No Union military leader actually had a bodyguard. However, President Abraham Lincoln used the term McClellan's bodyguard to describe the idle army which was being incompetently led by Major General George McClellan.
Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac.
At the camp, President Lincoln was in a conversation with another politician. After referring to the Army of the Potomac, he made a joke. He said " excuse me, I was not referring to the Army of the Potomac, I meant to say " McClellan's bodyguard".
Army of the Potomac ended in 1865.
Army of the Potomac was created in 1861.
General Ulysses Simpson Grant led the Army of the Potomac.
General Robert E. Lee planned and led the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River and into Maryland. On September 17, 1862, his army the Union's Army of the Potomac would engage each other in the Battle of Antietam.
The Army of the Potomac.
Major General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker succeeded General Burnside as the commander of the Army of the Potomac. Hooker was the third general Lincoln had as the leader of the North's premier army.
Meade led the Army of the Potomac from beginning to end. He replaced Hooker on the way to the battlefield.
Ulysses Grant was the commander of Union forces in the Wilderness with George G. Meade at the head of the Army of the Potomac.
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Army of the Potomac