- Army of Northern Virginia (Robert E. Lee)
- Army of Tennessee (Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, John Bell Hood)
- Army of Mississippi (Leonidas Polk, William J. Hardee)
- Trans-Mississippi Department (Edmund Kirby Smith)
- Army of the Potomac (George B. McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George Meade)
- Army of the Ohio (Don Carlos Buell, William S. Rosecrans)
- Army of the Cumberland (William S. Rosecrans, George H. Thomas)
- Army of the Tennessee (Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman)
- Army of the Gulf (Benjamin F. Butler, Nathaniel P. Banks)
- Department of North Carolina (Benjamin F. Butler, Alfred Terry)
- Department of Virginia and North Carolina (George Meade, Edward O. C. Ord)
- Department of the Shenandoah (Philip Sheridan)