Brandy Station Union order of battle
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The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Brandy Station
Battle of Brandy Station
The Battle of Brandy Station, also called the Battle of Fleetwood Hill, was the largest predominantly cavalry engagement of the American Civil War, as well as the largest to take place ever on American soil. It was fought at the beginning of the Gettysburg Campaign by the Union cavalry under Maj....

 of the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 on the Union
Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty free states and five border slave states. It was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the...

 side. The Confederate order of battle
Brandy Station Confederate order of battle
The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Brandy Station of the American Civil War on the Confederate side. The Union order of battle is shown separately.-Military rank:* MG = Major General* BG = Brigadier General* Col = Colonel...

 is shown separately.

Military rank

  • BG = Brigadier General
  • Col = Colonel
    Colonel (United States)
    In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, colonel is a senior field grade military officer rank just above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general...

  • Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
    Lieutenant Colonel (United States)
    In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of major and just below the rank of colonel. It is equivalent to the naval rank of commander in the other uniformed services.The pay...

  • Maj = Major
    Major (United States)
    In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, major is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel...

  • Cpt = Captain
  • Lt = Lieutenant
    Lieutenant
    A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...


Other

  • (w) = wounded
    Wounded
    Wounded may refer to:* The Wounded, a Dutch wave-rock band* "The Wounded" , a fourth season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation* "Wounded ", a song by the American rock band Third Eye Blind...

  • (mw) = mortally wounded
  • (k) = killed in action
    Killed in action
    Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...

  • (c) = captured
    Prisoner of war
    A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...


Right Wing

BG John Buford
John Buford
John Buford, Jr. was a Union cavalry officer during the American Civil War, with a prominent role at the start of the Battle of Gettysburg.-Early years:...


Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division

    
BG John Buford
John Buford
John Buford, Jr. was a Union cavalry officer during the American Civil War, with a prominent role at the start of the Battle of Gettysburg.-Early years:...



    
Col Thomas C. Devin
Thomas Devin
Thomas Casimer Devin was an United States Army officer and general. He commanded Union cavalry during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars.-Early life:...

1st Brigade

  
Col Benjamin F. Davis
Benjamin Franklin Davis
Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis was an American military officer who served in Indian wars, and then led Union cavalry in the American Civil War before dying in combat...

 (k)

  
Maj William S. McClure
  • 8th New York: Maj Edmund M. Pope
  • 8th Illinois: Cpt Alpheus Clark (mw), Cpt George A. Forsyth (w)
  • 3rd Indiana (battalion): Maj William S. McClure, Maj Charles Lemmon
  • 9th New York (Five companies): Maj William B. Martin (w), Cpt Conway W. Ayres
  • 3rd West Virginia
    3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
    The 3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 3rd West Virginia Cavalry was organized in western Virginia between December, 1861...

     (Two companies): Cpt Seymour B. Conger
2nd Brigade

  
Col Thomas C. Devin
Thomas Devin
Thomas Casimer Devin was an United States Army officer and general. He commanded Union cavalry during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars.-Early life:...



  
Col. Josiah H. Kellogg
  • 6th New York: Maj William E. Beardsley
  • 17th Pennsylvania: Col Josiah H. Kellogg
Reserve Brigade

  
Maj Charles J. Whiting
  • 1st United States: Cpt Richard S. C. Lord
  • 2nd United States: Cpt Wesley Merritt
    Wesley Merritt
    Wesley Merritt was a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. He is noted for distinguished service in the cavalry.-Early life:...

  • 5th United States: Cpt James E. Harrison
  • 6th United States: Cpt George C. Cram
  • 6th Pennsylvania: Maj Robert Morris, Jr. (c), Maj Henry C. Wheelan
Attached Infantry Brigade

  
BG Adelbert Ames
Adelbert Ames
Adelbert Ames was an American sailor, soldier, and politician. He served with distinction as a Union Army general during the American Civil War. As a Radical Republican and a Carpetbagger, he was military governor, Senator and civilian governor in Reconstruction-era Mississippi...

  • 86th New York: Maj Jacob H. Lansing
  • 124th New York: Ltc Francis M. Cummins
  • 2nd Massachusetts: Ltc Charles R. Mudge
  • 33rd Massachusetts: Col Adin B. Underwood
  • 3rd Wisconsin: Ltc Martin Flood
Horse Artillery
U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade
The Horse Artillery Brigade of the Army of the Potomac was a brigade of various batteries of horse artillery during the American Civil War.Made up almost entirely of individual, company-strength batteries from the Regular Army’s five artillery regiments, the Horse Artillery operated under the...



  
Cpt James M. Robertson
James Madison Robertson
James Madison Robertson was an artillery officer in the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

  • 1st United States, Battery K: Cpt William M. Graham
    William Montrose Graham, Jr.
    William Montrose Graham, Jr. , was a career soldier in the United States Army, reaching the rank of major general. He was a veteran of both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War.-Biography:...

  • 2nd United States, Batteries B and L: Lt Edward Heaton
  • 4th United States, Battery E: Lt Samuel S. Elder

Left Wing

BG David McM. Gregg
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division

    
Col Alfred N. Duffié
Alfred N. Duffié
Alfred Napoléon Alexander Duffié was a French-American soldier and diplomat who served in the Crimean War and the American Civil War.-Early life and career:Duffié was born in Paris...

1st Brigade

  
Col Louis P. Di Cesnola
  • 1st Massachusetts: Ltc Greely S. Curtis
  • 6th Ohio: Maj William Stedman
  • 1st Rhode Island: Ltc John L. Thompson
2nd Brigade

  
Col John I. Gregg
John Irvin Gregg
John Irvin Gregg was a career U.S. Army officer. He fought in the Mexican-American War and during the American Civil War as a general officer in the Union army.-Early life and career:...

  • 3rd Pennsylvania: Ltc Edward S. Jones
  • 4th Pennsylvania: Ltc William E. Doster
  • 16th Pennsylvania: Cpt John K. Robison
  • 2nd United States Artillery, Battery M: Lt Alexander C. M. Pennington, Jr.
    Alexander Cummings McWhorter Pennington, Jr.
    Alexander Cummings McWhorter Pennington, Jr. , was an artillery officer and brigadier general in the United States Army and a veteran of both the American Civil War and Spanish-American War.-Early life and career:...


Third Division

    
BG David McM. Gregg
David McMurtrie Gregg
David McMurtrie Gregg was a farmer, diplomat, and a Union cavalry general in the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

1st Brigade

  
Col Judson Kilpatrick
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving the rank of brevet major general. He was later the United States Minister to Chile, and a failed political candidate for the U.S...

  • 2nd New York: Ltc Henry E. Davies, Jr.
    Henry Eugene Davies
    Henry Eugene Davies was an American soldier, writer, public official and lawyer. He served in the Union Army as a brigadier general of volunteers in cavalry service during the American Civil War and was promoted to the grade of major general of volunteers at the end of the war...

  • 10th New York: Ltc William Irvine (c), Maj Matthew H. Avery
  • 1st Maine
    1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
    The 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was one of the Maine units used during the American Civil War.- History :Organized in Augusta, Maine on October 31, 1861 for three years...

    : Col Calvin S. Douty
  • Orton's Company Disrtict of Columbia: Cpt William H. Orton
2nd Brigade

  
Col Percy Wyndham (w)

  
Col John P. Taylor
  • 1st New Jersey: Ltc Virgil Brodrick (k), Maj John H. Shelmire (k), Maj Myron H. Beaumont
  • 1st Pennsylvania: Col John P. Taylor, Ltc David Gardner
  • 1st Maryland: Ltc James M. Deems
  • New York Light Artillery, 6th Battery: Cpt Joseph W. Martin
Attached Infantry Brigade

  
BG David A. Russell
David Allen Russell
David Allen Russell was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He was killed in action as a brigadier general in the Union Army.-Early life:...

  • 2nd Wisconsin (Two companies)
  • 7th Wisconsin: Col William Robinson
  • 56th Pennsylvania: Col John W. Hofmann
  • 81st Pennsylvania
  • 119th Pennsylvania: Maj Henry P. Truefitt, Jr.
  • 5th New Hampshire
    5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
    The 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment has the unfortunate distinction of having sustained the greatest total loss in battles of any infantry or cavalry regiment in the Union Army, with a total of...

    : Col Edward E. Cross
    Edward E. Cross
    Edward Ephraim Cross was a newspaperman and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Journalist:...

  • 6th Maine: Col Hiram Burnham
    Hiram Burnham
    Hiram Burnham was an officer in the Union Army who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War...

  • 3rd United States Artillery, Battery C: Lt William D. Fuller
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