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===Corps===
[[File:Scouts and guides Army of the Potomac.jpg|thumb|Scouts and guides of the Army of the Potomac, photographed by [[Mathew Brady]]]]
[[File:Headquarters of the 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, at the home of Col. Avery near Petersburg, Virginia) - Brady, Washington LCCN2017660615 crop.jpg|thumb|Headquarters staff of the 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac
The army originally consisted of fifteen divisions, the Artillery Reserve and the Cavalry Command. Commanded by [[Edwin Vose Sumner|Edwin V. Sumner]], [[William B. Franklin]], [[Louis Blenker]], [[Nathaniel P. Banks]], [[Frederick W. Lander]] (replaced by [[James Shields (politician, born 1806)|James Shields]] after Lander's death on March 2, 1862, [[Silas Casey]], [[Irvin McDowell]], [[Fitz John Porter]], [[Samuel P. Heintzelman]], [[Don Carlos Buell]] (replaced by [[Erasmus D. Keyes]] in November, 1861), [[William Farrar Smith|William F. Smith]], [[Joseph Hooker]], [[John Adams Dix|John A. Dix]], [[Charles Pomeroy Stone|Charles P. Stone]] (replaced by [[John Sedgwick]] in February, 1862), [[George A. McCall]], [[George Stoneman]] (replaced by [[Philip St. George Cooke]] in January, 1862) and [[Henry Jackson Hunt|Henry J. Hunt]].
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