The Civil War in the East

United States Armies and Departments
in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War
April 1864

1861 - 1862 - 1863 - 1864 - 1865

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Army of the Potomac

Major General George G. Meade

 

Dept. of Virginia & North Carolina

Major General Benjamin Butler

 

Middle Department

Major General Lew Wallace

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

 

Dept. of Washington

Maj. Gen. Christopher Augur

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. The rest of Pennsylvania was added 4/6.

 

Dept. of West Virginia

Major General Franz Sigel

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 April of 1864