Battle of Cedar Creek order of battle: Union explained

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Cedar Creek of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign.[2] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Army of the Shenandoah

See main article: Union Army of the Shenandoah. MG Philip Sheridan, Commanding
MG Horatio Wright[3]


Escort:

VI Corps

See main article: VI Corps (Union Army). BG James B. Ricketts (w)
BG George W. Getty
MG Horatio Wright


Escort:1st Michigan Cavalry, Company G: Lieutenant William H. Wheeler

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First Division


    BG Frank Wheaton

1st Brigade

  Col William Henry Penrose (w)
  Ltc Edward L. Campbell (w)
  Cpt Baldwin Hufty

  • 4th New Jersey: Cpt Baldwin Hufty
  • 10th New Jersey: Maj Lambert Boeman (k), Cpt Charles D. Claypool
  • 15th New Jersey: Ltc Edward L. Campbell, Cpt James W. Penrose
2nd Brigade  Col Joseph Eldridge Hamblin (w)
  Col Ranald S. Mackenzie (w)
  Ltc Egbert Olcott
  • 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery: Col Ranald S. Mackenzie, Maj Edward W. Jones
  • 65th New York: Ltc T. H. Higginbotham (k), Cpt Henry C. Fisk
  • 121st New York: Ltc Egbert Olcott, Cpt Daniel D. Jackson
  • 95th Pennsylvania: Cpt Dan Harper
  • 96th Pennsylvania: Cpt Dan Harper
3rd Brigade[4]   Col Oliver Edwards
  • 37th Massachusetts: Ltc George L. Montague
  • 49th Pennsylvania: Ltc Baynton J. Hickman
  • 82nd Pennsylvania: Col Isaac C. Bassett
  • 119th Pennsylvania: Ltc Gideon Clark
  • 2nd Rhode Island (battalion): Cpt Elisha Hunt Rhodes
  • 5th Wisconsin (battalion): Maj Charles W. Kempf
  • 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Maj Coe Durland
Second Division


    BG George W. Getty
    BG Lewis A. Grant
    BG George W. Getty

1st Brigade  Col James M. Warner
2nd Brigade  BG Lewis A. Grant
  Ltc Amasa Tracy
  BG Lewis A. Grant
3rd Brigade  BG Daniel D. Bidwell (k)
  Ltc Winsor B. French
Third Division


    Col J. Warren Keifer

1st Brigade  Col William Emerson
2nd Brigade  Col William H. Ball
Artillery Brigade  Col Charles H. Tompkins

XIX Corps

See main article: XIX Corps (Union Army). BG William H. Emory

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First Division


    BG James W. McMillan

1st Brigade  Col Edwin P. Davis
2nd Brigade  Col Stephen Thomas
3rd Brigade[6]   Col Leonard D. H. Currie
  • 30th Maine: Col Thomas H. Hubbard
  • 133rd New York: Maj Anthony J. Allaire
  • 162nd New York: Col Justus W. Blanchard
  • 165th New York (six companies): Ltc Gouverneur Carr
  • 173rd New York: Majr George W. Rogers
Division Artillery
Second Division


    BG Cuvier Grover (w)
    BG Henry W. Birge

1st Brigade  BG Henry W. Birge
  Col Thomas W. Porter
2nd Brigade  Col Edward L. Molineux
3rd Brigade  Col Daniel Macauley (w)
  Ltc Alfred Neafie
  • 38th Massachusetts: Maj Charles F. Allen
  • 128th New York: Cpt Charles R. Anderson
  • 156th New York: Ltc Alfred Neafie, Cpt Alfred Cooley
  • 175th New York (battalion): Cpt Charles McCarthey
  • 176th New York: Maj Charles Lewis
4th Brigade  Col David Shunk
  • 8th Indiana: Ltc Alexander J. Kenny (w), Maj John R. Polk
  • 18th Indiana: Ltc William S. Charles (w)
  • 24th Iowa: Ltc John Q. Wilds (mw), Maj Edward Wright (w), Cpt Leander Clark
  • 28th Iowa: Ltc Bartholomew W. Wilson (w), Maj John Meyer
Division Artillery
Reserve Artillery  Maj Albert W. Bradbury

Army of West Virginia (VIII Corps)

BG George Crook[7]

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First Division


    Col Joseph Thoburn (k)
    Col Thomas M. Harris

1st Brigade  Ltc Thomas F. Wildes
  • 34th Massachusetts: Cpt Andrew Potter
  • 2nd Battalion, 5th New York Heavy Artillery: Cpt Frederick C. Wilkie
  • 116th Ohio: Cpt Wilbert B. Teters (w), Cpt John Hull
  • 123rd Ohio: Maj Horace Kellog
2nd Brigade  Colonel William B. Curtis
  • 1st West Virginia: Ltc Jacob Weddle
  • 4th West Virginia: Cpt Benjamin D. Boswell
  • 12th West Virginia: Ltc Robert S. Northcott
3rd Brigade  Col Thomas M. Harris
  Col Milton Wells (w)
Second Division


    Col Rutherford B. Hayes

1st Brigade  Col Hiram F. Devol
2nd Brigade  Ltc Benjamin F. Coates
ArtilleryArtillery Brigade  Cpt Henry A. du Pont
Provisional Division[9] [10]


    Col J. Howard Kitching (mw)
    Col Wilhelm Heine

1st Brigade  Col Wilhelm Heine
  Ltc Thompson D. Hart
2nd Brigade  Ltc G. DePeyster Arden
  • 41st New York Infantry: Ltc Detleo Von Einseidel
  • 10th New York Heavy Artillery: Ltc DePeyster Arden

Cavalry Corps

BG Alfred T. A. Torbert

Escort:  1st Rhode Island: Maj William H. Turner, jr.

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First Division


    BG Wesley Merritt

1st Brigade  Col James H. Kidd
2nd Brigade  Col Thomas C. Devin
  • 4th New York Cavalry:[11] Maj Edward Schwartz
  • 6th New York Cavalry: Cpt George E. Farmer
  • 9th New York Cavalry: Col George S. Nichols
  • 19th New York Cavalry (1st New York Dragoons): Col Alfred Gibbs
  • Batteries K & L, 1st US Artillery: Lt Franck E. Taylor
Reserve Brigade  Col Charles Russell Lowell (mw)
  Ltc Caspar Crowninshield
Second Division[12]


    Col William H. Powell

1st Brigade  Col Alpheus S. Moore
2nd Brigade  Col Henry Capehart
Division Artillery
  • Battery L, 5th U.S. Artillery: Lt Gulian V. Weir
Third Division


    BG George Armstrong Custer

1st Brigade  Col Alexander Cummings McWhorter Pennington, Jr.
2nd Brigade  Col William Wells
Horse Artillery
  • Batteries B & L, 2nd U.S. Artillery: Cpt Charles H. Peirce
  • Batteries C, F & K, 3rd U.S. Artillery: Cpt Dunbar R. Ransom

Notes

  1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. Official Records, Series I, Volume XLIII, Part 1, pages 125-130
  3. Commanded during General Sheridan's temporary absence is the early part of the battle.
  4. At Winchester, Va., and not engaged in the battle.
  5. Corps officer of the day at the beginning of the battle; later rejoined brigade and commanded the left of its line.
  6. Guarding wagon trains, and not engaged in the battle.
  7. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861–1865 Organization and Operations. Vol. 1, p. 420 notes that Crook's army consisted in part of troops that formerly belonged to the VIII Corps, of the Middle Department, so that name was sometimes used because it was less cumbersome than Army of West Virginia. The official name of the organization, established by order on August 8, 1864, was Army of West Virginia. Lewis, The Guns of Cedar Creek, p. 107, notes that this grand title disguised the fact that the 4,000 men of the so-called army were the approximate size of a Union division, and their two constituent divisions were actually brigade-sized and led by colonels.
  8. Corps officer of the day.
  9. Dyer page 410
  10. Only a small detachment from the First Brigade, and the 6th New York Heavy Artillery, from the Second Brigade, engaged in the battle
  11. Detailed for duty at General Sheridan's headquarters.
  12. From Department of West Virginia.
  13. Although Major Theodore A. Boice is listed as in command, he did not take command until October 20. According to a page 4 New York Herald article published November 11, 1864, Krom, who was supposed to muster out on October 19, continued to lead the regiment through the Battle of Cedar Creek.

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