

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• Truman Seymour

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• John G. Park

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• Philip H. Sheridan

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• Wesley Merritt

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• Thomas C. Devin

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• George Crook (born 1829, died 1890)

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • Saw continuous action from Antietam to Appomattox
• Edward Otho Cresap Ord (born 1818, died 1883)

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • Fought with the Army of the Potomac, then joined the fighting in the West; returned to the Eastern Theater when Grant took command
• John Gibbon

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• Godfrey Weitzel

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• August Valentine Kautz (born 1828, died 1895)

  German-born Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • Gained distinction at the seige of Petersburg in 1864
• William Birney

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• Ranald S. Mackenzie

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War.

  • General in the Army of the Potomac
• Winfield S. Hancock

  Union general in the U.S. Civil War. Known as ''Hancock the Magnificent.''

  • Commanded the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac