Battle of Chickasaw Bayou order of battle: Union explained

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other

• w = wounded
• k = killed

Expeditionary Force, Army of the Tennessee

Right Wing, XIII Corps

MG William T. Sherman

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division     BG Andrew Jackson Smith Escort: Company C, 4th Indiana Cavalry: Cpt Joseph P. Lesslie	1st Brigade  BG Stephen Gano Burbridge	16th Indiana: Col Thomas J. Lucas 60th Indiana: Col Richard Owen 67th Indiana: Col Frank Emerson 83rd Ohio: Ltc William H. Baldwin 96th Ohio: Col Joseph W. Vance 23rd Wisconsin: Col Joseph J. Guppey
	2nd Brigade  Col William J. Landram	77th Illinois: Col David P. Grier 97th Illinois: Col Friend S. Rutherford 108th Illinois: Col John Warner 131st Illinois: Col George W. Neeley 89th Indiana: Col Charles D. Murray 19th Kentucky: Ltc John Cowan 48th Ohio: Ltc Job R. Parker
Second Division     BG Morgan Lewis Smith (w)     BG David Stuart	1st Brigade  Col Giles A. Smith	113th Illinois: Col George B. Hoge 116th Illinois: Col Nathan W. Tupper 6th Missouri: Ltc James H. Blood 8th Missouri: Ltc David C. Coleman 1st Battalion, 13th U.S.: Maj Dudley Chase
	4th Brigade  BG David Stuart   Col Thomas Kilby Smith	55th Illinois: Ltc Oscar Malmborg 127th Illinois: Col John Van Arman 83rd Indiana: Col Benjamin J. Spooner 54th Ohio: Col Thomas Kilby Smith 57th Ohio: Col William Mungen
Third Division     BG George Washington Morgan	1st Brigade  Col Lionel A. Sheldon	118th Illinois: Col John G. Fonda 69th Indiana: Col Thomas Warren Bennett 120th Ohio: Col Daniel French
	2nd Brigade  Col Daniel W. Lindsey	49th Indiana: Col James Keigwin 7th Kentucky: Ltc Joel W. Ridgell 114th Ohio: Ltc Horatio B. Maynard
	3rd Brigade  Col John F. DeCourcy	54th Indiana: Col Fielding Mansfield 22nd Kentucky: Ltc George W. Monroe (w), Maj William J. Worthington 16th Ohio: Ltc Philip Kershner (w/c) 42nd Ohio: Ltc Don Albert Pardee
	Artillery	Battery G, 1st Michigan Light Artillery: Cpt Charles H. Lanphere 1st Wisconsin Light Artillery: Cpt Jacob T. Foster
Fourth Division     BG Frederick Steele	1st Brigade  BG Francis Preston Blair Jr.	13th Illinois: Col John B. Wyman (k), Ltc Adam B. Gorgas 29th Missouri: Col John S. Cavender 30th Missouri: Ltc Otto Schadt 31st Missouri: Col Thomas C. Fletcher (w/c), Ltc Samuel P. Simpson (w) 32nd Missouri: Col Francis H. Manter 58th Ohio: Ltc Peter Dister (k) 4th Ohio Battery: Cpt Louis Hoffman Company C, 10th Missouri Cavalry: Lt Daniel W. Ballon
	2nd Brigade  BG Charles E. Hovey	25th Iowa: Col George A. Stone 31st Iowa: Col William Smyth 3rd Missouri: Col Isaac F. Shepard 12th Missouri: Col Hugo Wangelin 17th Missouri: Col Francis Hassendeubel 76th Ohio: Col Charles Robert Woods 1st Missouri Horse Artillery: Cpt Clemens Landgraeber
	3rd Brigade  BG John Milton Thayer	4th Iowa: Col James Alexander Williamson (w) 9th Iowa: Ltc William H. Coyl 26th Iowa: Col Milo Smith 30th Iowa: Col Charles H. Abbott 34th Iowa: Col George W. Clark 1st Iowa Light Artillery: Cpt Henry H. Griffiths

Unattached units

• Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Peter P. Wood
• Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Samuel E. Barrett
• Battery H, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Lt Levi W. Hart
• Chicago Mercantile Light Artillery: Cpt Charles G. Cooley
• 8th Ohio Light Artillery: Lt James F. Putnam
• 17th Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt Ambrose A. Blount
• 3rd Illinois Cavalry: Col Lafayette McCrillis
• Thielman's Battalion (Illinois):
• 6th Missouri Cavalry: Col Clark Wright
• Patterson's Kentucky Engineers & Mechanics: Cpt William F. Patterson

See also

• Mississippi in the American Civil War

References

• Bearss, Edwin C. The Campaign for Vicksburg 3 vol. (Dayton, OH: Morningside), 1985-1986.
• Johnson, Robert Underswood & Clarence Clough Buell (eds.). Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Volume 3 (New York: The Century Company), 1884.
• Winschel, Terrence C. Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign (Mason City, IA: Savas Pub. Co.), 1999.