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Learn how Union Army officers and how they were selected for leadership positions within Grant's Army of the Potomac.

Learn how military jobs, specialties, and occupations that you would most likely have after enlisting in the Union Army.

Learn about the background of those that joined the Union Army -- either by volunteering or draft conscription -- and how they found themselves serving in Grant's Army of the Potomac in 1864.

Learn how Americans, immigrants, and foreign nationals become soldiers in the Union Army of the Potomac in 1864.