Army of Northern Virginia

The Army of Northern Virginia is a Confederate army traditionally headquartered in Richmond. In the War of Secession, the Army was commanded by Robert E. Lee. It defeated and destroyed George McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. It then advanced on Philadelphia and forced the Union out of the war.

In the Great War, the ANV took Washington, DC then fought its way north into Maryland and Pennsylvania, coming within aeroplane range of Philadelphia before being driven back. Jake Featherston, Clarence Potter, and Jeb Stuart III all served with the army at this time.

In 1941 the Army of Northern Virginia was commanded by General Hank Coomer. Coomer slowed Daniel MacArthur's drive into northern Virginia that year to a crawl, then halted the advance altogether with the Battles of Fredericksburg the following year.