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The Army of the Potomac was commanded, in turn, by Irvin McDowell, George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker and George Meade.

As this was the army that ended the war by defeating the Army of Northern Virginia, some say that Lee should have surrendered to Meade, not Grant.

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