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

Army of the Potomac

Maj. Gen. George McClellan (to 11/9)

Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside (after 11/9)

Dept. of Virginia

Major General John Dix

An area 60 miles around Fortress Monroe

Middle Department

Major General John E. Wool

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, the eastern part of Maryland and the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Washington D.C. Defenses

Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman

District of Columbia, Arlington County in Virginia, and adjacent fortifications