Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: A Critical History of Operations in Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania from the Commencement to the Close of the War 1861-5.

First edition of William Swinton's Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac

Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: A Critical History of Operations in Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania from the Commencement to the Close of the War 1861-5.

SWINTON, William.

Item Number: 132419

New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1866.

First edition of Swinton’s critical history of the the Army of the Potomac. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with tissue-guarded portraits including frontispiece portrait of Grant, illustrations and maps. In good condition.

The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. It was created in July 1861 shortly after the First Battle of Bull Run and was disbanded in June 1865 following the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in April. The army's major battles and campaigns included the Fredericksburg Campaign, the Chancellorsville Campaign, the Gettysburg Campaign, and Appomattox including Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.

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