Army of the Potomac Archives

Brig. Gen. Joseph K.F. Mansfield remarked that the 20th Indiana “could do longer without food…eat more when they got it; [and] could suffer more without being disabled.”

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These Hoosier Heroes at Gettysburg Were Among the Last Men Standing in the Civil War

Why Did Lincoln and McClellan Fail to Connect?

“Fighting Joe” Hooker Literally Cleaned Up the Army of the Potomac During the Civil War

Was This Logistics Genius the Union’s Secret Weapon in the Civil War?

Lessons from the Battle of Cedar Creek, 1864

Songs of 1865: How the Various Parties to the Civil War Saw the Struggle’s End

Book Review: A Republic in the Ranks / The Political Battlefield Within the U.S. Army

Painter at War: Winslow Homer’s Civil War Art

20 Fateful Decisions at Gettysburg

Embattled Banner: The True History of the Confederate Flag