Battle of Chancellorsville order of battle: Union explained

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle, the casualty returns, and the reports.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Army of the Potomac

See main article: Army of the Potomac. MG Joseph Hooker

General Staff and Headquarters

General Staff:

General Headquarters:

Command of the Provost-Marshal-General: BG Marsena R. Patrick

Patrick's Brigade: Col William F. Rogers

Engineer Brigade: BG Henry W. Benham

Signal Corps: Cpt Samuel T. Cushing

Ordnance Detachment: Lt John R. Edie, Jr.

Guards and Orderlies:

I Corps

See main article: I Corps (Union Army). MG John F. Reynolds

Chief of Artillery: Col Charles S. Wainwright

Escort:

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First Division

    BG James S. Wadsworth
1st Brigade
  Col Walter Phelps, Jr.
2nd Brigade
  BG Lysander Cutler
3rd Brigade
  BG Gabriel R. Paul
  • 22nd New Jersey: Col Abraham G. Demarest
  • 29th New Jersey: Col William R. Taylor
  • 30th New Jersey: Col John J. Cladek
  • 31st New Jersey: Ltc Robert R. Honeyman
  • 137th Pennsylvania: Col Joseph B. Kiddoo
4th Brigade
  BG Solomon Meredith
Artillery
  Cpt John A. Reynolds
Second Division

    BG John C. Robinson
1st Brigade
  Col Adrian R. Root
2nd Brigade
  BG Henry Baxter
3rd Brigade
  Col Samuel H. Leonard
Artillery
  Cpt Dunbar R. Ransom
Third Division

    MG Abner Doubleday
1st Brigade
  BG Thomas A. Rowley
2nd Brigade
  Col Roy Stone
Artillery
  Maj Ezra W. Matthews

II Corps

See main article: II Corps (Union Army). MG Darius N. Couch

Chief of Artillery and Assistant Inspector-General: Ltc Charles H. Morgan

Escort:

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First Division

    MG Winfield S. Hancock
1st Brigade
  BG John C. Caldwell
2nd Brigade
  BG Thomas F. Meagher
3rd Brigade
  BG Samuel K. Zook
4th Brigade
  Col John R. Brooke
Artillery
  Cpt Rufus D. Pettit
Second Division

    BG John Gibbon
1st Brigade
  BG Alfred Sully
  Col Henry W. Hudson
  Col Byron Laflin
2nd Brigade
  BG Joshua T. Owen
3rd Brigade
  Col Norman J. Hall
Sharpshooters
Artillery
Third Division

    MG William H. French
1st Brigade
  Col Samuel S. Carroll
  • 14th Indiana: Col John Coons
  • 24th New Jersey: Col William B. Robertson
  • 28th New Jersey: Ltc John A. Wildrick (c), Maj Samuel K. Wilson
  • 4th Ohio: Ltc Leonard W. Carpenter
  • 8th Ohio: Ltc Franklin Sawyer
  • 7th West Virginia: Col Joseph Snider, Ltc Jonathan H. Lockwood
2nd Brigade
  BG William Hays (w&c)
  Col Charles J. Powers
3rd Brigade
  Col John D. MacGregor
  Col Charles Albright
Artillery
Provost Guard
Reserve Artillery

Lt George A. Woodruff

III Corps

See main article: III Corps (Union Army). MG Daniel Sickles

Chief of Artillery: Cpt George E. Randolph

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First Division

    BG David B. Birney
1st Brigade
  BG Charles K. Graham
  Col Thomas W. Egan
2nd Brigade
  BG J. H. Hobart Ward
3rd Brigade
  Col Samuel B. Hayman
Artillery
  Cpt A. Judson Clark
Second Division

    MG Hiram Berry (k)
    BG Joseph B. Carr
1st Brigade
  BG Joseph B. Carr
  Col William E. Blaisdell
2nd Brigade
  BG Joseph W. Revere
  Col J. Egbert Farnum
3rd Brigade
  BG Gershom Mott (w)
  Col William J. Sewell
Artillery
  Cpt Thomas W. Osborn
  • 1st New York Light, Battery D: Lt George B. Winslow
  • New York Light, 4th Battery: Lt William T. McLean
  • 1st United States, Battery H: Lt Justin E. Dimick (mw), Lt James A. Sanderson
  • 4th United States, Battery K: Lt Francis W. Seeley
Third Division

  BG Amiel W. Whipple (mw)
  BG Charles K. Graham
1st Brigade
  Col Emlen Franklin
2nd Brigade
  Col Samuel M. Bowman
3rd Brigade
  Col Hiram Berdan
Artillery
  Cpt James F. Huntington

V Corps

See main article: V Corps (Union Army). MG George Meade

Chief of Artillery: Cpt Stephen H. Weed

Escort:

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First Division

    BG Charles Griffin
1st Brigade
  BG James Barnes
2nd Brigade
  Col James McQuade
  Col Jacob B. Sweitzer
3rd Brigade
  Col T.B.W. Stockton
Artillery
  Cpt Augustus P. Martin
Second Division

    MG George Sykes
1st Brigade
  BG Romeyn B. Ayres
  • 3rd United States, Companies B, C, F, G, I, and K: Cpt John D. Wilkins
  • 4th United States, Companies C, F, H, and K: Cpt Hiram Dryer
  • 12th United States, Companies A, B. C, D, and G, 1st Battalion, and A, C, and D, 2nd Battalion: Maj Richard S. Smith
  • 14th United States, Companies A, B, D, E, F, and G, 1st Battalion, and F and G, 2nd Battalion: Cpt Jonathan B. Hager, Maj Grotius R. Giddings
2nd Brigade
  Col Sidney Burbank
3rd Brigade
  Col Patrick O'Rorke
Artillery
  Cpt Stephen H. Weed
Third Division

    BG Andrew A. Humphreys
1st Brigade
  BG Erastus B. Tyler
2nd Brigade
  Col Peter H. Allabach
Artillery
  Cpt Alanson M. Randol

VI Corps

See main article: VI Corps (Union Army). MG John Sedgwick

Chief of Artillery: Col Charles H. Tompkins

Escort: Maj Hugh H. Janeway

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First Division

    BG William T. H. Brooks
1st Brigade
  Col Henry W. Brown (w)
  Col William H. Penrose
  Col Samuel L. Buck (w)
  Col William H. Penrose
2nd Brigade
  BG Joseph J. Bartlett
3rd Brigade
  BG David A. Russell
Artillery
  Maj John A. Tompkins
Provost Guard
Second Division

    BG Albion P. Howe
2nd Brigade
  Col Lewis A. Grant
3rd Brigade
  BG Thomas H. Neill
Artillery
  Maj J. Watts de Peyster, Jr.
  • New York Light, 1st Battery: Cpt Andrew Cowan
  • 5th United States, Battery F: Lt Leonard Martin
Third Division

    MG John Newton
1st Brigade
  Col Alexander Shaler
2nd Brigade
  Col William H. Browne (w)
  Col Henry L. Eustis
3rd Brigade
  BG Frank Wheaton
Artillery
  Cpt Jeremiah McCarthy
Light Division
    BG Calvin E. Pratt
    Col Hiram Burnham
Infantry
Artillery

XI Corps

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

Chief of Artillery: Ltc Louis Schirmer

Escort:

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First Division

    BG Charles Devens, Jr. (w)
    BG Nathaniel C. McLean
1st Brigade
  Col Leopold von Gilsa
2nd Brigade
  BG Nathaniel C. McLean
  Col John C. Lee
Artillery
  • New York Light, 13th Battery: Cpt Julius Dieckmann
Provost Guard
Second Division


    BG Adolph Von Steinwehr

1st Brigade
  Col Adolphus Buschbeck
2nd Brigade
  BG Francis C. Barlow
Artillery
  • 1st New York Light, Battery I: Cpt Michael Wiedrich
Third Division


    MG Carl Schurz

1st Brigade
  BG Alexander Schimmelfennig
2nd Brigade
  Col Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski
Unattached
Artillery
Reserve Artillery
  Ltc Louis Schirmer
  • New York Light, 2nd Battery: Cpt Hermann Jahn
  • 1st Ohio Light, Battery K: Cpt William L. DeBeck
  • 1st West Virginia Light, Battery C: Cpt Wallace Hill

XII Corps

See main article: XII Corps (ACW). MG Henry W. Slocum

Chief of Artillery: Cpt Clermont L. Best

Provost Guard:

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First Division

    BG Alpheus S. Williams
1st Brigade
  BG Joseph F. Knipe
2nd Brigade
  Col Samuel Ross (w)
  BG Joseph F. Knipe
3rd Brigade
  BG Thomas H. Ruger
Artillery
  Cpt Robert H. Fitzhugh
  • 1st New York Light, Battery K: Lt Edward L. Bailey
  • 1st New York Light, Battery M: Lt Charles E. Winegar (c), Lt John D Woodbury
  • 4th United States, Battery F: Lt Franklin B. Crosby (k), Lt Edward D. Muhlenberg
Second Division

    BG John W. Geary
1st Brigade
  Col Charles Candy
2nd Brigade
  BG Thomas L. Kane
3rd Brigade
  BG George S. Greene
Artillery
  Cpt Joseph M. Knap

Cavalry Corps

See main article: Cavalry Corps (ACW). BG George Stoneman

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First Division
    BG Alfred Pleasonton
1st Brigade

  Col Benjamin F. Davis
2nd Brigade

  Col Thomas Devin
Artillery
  • New York Light, 6th Battery: Lt Joseph W. Martin
Second Division
    BG William W. Averell
1st Brigade

  Col Horace B. Sargent
2nd Brigade

  Col John B. McIntosh
Artillery
Third Division
    BG David McM. Gregg
1st Brigade

  Col H. Judson Kilpatrick
2nd Brigade

  Col Percy Wyndham
Reporting directlyReserve Brigade
  BG John Buford
Horse Artillery
  Cpt James M. Robertson

Artillery

BG Henry J. Hunt

BrigadeRegiments and Batteries
Artillery Reserve
  Cpt William M. Graham
  BG Robert O. Tyler
Train Guard

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