Siege of Vicksburg order of battle: Union explained

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Siege of Vicksburg of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign.[2]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Army of the Tennessee

See main article: Army of the Tennessee. MG Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding

General Staff:

General Headquarters:

IX Corps

See main article: IX Corps (Union Army). MG John Parke[4]

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First Division


    BG Thomas Welsh

1st Brigade
  Col Henry Bowman
3rd Brigade
  Col Daniel Leasure
Artillery
Second Division


    BG Robert B. Potter

1st Brigade
  Col Simon Goodell Griffin
2nd Brigade
  BG Edward Ferrero
3rd Brigade
  Col Benjamin C. Christ
Artillery
Artillery Reserve

XIII Corps

See main article: XIII Corps (Union Army). MG John A. McClernand[6]
MG Edward Ord

Escort

Pioneers

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Ninth Division


    BG Peter J. Osterhaus

1st Brigade
  BG Albert L. Lee (w May 19)
  Col James Keigwin[7]
2nd Brigade
  Col Daniel W. Lindsey
Cavalry
Artillery
  Cpt Jacob T. Foster
Tenth Division


  BG Andrew J. Smith

Escort

  • 4th Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Andrew P. Gallagher
1st Brigade
  BG Stephen G. Burbridge
2nd Brigade
  Col William J. Landram
Artillery
Twelfth Division


    BG Alvin P. Hovey

Escort

  • 1st Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Lt James L. Carey
1st Brigade
  BG George F. McGinnis
2nd Brigade
  Col James R. Slack
Artillery
Fourteenth Division


    BG Eugene A. Carr

Escort

  • 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company G: Cpt Enos McPhail, Cpt Samuel S. Marrett
1st Brigade
  BG William P. Benton
  Col Henry D. Washburn[8]
  Col David Shunk[9]
2nd Brigade
  BG Michael K. Lawler
Artillery

XV Corps

See main article: XV Corps (Union Army). MG William T. Sherman

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First Division


    MG Frederick Steele

1st Brigade
  Col Francis H. Manter
  Col Bernard G. Farrar[10]
2nd Brigade
  Col Charles R. Woods
3rd Brigade
  BG John M. Thayer
Artillery
  • 1st Battery, Iowa Light: Cpt Henry H. Griffiths
  • Battery F, 2nd Missouri Light: Cpt Clemens Landgraeber
  • 4th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Louis Hoffmann
Cavalry
Second Division


    MG Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

1st Brigade
  Col Giles A. Smith
2nd Brigade
  Col Thomas Kilby Smith
  BG Joseph A. J. Lightburn[11]
3rd Brigade
  BG Hugh Boyle Ewing
Artillery
  • Battery A, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Peter P. Wood
  • Battery B, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Samuel E. Barrett, Lt Israel P. Rumsey
  • Battery H, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Levi W. Hart
  • 8th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt James F. Putnam
Cavalry
Third Division


    BG James M. Tuttle

1st Brigade
  BG Ralph P. Buckland
  Col William L. McMillen[12]
2nd Brigade
  BG Joseph A. Mower
3rd Brigade
  BG Charles L. Matthies
  Col Joseph J. Woods[13]
Artillery
  Cpt Nelson T. Spoor
Unattached cavalry

XVI Corps (detachment)

MG Cadwallader C. Washburn

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First Division[14]


    BG William Sooy Smith

Escort

1st Brigade
  Col John Mason Loomis
  Col Sanford J. Stoughton
2nd Brigade
  Col Stephen G. Hicks
3rd Brigade
  Col Joseph R. Cockerill
4th Brigade
  Col William W. Sanford
Artillery
  Cpt William Cogswell
Fourth Division[15]


    BG Jacob G. Lauman

1st Brigade
  Col Isaac C. Pugh
2nd Brigade
  Col Cyrus Hall
3rd Brigade
  Col George E. Bryant
  Col Amory K. Johnson[17]
Cavalry
Artillery.
  Cpt George C. Gumbart
Provisional Division[18]


    BG Nathan Kimball

Engelmann's Brigade
  Col Adolph Engelmann
Richmond's Brigade
  Col Jonathan Richmond
Montgomery's Brigade
  Col Milton Montgomery

XVII Corps

See main article: XVII Corps (Union Army). MG James B. McPherson

Escort

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Third Division


    MG John A. Logan

Escort

  • 2nd Illinois Cavalry, Company A: Lt William B. Cummins
1st Brigade
  BG John E. Smith[19]
  BG Mortimer D. Leggett
2nd Brigade
  BG Mortimer D. Leggett
  Col Manning F. Force[20]
3rd Brigade
  BG John Dunlap Stevenson
Artillery
  Maj Charles J. Stolbrand
  • Battery D, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Henry A. Rogers, Lt George J. Wood, Cpt Frederick Sparrestrom
  • Battery G, 2nd Illinois Light:[21] Cpt Frederick Sparrestrom, Lt John W. Lowell
  • Battery L, 2nd Illinois Light: Cpt William H. Bolton
  • Battery H, 1st Michigan Light Artillery: Cpt Samuel De Golyer, Lt Theodore W. Lockwood
  • 3rd Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt William S. Williams
Sixth Division


    BG John McArthur

Escort

  • 11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G: Lt Stephen S. Tripp
1st Brigade
(Post of Lake Providence)
  BG Hugh T. Reid
2nd Brigade
  BG Thomas E.G. Ransom
3rd Brigade
  Col William Hall
  Col Alexander Chambers[22]
Artillery
  Maj Thomas D. Maurice
Seventh Division


    BG Isaac Quinby
    BG John E. Smith[23]

Escort

1st Brigade
  Col John B. Sanborn
2nd Brigade
  Col Samuel A. Holmes
  Col Green B. Raum[24]
3rd Brigade
  Col George B. Boomer (k May 22)
  Col Holden Putnam[25]
  BG Charles L. Matthies[26]
Artillery.
  Cpt Frank C. Sands
  Cpt Henry Dillon[27]
Herron's Division[29]


    MG Francis J. Herron

1st Brigade
  BG William Vandever
2nd Brigade
  BG William W. Orme
Unattached cavalry
  Col Cyrus Bussey

District of Northeast Louisiana

BG Elias S. Dennis

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Detached Brigade
  Col George W. Neeley
African Brigade
  Col Isaac F. Shephard
Post of Goodrich's Landing, La.
  Col William F. Wood

References

Notes and References

  1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 148-158
  3. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/the-mississippi-marine-brigade/ The judge advocate general declared this unit as a special contingent of the army, however Grant later wrote "the Marine Brigade is not subject to my orders"
  4. IX Corps: joined from the Department of the Ohio, June 14 to 17.
  5. Transferred from Second Division June 25.
  6. Relieved June 19.
  7. Assumed command May 19.
  8. Assumed command May 31.
  9. Assumed command June 27.
  10. Assumed command June 13.
  11. Assumed command May 24.
  12. Assumed command June 22.
  13. Assumed command June 1.
  14. Joined from La Grange, Tenn., June 12.
  15. Joined from Memphis, Tenn., May 13 to 20. Temporarily attached to the Thirteenth Corps.
  16. Transferred to Third Brigade June 22.
  17. Assumed command June 9.
  18. Composed of the First and Second Brigades of the Third Division and four regiments from the Sixth Division. Joined from Memphis, Tenn., June 3.
  19. transferred to 7th Division, XVII Corps on June 3
  20. Assumed command June 3.
  21. By the collision of two steamers May 1, 1863, near Grand Gulf, MISS., this battery lost all its guns, and was sent to Memphis to refit. It rejoined the army at Vicksburg June 30. Meantime Captain Sparrestrom had been assigned, June 16, to the command of Battery D, First Illinois Light Artillery.
  22. Assumed command June 6.
  23. Assumed command June 3.
  24. Assumed command June 10.
  25. Assumed command May 22.
  26. Assumed command June 2.
  27. Assumed command June 6.
  28. Temporarily attached to Kimball's Division, XVI Corps, June 6.
  29. Joined from the Department of the Missouri June 11.

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