United States Armies and Departments
in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War
March 1862

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Major General George McClellan
The main body of the Army of the Potomac moved to the Virginia Penninsula in March and was operating in the Department of Virginia, but it remained separate from General Wool's command.

Dept. of Virginia

Major General John E. Wool

An area 60 miles around Fortress Monroe

Middle Department (est. 3/22)

Major General John Dix

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia and the counties of Cecil, Hartford, Baltimore and Ann Arundel in Maryland.

United States Armies and Departments in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War March 1862

United States Armies and Departments
in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War
March 1862