First Battle of Deep Bottom order of battle: Union explained

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the First Battle of Deep Bottom (July 27–29, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Other

Union Forces

General in Chief

LTG Ulysses S. Grant

Army of the Potomac

See main article: Army of the Potomac. MG George Meade

II Corps

See main article: II Corps (Union Army). MG Winfield Scott Hancock

Escort:

Engineers:

Chief of Artillery: Col John C. Tidball

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First Division
    BG Francis C. Barlow until 29 July[1]
    BG Nelson A. Miles[2]
1st Brigade  BG Nelson A. Miles until July 29
  Col James C. Lynch[3]
Consolidated Brigade[5]   Col Clinton D. MacDougall[6]
4th Brigade  Ltc Knut Oscar Broady
Second Division
    MG John Gibbon

Provost guard:
2nd Company Minnesota Sharpshooters: Cpt Mahlon Black
1st Brigade  Ltc Francis E. Pierce
2nd Brigade  Col Mathew Murphy
3rd Brigade  Col Thomas A. Smyth
Third Division
    BG Gershom Mott
1st Brigade  BG Régis de Trobriand
2nd Brigade  Col Daniel Chaplin (until July 28)[13]
  Col Henry J. Madill (July 28)
3rd Brigade  Col Robert McAllister
4th Brigade  Col William R. Brewster
Artillery Brigade  Maj John G. Hazard

Cavalry Corps

See main article: Cavalry Corps (Union Army). MG Philip Sheridan

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First Division
BG Alfred T. A. Torbert[14]
1st Brigade (Wolverine Brigade)
k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0
BG George A. Custer
2nd Brigade
k-3, w-12, m-0 = 15
Col Thomas C. Devin
Reserve Brigade
k-7, w-48, m-5 = 60

BG Wesley Merritt

  • 19th New York (1st Dragoon)
  • 6th Pennsylvania
  • 1st Rhode Island, detachment
  • 1st United States
  • 2nd United States
  • 5th United States
  • 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery D
Second Cavalry Division
    BG David McMurtrie Gregg
1st Brigade  BG Henry Eugene Davies
2nd Brigade  Col John Irvin Gregg

Army of the James

See main article: Army of the James. MG Benjamin F. Butler

X Corps

See main article: X Corps (Union Army).

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First Division3rd Brigade  BG Robert Sanford Foster

XIX Corps

See main article: XIX Corps (Union Army).

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Second Division1st Brigade  BG Henry Warner Birge

Cavalry

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Cavalry Division
    BG August Kautz
1st Brigade  Col Robert M. West
2nd Brigade  Col Samuel P. Spear
Unassigned
Artillery
  • 4th Wisconsin Battery (1st section): Cpt George B. Easterly
  • 4th Wisconsin Battery (2nd section): Lt William P. Powers

Naval forces

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. Eicher p.116
  2. Eicher p.389
  3. Eicher p.357
  4. On picket duty; not engaged.
  5. 2nd and 3rd Brigades consolidated on June 27 Civil War in the East: Second Army Corps (June 1864)
  6. Eicher p.358
  7. Not engaged.
  8. Not engaged.
  9. Not engaged.
  10. Not engaged.
  11. Not engaged.
  12. Not engaged.
  13. Eicher p.170
  14. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924079621052&view=1up&seq=264&q1=birge Official Records Chap LII, p.244