Joseph Hooker
Gen. Ambrose Burnside commanded the Union Army of the Potomac. Gen. Robert Edward Lee commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Ambrose Burnside
General Meade became Commander of Union Army of the Potomac after its former commander Gen. Joseph Hooker's dismissal of June 28, 1863.
The Battle of Fredericksburg cost the Union Army of the Potomac 1,284 killed, 9,600 wounded, and 1,769 captured/missing.
General Ambrose Burnside
He eventually became commander of all Union armies during the late stages of the US Civil War, although he concentrated his energies with the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General Meade.
Major General Joe "Fighting Joe" Hooker was the commander of the Federal Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville.
Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac.
Ulysses Grant was the commander of Union forces in the Wilderness with George G. Meade at the head of the Army of the Potomac.
At Fredericksburg, Major General Ambrose E. Burnside commanded the Army of the Potomac. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was led by Robert E. Lee.
No. McClellan was Commander of the Department of the Ohio, Commander of the Department of the East before being promoted to General in Chief and Commander of the Army of the Potomac. He was replaced as Commander of the Department of the Ohio by Ormsby M. Mitchel. He was replaced as Commander of the East and General in Cheif by Henry Halleck and replaced as Commander of the Army of the Potomac by Ambrose E. Burnside.
General Ambrose Burnside ordered that suicidal charge up Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg.