General George B. McClellan was a master at training, organizing and gaining almost full loyalty to his soldiers and their commanders. In his attempt to make the Army of the Potomac an unbeatable army, he took about eight months. He was then satisfied they were ready for combat.
ANSWER The Union Army of Potomac under General George McClellan.
No - he was Commanding General of the Union Army of the Potomac
On November 7, 1862, General Burnside took command of the Army of the Potomac. He had replaced General George B. McClellan.
At the end of July, 1861, Union General George B. McClellan was in charge of the Division of the Potomac. Under McClellan, was General K. F. Mansfield, in command of the District of Columbia and General McDowell in command of a division.
The II Corps of McClellan's Army of the Potomac occupied Yorktown on May 4,1862
To appoint George McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
Lincoln fired several generals. He fired McClellan twice.
George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside,George McClellan(again), Joseph Hooker,George Meade, Ulysses Grant.
The Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Major General George B. McClellan won the battle along Antietam Creek.
Little Mac was Major General George Brinton McClellan who was in the Union Army. He was the Commander of the Army of the Potomac and he would later be the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the United States in the 1864 elections.
The commander of the Unions Army of the Potomac at Antietam was Major General George B. McClellan.
General George B. McClellan, a major general during the American Civil War, organized the Army of the Potomac and led the Union Army as general-in-chief from November 1861 to March 1862.