Battle of Fort Donelson order of battle: Union explained

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Fort Donelson of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the casualty returns,^[1] and the reports.^[2] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

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

Other

• w = wounded
• k = killed

Union Forces

District of Cairo

BG Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding

• Chief of Staff: Col Joseph D. Webster
• Chief of Engineers: Col James B. McPherson
• Assistant Adjutant General: Cpt John A. Rawlins

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division     BG John A. McClernand	1st Brigade K-184, W-603, M-66 = 853   Col Richard J. Oglesby	8th Illinois: Ltc Frank L. Rhoads 18th Illinois: Col Michael K. Lawler (w), Cpt Daniel H. Brush (w), Cpt Samuel B. Marks 29th Illinois: Col James S. Reardon 30th Illinois: Ltc Elias S. Dennis 31st Illinois: Col John A. Logan (w), Cpt Jasper M. Dresser Battery D, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt James P. Timmony 2nd Illinois Cavalry, Companies A & B: Maj John J. Mudd (w),^[3] Cpt John Hotaling 2nd U.S. Cavalry, Company C: Lt Charles E Farrand; 4th U.S. Cavalry, Company I: Lt James Powell Carmichael's Illinois Cavalry Company: Cpt Eagleton Carmichael Dollins' Illinois Cavalry Company: Cpt James J. Dollins O'Hartnett's Illinois Cavalry Company: Cpt Morris J. O'Harnett Stewart's Illinois Cavalry Company: Lt Ezra King
	2nd Brigade K-99, W-350, M-98 = 547   Col William H. L. Wallace	11th Illinois: Ltc Thomas E. G. Ransom (w), Maj Garnett Nevin 20th Illinois: Col C. Carroll Marsh 45th Illinois: Col John Eugene Smith 48th Illinois: Col Isham N. Haynie, Ltc Thomas H. Smith (k) Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Ezra Taylor Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Edward McAllister 4th Illinois Cavalry: Col Theophilus Lyle Dickey
	3rd Brigade K-28, W-105, M-19 = 152   Col William R. Morrison (w)   Col Isham N. Haynie^[4] ^[5]   Col Leonard F. Ross	17th Illinois: Col Leonard F. Ross, Maj Francis M. Smith, Cpt Henry H. Bush 49th Illinois: Ltc Phineas Pease Battery H, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Frederick Welker Battery K, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt George H. Stone
Second Division     BG Charles F. Smith	1st Brigade K-69, W-340, M-20 = 429   Col John McArthur	9th Illinois: Ltc Jesse J. Phillips 12th Illinois: Ltc Augustus L. Chetlain 41st Illinois: Col Isaac C. Pugh
	3rd Brigade K-10, W-109, M-2 = 121   Col John Cook	7th Illinois: Ltc Andrew J. Babcock 28th Illinois: Col Amory K. Johnston 50th Illinois: Col Moses M. Bane 52nd Illinois: Col Thomas W. Sweeny^[6] 12th Iowa: Col Joseph J. Wood 52nd Indiana: Col James M. Smith 13th Missouri: Col Crafts J. Wright Battery D, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Henry Richardson
	4th Brigade K-55, W-301, M-1 = 357   Col Jacob G. Lauman	2nd Iowa: Col James Tuttle 7th Iowa: Ltc James Parrott 14th Iowa: Col William T. Shaw 25th Indiana: Col James C. Veatch Birge's Western Sharpshooters: Col John W. Birge
	5th Brigade K-11, W-69, M-0 = 80   Col Morgan L. Smith^[7]	11th Indiana: Col George F. McGinnis 8th Missouri: Maj John McDonald
Third Division^[8]     BG Lew Wallace	1st Brigade K-35, W-182, M-16 = 233   Col Charles Cruft	31st Indiana: Ltc John Osborn, Maj Fred Arn 44th Indiana: Col Hugh B. Reed 17th Kentucky: Col John H. McHenry, Jr. 25th Kentucky: Col James M. Shackelford
	2nd Brigade^[9] K6, W-15, M-1 = 22	46th Illinois: Col John A. Davis 57th Illinois: Col Silas D. Baldwin 58th Illinois: Col William F. Lynch 20th Ohio: Col Charles Whittlesey
	3rd Brigade K-3, W-24, M-1 = 28   Col John M. Thayer	1st Nebraska: Ltc William McCord 58th Ohio: Ltc Ferdinand F. Rempel 68th Ohio: Col Samuel H. Steedman 76th Ohio: Col William B. Woods
	Unattached K-0, W-20, M-0 = 20	Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Lt Peter P. Wood 32nd Illinois, Company A: Cpt Henry Davidson

Western Flotilla

Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote (w)

width=40%	Class	width=60%	Vessel
City class ironclad	U.S.S. St. Louis   Lieutenant Leonard Paulding (K-2, W-8, M-0 = 10)
	U.S.S. Carondelet   Commander Henry Walke (K-5, W-28, M-0 = 33)
	U.S.S. Louisville   Commander Benjamin M. Dove (K-4, W-5, M-0 = 9)
	U.S.S. Pittsburgh   Lieutenant Egbert Thompson (K-0, W-2, M-0 = 2)
Timberclad	U.S.S. Tyler   Lieutenant William Gwin
	U.S.S. Conestoga   Lieutenant Seth L. Phelps
	U.S.S. Lexington   Lieutenant James Shirk

Rear Guard

These units were attached to the District of Cairo but were posted to guard duty and did not take part in the campaign against Fort Donelson.^[10]

width=25%	Post	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Bird's Point, MO	4th Brigade (1st Division)   Col James D. Morgan	10th Illinois: Ltc John Tillson 16th Illinois: Col Robert F. Smith 22nd Illinois: Ltc Harrison E. Hart 10th Iowa: Col Nicholas Perczel
Cairo, IL	Brigade   BG Eleazar A. Paine	51st Illinois: Col Gilbert W. Cumming Artillery, 4 batteries

See also

• Tennessee in the American Civil War

Notes

1. Official Records, Series I, Volume VII, page 167
2. Official Records, Series I, Volume VII, page 157
3. http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/statewide/military/civilwar/other/c02cav.txt History of the 2nd Illinois Cavalry
4. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 1, page 429.
5. Haynie's regiment was temporarily attached to the 3rd Brigade on Feb. 13 to participate in an assault on a Confederate battery. Haynie outranked Morrison and therefore was the senior commander. Quickly into the fighting Morrison was wounded and when the attacked failed Haynie's regiment was returned to the 2nd Brigade. (Cooling p. 145) Leonard F. Ross was then elevated to command of the 3rd Brigade.
6. The 52nd Illinois (Col Sweeny, Eicher p.519) moved to Fort Donelson between Feb 10-17 http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf4.htm#52nd and was primarily involved in prisoner transport.
7. Temporarily attached to Third Division on February 15.
8. Division created February 14. General Wallace transferred from 5th Brigade, 2nd Division (Eicher p.551)
9. Attached to 3rd Brigade.
10. Gott p.77

References

• Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, The Campaign for Fort Donelson, U.S. National Park Service and Eastern National, 1999, .
• Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
• Gott, Kendall D., Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry - Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862, Stackpole books, 2003, .
• Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles, Volume 1 (Pdf), New York: The Century Co., 1887.
• U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 - 1901.