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Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
- Army of the Shenandoah (Confederate)The Army of the Shenandoah began as scattered militia companies sent to Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Robert E. Lee appointed Thomas J.
- Army of the PeninsulaThe Army of the Peninsula began with a single colonel and a stretch of Virginia coast that could not be surrendered. John B.
- Army of West MississippiThe Army of West Mississippi existed for fewer than four months, yet in that short window it fought two battles that helped seal the fate of one of the…
- Army of the CumberlandThe Army of the Cumberland was one of the Union's principal fighting forces in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
- Army of the PotomacThe Army of the Potomac was born out of disaster. In the summer of 1861, a raw Union force marched out of Washington, D.C., under Brigadier General Irvin…
- Army of TennesseeThe Army of Tennessee took its name from the Confederate state of Tennessee and was formed on the 20th of November 1862.
- First Corps, Army of Northern VirginiaThe First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia bore a simpler name among those who fought under it: Longstreet's Corps. For most of the Civil War, that name…
- Quantrill's RaidersThe Missouri-Kansas border area became fertile ground for guerrilla warfare when the Civil War erupted in 1861. In February 1861, Missouri voters elected…
- Army of Northern VirginiaOn the 20th of June 1861, the Army of the Potomac organized itself from operational forces in Northern Virginia. This unit would eventually become known as…
- Army of the TennesseeIn September 1861, Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters at the river port of Cairo, Illinois.
- Confederate States ArmyThe Confederate States Army came into existence on the 28th of February 1861, when a provisional congress authorized a volunteer force and handed command…
- Army of the GulfThe Army of the Gulf was born from a single dramatic event: Admiral David G. Farragut's capture of New Orleans in 1862. That seizure of the South's largest…
- Trans-Mississippi DepartmentWar Department General Orders No. 39 dated the 26th of May 1862 created the Trans-Mississippi Department. Headquarters began at Little Rock in Arkansas.
- Stonewall BrigadeThe Stonewall Brigade earned its name on a single afternoon in July 1861, and would carry it through three more years of some of the bloodiest fighting of…
- Missouri State GuardThe Missouri State Guard was born on the 11th of May 1861, not in a battlefield but in a legislative chamber, when the Missouri General Assembly passed what…
- United States Colored TroopsThe United States Colored Troops stood at one of the defining crossroads of American history. By the time the Civil War ended in 1865, 175 regiments of USCT…