Union Army

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The Union Army was the land-based military force of the United States (the North) during the American Civil War, fighting to preserve the Union and ultimately defeat the Confederacy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf army
military organization
activeFrom 1861
activeUntil 1865
allegiance Union
United States government
surface form: United States federal government
alsoKnownAs Federal Army
Northern Army
branchOf United States Department of War
surface form: United States War Department
commanderInChief Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
conflict American Civil War
contributedTo abolition of slavery in the United States
country United States of America
demobilization gradual mustering out after 1865
headquartersLocation Washington, D.C.
includes United States Colored Troops
United States Army
surface form: United States Regular Army

United States Volunteers
state militia units mustered into federal service
legalBasis acts of the United States Congress
notableBattle Battle of Antietam
Chattanooga Campaign
surface form: Battle of Chattanooga

Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Vicksburg
notableCampaign Atlanta Campaign
Overland Campaign
Peninsula Campaign
Sherman’s March to the Sea
notableCommander Ambrose Burnside
George McClellan
surface form: George B. McClellan

George G. Meade
Henry W. Halleck
Joseph Hooker
Philip Sheridan
surface form: Philip H. Sheridan

Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Winfield Scott
notableEvent Battle of Appomattox Court House
surface form: surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House
opposedBy Confederate States Army
partOf United States Armed Forces
primaryObjective defeat of the Confederacy
preservation of the Union
recruitmentMethod conscription
voluntary enlistment
role land warfare
sizePeakStrength over 1,000,000 soldiers
subdivision Army of the Cumberland
Army of the Frontier
Army of the Gulf
Army of the James
Army of the Mississippi
Army of the Missouri
Army of the Ohio
Army of the Potomac
Army of the Shenandoah
Army of the Tennessee
successor United States Army

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Major Robert Anderson allegiance Union Army
subject surface form: Robert Anderson
Barbara Frietchie associatedWith Union Army
Brawner Farm associatedWith Union Army
Young Napoleon associatedWith Union Army
Army of the Potomac branch Union Army
this entity surface form: Union Army infantry
Appomattox Campaign combatant Union Army
Battle of Fair Oaks combatant Union Army
Dix employer Union Army
subject surface form: Dorothea Dix
Louisa May Alcott employer Union Army
McLean House eventParticipant Union Army
Fort Jefferson garrisonedBy Union Army
Anaconda Plan implementedBy Union Army
this entity surface form: Union Army of Georgia
Hospital Sketches mainSubject Union Army
Henry Lee Higginson memberOf Union Army
Isaac Jones Wistar memberOf Union Army
The Christian General memberOf Union Army
subject surface form: Oliver Otis Howard
Benjamin Harrison militaryBranch Union Army
Boston Corbett militaryBranch Union Army
Charles Devens militaryBranch Union Army
Cushman K. Davis militaryBranch Union Army
Edmund G. Ross militaryBranch Union Army
Garfield militaryBranch Union Army
Little Mac militaryBranch Union Army
subject surface form: George B. McClellan
Henry Markham militaryBranch Union Army
Hiram Revels militaryBranch Union Army
James A. Garfield militaryBranch Union Army
subject surface form: Oliver Otis Howard
Philip Sheridan militaryBranch Union Army