The Army of the Potomac the strongest of the Union armies had tried to seize Richmond, the Confederate capital.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

They had died. The battle at Cold Harbor ended one month of fighting for the Army of the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

The Union military commander for Ohio was General Ambrose Burnside, a former commander of the Army of the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The Army of Potomac trying to take Richmond, end this damned war, and the Army of Northern Virginia offering a brilliant and brutal defense.

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The Army of the Potomac thereupon followed him to Gettysburg.

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