Second Petersburg Union order of battle
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The following Union Army
Union Army
The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...

 units and commanders fought in the Second Battle of Petersburg (June 15-18, 1864) 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...

. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Military Rank

  • LTG = Lieutenant General
    Lieutenant General (United States)
    In the United States Army, the United States Air Force and the United States Marine Corps, lieutenant general is a three-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-9. Lieutenant general ranks above major general and below general...

  • MG = Major General
    Major general (United States)
    In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a two-star general-officer rank, with the pay grade of O-8. Major general ranks above brigadier general and below lieutenant general...

  • BG = Brigadier General
    Brigadier general (United States)
    A brigadier general in the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, is a one-star general officer, with the pay grade of O-7. Brigadier general ranks above a colonel and below major general. Brigadier general is equivalent to the rank of rear admiral in the other uniformed...

  • 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

Headquarter units

Naval Brigade


BG Charles K. Graham
Charles K. Graham
Charles Kinnaird Graham was a sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, attorney, and later a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a civil engineer, he helped plan and lay out Central Park in New York City.-Early years and education:Graham was born in New York...



Siege Artillery


Col Henry L. Abbot
Henry Larcom Abbot
Henry Larcom Abbot was a military engineer and officer in the United States Army.-Early life:Henry Larcom Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. Abbot attended West Point and graduated second in his class with a degree in military engineering in 1854...

  • 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery
  • 12th New York Heavy Artillery
  • 3rd Pennsylvania

X Corps

BG Alfred H. Terry
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

2nd Division


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...

1st Brigade


Col Newton Martin Curtis
Newton Martin Curtis
Newton Martin Curtis was a Union brigadier general during the American Civil War and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Early life:...

  • 3rd New York
  • 112th New York
  • 117th New York
  • 142nd New York
2nd Brigade


Col William B. Barton
  • 47th New York
  • 48th New York
  • 115th New York
  • 76th Pennsylvania
3rd Brigade


Col Louis Bell
  • 13th Indiana
    13th Regiment Indiana Infantry
    The 13th Indiana Infantry Regiment, was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during theAmerican Civil War.- Service :The 13th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was originally accepted for state service for one year and was organized at Indianapolis for the U. S. service by volunteers from the...

  • 9th Maine
    9th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 9th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 9th Maine Infantry was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for a three year enlistment on September 22, 1861....

  • 4th New Hampshire
    4th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
    The 4th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 4th New Hampshire Infantry was organized in Manchester, New Hampshire and mustered in for a three year enlistment on September 18, 1861.The regiment was...

  • 169th New York
  • 97th Pennsylvania
Artillery Brigade

  • 5th Battery, New Jersey Artillery
  • Battery D, 1st U.S. Artillery
  • Battery E, 3rd U.S. Artillery
  • Battery D, 4th U.S. Artillery

XVIII Corps

MG William F. Smith
William Farrar Smith
William Farrar Smith , was a civil engineer, a member of the New York City police commission, and Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...


Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


BG William T. H. Brooks
William T. H. Brooks
William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks was a career military officer in the United States Army, serving as a major general during the American Civil War.-Early life:...


BG Gilman Marston
Gilman Marston
Gilman Marston was a United States Representative, Senator, and United States Army general from New Hampshire.-Early life:...

1st Brigade


BG Gilman Marston
Gilman Marston
Gilman Marston was a United States Representative, Senator, and United States Army general from New Hampshire.-Early life:...


Col Edgar M. Cullen
  • 81st New York
  • 96th New York
  • 98th New York
  • 139th New York
2nd Brigade


BG 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...

  • 8th Connecticut
  • 10th New Hampshire
  • 13th New Hampshire
    13th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
    The 13th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment is reputed to have the distinction of having the first U.S...

  • 18th New York
3rd Brigade


Col Guy V. Henry
  • 21st Connecticut
  • 40th Massachusetts
  • 92nd New York
  • 58th Pennsylvania
  • 188th Pennsylvania
Artillery Brigade


Cpt Samuel S. Elder
  • Battery B, 1st United States
  • Battery L, 4th United States
  • Battery A, 5th United States

Second Division


BG John H. Martindale
John H. Martindale
John Henry Martindale was an American lawyer, Union Army general, and politician.-Early life:Martindale was born in Sandy Hill, Washington County, New York, the son of Congressman Henry C. Martindale and Minerva Hitchcock Martindale. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in...

1st Brigade


BG George J. Stannard
George J. Stannard
George Jerrison Stannard was a Vermont farmer, teacher, and Union general in the American Civil War. After the war, he served as Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives.-Early life:...

  • 23rd Massachusetts
  • 25th Massachusetts
  • 27th Massachusetts
  • 9th New Jersey
    9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
    The Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War infantry regiment from New Jersey that served from October 1861 through July 1865 in the Union Army...

  • 10th New York Heavy Artillery
  • 55th Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade


Col Griffin A. Stedman, Jr.
  • 11th Connecticut
  • 8th Maine
    8th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 8th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 8th Maine Infantry was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for a three year enlistment on September 7, 1861....

  • 12th New Hampshire
    12th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
    The 12th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 12th New Hampshire Infantry was organized in Concord, New Hampshire and mustered in for a three year enlistment on September 10, 1862 under the command of...

  • 148th New York
  • 19th Wisconsin
3rd Brigade


Col Augustus A. Gibson
  • 5th Maryland
  • 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
Artillery
  • Battery F, 1st Rhode Island Light
    Battery F, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
    Battery F, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The battery briefly served as cavalry, March 20 to May 18, 1862.-Service:...


  • Third Division


    BG Edward W. Hinks
    1st Brigade


    BG Edward A. Wild
    Edward A. Wild
    Edward Augustus Wild was an American homeopathic doctor and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

    • 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry
    • 1st U.S.C.T. Cavalry (dismounted)
    • 1st U.S.C.T.
    • 10th U.S.C.T.
    2nd Brigade


    Col Samuel A. Duncan
    • 2nd U.S.C.T. Cavalry (dismounted)
    • 4th U.S.C.T.
    • 5th U.S.C.T.
    • 6th U.S.C.T.
    • 22nd U.S.C.T.
    3rd Brigade


    Col John Henry Holman
    • 1st U.S.C.T.
    • 5th Massachusetts Cavalry

    Cavalry

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    Cavalry Division


    BG August V. Kautz
    1st Brigade


    Col Simon H. Mix (k) June 15

    Col Robert M. West
    • 3rd New York Cavalry
    • 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry
    2nd Brigade


    Col Samuel P. Spear
    Samuel P. Spear
    -External links:...

    • 1st District of Columbia Cavalry
    • 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry
    Unassigned
  • Companies F & G, 4th Massachusetts Cavalry
  • 1st New York Mounted Rifles
  • Artillery Brigade

    • 1st Section, 4th Wisconsin Battery
    • 2nd Section, 4th Wisconsin Battery

    Headquarter units

    Provost Guard


    BG Marsena R. Patrick
    Marsena R. Patrick
    Marsena Rudolph Patrick was a college president and an officer in the United States Army, serving as a general in the Union volunteer forces during the American Civil War. He was the provost marshal for the Army of the Potomac in many of its campaigns.-Early life:Patrick was born in Hounsfield,...

    • 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies C & D
    • 80th New York
    • 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry
    • 68th Pennsylvania
    • 114th Pennsylvania


    Artillery


    BG Henry J. Hunt
    Henry Jackson Hunt
    Henry Jackson Hunt was Chief of Artillery in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Considered by his contemporaries the greatest artillery tactician and strategist of the war, he was a master of the science of gunnery and rewrote the manual on the organization and use of artillery...



    Volunteer Engineer Brigade


    BG Henry W. Benham
    Henry Washington Benham
    Henry Washington Benham was an American soldier and civil engineer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....

    • 15th New York Engineers
    • 50th New York Engineers
    • Battalion U.S. Engineers

    II Corps

    MG Winfield S. Hancock
    Winfield Scott Hancock
    Winfield Scott Hancock was a career U.S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War...

     relinquished command June 18

    MG David B. Birney
    David B. Birney
    David Bell Birney was a businessman, lawyer, and a Union General in the American Civil War.-Early life:Birney was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the son of an abolitionist from Kentucky, James G. Birney. The Birney family returned to Kentucky in 1833, and James Birney freed his slaves...

    • 1st Vermont Cavalry, Company M

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division


    BG Francis C. Barlow
    Francis C. Barlow
    Francis Channing Barlow was a lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

    1st Brigade


    Col Nelson A. Miles
    Nelson A. Miles
    Nelson Appleton Miles was a United States soldier who served in the American Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War.-Early life:Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm...

    • 28th Massachusetts
    • 26th Michigan
      26th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 26th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 26th Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at Jackson, Michigan on December 12, 1862...

    • 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...

    • 2nd New York Heavy Artillery
    • 61st New York
    • 81st Pennsylvania
    • 140th Pennsylvania
    • 183rd Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade
    (Irish Brigade
    Irish Brigade (US)
    The Irish Brigade was an infantry brigade, consisting predominantly of Irish Americans, that served in the Union Army in the American Civil War. The designation of the first regiment in the brigade, the 69th New York Infantry, or the "Fighting 69th", continued in later wars...

    )


    Col Patrick Kelly (k) June 16


    Cpt Richard Moroney
    • 63rd New York
    • 69th New York
      69th Infantry Regiment (United States)
      The 69th Infantry Regiment was a Regular Army infantry regiment in the United States Army.-History:There have been three different lineages started under this number: The Famous 69th Infantry Regiment , and two under the Federal designation....

    • 88th New York
    • 116th Pennsylvania
      116th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 116th Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It formed a part of the Irish Brigade.-History:...

    3rd Brigade


    Col Clinton D. MacDougall
    Clinton D. MacDougall
    Clinton Dugald MacDougall was a United States Representative from New York.-Biography:Born near Glasgow, Scotland, he immigrated to Canada in 1842 with his parents, who later settled in Auburn, New York. He pursued an academic course, studied law, and engaged in banking from 1856 to 1869...

    • 39th New York
    • 52nd New York
    • 57th New York
    • 111th New York
    • 125th New York
    • 126th New York
    4th Brigade


    Col James A. Beaver
    James A. Beaver
    James Addams Beaver was an American politician who served as the 20th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891...

     (w) June 16


    Ltc John Hastings
    • 2nd Delaware
    • 7th New York Heavy Artillery
    • 64th New York
    • 66th New York
    • 53rd Pennsylvania
      53rd Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Formation:The regiment was organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1861, with John R. Brooke, of Pottstown, Montgomery County, was commissioned...

    • 145th Pennsylvania
    • 148th Pennsylvania

    Second Division


    BG John Gibbon
    John Gibbon
    John Gibbon was a career United States Army officer who fought in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.-Early life:...

    1st Brigade


    BG Byron R. Pierce (w) June 18
    • 19th Maine
      19th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 19th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:19th Maine was organized at Bath, Maine and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on August 25, 1862....

    • 1st Company Sharpshooters
    • 15th Massachusetts
    • 19th Massachusetts
    • 20th Massachusetts
    • 1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters
    • 7th Michigan
      7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 7th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 7th Michigan Infantry was organized at Monroe, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on August 22, 1861...

    • 1st Minnesota
    • 42nd New York
    • 59th New York
    • 82nd New York
    • 184th Pennsylvania
    • 36th Wisconsin
    2nd Brigade
    (Philadelphia Brigade
    Philadelphia Brigade
    The Philadelphia Brigade was a Union Army brigade that served in the American Civil War. It was raised primarily in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the exception of the 106th regiment which contained men from Lycoming and Bradford counties.The brigade fought with the Army of the...

    )


    Col John Fraser
    John Fraser (academician)
    John Fraser was an American soldier and educator. He was the third president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1866 until 1868, and the second Chancellor of the University of Kansas serving from 1867 to 1874....

    • 152nd New York
    • 69th Pennsylvania
      69th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 69th Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. Part of the famed Philadelphia Brigade, it played a key role defending against Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. Companies I and K wore a very americanized zouave uniform...

    • 72nd Pennsylvania
      72nd Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was part of the famous Philadelphia Brigade. They wore a very americanized zouave uniform...

    • 106th Pennsylvania
      106th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 106th Pennsylvania was a volunteer infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

    3rd Brigade


    Col Thomas A. Smyth
    • 14th Connecticut
      14th Connecticut Infantry
      The 14th Connecticut Infantry was an infantry regiment that participated in the American Civil War. It participated in the Battle of Gettysburg, helping to repulse the Confederate attack on the third day known as Pickett's Charge....

    • 1st Delaware
    • 12th New Jersey
    • 10th New York Battalion
    • 108th New York
    • 4th Ohio
      4th Ohio Infantry
      The 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater in a number of campaigns and battles, but perhaps is most noted for its actions in helping secure Cemetery Hill during the Battle of...

    • 8th Ohio
      8th Ohio Infantry
      The 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater in a number of campaigns and battles, but perhaps is most noted for its actions in helping repulse Pickett's Charge during the Battle of...

    • 7th West Virginia
      7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. For much of the war, it was a part of the famed "Gibraltar Brigade" in the Army of the Potomac...

    4th Brigade


    Col John Ramsey (w) June 16

    Col James P. MacIvor
    • 8th New York Heavy Artillery
    • 155th New York
    • 164th New York
    • 170th New York
    • 182nd New York

    Third Division


    MG David B. Birney
    David B. Birney
    David Bell Birney was a businessman, lawyer, and a Union General in the American Civil War.-Early life:Birney was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the son of an abolitionist from Kentucky, James G. Birney. The Birney family returned to Kentucky in 1833, and James Birney freed his slaves...


    BG Gershom Mott
    Gershom Mott
    Gershom Mott was a United States Army officer and a General in the Union Army, a commander in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.-Early life:...

    1st Brigade


    Col Thomas W. Egan
    Thomas W. Egan
    Thomas Wilberforce Egan was a Union Army officer who led the Mozart Regiment during most of the American Civil War, later becoming a general.-Early life :...

     (w) June 16
    Col Henry J. Madill
    • 20th Indiana
    • 17th Maine
      17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was mustered in at Cape Elizabeth, Maine for three year's service on August 18, 1862 and were mustered out on June 10, 1865. Recruits still liable to serve were transferred to 1st Maine Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment.-Casualties and total strength:The...

    • 40th New York
    • 86th New York
    • 124th New York
      124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commonly known as the Orange Blossoms, was a volunteer regiment from Orange County, New York, during the American Civil War. Formed in Goshen during the summer of 1862, The unit was officially mustered into United States Service on September 5, 1862,...

    • 99th Pennsylvania
    • 110th Pennsylvania
    • 141st Pennsylvania
      141st Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 141st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment served in the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater and was heavily engaged in the second day of fighting at the Peach Orchard outside of...

    • 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters
    2nd Brigade


    Col Thomas R. Tannatt June 16


    Maj Levi P. Duff June 16


    Maj John Willian June 16


    Col Robert McAllister
    • 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
    • 5th Michigan
      5th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 5th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 5th Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on August 28, 1861.The regiment was...

    • 93rd New York
    • 57th Pennsylvania
    • 63rd Pennsylvania
    • 105th Pennsylvania
    • 1st U.S. Sharpshooters
    3rd Brigade


    BG Gershom Mott
    Gershom Mott
    Gershom Mott was a United States Army officer and a General in the Union Army, a commander in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.-Early life:...

     June 18
    Col Daniel Chaplin
    • 1st Maine Heavy Artillery
      1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment
      The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment was a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It suffered more casualties in an ill-fated charge during the Siege of Petersburg than any Union regiment lost in a single day of combat throughout the war...

    • 16th Massachusetts
    • 5th New Jersey
    • 6th New Jersey
    • 7th New Jersey
    • 8th New Jersey
    • 11th New Jersey
    • 115th Pennsylvania
    4th Brigade


    Col William R. Brewster
    William R. Brewster
    William Root Brewster was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who commanded a regiment in the famed Excelsior Brigade of the Army of the Potomac...

    • 11th Massachusetts
    • 71st New York
    • 72nd New York
    • 73rd New York
    • 74th New York
    • 120th New York
    • 84th Pennsylvania
    Artillery Brigade


    Col John C. Tidball
    John C. Tidball
    John Caldwell Tidball was a career military officer, noted for his service in the horse artillery in the cavalry in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

    • 6th Battery, Maine Light
      6th Maine Battery
      6th Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 6th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on January 1, 1862 under the command of Captain Freeman McGilvery.The battery was attached...

    • 10th Battery, Massachusetts Light
    • 1st Battery, New Hampshire Light
      1st New Hampshire Light Battery
      1st New Hampshire Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 1st New Hampshire Artillery was organized in Manchester, New Hampshire and mustered in September 21, 1861 for three years service under Captain George A. Gerrish.The...

    • Battery B, 1st New Jersey Light
    • Battery G, 1st New York Light
    • 3rd Battalion, 4th New York Heavy
    • 11th Battery, New York Light
    • 12th Battery, New York Light
    • Battery F, 1st Pennsylvania Light
    • Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light
      Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
      Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on June 6, 1861 under the command of Captain William H...

    • Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light
      Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
      Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 18, 1861 under the command of Captain Thomas F...

    • Battery K, 4th United States
    • Batteries C & I, 5th United States

    V Corps

    MG Gouverneur K. Warren
    Gouverneur K. Warren
    Gouverneur Kemble Warren was a civil engineer and prominent general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

    • 12th New York Battalion

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division


    BG Charles Griffin
    1st Brigade


    Col Joshua L. Chamberlain (w) June 18
    Col William S. Tilton
    William S. Tilton
    William Stowell Tilton was an American businessman and soldier who led a regiment, and occasionally a brigade, in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War...

    • 121st Pennsylvania
    • 142nd Pennsylvania
      142nd Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment primarily served in the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater and was heavily engaged in the first day of fighting at Gettysburg.-History:The...

    • 143rd Pennsylvania
    • 149th Pennsylvania
    • 150th Pennsylvania
    • 187th Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade


    Col Jacob B. Sweitzer
    Jacob B. Sweitzer
    Jacob Bowman Sweitzer was a Pennsylvania lawyer and soldier who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War...

    • 22nd Massachusetts
    • 32nd Massachusetts
    • 4th Michigan
      4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 4th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 4th Michigan wore a very americanized zouave uniform...

    • 62nd Pennsylvania
    • 91st Pennsylvania
    • 155th Pennsylvania
      155th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 155th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Federal infantry regiment that served in the American Civil War in the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater....

    • 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry
    3rd Brigade


    BG Joseph J. Bartlett
    Joseph J. Bartlett
    Joseph Jackson Bartlett was a New York attorney, brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and postbellum international diplomat and pensions administrator for the United States Government. He was chosen to receive the stacked arms of General Robert E...

    • 20th Maine
      20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a combat unit of the United States Army during the American Civil War, most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863.-Organization:...

    • 18th Massachusetts
      18th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      -External links:**...

    • 1st Michigan
      1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Years)
      The 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 1st Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on September 16, 1861...

    • 16th Michigan
      16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 16th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 16th Michigan Infantry was organized at Plymouth and Detroit, Michigan between July and September, 1861. Among the soldiers in the 16th was future Michigan...

    • 44th New York
    • 83rd Pennsylvania
    • 118th Pennsylvania

    Second Division


    BG Romeyn B. Ayres
    Romeyn B. Ayres
    Romeyn Beck Ayres was a Union Army general in the American Civil War.-Early life:Ayres was born at East Creek, New York, along the Mohawk River in Montgomery County. He was the son of a small-town doctor who urged all of his sons into professional careers...

    1st Brigade


    Col Edgar M. Gregory
    • 5th New York
    • 140th New York
      140th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 140th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Federal Regiment that was mustered on September 13, 1862 and was mustered out on June 3, 1865. Citizens of Monroe County comprising the majority of its members...

    • 146th New York
      146th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 146th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, nicknamed Garrard's Tigers, was a Federal regiment mustered on October 10, 1862, and was mustered out on July 16, 1865. The regiment was raised and organized in Utica New york, and was known as the 5th Oneida Regiment...

    • 4th U.S. Infantry
    • Detachment, 10th U.S. Infantry
    • Detachment, 11th U.S. Infantry
    • 12th U.S. Infantry
    • 14th U.S. Infantry
    • 17th U.S. Infantry
    2nd Brigade


    Col Nathan T. Dushane
    • 1st Maryland
    • 4th Maryland
    • 7th Maryland
    • 8th Maryland
    • Purnell (Maryland) Legion
    3rd Brigade


    Col J. Howard Kitching
    J. Howard Kitching
    John Howard Kitching , often referred to as J. Howard Kitching, was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served in the cavalry, artillery and infantry in the Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah...

    • 6th New York Heavy Artillery
    • 15th New York Heavy Artillery

    Third Division


    BG Samuel W. Crawford
    Samuel W. Crawford
    Samuel Wylie Crawford was a United States Army surgeon and a Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...

    1st Brigade


    Col Peter Lyle
    • 16th Maine
      16th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 16th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was particularly noted for its service during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.-Service:...

    • 13th Massachusetts
    • 39th Massachusetts
    • 104th New York
    • 90th Pennsylvania
    • 107th Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade


    Col James L. Bates
    • 12th Massachusetts
    • 94th New York
    • 97th New York
    • 11th Pennsylvania
      11th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union army regiment that participated in the American Civil War. It had the distinction of being the oldest unit in continuous service from Pennsylvania.-History:...

    • 88th Pennsylvania
    3rd Brigade


    Col James Carle
    • 190th Pennsylvania
    • 191st Pennsylvania

    Fourth Division


    BG Lysander Cutler
    Lysander Cutler
    Lysander Cutler was an American businessman, educator, politician, and a Union Army General during the American Civil War.-Early years:Cutler was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, the son of a farmer...

    1st Brigade
    (Iron Brigade
    Iron Brigade
    The Iron Brigade, also known as the Iron Brigade of the West or the Black Hat Brigade, was an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Although it fought entirely in the Eastern Theater, it was composed of regiments from Western states...

    )


    BG Edward S. Bragg
    Edward S. Bragg
    Edward Stuyvesant Bragg was a Democratic politician, lawyer and Union Army general from Wisconsin. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1877 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1887 and subsequently served as a foreign diplomat.-Early life and career:Born in Unadilla, New York, Bragg attended...

    • 7th Indiana
      7th Regiment Indiana Infantry (3 years)
      The 7th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 19th Indiana
      19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was one of the original regiments in the Army of the Potomac's Iron Brigade.-Service:...

    • 24th Michigan
    • 1st Battalion, New York Sharpshooters
    • 6th Wisconsin
      6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 6th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac.-Service:...

    • 7th Wisconsin
      7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 7th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac.-Service:...

    2nd Brigade


    Col J. William Hofmann
    • 3rd Delaware
    • 4th Delaware
    • 76th New York
    • 95th New York
    • 147th New York
    • 56th Pennsylvania
    • 157th Pennsylvania
    Artillery Brigade


    Col Charles S. Wainwright
    Charles S. Wainwright
    Charles Shiels Wainwright was a produce farmer in the state of New York and an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He played an important role in the defense of Cemetery Hill during the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, where his artillery helped repel a Confederate...

    • 3rd Battery, Massachusetts Light
    • 5th Battery, Massachusetts Light
    • 9th Battery, Massachusetts Light
    • Battery B, 1st New York Light
    • Battery C, 1st New York Light
    • Battery D, 1st New York Light
    • Batteries E & L, 1st New York Light
    • Battery H, 1st New York Light
    • 5th Battery, New York Light
    • 15th Battery, New York Light
    • Battery B, 1st Pennsylvania Light
    • Battery B, 4th United States
    • Battery D, 5th United States

    VI Corps

    MG Horatio G. Wright
    Horatio Wright
    Horatio Gouverneur Wright was an engineer and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he was involved in a number of engineering projects, including the Brooklyn Bridge and the completion of the Washington Monument, and served as Chief of Engineers for the U.S...

    • 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company A

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division


    BG David A. Russell
    1st Brigade


    Col William H. Penrose
    • 1st Delaware Dismounted Cavalry
    • 4th New Jersey
    • 10th New Jersey
    • 15th New Jersey
      15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War infantry regiment from New Jersey that served from September 1862 through 1865 in the Union Army.The Fifteenth Regiment was organized at Flemington, New Jersey in July and August 1862...

    2nd Brigade


    BG Emory Upton
    Emory Upton
    Emory Upton was a United States Army General and military strategist, prominent for his role in leading infantry to attack entrenched positions successfully at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the American Civil War, but he also excelled at artillery and cavalry assignments...

    • 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery
    • 5th Maine
      5th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 5th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The regiment, organized in May 1861, was mustered in at Portland, Maine on 24 June 1861 for three years' service...

    • 121st New York
    • 95th Pennsylvania
    • 96th Pennsylvania
    3rd Brigade


    Col Gideon Clark
    • 6th Maine
      6th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 6th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 6th Maine Infantry was organized in Portland, Maine and mustered in for a three year enlistment on July 15, 1861....

    • 49th Pennsylvania
    • 119th Pennsylvania
    • 5th Wisconsin
    4th Brigade


    Col Nelson Cross
    • 65th New York
    • 67th New York
    • 122nd New York
    • 23rd Pennsylvania
      23rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
      The 23rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Known for its colorful uniforms based upon the popular French Zouave style, the regiment served in the Eastern Theater.-History:...

    • 82nd Pennsylvania

    Second Division


    BG Thomas H. Neill
    Thomas H. Neill
    Thomas Hewson Neill, a native of Pennsylvania, became a general in the American Civil War, serving in the Army of the Potomac in some of its most important campaigns.-Birth and early years:Neill was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1826...


    (attached to 2nd Division, XVIII Corps on June 18)
    1st Brigade


    BG Frank Wheaton
    Frank Wheaton
    Frank Wheaton was a career military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and Indian Wars.-Early life and career:...

    • 62nd New York
      62nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The Anderson Zouaves was a New York volunteer regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.It was raised under special authority of the War Department in New York City by Col...

    • 93rd Pennsylvania
    • 98th Pennsylvania
    • 102nd Pennsylvania
    • 139th Pennsylvania
      139th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 139th Pennsylvania was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-History:The 139th was formed at Camp Howe, near Pittsburgh, on September 1, 1862. Frederick H. Collier was the first colonel...

    2nd Brigade
    (1st Vermont Brigade
    1st Vermont Brigade
    The First Vermont Brigade, or "Old Brigade" was an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. It suffered the highest casualty count of any brigade in the history of the United States Army, with some 1,172 killed in action...

    )


    BG Lewis A. Grant
    Lewis A. Grant
    Lewis Addison Grant was a teacher, lawyer, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later Assistant U.S. Secretary of War...

    • 2nd Vermont
      2nd Vermont Infantry
      The 2nd Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three year' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the eastern theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from June 1861 to July 1865...

    • 3rd Vermont
      3rd Vermont Infantry
      The 3rd Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three-years infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the eastern theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from July 1861 to July 1865...

    • 4th Vermont
      4th Vermont Infantry
      The 4th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three year' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from September 1861 to July 1865...

    • 5th Vermont
      5th Vermont Infantry
      The 5th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three years' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from September 1861 to June 1865. It was a member of the Vermont Brigade.The...

    • 6th Vermont
      6th Vermont Infantry
      The 6th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three years' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from October 1861 to June 1865. It was a member of the Vermont Brigade.The...

    • 11th Vermont Heavy Artillery
    3rd Brigade


    Col Daniel D. Bidwell
    Daniel D. Bidwell
    Daniel Davidson Bidwell was a civic leader in Buffalo, New York, before the outbreak of the American Civil War. He enlisted early in the war and then was appointed colonel of a regiment of infantry...

    • 7th Maine
      7th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 7th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It participated in most of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater.-Service:...

    • 43rd New York
    • 49th New York
    • 77th New York
    • 61st Pennsylvania
    4th Brigade


    Col Oliver Edwards
  • [7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry>7th Massachusetts]]
  • 10th Massachusetts
  • 37th Massachusetts
  • 2nd Rhode Island
    2nd Rhode Island Infantry
    The Second Rhode Island Infantry Regiment was a infantry regiment composed of volunteers from the state of Rhode Island that served with the Union Army in the American Civil War. They, along with the 1st Rhode Island, wore a very simple uniform. The uniform composed of a dark blue jacket like...


  • Third Division


    BG James B. Ricketts
    James B. Ricketts
    James Brewerton Ricketts was a career officer in the United States Army, serving as a Union Army general in the Eastern Theater during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

    1st Brigade


    Col William S. Truex
    William S. Truex
    William S. Truex was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He led a brigade of Union soldiers against the Confederate Army at the Battle of Cold Harbor....

    • 14th New Jersey
      14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 14th New Jersey Infantry was organized at Camp Vredenburgh near Freehold, New Jersey and mustered in for three years service on August 26, 1862 under the command of Colonel...

    • 106th New York
      106th New York Volunteer Infantry
      The 106th New York Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 151st New York
      151st New York Volunteer Infantry
      The 151st New York Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 151st New York Infantry was organized at Lockport, New York and mustered in for three years service on October 22, 1862 under the command of Colonel William Emerson.The...

    • 87th Pennsylvania
      87th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 87th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 87th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at York, Pennsylvania and mustered in for a three year enlistment in September 1861 under the command of Colonel George...

    • 10th Vermont
      10th Vermont Infantry
      The 10th Vermont Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 10th Vermont Infantry was organized at Brattleboro, Vermont and mustered in for three years service on September 1, 1862 under the command of Colonel Albert Burton Jewett.The regiment...

    2nd Brigade


    Col Benjamin F. Smith
    • 6th Maryland
    • 9th New York Heavy Artillery
    • 110th Ohio
      110th Ohio Infantry
      The 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 110th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Piqua in Piqua, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on October 3, 1862 under the command of Colonel Joseph Warren Keifer.The...

    • 122nd Ohio
      122nd Ohio Infantry
      The 122nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 122nd Ohio Infantry was organized at Zanesville, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on September 30, 1862 under the command of Colonel William H. Ball...

    • 126th Ohio
      126th Ohio Infantry
      The 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 126th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on September 4, 1862 under the command of Colonel Benjamin F...

    • 67th Pennsylvania
    • 138th Pennsylvania
      138th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 138th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 138th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 16, 1862 under the command of...

    Artillery Brigade


    Col Charles H. Tompkins
    • 4th Battery, Maine Light
      4th Maine Battery
      4th Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 4th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on December 21, 1861....

    • 5th Battery, Maine Light
      5th Maine Battery
      5th Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 5th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on December 4, 1861....

    • 1st Battery, Massachusetts Light
    • Battery A, 1st New Jersey Light
    • 1st Battery, New York Light
    • 3rd Battery, New York Light
    • 1st Battalion, 4th New York Heavy
    • Battery H, 1st Ohio Light
      Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
      Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was also known as Huntington's Battery.-Service:...

    • Battery C, 1st Rhode Island Light
      Battery C, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
      Battery C, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 25, 1861 under the command of Captain William B....

    • Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light
      Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
      Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on September 23, 1861 under the command of Captain George E...

    • Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light
      Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
      Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment in December 1861 under the command of Captain Charles D....

    • Battery E, 5th United States
    • Battery M, 5th United States

    IX Corps

    MG Ambrose E. Burnside
    Ambrose Burnside
    Ambrose Everett Burnside was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator...

    • 8th United States

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division


    BG James Ledlie
    1st Brigade


    Col Jacob P. Gould
    • 56th Massachusetts
    • 57th Massachusetts
    • 59th Massachusetts
    2nd Brigade


    Col Ebenezer Peirce
    • 3rd Maryland
    • 21st Massachusetts
      21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized in Worcester, Massachusetts and mustered into service on August 23, 1861....

    • 29th Massachusetts
      29th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 29th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army of the United States during the American Civil War. The regiment was organized in December 1861 when three new companies were attached to a battalion of seven Massachusetts companies that had been in...

    • 179th New York
    • 100th Pennsylvania
    3rd Brigade


    Col Elisha G. Marshall
    Elisha Marshall
    Elisha Gaylord Marshall was a Brevet Brigadier General for the Union Army in the American Civil War. He fought in the Battle of the Colorado River in 1859 during the Mohave War in Arizona.He was married to Janet, née Rutherford...

     (w) June 17
    Ltc Benjamin G. Babney
    • 14th New York Heavy Artillery
    • 2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery
    Artillery


    Cpt John B. Eaton
    • 2nd Maine Light Battery
      2nd Maine Battery
      2nd Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 2nd Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on November 20, 1861....

    • 14th Massachusetts Battery
    • 27th Battery, New York Artillery

    Second Division


    BG Robert B. Potter
    1st Brigade


    Col John I. Curtin
    John I. Curtin
    John Irvin Curtin was a cousin of Pennsylvania governor Andrew Gregg Curtin. He led a regiment and then a brigade in the American Civil War.-Early life:Curtin was born at Eagle Forge, Pennsylvania...

     (w) June 18
    Ltc Henry Pleasants
    Henry Pleasants
    For the English music critic Henry Pleasants, see Henry Pleasants .Henry Clay Pleasants was a coal mining engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

    • 36th Massachusetts
    • 58th Massachusetts
    • 2nd New York Mounted Rifles
    • 45th Pennsylvania
    • 48th Pennsylvania
    • 7th Rhode Island
    2nd Brigade


    Col Simon Goodell Griffin
    Simon Goodell Griffin
    Simon Goodell Griffin was an American soldier, legislator, farmer and teacher.-Pre-War:Simon G. Griffin was born at Nelson, New Hampshire in 1824. Griffin was a farmer and a teacher at first...

    • 2nd Maryland
    • 31st Maine
    • 32nd Maine
    • 6th New Hampshire
      6th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
      The 6th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 6th New Hampshire Infantry was organized in Keene, New Hampshire and mustered in for a three year enlistment on November 27, 1861.The regiment was attached to...

    • 9th New Hampshire
      9th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry
      The 9th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 9th New Hampshire Infantry was organized in Concord, New Hampshire and mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 15, 1862.The regiment was attached to...

    • 11th New Hampshire
      11th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment
      The 11th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment was a Union army infantry regiment that participated in the American Civil War. It was raised in the New England state of New Hampshire, serving from October 4, 1862, to June 4, 1865....

    • 17th Vermont
    Artillery
  • 11th Massachusetts Battery
  • 19th New York Battery

  • Third Division


    BG Orlando B. Willcox
    Orlando B. Willcox
    Orlando Bolivar Willcox was an American soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

    1st Brigade


    Col John F. Hartranft
    John F. Hartranft
    John Frederick Hartranft was the 17th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1879 and a Union Major General who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

    • 8th Michigan
      8th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 8th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 8th Michigan Infantry was organized at Grand Rapids and Detroit, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on September 23,...

    • 27th Michigan
      27th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 27th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 27th Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at Port Huron, Ovid, and Ypsilanti, Michigan on April 10, 1863.The regiment was mustered out of...

    • 109th New York
    • 13th Ohio Cavalry
      13th Ohio Cavalry
      The 13th Ohio Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 13th Ohio Cavalry was organized by consolidation of the 4th Ohio Independent Battalion Cavalry and 5th Ohio Independent Battalion Cavalry at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio on May 5,...

       (dismounted)
    • 51st Pennsylvania
    • 37th Wisconsin
    • 38th Wisconsin
    2nd Brigade


    Col Benjamin C. Christ
    Benjamin C. Christ
    Benjamin C. Christ was an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade in the IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac at several important battles, including the Battle of Antietam....

     (w) June 17
    Col William Raultson (w) June 18
    Ltc George Travers (w) June 18
    Col Walter C. Newberry
    Walter C. Newberry
    Walter Cass Newberry was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Newberry was born in Sangerfield, New York and enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War as a private in the Eighty-first Regiment, New York Volunteers...

    • 1st Michigan Sharpshooters
      1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters
      The 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 2nd Michigan
    • 20th Michigan
      20th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 20th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 20th Michigan Infantry was organized at Jackson, Michigan between August 15 and August 19, 1862....

    • 24th New York Dismounted Cavalry
    • 60th Ohio
      60th Ohio Infantry
      The 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-First organization:...

    • 50th Pennsylvania
    Artillery
  • 7th Maine Battery
    7th Maine Battery
    7th Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 7th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on December 30, 1863....

  • 34th New York Battery

  • Fourth Division


    BG Edward Ferrero
    Edward Ferrero
    Edward Ferrero was one of the leading dance instructors, choreographers, and ballroom operators in the United States. He also served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best remembered for his role in the Battle of the Crater in 1864.-Early life and career:Ferrero was born in...

    1st Brigade


    Col Joshua K. Sigfried
    • 27th U.S. Colored Troops
    • 30th U.S. Colored Troops
    • 39th U.S. Colored Troops
    • 43rd U.S. Colored Troops
    2nd Brigade


    Col Henry Goddard Thomas
    Henry Goddard Thomas
    Major General Henry Goddard Thomas was an Union general in the American Civil War. A native of Portland, Maine, Thomas graduated from Amherst College in 1858 and was admitted to the bar shortly thereafter. He enlisted as a private in the 5th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment...

    • 19th U.S. Colored Troops
    • 20th U.S. Colored Troops
    • 23rd U.S. Colored Troops
    • 31st U.S. Colored Troops
  • Battery D, Pennsylvania Independent Light
  • 3rd Vermont Battery

  • Cavalry Corps

    MG Philip H. Sheridan
    Philip Sheridan
    Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S...


    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division


    BG Alfred T. A. Torbert
    1st Brigade (Wolverine Brigade
    Michigan Brigade
    The Michigan Brigade, sometimes called the Wolverines, the Michigan Cavalry Brigade or Custer's Brigade, was a brigade of cavalry in the volunteer Union Army during the latter half of the American Civil War...

    )


    BG George A. Custer
    George Armstrong Custer
    George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class...

    • 1st Michigan
      1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
      The 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.-Service:...

    • 5th Michigan
      5th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
      The 5th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.-Service:...

    • 6th Michigan
      6th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
      The 6th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.-Service:...

    • 7th Michigan
      7th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
      The 7th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.-Service:...

    2nd Brigade


    Col Thomas C. Devin
    • 4th New York
    • 6th New York
    • 9th New York
    • 17th Pennsylvania
    Reserve Brigade


    BG 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:...

    • 19th New York (1st Dragoon)
    • 6th Pennsylvania
    • 1st United States
    • 2nd United States
    • 5th United States

    Second Division


    BG David McMurtrie 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


    BG Henry E. Davies, Jr.
    • 1st Massachusetts
    • 1st New Jersey
    • 10th New York
    • 6th Ohio
    • 1st Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade


    Col J. Irvin 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:...

    • 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...

    • 2nd Pennsylvania
    • 4th Pennsylvania
    • 8th Pennsylvania
    • 13th Pennsylvania
    • 16th Pennsylvania

    Third Division


    BG James H. Wilson
    James H. Wilson
    James Harrison Wilson was a United States Army topographic engineer, a Union Army Major General in the American Civil War and later wars, a railroad executive, and author.-Early life and engineering:...

    1st Brigade


    Col John Baillie McIntosh
    John Baillie McIntosh
    John Baillie McIntosh , although born in Florida, served as a Union Army brigadier general in the American Civil War. His brother, James M...

    • 1st Connecticut
    • 3rd New Jersey
    • 2nd New York
    • 5th New York
    • 2nd Ohio
      2nd Ohio Cavalry
      The 2nd Ohio Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 2nd Ohio Cavalry was organized in Cleveland, Ohio and at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio from August to October 1861, and mustered in for a three years under the command of...

    • 18th Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade


    Col George H. Chapman
    • 3rd Indiana
    • 8th New York
    • 1st Vermont

    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...

    1st Brigade


    Cpt James M. Robertson
    • 6th New York Battery
    • Batteries B & L, 2nd United States
    • Battery D, 2nd United States
    • Battery M, 2nd United States
    • Battery A, 4th United States
    • Batteries C & E, 4th United States
    2nd Brigade


    Cpt Dunbar R. Ransom
    Dunbar R. Ransom
    -Early life:Dunbar Ransom was born at Fayetteville, North Carolina on January 10, 1831 but moved to Vermont. He is listed as the eldest son of Col Truman B. Ransom and brother of Gen Thomas E. G. Ransom. On June 7, 1855 Ransom was appointed from civilian life as a 2nd lieutenant in the Third U....

    • Batteries E and G, 1st United States
    • Batteries H and I, 1st United States
    • Battery K, 1st United States
    • Battery A, 2nd United States
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