Chattanooga campaign order of battle: Union explained

The following units and commanders fought in the Chattanooga–Ringgold campaign of the American Civil War on the Union side. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign,[2] the casualty returns[3] and the reports.[4]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Military Division of the Mississippi

See main article: Military Division of the Mississippi. MG Ulysses S. Grant

General Staff:

Army of the Cumberland

See main article: Army of the Cumberland. MG George H. Thomas

General Staff:

General Headquarters:

Ltc William M. Ward

IV Corps

See main article: IV Corps (Union Army). MG Gordon Granger

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First Division[6]
    BG Charles Cruft
2nd Brigade
  BG Walter C. Whitaker

Col Thomas E. Champion,[7] Maj George Hicks

Col Benjamin F. Mullen

Col Sidney M. Barnes

Col Jacob E. Taylor

Ltc Charles H. Wood

Ltc John E. Cummins

3rd Brigade
  Col William Grose

Maj Clayton Hale

Col John E. Bennett

Col Louis H. Waters

Col Isaac C. B. Suman

Maj Gilbert Trusler

Cpt George M. Bacon

Escort
Second Division
    MG Philip H. Sheridan
1st Brigade
  Col Francis T. Sherman

Col Silas Miller,[8] Ltc Porter C. Olson

Col Wallace W. Barrett

Col James F. Jacquess

Col Jason Marsh

Ltc George W. Chandler

Col Michael Gooding

Col Bernard Laiboldt, Ltc Arnold Beck

Col Joseph Conrad (w), Cpt Samuel Rexinger

Maj Carl von Baumbach

2nd Brigade[9]
  BG George D. Wagner

Maj Charles M. Hammond

Col Gustavus A. Wood, Maj Frank White (w), Cpt Benjamin F. Hegler

Ltc Elias Neff

Ltc George W. Leonard

Ltc Joseph Moore

Ltc William H. Young

Ltc Milton Barnes

3rd Brigade
  Col Charles G. Harker

Ltc Francis Swanwick

Col Jonathan R. Miles

Col Nathan H. Walworth, Cpt Edgar D. Swain

Maj Charles W. Davis (w), Cpt Albert M. Tilton

Col Allen Buckner

Col Henry C. Dunlap

Col Alexander McIlvan

Col William A. Bullitt

Col Emerson Opdycke, Cpt Edward P. Bates

Artillery
  Cpt Warren P. Edgarton
  • 1st Illinois Light, Battery M

Cpt George W. Spencer

Cpt William A. Naylor

Lt Gustavus Schueler

Third Division
    BG Thomas J. Wood
1st Brigade
  BG August Willich

Col Richard H. Nodine

Ltc William P. Chandler

Ltc William D. Williams

Ltc Frank Erdelmeyer

Ltc Harvey J. Espy (w), Cpt Richard L. Leeson

Col John A. Martin

Ltc Frank Askew

Maj Samuel F. Gray

Cpt John A. Gordon

2nd Brigade
  BG William B. Hazen

Maj Calvin D. Campbell

Col William W. Berry (w),[10] Ltc John L. Treanor

Maj Richard T. Whitaker

Ltc James C. Foy[11]

Ltc Bassett Langdon[12] (w), Maj Joab A. Stafford[13] (w)

Ltc Alexander C. Christopher

Col Aquila Wiley[14] (w), Ltc Robert L. Kimberly[15]

Maj William Birch (mw), Cpt Daniel Bowman (w), Cpt Samuel B. Smith

Ltc James Pickands

3rd Brigade
  BG Samuel Beatty

Col Frederick Knefler

Col George F. Dick

Col George H. Cram

Col Alexander Stout

Col Dwight Jarvis, Jr.

Col Charles F. Manderson

Maj Robert J. Vanosdol

Artillery
  Cpt Cullen Bradley

Cpt Lyman Bridges

Lt Oliver H. P. Ayres

Lt Samuel M. McDowell

XIV Corps

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

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First Division
    BG Richard W. Johnson
1st Brigade
  BG William P. Carlin

Ltc Douglas Hapeman

Ltc Daniel F. Griffin

Ltc William T. B. McIntire

Col Cyrus E. Briant

Col Anson G. McCook

Cpt James H. M. Montgomery

Maj Rue P. Hutchins

Cpt Jacob W. Roby

2nd Brigade[16]
  BG John H. King[17]
  Col Marshall F. Moore
  Col William L. Stoughton[18]

Ltc Alexander W. Raffen

Cpt Patrick H. Keegan

Maj James J. Hanna

3rd Brigade[20]
  BG John C. Starkweather

Col Geza Mihalotzy

Col James S. Hull

Cpt Charles H. Vantine

Maj Joseph Fisher

Maj Augustus B. Bonnaffon

Maj Michael H. Locher

Ltc George B. Bingham

Cpt Charles H. Walker

Artillery
  • 1st Illinois Light, Battery C

Cpt Mark H. Prescott

  • 1st Michigan Light, Battery A

Cpt Francis E. Hale

[21] Cpt Francis L. Guenther

Second Division
    BG Jefferson C. Davis
1st Brigade[22]
  BG James D. Morgan

Col John Tillson

Ltc James B. Cahill

Col William B. Anderson

Col Samuel W. Price

Ltc Christopher J. Dickerson

2nd Brigade[23]
  BG John Beatty

Ltc Oscar Van Tassell

Ltc Carter Van Vleck

Maj James M. Shane

Ltc Carlo Piepho

Maj Lyne S. Sullivant

Maj John Yager

3rd Brigade
  Col Daniel McCook, Jr.

Col Caleb J. Dilworth

Ltc David Magee

Ltc E. Hibbard Topping

Col Oscar F. Harmon

Maj James T. Holmes

Artillery
  Cpt William A. Hotchkiss
  • 2nd Illinois Light, Battery I

Lt Henry B. Plant

Lt Richard L. Dawley

Cpt George Q. Gardner

Third Division
    BG Absalom Baird
1st Brigade
  BG John B. Turchin

Col Morton C. Hunter

Ltc Ogden Street

Maj Benjamin F. Butterfield (mw), Cpt Benjamin H. Showers

Ltc Frederick W. Lister

Ltc Hiram F. Devol

Cpt John H. Jolly

Ltc Douglas Putnam, jr. (w), Cpt Edward Grosvenor

2nd Brigade
  Col Ferdinand Van Derveer

Col Milton S. Robinson

Col Newell Gleason

Ltc Thomas Doan

Ltc Judson W. Bishop

Col Gustave Kammerling

Ltc Henry V. Boynton (w), Maj Joseph L. Budd

Ltc William R. Tolles

3rd Brigade[24]
  Col Edward H. Phelps (k)
  Col William H. Hays

Ltc Marsh B. Taylor

Ltc Myron Baker

Maj Robert M. Kelly

Col William H. Hays, Ltc Gabriel C. Wharton

Ltc Henry D. Kingsbury

Maj Charles Greenwood

Artillery
  Cpt George R. Swallow

Lt Otho H. Morgan

Lt Robert G. Lackey

Lt Frank G. Smith

Artillery Reserve

BG John M. Brannan[25]

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First Division
    Col James Barnett
1st Brigade
  Maj Charles S. Cotter

Lt Norman A. Baldwin

Cpt Marco B. Gary

Lt Albert G. Ransom

Lt Giles J. Cokerill

2nd Brigade

Cpt Alexander Marshall

Cpt Frederick Schultz

Lt Joseph McCafferty

[26] Cpt Edward Grosskopff

Second Division1st Brigade
  Cpt Josiah W. Church
  • 1st Michigan Light, Battery D

Cpt Josiah W. Church

  • 1st Tennessee Light, Battery A

Lt Albert F. Beach

Lt Hiram F. Hubbard

Lt Obadiah German

Cpt Yates V. Beebe

2nd Brigade
  Cpt Arnold Sutermeister

Lt Henry J. Willits

Lt George Estep

Cpt Arnold Sutermeister

Lt William E. Chess

Cpt John R. Davies

Cavalry Corps

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Second Division[27] 2nd Brigade
  Col Eli Long

Ltc Edward Kitchell

Ltc Henry Jordan

Col Thomas P. Nichols

Maj Horace Gray

Maj Thomas J. Patten

Ltc Charles B. Seidel

Maj George W. Dobb

Col Charles C. Smith

Engineers and garrison

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Engineer troops
    BG William F. Smith
Engineer Brigade
  Col Timothy R. Stanley[28]

Maj Willard G. Eaton

Cpt Loomis K. Bishop

Maj Henry S. Dean

Col Timothy R. Stanley

Pioneer Brigade
  Col George P. Buell
  • 1st Battalion: Cpt Charles J. Stewart
  • 2nd Battalion: Cpt Correll Smith
  • 3rd Battalion: Cpt William Clark
Chattanooga garrison
    BG James B. Steedman[29]
Post of Chattanooga
  Col John G. Parkhurst

Ltc Simeon C. Aldrich

Maj William G. Halpin

Ltc William Wilkerson

Hooker's Command

MG Joseph Hooker[30]

Escort:

XI Corps

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

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Second Division
    BG Adolph von Steinwehr
1st Brigade
  Col Adolphus Buschbeck

Col George W. Mindil

Col Allan H. Jackson

Col Patrick H. Jones

Maj Peter A. McAloon (mw), Cpt August Riedt

Ltc Joseph B. Taft (k), Cpt Daniel F. Kelley (c), Lt Samuel D. Miller

2nd Brigade
  Col Orland Smith

Ltc Godfrey Rider, Jr.

Col James Wood

Col Charles B. Gambee

Maj Samuel H. Hurst

Third Division
    MG Carl Schurz
1st Brigade
  BG Hector Tyndale

Col Charles H. Fox

Maj Charles Koch

Col Horace Boughton

Col Stephen J. McGroarty

Ltc David Thomson

2nd Brigade
  Col Wladimir Krzyzanowski

Cpt Michael Esembaux

Col John T. Lockman

Col William K. Logie

Cpt Frederick C. Winkler

3rd Brigade
  Col Frederick Hecker

Cpt James Neville

Ltc Edward S. Salomon

Ltc Albert von Steinhausen

Maj August Ledig

Artillery
  Maj Thomas W. Osborn
  • 1st New York Light, Battery I: Cpt Michael Wiedrich
  • New York Light, 13th Battery: Cpt William Wheeler
  • 1st Ohio Light, Battery I

Cpt Hubert Dilger

Lt Nicholas Sahm

Lt Christopher F. Merkle

XII Corps

See main article: XII Corps (Union Army).

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Second Division[31]
    BG John W. Geary
1st Brigade
  Col Charles Candy[32]
  Col William R. Creighton (k)
  Col Thomas J. Ahl

Col John H. Patrick

Col William R. Creighton, Ltc Orrin J. Crane (k), Cpt Ernst J. Krieger

Col William F. Fitch

Ltc Eugene Powell, Cpt Thomas McConnell

Col Thomas J. Ahl, Cpt John H. Flynn

Ltc Ario Pardee, Jr.

2nd Brigade
  Col George A. Cobham, Jr.

Col William Rickards, Jr.

Cpt Frederick L. Gimber

Col Thomas M. Walker

3rd Brigade
  Col David Ireland

Col Abel Godard

Ltc Herbert von Hammerstein

Col James C. Lane

Cpt Milo B. Eldredge

Col Henry A. Barnum,[33] Ltc Charles B. Randoll

Artillery
  Maj John A. Reynolds[34]

Lt James D. McGill

Cpt Edmund C. Bainbridge

Army of the Tennessee

See main article: Army of the Tennessee. MG William T. Sherman[35]

XV Corps

See main article: XV Corps (Union Army). MG Francis P. Blair[36]

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First Division
    BG Peter J. Osterhaus
1st Brigade
  BG Charles R. Woods

Ltc Frederick W. Partridge (w), Maj Douglas R. Bushnell (k), Cpt George P. Brown

Ltc Theodore Meumann

Col Hugo Wangelin (w), Ltc Jacob Kaercher

Col John F. Cramer

Col Thomas Curley

Col James Peckham (w), Maj Philip H. Murphy

Ltc Samuel P. Simpson

Ltc Henry C. Warmoth

Maj Willard Warner

2nd Brigade
  Col James A. Williamson

Ltc George Burton

Col David Carskaddon

Col George A. Stone

Col Milo Smith

Ltc Aurelius Roberts

Ltc Jeremiah W. Jenkins

Artillery
  Cpt Henry H. Griffiths

Lt James M. Williams

Cpt Clemens Landgraeber

Cpt George Froehlich

Second Division
    BG Morgan L. Smith
1st Brigade
  BG Giles A. Smith (w)
  Col Nathan W. Tupper

Col Oscar Malmborg

Col Nathan W. Tupper, Ltc James P. Boyd

Ltc Frank S. Curtiss

Ltc Ira Boutell

Ltc David C. Coleman

Ltc Samuel R. Mott

2nd Brigade
  BG Joseph A. J. Lightburn

Col Benjamin J. Spooner

Col Theodore Jones

Ltc Louis Von Blessingh

Col Augustus C. Parry

Maj Robert Williams, jr.

Col James H. Dayton

Artillery
  • 1st Illinois Light, Battery A

Cpt Peter P. Wood

  • 1st Illinois Light, Battery B

Cpt Israel P. Rumsey

  • 1st Illinois Light, Battery H

Lt Francis DeGress

Fourth Division
    BG Hugh B. Ewing
1st Brigade
  Col John M. Loomis

Ltc Robert A. Gillmore

Col Timothy O'Meara (k), Ltc Owen Stuart

Col Reuben Williams

Ltc Albert Heath

2nd Brigade[37]
  BG John M. Corse (w)
  Col Charles C. Walcutt

Maj Hiram W. Hall

Col William A. Dickerman

Ltc Alexander J. Miller

Col Charles C. Walcutt, Cpt Isaac N. Alexander

3rd Brigade
  Col Joseph R. Cockerill

Ltc Lucien Greathouse

Col Robert F. Catterson

Col Alexander Fowler

Col Wells S. Jones

Maj William B. Brown

Artillery
  Cpt Henry Richardson
  • 1st Illinois Light, Battery F

Cpt John T. Cheney

  • 1st Illinois Light, Battery I

Lt Josiah H. Burton

Lt Byron M. Callender

XVII Corps

See main article: XVII Corps (Union Army).

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Second Division
    BG John E. Smith
1st Brigade
  Col Jesse I. Alexander

Col Joseph B. McCown

Ltc Edward J. Wood

Cpt Willford H. Welman

Ltc John E. Tourtellotte

Col Gabriel Bouck

2nd Brigade
  Col Green B. Raum (w)
  Col Francis C. Deimling
  Col Clark R. Wever

Maj Pinckney J. Welsh (w)

Col Clark R. Wever, Maj John F. Walden

Col Francis C. Deimling, Ltc Christian Happel, Col Francis C. Deimling

Ltc Pren Metham

3rd Brigade
  BG Charles L. Matthies (w)
  Col Benjamin D. Dean
  Col Jabez Banbury[38]

Col Holden Putnam (k), Ltc Nicholas C. Buswell

Col Jabez Banbury, Ltc Ezekiel S. Sampson

Ltc Paris P. Henderson, Maj Nathaniel McCalla (w)

Col Benjamin D. Dean

Artillery
  Cpt Henry Dillon

Cpt William Cogswell

  • Wisconsin Light, 6th Battery: Lt Samuel F. Clark
  • Wisconsin Light, 12th Battery: Cpt William Zickerick

References

Notes and References

  1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 14-24
  3. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 80-90
  4. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 808-812
  5. John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, page 558
  6. The First Brigade and Battery M, 4th United States Artillery, at Bridgeport Alabama; the 115th Illinois and 84th Indiana, of the Second Brigade, and 5th Indiana Battery, at Shellmound, Tennessee, and the 30th Indiana and 77th Pennsylvania, of the Third Brigade, and Battery H, 4th United States Artillery, at Whiteside's, Tennessee
  7. Relinquished command on account of sickness (see: Hicks' report)
  8. Temporarily in command of a demi-brigade
  9. The 51st Indiana was between Nashville and Chattanooga en route to join the brigade
  10. Commanded part of time 6th Indiana and 5th Kentucky (see: Berry's report)
  11. Succeeded Lieutenant Colonel Langdon in command of the 23rd Kentucky and 1st Ohio (see: Stafford's report)
  12. Commanded part of time 23rd Kentucky and 1st Ohio (see: Foy's and Stafford's report)
  13. Wounded but remained on the field
  14. Commanded part of time 41st Ohio and 93rd Ohio (see: Kimberly's and Smith's report)
  15. Succeeded Colonel Wiley in command of the 41st Ohio and 93rd Ohio (see: Kimberly's and Smith's report)
  16. After Colonel Stoughton assumed command, Colonel Moore (69th Ohio) took command of the 19th Illinois, 11th Michigan and 69th Ohio and Major John R. Edie (15th United States) of the 15th, 16th, 18th and 19th United States (see: Stoughton's and Moore's reports).
  17. Relinquished command on account of sickness (see: Johnson's report)
  18. Assumed command November 25, 1863
  19. Took command of the regular infantry detachments at Missionary Ridge
  20. During the engagements of 23, 24, and 25 November 1863 was in line of battle holding fort and breastworks at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  21. Temporarily attached to Second Division, Fourth Army Corps
  22. [14th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment|14th Michigan]
  23. [3rd Ohio Infantry|3rd Ohio]
  24. [18th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry|18th Kentucky]
  25. Chief of Artillery, Army of the Cumberland
  26. Temporarily attached to Third Division, Fourth Army Corps
  27. Corps headquarters and the First and Second Brigades and 18th Indiana Battery, of the First Division, at and about Alexandria, Tennessee; the Third Brigade at Caperton's Ferry, Tennessee River. The First and Third Brigades, and the Chicago Board, of Trade Battery, of the Second Division, at Maysville, Alabama.
  28. John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, page 505
  29. John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, page 507
  30. Major General Joseph Hooker, commanding Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps had under his immediate command the First Division, Fourth Corps, the Second Division, Twelfth Corps, portions of the Fourteenth Corps, and the First Division, Fifteenth Corps.
  31. The First Division engaged in guarding the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad from Wartrace Bridge, to Bridgeport, Alabama, etc. Major General Henry W. Slocum, the corps commander, had his headquarters at Tullahoma, Tennessee.
  32. Disabled November 24, 1863
  33. Relinquished command on account of sickness (see: Randoll's report)
  34. Chief of Artillery, Twelfth Corps
  35. General Sherman had under his immediate command the Eleventh Corps and the Second Division, Fourteenth Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland; the Second and Fourth Divisions, Fifteenth Corps.
  36. The Third Division, Brigadier General James M. Tuttle commanding, at Memphis, La Grange, and Pocahontas, Tennessee.
  37. [15th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment|15th Michigan]
  38. Succeeded Colonel Benjamin D. Dean November 25, 1863