The Civil War in the East

United States Armies and Departments
in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War
September 1863

1861 - 1862 - 1863 - 1864 - 1865

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Army of the Potomac

Major General George G. Meade

 

Dept. of Virginia & North Carolina

Maj. Gen. J. G. Foster

 

Middle Department

Major General Robert Schenck

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

 

Dept. of Washington

Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman

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

 

Dept. of the Susquehanna

Major Genral Darius Couch

The State of Pennsylvania east of Johnstown and Laurel Hill Mountain

 

Dept. of West Virginia

Brigadier General Benjamin F. Kelly

West Virginia and Maryland west of the Alleghenies


Map of the United States Armies and Departments in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War in September of 1863