Disbanded

June 28, 1865, the Army of the Potomac is officially disbanded after fighting the first major land battles of the Civil War, First Manassas (as Army of Northeastern Virginia), Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and finally to Appomattox Court House.

Here’s a 700 sum-page history of the storied Union army.

Commanders of the Army of the Potomac at Culpeper, Virginia, 1863. From the left: Gouverneur K. Warren, William H. French, George G. Meade, Henry J. Hunt, Andrew A. Humphreys, George Sykes.