Atlanta campaign order of battle: First phase, Union explained

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1]

This order of battle covers the period of May 7 – July 17, 1864. The period July 17 – September 8, 1864, is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Military Division of the Mississippi

See main article: Military Division of the Mississippi. MG William T. Sherman
Chief of Staff: BG Joseph D. Webster
Chief of Artillery: BG William F. Barry
Headquarters Guard: 7th Company Ohio Sharpshooters: Lieut. William McCrory

Army of the Cumberland

See main article: Army of the Cumberland. MG George Henry Thomas
Chief of Artillery: BG John M. Brannan
Chief of Staff: BG William D. Whipple
Escort: Company I, 1st Ohio Cavalry: Lieut. Henry C. Reppert

IV Corps

See main article: IV Corps (Union Army). MG Oliver O. Howard

width=25% Divisionwidth=25% BrigadeRegiments and others
First Division
    MG David S. Stanley
1st Brigade
  BG Charles Cruft
  Col Isaac M. Kirby[2]
2nd Brigade
  BG Walter C. Whitaker
  Col Jacob E. Taylor[5]
3rd Brigade
  Col William Grose
Artillery
  Cpt Peter Simonson (k June 16)
  Cpt Samuel M. McDowell (k June 27)
  Cpt Theodore Thomasson
Second Division
    BG John Newton
1st Brigade
  Col Francis T. Sherman
  BG Nathan Kimball[7]
2nd Brigade
  BG George D. Wagner[9]
  Col John Blake[10]
3rd Brigade
  BG Charles G. Harker (mw June 27)
  BG Luther P. Bradley
Artillery
  Cpt Charles Aleshire[12]
  Cpt Wilbur Goodspeed
Third Division
    BG Thomas J. Wood
1st Brigade
  BG August Willich (w May 15)
  Col William H. Gibson
2nd Brigade
  BG William B. Hazen
3rd Brigade
  BG Samuel Beatty[15]
  Col Frederick Knefler
Artillery
  Cpt Cullen Bradley

XIV Corps

See main article: XIV Corps (Union Army). MG John M. Palmer

width=25% Divisionwidth=25% BrigadeRegiments and others
First Division
   BG Richard W. Johnson (w May 28)[16]
   BG John H. King		1st Brigade
  BG William P. Carlin[17]
  Col Anson G. McCook[18]
2nd Brigade
  BG John H. King
  Col William Stoughton[19]
3rd Brigade
  Col Benjamin Scribner
  
Artillery
  Cpt Lucius Drury
Second Division
    BG Jefferson C. Davis		1st Brigade
  BG James D. Morgan
2nd Brigade
  Col John G. Mitchell
3rd Brigade
  Col Daniel McCook, Jr. (mw June 27)
  Col Oscar F. Harmon (mw June 27)
  Col Caleb J. Dilworth
Artillery
  Cpt Charles Barnett
Third Division
    BG Absalom Baird		1st Brigade
  BG John B. Turchin[26]
  Col Moses B. Walker[27]
2nd Brigade
  Col Ferdinand Van Derveer[31]
  Col Newell Gleason[32]
3rd Brigade
  Col George P. Este
Artillery
  Cpt George Estep

XX Corps

See main article: XX Corps (Union Army). MG Joseph Hooker

width=25% Divisionwidth=25% BrigadeRegiments and others
First Division
    BG Alpheus S. Williams
1st Brigade
  BG Joseph F. Knipe
  Col Warren W. Packer[36]
2nd Brigade
  BG Thomas H. Ruger
3rd Brigade
  Col James S. Robinson
Artillery
  Cpt John D. Woodbury
Second Division
    BG John W. Geary
1st Brigade
  Col Charles Candy
2nd Brigade
  Col Adolphus Buschbeck[41]
  Col John T. Lockman[42]
  Col Patrick Henry Jones[43]
3rd Brigade
  Col David Ireland (w May 15)[45]
  Col William Rickards, Jr[46]
  Col George A. Cobham[47]
Artillery
  Cpt William Wheeler (k June 22)
  Cpt Charles Aleshire[49]
Third Division
    MG Daniel Butterfield
    BG William T. Ward[50] 		1st Brigade
  BG William T. Ward (w May 15)
  Col Benjamin Harrison[51]
2nd Brigade
  Col John Coburn
3rd Brigade
  Col James Wood
Artillery
  Cpt Marco B. Gary
Unattached Units
    		Reserve Brigade
  Col Joseph W. Burke[53]
  Col Heber Le Favour[54]
  
Pontooniers
  Col George P. Buell
Siege Artillery
  Cpt Arnold Sutermeister

Cavalry Corps

BG Washington Elliott, Chief of Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland

width=25% Divisionwidth=25% BrigadeRegiments and others
First Division
    BG Edward M. McCook		1st Brigade
  Col Joseph B. Dorr
2nd Brigade
  Col Oscar H. LaGrange[58]
  Ltc James Stewart[59]
  Ltc Horace Lamson
3rd Brigade[60]
  Col Louis D. Watkins
  Col John K. Faulkner[61]
Artillery
  • 18th Indiana Horse Artillery Battery
Second Division
    BG Kenner Garrard		1st Brigade
  Col Robert Minty
2nd Brigade [62]
  Col Eli Long
3rd Brigade
  Col John T. Wilder[63]
  Col Abram Miller
Artillery
Third Division
    BG Judson Kilpatrick (w May 13)
    Col Eli Murray[64]
    Col William W. Lowe[65] 		1st Brigade
  Ltc Robert Klein
2nd Brigade
  Col Charles Smith
3rd Brigade
  Col Eli Murray
  Col Smith D. Atkins[66]
Artillery

Army of the Tennessee

See main article: Army of the Tennessee. MG James B. McPherson
Escort: 4th Company Ohio Cavalry; Company B, 1st Ohio Cavalry

XV Corps

See main article: XV Corps (Union Army). MG John A. Logan

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First Division
    BG Peter J. Osterhaus[67]
    BG Charles R. Woods[68] 		1st Brigade
  BG Charles R. Woods
  Col Milo Smith[69]
2nd Brigade
  Col James A. Williamson
3rd Brigade
  Col Hugo Wangelin
Artillery
  Maj Clemens Landgraeber
Second Division
    BG Morgan L. Smith
1st Brigade
  BG Giles A. Smith
2nd Brigade
  BG Joseph Lightburn
Artillery
  Cpt Francis De Gress
  • Battery A, 1st Illinois Light
  • Battery B, 1st Illinois Light (until July 12)[75]
  • Battery H, 1st Illinois Light
Third Division[76]
  BG John E. Smith		1st Brigade
  Col Jesse I. Alexander
2nd Brigade
  Col Green B. Raum
3rd Brigade
   BG Charles L. Matthies[79]
   Col Benjamin D. Dean[80]
   Col Jabez Banbury[81]
  • 93rd Illinois
  • 5th Iowa (until July 12):[82] Col Jabez Banbury
  • 10th Iowa
  • 26th Missouri: Col Benjamin D. Dean
Artillery
  Cpt Henry Dillon
  • Wisconsin Light Artillery, 6th Battery
  • Wisconsin Light Artillery, 12th Battery
Cavalry
  
  • 5th Ohio Cavalry
  • Company F, 4th Missouri Cavalry (Escort to BG John E. Smith)
Fourth Division
    BG William Harrow
1st Brigade
  Colonel Reuben Williams
2nd Brigade
  BG Charles C. Walcutt
3rd Brigade
  Col John M. Oliver
Artillery
  Cpt Henry H. Griffiths
  Maj John T. Cheney[85]

XVI Corps

See main article: XVI Corps (Union Army). MG Grenville M. Dodge
Escort: 1st Alabama Cavalry;[86] Company A, 52nd Illinois

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Second Division
    BG Thomas W. Sweeny
1st Brigade
  BG Elliott W. Rice
2nd Brigade
  Col Patrick E. Burke (mw May 16)
  Ltc Robert N. Adams[87]
  Col August Mersy[88]
3rd Brigade[89]
  Col Moses M. Bane[90]
  Col Henry J.B. Cummings
Artillery
  Cpt Frederick Welker
  • Battery B, 1st Michigan Light[91]
  • Battery H, 1st Missouri Light
  • Battery I, 1st Missouri Light (until May 22)[92]
Fourth Division
    BG James C. Veatch
1st Brigade
  BG John W. Fuller
2nd Brigade
  BG John W. Sprague
3rd Brigade[93]
  Col James H. Howe
Artillery
  Cpt Jerome B. Burrows
  Cpt George Robinson[94]

XVII Corps

See main article: XVII Corps (Union Army). MG Francis P. Blair, Jr.
Escort: Company M, 1st Ohio Cavalry;[95] Company G, 9th Illinois Mounted Infantry

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Third Division
    BG Mortimer D. Leggett
1st Brigade
  BG Manning F. Force
2nd Brigade
  Col Robert K. Scott
3rd Brigade
  Col Adam G. Malloy
Artillery
  Cpt William S. Williams
Fourth Division
    BG Walter Q. Gresham		1st Brigade
  Col William L. Sanderson
  Col Benjamin F. Potts
2nd Brigade[101]
  Col George C. Rogers
3rd Brigade
  Col William Hall
Artillery
  Cpt Edward Spear
[107]

Army of the Ohio (XXIII Corps)

MG John M. Schofield
BG Jacob Dolson Cox[108]
Escort: Company G, 7th Ohio Cavalry

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First Division
    BG Alvin P. Hovey[109]
  		1st Brigade[110]
  Col Richard F. Barter
2nd Brigade[111]
  Col John McQuiston
  Col Peter T. Swaine
Artillery
Second Division
    BG Henry M. Judah[115]
    BG Milo S. Hascall		1st Brigade
  BG Nathaniel C. McLean
  BG Joseph A. Cooper[116]
2nd Brigade
  BG Milo S. Hascall[120]
  Col John R. Bond[121]
  Col William E. Hobson[122]
3rd Brigade[125]
  Col Silas A. Strickland
Artillery
  Cpt Joseph C. Shields
Third Division
    BG Jacob D. Cox
    Col James W. Reilly[126] 		1st Brigade
  Col James W. Reilly
  Col James W. Gault
2nd Brigade
  BG Mahlon D. Manson (w May 14)
  Col John S. Hurt[127]
  BG Milo S. Hascall[128]
  Col John S. Casement[129]
  Col Daniel Cameron[130]
3rd Brigade[133]
  BG Nathaniel McLean[134]
  Col Robert K. Byrd
  Col Israel N. Stiles
Dismounted Cavalry[135]
  Col Eugene Crittenden
Artillery
  Maj Henry W. Wells
Stoneman's Cavalry Division
    MG George Stoneman
  		1st Brigade
  Col James Biddle
2nd Brigade[138]
  Col Horace Capron
  • 14th Illinois Cavalry
  • 8th Michigan Cavalry
  • McLaughlin's Ohio Squadron
Independent Brigade
  Col Alexander Holeman
  • 1st Kentucky Cavalry
  • 11th Kentucky Cavalry
Artillery

Strengths

The following table shows total strengths of each of the major formations at several stages throughout the campaign.[139]

ArmyCorpswidth=80px; style="text-align: right;" April 30width=80px; style="text-align: right;" May 31width=80px; style="text-align: right;" June 30width=80px; style="text-align: right;" July 31width=80px; style="text-align: right;" August 31
Army of the CumberlandIV Corps20,53817,22714,95613,51912,118
XIV Corps22,69623,44819,60718,01415,249
XX Corps20,72116,80114,67212,57812,413
Cavalry Corps8,9839,8489,4778,4277,638
Total72,93867,32458,71252,53847,418
Army of the TennesseeXV Corps12,51712,49711,7889,1338,670
XVI Corps11,86310,36110,7449,3457,818
XVII Corps- [140] 9,7759,2626,8005,935
Total24,38032,63331,79425,27822,423
Army of the OhioXXIII Corps9,8549,97112,90611,9609,981
Cavalry Division2,9512,8862,6581,8991,936
Total12,80512,85715,56413,85911,917
Military Division of the MississippiGrand Total110,123112,814106,07091,67581,758

References

Notes and References

  1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 1, pages 89-114
  2. From June 10
  3. Mustered out May 29.
  4. Mustered out June 3.
  5. From June 30
  6. Exchanged places with 45th Ohio in 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII Corps
  7. Assumed command May 22
  8. Detached at Dalton from May 14
  9. Sick July 10–25
  10. In command July 10–25
  11. Mustered out June 10; veterans and recruits transferred to the 42nd Illinois Infantry.
  12. Relieved June 24
  13. On veteran furlough until June 28
  14. Mustered out June 6.
  15. Sick from May 23
  16. Absent from May 29 to June 6 and June 18 to July 18
  17. Sick July 3
  18. In command from July 3
  19. May 29 to June 6 and June 18 to July 18
  20. Joined from veteran furlough May 11
  21. Temporarily assigned from July 15
  22. Joined from veteran furlough May 9
  23. Joined from veteran furlough May 15
  24. Employed mainly in guarding trains
  25. Employed mainly in guarding trains
  26. Sick from July 15
  27. In command from July 15
  28. Mustered out June 9
  29. Mustered out June 28
  30. Mustered out June 10. Non-veterans attached to 92nd Ohio.
  31. Absent sick from June 27
  32. From June 27
  33. Mustered out May 22
  34. Part of time detached at Marietta
  35. Remained at Ringgold
  36. In command from July 3 to 17
  37. Non-veterans mustered out July 22.
  38. Ordered to Nashville July 6
  39. Transferred from Nashville, TN, on July 21.
  40. Mustered out on June 11; veterans and recruits were transferred to the 5th Ohio Infantry.
  41. Mustered out May 23
  42. Assumed command May 22
  43. Assumed command June 7
  44. Mustered out May 23; veterans and recruits transferred to the 109th Pennsylvania Infantry.
  45. Absent May 15 to June 6
  46. Relieved of command May 16
  47. In command from May 16 to June 6
  48. Non-veterans mustered out July 12; consolidated with 102nd New York Infantry July 12.
  49. Transferred from 2nd Division, IV Corps on June 24
  50. In command from June 29
  51. Future 23rd President of the United States. In command from May 15 until Ward returned from wound, and again from June 29.
  52. Transferred to 3rd Brigade, May 29
  53. Mustered out May 27
  54. Ordered to Chattanooga June 17
  55. Mustered out May 27; 75 soldiers whose enlistments had not expired were assigned to the 18th Ohio Infantry.
  56. Ordered to Chattanooga, June 17
  57. Ordered to Franklin, TN on June 29
  58. Captured May 9
  59. Captured May 26
  60. At Wauhatchie, La Fayette, Calhoun, Dalton, Resaca, and other points in the rear of the army
  61. From July 5
  62. Operating in northern Alabama until June 6
  63. Sick from June 14
  64. In command May 13 to May 21
  65. In command May 21 to July 23
  66. In command May 13 to May 21
  67. Sick from July 15
  68. From July 15
  69. From July 15
  70. Joined from veteran furlough June 16
  71. Veterans mustered out June 16 (four companies) and June 30 (five companies), leaving only company K.
  72. Joined from veteran furlough May 22
  73. Joined from veteran furlough May 10
  74. Transferred from 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, May 12
  75. Consolidated with Battery A July 12
  76. Assigned railroad and rear guard duty mainly in the Cartersville, Ga. area
  77. Attached to 56th Illinois from June 11
  78. Attached to 10th Missouri
  79. Assumed command of U.S. forces at Decatur, AL from May 13
  80. In command May 15 to May 31
  81. In command from June 1
  82. Transferred to Department of the Cumberland July 12
  83. Joined June 3
  84. Transferred to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, May 12
  85. From May 20
  86. At Rome from June 24
  87. In command from May 16 to May 23
  88. In command from May 23
  89. At Rome, GA from May 22
  90. Resigned June 20
  91. At Rome, GA from May 22
  92. Mustered out May 22
  93. At Decatur, AL until August 7 when it joined the army at Atlanta, GA
  94. From July 3
  95. Until June 18
  96. At Etowah Bridge
  97. Transferred from 4th Division July 10
  98. Transferred to 4th Division July 10
  99. Detachments of 14th Wisconsin, 81st and 95th Illinois
  100. At Etowah Bridge until July 17
  101. At Altoona from June 8 to July 13
  102. Consolidated into veteran battalion with 15th Illinois July 5
  103. Joined July 5, and subsequently consolidated into a battalion of two companies
  104. At Altoona June 8 to July 11
  105. At Altoona and Kenesaw
  106. At Kenesaw from July 11
  107. Joined the army in Georgia June 8
  108. In command May 26–27
  109. On leave from June 9; troops temporarily assigned to 2nd and 3rd Divisions
  110. Attached to 3rd Division from June 9; sometimes designated as 4th Brigade, 3rd Division
  111. Attached to 2nd Division from June 9; sometimes designated as 4th Brigade, 2nd Division
  112. Transferred from 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, IV Corps on June 22
  113. Attached to 3rd Division from June 9
  114. Attached to 2nd Division from June 9; transferred to Cavalry Division July 6
  115. On leave from May 18
  116. In command from June 4
  117. Transferred to 2nd Brigade June 8
  118. Transferred to 2nd Brigade June 8
  119. Transferred to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, IV Corps June 22
  120. Transferred to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division May 16
  121. Sick from June 18
  122. In command from June 18
  123. Provost guard at corps headquarters from July 11
  124. Joined brigade on May 11 and transferred to 1st Brigade June 8
  125. Joined army May 28, and designated as Provisional Brigade until June 8
  126. In command May 26–27
  127. In command May 14 to 16 and May 18 to 21
  128. In command May 17 to 18, then assumed command of 2nd Division
  129. In command May 21 to June 4
  130. In command from June 4
  131. Joined from veteran furlough June 4
  132. Transferred to newly formed 3rd Brigade June 5
  133. Organized June 5
  134. Transferred to District of Kentucky June 17
  135. Assigned June 21
  136. Assigned to 3rd Division, XXIII Corps June 21
  137. Assigned to 3rd Division, XXIII Corps June 21
  138. Joined army in the field June 28
  139. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 1, pages 115-117
  140. Not present

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