Siege of Port Hudson order of battle: Union explained

The following is the organization of the Union forces engaged at the Siege of Port Hudson, during the American Civil War in 1863. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Union forces

Army of the Gulf

See main article: Army of the Gulf.

XIX Corps

See main article: XIX Corps (Union Army). MG Nathaniel P. Banks

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1st Division
    MG Christopher C. Augur
1st Brigade
  Col Edward P. Chapin (k)
  Col Charles J. Paine[2]

Col Charles J. Paine

Col Elijah D. Johnson[3]

Col Eben F. Stone

Ltc Burton D. Deming (k)

Cpt John Higgins

2nd Brigade
  BG Godfrey Weitzel[4]
  Col Stephen Thomas[5] [6]

Ltc Frank Henry Peck (w)

Col Robert B. Merritt

Col Elisha B. Smith (mw)

Ltc John B. Van Petten

Col Stephen Thomas

3rd Brigade
  Col Nathan Dudley

Ltc William W. Bullock

Col Carlos P. Messer

Col Gabriel T. Harrower

Maj George Keating

Artillery

Col John A. Keith

Lt John E. Morton

Lt John F. Phelps

Lt Edwin M. Chamberlin

Cpt Albert G. Mack

  • Battery A, 1st U.S. Light Artillery: Cpt Edmund C. Bainbridge
  • Battery G, 5th U.S. Artillery: Lt Jacob B. Rawles
2nd Division
    BG Thomas W. Sherman (w)
    BG George L. Andrews[7]
    BG Frank S. Nickerson[8]
    BG William Dwight[9]
1st Brigade
  BG Neal S. Dow (w&c)[10]
  Col David S. Cowles (k)[11]
  Col Thomas S. Clark[12]

Col Thomas G. Kingsley

Col Thomas S. Clark

Col John W. Kingman

Col David S. Cowles

Col Lewis Benedict

2nd Brigade[13]
  Col Alpha B. Farr
  Col Thomas W. Cahill[14]
  Col Lewis Benedict[15] [16]

Ltc Richard Fitz Gibbons

Ltc Josiah A. Sawtell

Ltc Joseph Stedman

Col Lucius B. Marsh

3rd Brigade
  BG Frank S. Nickerson

Col Thomas W. Porter

Col George Marston Atwood

Col Ephraim W. Woodman

Ltc Abel Smith, Jr. (mw May 27)

Col Michael K. Bryan (k)

Col Ira W. Ainsworth

Artillery

Cpt George T. Hebard

3rd Division
    BG Halbert E. Paine (w)
    Col Hawkes Fearing[17]
1st Brigade
  Col Timothy Ingraham
  Col Samuel P. Ferris[18] [19]

Col Samuel P. Ferris[20]

Col Henry Walker

Col James Pike

Col Clinton H. Sage

2nd Brigade
  Col Hawkes Fearing
  Maj John H. Alcot[21]

Ltc Oliver W. Lull (k, May 27)

Col Leonard D. H. Currie

Maj A. Power Gallway

Col Sidney A. Bean (k, May 29)

3rd Brigade
  Col Oliver P. Gooding

Ltc William S.B. Hopkins

Ltc William L. Rodman (k)

Col John W. Kimball

Col Jacob Sharpe

Artillery

Lt Frederick W. Reinhard

Cpt Richard C. Duryea

Cpt Pythagoras E. Holcomb

4th Division
    BG Cuvier Grover
1st Brigade
  BG William Dwight
  Col Joseph S. Morgan[22]

Col Richard E. Holcomb (k), Ltc William O. Fiske

Col Simon G. Jerrard

Col Joseph S. Morgan

Col Jacob Van Zandt

Col Nicholas W. Day

2nd Brigade
  Col William K. Kimball

Col Samuel M. Mansfield[23]

Ltc Edward Ilsley

[24] Col Thomas E. Chickering

Col Halbert S. Greenleaf

3rd Brigade
  Col Henry W. Birge

Cpt Apollos Comstock

Ltc Mason C. Weld[25]

Col Nathan H. Hubbard

Ltc Charles A. Burt

Artillery
  Cpt Henry W. Closson

Cpt Ormand F. Nims

  • Battery L, 1st U.S. Light Artillery: Cpt Henry W. Closson
  • Battery C, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery: Lt Theodore Bradley
United States Colored TroopsCorps D'Afrique
  BG Daniel Ullman

Maj Cornelius Mowers

Ltc William S. Mudgett

  • 9th Corps D'Afrique: Ltc Isaac S. Bangs
  • 10th Corps D'Afrique: Ltc Ladislas L. Zulavsky
  • 1st Louisiana Engineers

Col Justin Hodge

Native Guard
CavalryGrierson's Brigade
  Col Benjamin H. Grierson

Col Reuben Loomis

Col Edward Prince

Maj Harai Robinson

Ltc Augustus W. Corliss

Maj James Magee

Maj Webster Moore

West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Rear Admiral David G. Farragut

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Steam frigateUSS Hartford  Cpt James S. Palmer
USS Richmond  Cpt James Alden
USS Mississippi  Cpt Melancton Smith
USS Monongahela  Cpt James P. McKinstry
GunboatUSS Albatross  Lt Commander John E. Hart
USS Genesee  Commander William H. Macomb
USS Kineo  Lt Commander John Watters
IroncladUSS Essex  Commander Charles H. B. Caldwell

References

Notes and References

  1. assigned to command the 2nd Division on 27 May
  2. from 27 May
  3. mustered out 25 August
  4. Weitzel commanded the "Right Flank" of the Union forces during the siege.
  5. Eicher p.528
  6. from 14 May
  7. from 27 May
  8. from 28 May
  9. from 30 May
  10. Dow was wounded 27 May and was taken prisoner by Confederate cavalry in July while convalescing on a nearby plantation.
  11. from 27 May
  12. from 27 May
  13. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blenderman/Civil_War/53rd_Mass_f/19th_corps_org.html 19th Corps Organization
  14. from 12 May
  15. temporarily on 14 June
  16. At the time Benedict assumed command the 2nd Brigade consisted of 175th New York, 28th Maine, 48th Massachusetts, 162nd New York; Book: Benedict . Henry Marvin . A memorial of Brevet Brigadier General Lewis Benedict, colonel of 162d regiment N.Y.V.I., who fell in battle at Pleasant Hill, La., April 9, 1864 . J. Munsell . 1866 . Albany, N.Y. . 55 . 2012-08-03 .
  17. from 14 June
  18. http://pth.thehardyparty.com/fed_units_6-30.htm Union Land Forces at Port Hudson - June 30, 1863
  19. from 14 June
  20. mustered out 17 August
  21. from 14 June
  22. from 30 May
  23. mustered out 30 September
  24. Redesignated 3rd Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry on June 17, 1863.
  25. mustered out 25 August