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Based on the failed Peninsula campaign, President Lincoln sought new leadership in the Eastern Theater. He selected Major General John Pope to head the newly created Army of Virginia. To do this, forces from other sources were required. The merger of General Fremont's Mountain Department, General Bank's Department of the Shenandoah, and General McDowell's Department of the Rappahannock. To round out the new army, forces from General Sturgis's Military District of Washington. These sectors combined to form Pope's new army. President Lincoln had great hopes for this combination and he trusted General Pope much more than General McClellan.
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∙ 6y agoJust before President Lincoln appointed Henry W. Halleck to the position of general in chief in July of 1862 Lincoln made a major military decision. He called General John Pope from the Western Theater, to come to Washington DC and lead a new army. Lincoln's uncertainty about Major General George B. McClellan, caused him to create the Army of Virginia, to be commanded by Major General Pope. Lincoln envisioned an army of 50,000 troops, to be stationed in Northern Virginia.
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