MONDAY, Feb. 16, 1863. Gen. PRATT has removed the Flying Division to a romantic region separate from the rest of the army, and adjacent to the little stream known as Potomac Creek.

At this time 150 years ago, the two major Union army formations — Major General George Meade’s Army of the Potomac and Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army group — were tightening ...

Our Special Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, SATURDAY, Dec. 12, 1663. That all is quiet with the Army of the Potomac, is a truism oft repeated, but never more appropriately than now.

In April 1862, Gen. George B. McClellan, commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac, moved his troops to Fort Monroe on the Virginia Peninsula. His plan was to march his army on to Richmond ...

Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside received orders to press Lee’s army below Sharpsburg, where a humpbacked bridge spanned Antietam Creek.