Siege of Corinth order of battle: Union explained

The following units and commanders of the Union Army fought at the Siege of Corinth (29 Apr-30 May 1862) of the American Civil War. The Union Army had approximately 150,000 present for duty.[1] [2] The Confederate order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the siege.[3]

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Other

Department of the Mississippi

MG Henry W. Halleck[4]

District of West Tennessee

See main article: Army of the Tennessee. MG Ulysses S. Grant[6] [7]

Right Wing (Army of the Tennessee)

See main article: Army of the Tennessee. MG George H. Thomas[8] [9]

width=30% Divisionwidth=30% BrigadeRegiments and Others
First Division (Army of the Ohio)[10]
    MG George H. Thomas until 3 May
    BG Thomas W. Sherman
1st Brigade
  BG Albin F. Schoepf

Col William A. Hoskins

Col John M. Connell

Col Moses B. Walker

Col Edwin Bradley

2nd Brigade
  BG Speed Smith Fry

Col Mahlon D. Manson

Col John T. Croxton

Col John M. Harlan

Col James B. Steedman

3rd Brigade
  BG Robert L. McCook

Col James George

Maj Gustave Kammerling

Col Ferdinand Van Derveer

Ltc Oliver L. Shepherd

Artillery
Cavalry
Second Division
    BG Thomas A. Davies until 2 June
    BG Edward Otho Cresap Ord
1st Brigade
  Col James Tuttle

Cpt Richard H. Huston

Col Elliott Warren Rice

2nd Brigade
  BG Richard J. Oglesby

Col August Mersy

Col Augustus L. Chetlain

Col Thomas Morton

Col Crafts J. Wright

3rd Brigade
  Col Silas Baldwin

Col Andrew J. Babcock

Cpt John W. Smith

Cpt Edwin A. Bowen

Ltc Frederick J. Hurlbut

Artillery
  Maj John S. Cavender

Cpt Henry Richardson

Cpt James T. Buel

Cpt George H. Stone

  • 2nd Michigan Battery
Cavalry
Fourth Division
    BG Stephen A. Hurlbut
1st Brigade
  BG Jacob G. Lauman

Cpt W. L. Guard transferred to 2nd Brigade May 1862

Col Amory K. Johnson

Maj William Hunter

Col Isaac C. Pugh

Col William H.W. Cushman

Cpt John B. Smith

2nd Brigade
  BG James C. Veatch

Cpt John Watson Foster

Col Walter Q. Gresham

Col Cyrus Hall

Col Thomas J. Turner

Ltc John J. Jones

Artillery

Cpt Charles Mann

Cpt Edward Spear

Cavalry
Fifth Division
    MG William T. Sherman[12]
1st Brigade
  Col John A. McDowell until 12 May
  Col Morgan L. Smith
Before 15 May

Ltc James W. Booth

Cpt Madison Miner Walden

Col Thomas WorthingtonAfter 15 May

Ltc James Peckham

Col David Stuart

Col Thomas Kilby Smith

Ltc Americus V. Rice

2nd Brigade
  Col David Stuart until 15 May
  Col John A. McDowell
Before 15 May

Col Thomas Kilby SmithAfter 15 May

Col Thomas Worthington

Col Jesse Hildebrand

3rd Brigade
  Col Jesse Hildebrand until 15 May
  Col Ralph P. Buckland until 16 May
  BG James W. Denver[13]
Before 15 May

Ltc Robert A. Fulton

After 15 May

Cpt Samuel G.W. Peterson

Col Joseph R. Cockerill

Col Ralph P. Buckland

4th Brigade
  Col Ralph P. Buckland

Cpt Richard S. Robbins

Discontinued 15 May

Artillery
  Maj Ezra Taylor
  • 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery B

Cpt Samuel E. Barrett

  • 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery E

Lt John A. Fitch

  • 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery H

Cpt Axel Silverparre

  • 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery I

Cpt Edward Bouton

Lt William Mussman

Cavalry
  Col T. Lyle Dickey
Sixth Division
    BG Thomas J. McKean until 30 Apr
    BG Thomas W. Sherman until 3 May
    BG Thomas J. McKean
1st Brigade
  Col John L. Doran until 23 May
  BG John McArthur

Col David Moore

Ltc Robert T. Van Horn

Maj Thomas Reynolds

Col John L. Doran, Ltc Adam G. Malloy

2nd Brigade
  Col John M. Oliver

Maj Stephen Walsh

Ltc John McDermott

Cpt Charles H. Jackson

3rd Brigade
  Col Marcellus M. Crocker
Artillery
  Cpt Andrew Hickenlooper
  • Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery

Lt Christian D. Bliss

Lt William Pfaender

Cpt William S. Williams

Lt Lewis C. Sawyer

Cpt Hamilton B. White

Cavalry

Reserves (Army of the Tennessee)

MG John A. McClernand[14] [15]

width=30% Divisionwidth=30% BrigadeRegiments and Others
First Division
    MG John A. McClernand until 2 May
    BG John A. Logan until 4 May
    BG Henry M. Judah until 2 June
    BG Thomas A. Davies
1st Brigade
  BG John A. Logan until 2 May[16]
  Col Michael K. Lawler until 4 May
  BG John A. Logan

Ltc Frank L. Rhoads

Col Michael K. Lawler

Col Elias Dennis

Ltc Lyndorf Ozburn

Col Francis Quinn

2nd Brigade
  Col C. Carroll Marsh until 4 May
  Col Andrew J. Babcock[17]

Ltc Thomas E. G. Ransom

Cpt Orton Frisbie

Col John Eugene Smith

Maj Manning Mayfield

3rd Brigade
  BG Leonard F. Ross

Maj Francis M. Smith

Col Charles M. Ferrell

Col Adolph Englemann

Maj William W. Bishop

Col Jacob Fry

Artillery
  • 1st Illinois, Battery D

Lt G. S. Wood

  • 2nd Illinois, Battery E

Lt George L. Nispel

Cavalry

Cpt Warren Stewart

Third Division
    MG Lewis Wallace
1st Brigade
  Col Morgan L. Smith until 12 May
  BG Alvin P. Hovey

Col George Francis McGinnis

Col Alvin P. Hovey

Ltc James Peckham regiment transferred 15 May

2nd Brigade
  Col John M. Thayer

Col William L. Sanderson

Ltc Robert R. Livingston

Ltc Manning F. Force[18]

Ltc Ferdinand F. Rempel

3rd Brigade
  Col Charles Whittlesey until May
  Col Charles R. Woods

Col Peter Kinney

Col Samuel H. Steedman

Maj Willard Warner

Col Mortimer D. Leggett

Artillery
  • 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery A

Lt Peter P. Wood

Cpt William Cogswell

Cpt Noah S. Thompson

Lt John W. Wellshear

Cavalry

Center (Army of the Ohio)

See main article: Army of the Ohio. MG Don Carlos Buell[19]

width=30% Divisionwidth=30% BrigadeRegiments and Others
Second Division
    BG Alexander M. McCook[20]
4th Brigade
  BG Lovell H. Rousseau

Col Benjamin F. Smith

Col Thomas Turpin Crittenden

Col Harvey M. Buckley

5th Brigade
  Col Frederick S. Stumbaugh

Col Frederick Stumbaugh

Col John F. Miller

Ltc Joseph B. Dodge

Ltc Hiram Bristol

6th Brigade
  BG Richard W. Johnson

Col Moses R. Dickey

Col William Harvey Gibson

Col August Willich

Col Thomas J. Harrison

Artillery
  Cpt William R. Terrill
Fourth Division
    MG William "Bull" Nelson[21]
10th Brigade
  Col Jacob Ammen

Col William Grose

Col John McHenry II

Ltc Nicholas L. Anderson

Ltc Frederick C. Jones

19th Brigade
  Col William B. Hazen

Col Walter C. Whitaker

Col Charles D. Pennebaker

Ltc George Mygatt

22nd Brigade
  Col Thomas D. Sedgewick[22] until 30 May
  BG Mahlon D. Manson

Ltc John Osborn

Col David Enyart

Ltc Warner Spencer; Col Thomas D. Sedgewick

Ltc Charles S. Hanson

Artillery

Cpt John Mendenhall[23]

Cavalry
  Ltc Edward M. McCook

Ltc Edward M. McCook

Fifth Division
    BG Thomas L. Crittenden[24] [25]
11th Brigade
  BG Jeremiah T. Boyle until 27 May
  Col Samuel Beatty[26]

Col Samuel Beatty

Col James P. Fyffe

Col Benjamin C. Grider

Col Edward H. Hobson

14th Brigade
  BG Horatio P. Van Cleve

Col William Sooy Smith

Col Pierce B. Hawkins

Col Stephen G. Burbridge

Cavalry
  

Col James S. Jackson[27]

Artillery
Sixth Division
    BG Thomas J. Wood[28]
15th Brigade
  BG Milo Hascall

Col John T. Wilder

Col George P. Buell

Col Thomas E. Bramlette

Col Edward P. Fyffe

20th Brigade
  BG James A. Garfield

Col Abel Streight

Col Michael Shoemaker

Col John Ferguson

Col Charles G. Harker

21st Brigade
  Col George D. Wagner

Col Gustavus A. Wood

Col Cyrus Hines

Col Louis Grisgsby

Left Wing (Army of the Mississippi)

See main article: Army of the Mississippi. MG John Pope[29] [30]

width=30% Divisionwidth=30% BrigadeRegiments and Others
Cavalry Division
    BG Gordon Granger[31]
1st Brigade
  Col William P. Kellogg until 1 June[32]
  Col John K. Mizner

Ltc Robert H.G. Minty

Col William P. Kellogg

2nd Brigade
  Col Washington Lafayette Elliott until 1 June
  Col Philip H. Sheridan

Ltc Edward Hatch

Col Philip H. Sheridan appointed 25 May

Artillery
  • Powell's Battery
Reporting DirectlyReserve Brigade[33]
  Col William P. Carlin

Ltc George Peck

Ltc Daniel H. Gilmer

Artillery Brigade
  Ltc Warren L. Lothrop
  • 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery I

Cpt Charles M. Barnett

Cpt Albert M. Powell

Cpt Oscar F. Pinney

Unattached Units

Col Josiah W. Bissell

Cpt George A. Williams

Cpt Eugene W. Crittenden

Right Wing

MG William S. Rosecrans[34] assigned 29 May

width=30% Divisionwidth=30% BrigadeRegiments and Others
First Division
    BG Eleazar Paine[35]
1st Brigade
  BG John M. Palmer

Ltc Harrison E. Hart

Ltc Fazilo Harrington

Col George W. Roberts

Col Gilbert W. Cumming

2nd Brigade
  Col James D. Morgan until 1 May
  BG Daniel Tyler[36]

Ltc John Tillson, Col James D. Morgan

Col Robert F. Smith

Col Silas C. Toler

Col Charles M. Lum

Col Robert P. Sinclair

Ltc David E. Williams

Artillery
  • 1st Illinois, Battery C
  • 1st Missouri Artillery, Battery G
Second Division
    BG David S. Stanley
1st Brigade
  Col John Groesbeck until 8 July[37]
  Col Joseph L. Kirby Smith

Col John W. Fuller

Col John Groesbeck, Ltc Alfred W. Gilbert

Col J.L. Kirby Smith

Col John W. Sprague

2nd Brigade
  BG Joseph B. Plummer until 29 May
  Col Robert C. Murphy[38]

Col John M. Loomis

Col William Thrush

Col Rudolph von Borgersode (joined 10-24 May 1862)

Col Joseph A. Mower

Col Robert C. Murphy

Artillery

Left Wing

BG Schuyler Hamilton[39] assigned 29 May

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Third Division
    BG Schuyler Hamilton until 29 May
    BG Joseph B. Plummer
1st Brigade
  BG Napoleon B. Buford

Col Norman Eddy

Col Jesse I. Alexander

Col William H. Worthington (k, 22 May 1862), Ltc Karl Leopold Matthias

Col John B. Sanborn

  • 26th Missouri: Col John H. Holman
2nd Brigade
  Col Nicholas Perczel

Ltc William R. Brown

Ltc William E. Small

Col George B. Boomer

Col Ephraim R. Eckley

Artillery

Cap Frank C. Sands

Fourth Division
    BG Jefferson C. Davis[40]
1st Brigade
  BG Robert B. Mitchell

Maj Michael Gooding

Col Philip S. Post

Asboth's Brigade[41]
  BG Alexander Asboth

Col Frederick Schaefer

Col Francis Joliat

Col Nicholas Greusel

Col Charles Knobelsdorff

Fifth Division[42] created 1 June
    BG Alexander Asboth
1st Brigade
  Col Nicholas Greusel
  • 36th Illinois: Col Nicholas Greusel
  • 44th Illinois: Col Charles Knobelsdorff
2nd Brigade
  Ltc Bernard Laiboldt
  • 2nd Missouri: Maj Francis Ehrler
  • 15th Missouri: Maj Joseph Conrad

Sources

Notes and References

  1. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0011;didno=waro0011;view=image;seq=237;node=waro0011%3A1;page=root;size=100 Abstract from returns of the Armies of the Mississippi and of the Tennessee and of the District of the Ohio for May 31 and June 1, 1862
  2. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  3. Official Records, Series I, Volume X, Part 2, pages 147-154 (April 30, 1862) and pages 185-188 (May 13, 1862)
  4. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0011;didno=waro0011;view=image;seq=146;node=waro0011%3A1;page=root;size=100 Special Field Orders No. 35
  5. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch26 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter XXVI
  6. Grant retained general command of the Dist. of West Tennessee which included all the divisions of Army of the Tennessee now divided between the Right Wing directly under George H. Thomas and Reserves directly under John A. McClernand. Special Field Orders No. 35
  7. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0011;didno=waro0011;view=image;seq=154;node=waro0011%3A1;page=root;size=100 Organization of the Army of the Tennessee April 30, 1862
  8. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch26 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter XXVI
  9. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0011;didno=waro0011;view=image;seq=187;node=waro0011%3A1;page=root;size=100 Organization of the Right Wing, Left Wing and Reserve, in front of Corinth MS, May 13, 1862
  10. The First Division, Army of the Ohio was also known as the 7th Division, Army of the Tennessee Organization of the Right Wing, Left Wing and Reserves, 13 May 1862
  11. The "Union Brigade" was a regiment-sized command, led by John P. Coulter of the 12th Iowa, composed of members of the 8th, 12th and 14th Iowa and 58th Illinois regiments who escaped capture in the Hornet's Nest at Shiloh.
  12. Owing to the reduced regimental strength, the 5th Division was reorganized into three brigades instead of four on 15 May 1862. Orders No. 25
  13. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=764;size=100;page=root Denver's Official Report
  14. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=772;size=100;page=root McClernand's Official Report
  15. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0011;didno=waro0011;view=image;seq=189;node=waro0011%3A1;page=root;size=100 Organization of the Right Wing, Left Wing and Reserve, in front of Corinth, MS, May 13, 1862
  16. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=776;size=100;page=root Logan's Official Report
  17. https://books.google.com/books?id=OBkNAQAAMAAJ&q=granger&pg=PA528 page 479
  18. transferred from 3rd Brigade May 1862
  19. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0011;didno=waro0011;view=image;seq=151;node=waro0011%3A1;page=root;size=100 Organization of the Army of the Ohio, April 30, 1862
  20. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=695;size=100;page=root McCook's Official Records
  21. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=700;size=100;page=root Nelson's Official Report
  22. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=700;size=100;page=root Sedgewick's Official Report
  23. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=716;size=100;page=root Official Records
  24. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=718;size=100;page=root Crittenden's Official Report
  25. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=772;size=100;page=root Crittenden's Division was originally assigned to the Reserves but was reattached to Buell's command before it could be transferred
  26. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=719;size=100;page=root Beatty's Official Report
  27. Eicher p.315
  28. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=723;size=100;page=root Wood's Official Report
  29. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0011;didno=waro0011;view=image;seq=188;node=waro0011%3A1;page=root;size=100 Organization of the Right Wing, Left Wing and Reserve, in front of Corinth, MS, May 13, 1862
  30. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0011;didno=waro0011;view=image;seq=149;node=waro0011%3A1;page=root;size=100 Organization of the Army of the Mississippi April 30, 1862
  31. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=744;size=100;page=root Granger's Official Report
  32. https://books.google.com/books?id=OBkNAQAAMAAJ&q=granger&pg=PA528 page 479
  33. Carlin's Reserve Brigade was reassigned as the 2nd Brigade in Jefferson C. Davis' 4th Division on 1 June (Eicher p.163)
  34. http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/recordView.cfm?Content=011/0224 General Orders, HQ Army of the Mississippi
  35. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=731;size=100;page=root James D. Morgan's Official Report of the First Division
  36. Dyer p. 477
  37. Dyer p. 477
  38. Dyer p. 477
  39. http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/recordView.cfm?Content=011/0224 General Orders, HQ Army of the Mississippi
  40. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=waro0010;node=waro0010%3A5;view=image;seq=744;size=100;page=root Davis' Official Report
  41. Joined 25 May; reorganized as 5th Division on 1 June at which time Carlin's Reserve Brigade became the 2nd Brigade, 4th Division.
  42. https://books.google.com/books?id=OBkNAQAAMAAJ&q=carlin&pg=PA528 A compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Volume 1 p. 478