Irvin McDowell
Joseph Hooker
General Joseph Hooker
Army of Northern Virginia or the Army of Tennessee and Northern armies were called the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Tennessee.
Robert E. Lee was the Commanding General of the Confederate Army
The Potomac divided the Confederacy from the Union, although Maryland was a slave-state, and so was DC at the beginning. The Ohio River divided the slave-states from free soil.
they were two generals during the civil war
sorry the civil war was during 1861- 1865
Joseph Hooker
Irvin McDowall George McClellan Ambrose Burnside Joseph Hooker Gordon Meade
Notable commanders: George B. McClellan Ambrose Burnside Joseph Hooker George Meade
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George McClellan, he was later fired for slow reaction time, hired back by Lincoln, then fired again for not doing anything when he had a chance to crush the Confederacy. And after he was fired I believe it was George Meade.
well the next commanding officer with the greatest rank would replace him
Robert E. Lee was the leading and commanding officer of the Confederate Army's (south) during the Civil War.
Major General George Meade was a Union general during the Civil War. He is perhaps most well-known for his involvement in the Battle of Gettysburg, where he defeated Robert E. Lee. Later Meade remained the commander of the Army of the :Potomac, however, Meade's commanding officer was General in Chief US Grant. Grant used Meade's Army of the Potomac to wage war in the 1864 Overland campaign in Virginia.
General McDowell was the first commanding officer of the Union's Army of the Potomac. Under him the Army lost it's first major battle, the battle of Manassas or Bull Run. He was quickly replaced with General George B. McClellan.
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The Army of the Potomac.
There were four generals-in-chief of the Union Army over the course of the Civil War, with Ulysses S. Grant being the last. His immediate predecessor was Henry W. Halleck.