Protect the capital.
Army of Northern Virginia
To fight the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia throughout the American civil war In addition, it attempted several times to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond.
There was so such army, as the armies were named after the states they orginated from. General Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the East, and General Braxton Bragg commanded the Army of Tennessee in the West.
The Northern, or Union Army
Army of the Potomac
Army of Northern Virginia
To fight the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia throughout the American civil war In addition, it attempted several times to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond.
There was so such army, as the armies were named after the states they orginated from. General Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the East, and General Braxton Bragg commanded the Army of Tennessee in the West.
The Northern Army won the war
The Union Army
The first name of what would become the Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederate Army of the Potomac. That was in 1861. As early 1862 came about the name was changed to the Army of Northern Virginia.
Northern District Army - Japan - ended in 1945.
Northern District Army - Japan - was created in 1940.
East
To hold the Army of Northern Virginia in check while Sherman in the West and Sheridan in the East systematically destroyed the South's ability to support the army: farms, factories, railroads, and all other war materiel; so that none of it got to the army, in effect, denying the Southern army the ability to wage war.
Lee was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Every battle fought by the Army of Northern Virginia was against the Union army.