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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 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania , was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged...

 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
Spotsylvania Court House Confederate order of battle
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.-Military rank:* Gen = General* LTG = Lieutenant General...

 is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the casualty returns and the reports.

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

Other

  • (w) = wounded
    Wounded in action
    Wounded in action describes soldiers who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during war time, but have not been killed. Typically it implies that they are temporarily or permanently incapable of bearing arms or continuing to fight....

  • (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...


Forces operating against Richmond May 8-16, 1864

LTG Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...

, General-in-Chief
General-in-Chief
General-in-Chief has been a military rank or title in various armed forces around the world.- France :In France, General-in-Chief was first an informal title for the lieutenant-general commanding over others lieutenant-generals, or even for some marshals in charge of an army...

, Union armies

Escort:
  • 5th United States Cavalry (Companies B, F and K)

IX Corps

MG Ambrose E. Burnside
  • Chief of Staff: MG John G. Parke
    John Parke
    John Grubb Parke was a United States Army engineer and a Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...


Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division

    
BG Thomas G. Stevenson
Thomas G. Stevenson
Thomas G. Stevenson was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action during the battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse.-Biography:...

 (k)

    
Col Daniel Leasure

    
MG Thomas L. Crittenden
1st Brigade

  
Col Jacob P. Gould

  
Ltc Stephen M. Weld, Jr.

  
BG James Ledlie
  • 35th Massachusetts
  • 56th Massachusetts: Ltc Stephen M. Weld, Jr.
  • 57th Massachusetts
  • 59th Massachusetts
  • 4th United States
  • 10th United States
2nd Brigade

  
Col Daniel Leasure
Daniel Leasure
Daniel Leasure was an American soldier and physician who served as a colonel and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...



  
Ltc Gilbert P. Robinson
  • 3rd Maryland: Ltc Gilbert P. Robinson
  • 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....

  • 100th Pennsylvania
Artillery
  • Maine Light, 2nd Battery (B)
    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....

  • Massachusetts Light, 14th Battery

  • Second Division

        
    BG Robert B. Potter
    1st Brigade

      
    Col Zenas Bliss
    Zenas Bliss
    Zenas Randall Bliss was an officer and general in the United States Army and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He formed the first unit of Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts, and his detailed memoirs chronicled life on the Texas frontier.Bliss was a native of Rhode Island and graduated from West Point...



      
    Col John I. Curtin
    • 36th Massachusetts
    • 58th Massachusetts
    • 51st New York
    • 45th Pennsylvania: 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...

    • 48th Pennsylvania
    • 7th Rhode Island
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col Simon G. 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
      2nd Maryland Infantry
      The 2nd Maryland Infantry was an American military regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It should not be confused with the 2nd Maryland Infantry, CSA, which was composed of Maryland volunteers who fought for the Confederacy during the war....

       (detachment)
    • 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
      17th Vermont Infantry
      The 17th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three years' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

    Artillery
  • Massachusetts Light, 11th Battery
  • New York Light, 19th Battery

  • Third Division

        
    BG Orlando B. Wilcox
    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:...

    • 2nd Michigan
      2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 2nd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 2nd Michigan Infantry was organized by Francis William Kellogg and others at Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. It mustered into Federal service for a...

      : Col William Humphrey
    • 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,...

    • 17th Michigan
      17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 17th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 17th Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan, between August 8 and August 22, 1862...

    • 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
    • 51st Pennsylvania
    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....



      
    Col William Humphrey
    • 1st Michigan Sharpshooters
    • 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....

    • 79th New York
      79th New York Volunteer Infantry
      The 79th New York Volunteer Infantry was a military regiment organized on June 20, 1859 in the state of New York. Prior to the American Civil War it was one of the three regiments which formed the Fourth Brigade of the First Division of the New York State Militia. The Fourth Brigade included the...

    • 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
  • Maine Light, 7th Battery (G)
    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....

  • New York Light, 34th Battery

  • Fourth Division
    United States Colored Troops
    The United States Colored Troops were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African American soldiers. First recruited in 1863, by the end of the Civil War, the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted approximately one-tenth of the Union...



        
    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 United States Colored Troops
    • 30th United States Colored Troops
    • 39th United States Colored Troops
    • 43rd United States Colored Troops
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col Henry G. Thomas
    • 30th Connecticut Colored (detachment)
    • 19th United States Colored Troops
    • 23rd United States Colored Troops
    Artillery
  • Pennsylvania Light, Battery D
  • Vermont Light, 3rd Battery

  • Reporting directly
    Provost Guard
    • 8th United States
    Cavalry
  • 3rd New Jersey
  • 22nd New York
  • 2nd Ohio
  • 13th Pennsylvania
  • Artillery Reserve

      
    Cpt John Edwards, Jr.
    • New York Light, 27th Battery
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery D
      Battery D, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
      Battery D, 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 4, 1861 under the command of Captain John Albert...

    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery H
      Battery H, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
      Battery H, 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 October 14, 1862 for a three year enlistment under the command of Captain Crawford Allen,...

    • 2nd United States, Battery E
    • 3rd United States, Battery G
    • 3rd United States, Batteries L and M
    Provisional Brigade

      
    Col Elisha G. Marshall
    • 2nd New York Mounted Rifles (dismounted)
    • 14th New York Heavy Artillery
    • 24th New York Cavalry (dismounted)
    • 2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery

    Army of the Potomac
    Army of the Potomac
    The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.-History:The Army of the Potomac was created in 1861, but was then only the size of a corps . Its nucleus was called the Army of Northeastern Virginia, under Brig. Gen...

    MG George G. Meade
    George Meade
    George Gordon Meade was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Second Seminole War and Mexican-American War. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from...



    General Staff:
    • Chief of Staff: MG Andrew A. Humphreys
      Andrew A. Humphreys
      Andrew Atkinson Humphreys , was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union General in the American Civil War. He served in senior positions in the Army of the Potomac, including division command, chief of staff, and corps command, and was Chief Engineer of the U.S...

    • Assistant Adjutant General: BG Seth Williams
      Seth Williams
      Seth Williams was an American military officer who served as assistant adjutant general of the Union's Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

    • Chief Quartermaster: BG Rufus Ingalls
      Rufus Ingalls
      Rufus Ingalls was an American military general who served as the 16th Quartermaster General of the United States Army.-Early life and career:...



    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 and D)
    • 80th New York (20th Militia)
    • 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry
    • 68th Pennsylvania
    • 114th Pennsylvania


    Engineer Troops:
    • 50th New York Engineers
    • Battalion United States Engineers


    Guards and Orderlies:
    • Independent Company Oneida (New York) Cavalry

    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...



    Escort:
    • 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...

    • 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...

    • 61st New York
    • 81st Pennsylvania: Col H. Boyd McKeen
      H. Boyd McKeen
      H. Boyd McKeen led a regiment in the American Civil War, and he occasionally led a brigade before being killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor....

    • 140th Pennsylvania
    • 183rd Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade
    Irish Brigade
    Irish Brigade may refer to:* Irish Brigade , the Jacobite brigade in the French army, 1690–1792 * Irish Brigade , pro-Union Civil War brigade of Irish immigrants...



      
    Col Thomas A. Smyth
    Thomas Alfred Smyth
    Thomas Alfred Smyth was a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the last Union general killed in the war.-Early life:...

    • 28th Massachusetts
      28th Massachusetts Infantry regiment
      The 28th Massachusetts Infantry regiment was the second primarily Irish American volunteer infantry regiment recruited in Massachusetts for service in the American Civil War. The regiment's motto was Faugh a Ballagh ...

    • 63rd New York
      63rd New York Infantry
      The 63rd New York Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the Irish Brigade during the American Civil War. It served in some of the leading campaigns and battles of the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater of operations....

    • 69th New York
      U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment
      The 69th Infantry Regiment is a military unit from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard. It is known as the Fighting Sixty-Ninth, a name said to have been given to it by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War...

    • 88th New York
      88th New York Infantry
      The 88th New York Infantry was a volunteer regiment in the Union Army's Irish Brigade during the American Civil War.-1861:The regiment was mustered into service in the autumn of 1861 at Fort Schuyler in New York when the government approved the commissioning of an Irish Brigade...

    • 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 Paul Frank

      
    Col Hiram R. Brown (c)

      
    Col Clinton D. MacDougall
    • 39th New York
      39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the "Garibaldi Guard", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 52nd New York
    • 111th New York: 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...

    • 125th New York
      125th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 125th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment from Rensselaer County, New York, during the American Civil War. Formed during the summer of 1862, the unit was officially mustered into United States Service on 27–29 August 1862, by Col. George L. Willard. He had seen...

    • 126th New York
    4th Brigade

      
    Col John R. Brooke
    John R. Brooke
    John Rutter Brooke was a major general in the United States Army during both the American Civil War and the Spanish American War...

    • 2nd Delaware
    • 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: Col Hiram R. Brown
    • 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 Alexander S. Webb
    Alexander S. Webb
    Alexander Stewart Webb was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg...

     (w)

      
    Col H. Boyd McKeen
    • 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....

    • 15th Massachusetts
    • 19th Massachusetts
    • 20th Massachusetts
      20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Harvard Regiment", was a regiment of infantry in the American Civil War. The regiment was so nicknamed because the officers of the 20th were young Harvard graduates. In addition some, but not all, the private soldiers had attended...

    • 1st Company Andrew (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...

    • 42nd New York
      42nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 42nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War which was formed up in mid-1861 and mustered in on June 22, 1861. It was organized by the Tammany Club, a New York Democratic Party club.-Service:...

    • 59th New York
      59th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 59th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As part of the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac, it played a significant role in battles such as Antietam and Gettysburg.-Recruitment:...

    • 82nd New York (2nd Militia)
    2nd 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...



      
    BG Joshua T. Owen
    Joshua T. Owen
    Joshua Thomas Owen was an educator, politician, and soldier from Pennsylvania who served as a Union brigadier general during the American Civil War. He commanded the famed Philadelphia Brigade for part of the war, but was relieved of duty for alleged cowardice during battle.-Early life and...

    • 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...

    • 71st Pennsylvania
      71st Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers was an infantry regiment of the Union Army that participated in the American Civil War.-History:...

    • 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 Samuel S. Carroll
    Samuel S. Carroll
    Samuel Spriggs "Red" Carroll was a career officer in the United States Army who rose to the rank of brigadier general during the American Civil War...

     (w)

      
    Col Theodore G. Ellis
    • 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....

      : Col Theodore G. Ellis
    • 1st Delaware
    • 14th Indiana
      14th Indiana Infantry Regiment
      The 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment, otherwise known as the Gallant Fourteenth, was an Civil War infantry regiment. A part of the celebrated Gibraltar Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, the 14th helped secure Cemetery Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.- Service :*The 14th Indiana was...

    • 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...

    Provost Guard
  • 2nd Company Minnesota Sharpshooters

  • Third Division

        
    BG 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 Brigade

      
    BG J. H. Hobart Ward
    J. H. Hobart Ward
    John Henry Hobart Ward , most commonly referred to as J.H. Hobart Ward, was a career United States Army soldier who fought in the Mexican–American War and served in the New York state militia...



      
    Col Thomas W. Egan
    • 20th Indiana
      20th Regiment Indiana Infantry
      The 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:*The 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Lafayette, Indiana on July 22, 1861.*Peninsular Campaign...

    • 3rd Maine
      3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was mustered in at Augusta, Maine for three year's service on June 4, 1861 and were mustered out on June 28, 1864. Veterans who had re-enlisted and those recruits still liable to serve were transferred to 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment.-Casualties...

    • 40th New York
      40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, also known as the "Mozart Regiment" or the "Constitution Guard", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

      : 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 :...

    • 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 United States Sharpshooters
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col John S. Crocker
    • 4th Maine
      4th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 4th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was assembled in Rockland, Maine on By May 20th, 1861 with Colonel Hiram G. Berry as it's commanding officer. He received four Knox County companies, one from Searsport, Winterport, Wiscasset, and Damariscotta, and two from Belfast. In all, 1,085 men,...

    • 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...

    • 3rd Michigan
      3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 3rd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:At 8:30 on the morning of Thursday, June 13, 1861, ten companies of the Third Michigan infantry, led by its regimental band and the field and staff officers,...

    • 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
      105th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 105th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Wildcat Regiment" was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Organization and early battles:...

    • 1st United States Sharpshooters

    Fourth Division

        
    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 Robert McAllister
    • 1st Massachusetts
      1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War.Organized at "Camp Ellsworth" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the regiment was made up partly of companies that had belonged to the 1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, a...

    • 16th Massachusetts
    • 5th New Jersey
      5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was one of four regiments formed by Governor Charles Olden upon requisition of President Abraham Lincoln on July 24, 1861. The regiment departed for Washington, DC on August 24, 1861 and camped at Meridian Hill...

    • 6th New Jersey
      6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 7th New Jersey
      7th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      -Organizing:Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, New Jersey, and mustered in September 3, 1861. 7 Companies left State for Washington, D.C., September 19, 1861, and 3 Companies October 3, 1861.Attached to:...

    • 8th New Jersey
    • 11th New Jersey
      11th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 11th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was a regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

      : Col Robert McAllister
    • 26th Pennsylvania
    • 115th Pennsylvania
    2nd 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
      11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. Organized in Boston in May 1861, the 11th Massachusetts was made up mostly of men from Boston, but also from Charlestown and Dorchester...

    • 70th New York
      70th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 70th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of Union Army in the American Civil War. The unit served in the Excelsior Brigade in several battles, including Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Overland Campaign.-Service:...

    • 71st New York
    • 72nd New York
    • 73rd New York
      73rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 73rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of Union Army in the American Civil War. The regiment was organized in New York City in May 1861 as a Zouave regiment, known for its unusual dress and drill style...

    • 74th New York
      74th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 74th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union regiment that served in the American Civil War. They were part of the Excelsior Brigade. They regiment was uniformed after French chasseur soldiers. Companies A and B however uniformed themselves as Zouaves...

    • 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...

    • Maine Light, 6th Battery (F)
      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...

    • Massachusetts Light, 10th Battery
    • New Hamsphire Light, 1st Battery
    • 1st New York Light, Battery G
    • 4th New York Heavy (3rd Battalion)
    • 1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery F
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery A
      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...

    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery B
      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...

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

    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...



    Provost Guard:
    • 12th New York Battalion

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division

        
    BG Charles Griffin
    1st Brigade

      
    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...

    • 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...

    • 91st Pennsylvania
      91st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
      The 91st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union infantry regiment that fought in the American Civil War. They wore an americanized zouave uniform that consisted of a dark blue zouave jacket with yellow trimming, dark blue zouave vest with yellow trimming, sky blue sash, sky blue...

    • 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....

    • 2nd United States
      2nd Infantry Regiment (United States)
      The 2nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army. It has served the United States for more than two hundred years. It is the third oldest regiment in the US Army with a Lineage date of 1808 and a history extending back to 1791...

      , Companies B, C, F, H, I, and K
    • 11th United States
      11th Infantry Regiment (United States)
      The 11th Infantry Regiment is a regiment in the United States Army.-The First 11th Infantry:Under the authority granted the President by the Act of July 16, 1798, to raise twelve additional regiments of infantry, the first 11th Infantry came into existence in the Army of the United States in...

      , Companies B, C, D, E, F, and G, 1st Battalion
    • 12th United States, Companies A, B, C, D, and G, 1st Battalion, and Companies A, C, D, F, and H, 2nd Battalion
    • 14th United States, 1st Battalion
    • 17th United States
      17th Infantry Regiment (United States)
      The 17th Infantry Regiment is a United States Army infantry regiment. While the 17th Infantry Regiment was organized on January 11, 1812, it was consolidated with the 3rd Infantry due to extremely heavy losses at Frenchtown, and lost its identity two years later until May 3, 1861, when it was...

      , Companies A, C, D, G, and H, 1st Battalion, and Companies A, B, and C, 2nd Battalion
    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...

    • 9th Massachusetts
      9th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 9th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was a military unit from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, part of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. It is also known as "The Fighting Ninth". It existed from 1861 to 1864 and participated in several key battles during the war...

    • 22nd Massachusetts
    • 32nd Massachusetts
      32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. The nucleus of the regiment was a battalion of six companies raised in September 1861 to garrison Fort Warren, the largest fortification in Boston harbor...

    • 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
    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
      44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War which was formed up in mid-1861, and mustered in on August 30, 1861.-Service:The regiment was first mustered by Stephen W...

    • 83rd Pennsylvania
    • 118th Pennsylvania

    Second Division

        
    BG John C. Robinson
    John C. Robinson
    John Cleveland Robinson had a long and distinguished career in the United States Army, fighting in numerous wars and culminating his career as a Union Army brigadier general of volunteers and brevet major general of volunteers in the American Civil War. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated...

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    Col Richard Coulter
    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
      13th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 13th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It was formed on July 16, 1861 at Fort Independence in Boston, Massachusetts. Its original commander was Colonel Samuel H. Leonard....

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

      
    Col Richard Coulter
    Richard Coulter (general)
    Richard Coulter, Sr. was an American Civil War general in the Union Army, a businessman, and banker. During the Civil War he was colonel of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, often rising to brigade command upon the wounding of superior officers.-Early life and career:Richard Coulter, Sr...



      
    Col James L. Bates
    • 12th Massachusetts: Col James L. Bates
    • 83rd New York (9th Militia)
    • 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 Andrew W. Denison (w)

      
    Col Charles E. Phelps (c)

      
    Col Richard N. Bowerman
    • 1st Maryland
    • 4th Maryland: Col Richard N. Bowerman
    • 7th Maryland
      7th Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry
      The 7th Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry was a regiment that participated in the American Civil War. Edwin H. Webster was one of the regimental commanders. This regiment was inducted into service on May 15, 1861. After serving guard duty in the defenses of Washington, the regiment was sent...

      : Col Charles E. Phelps
      Charles E. Phelps
      Charles Edward Phelps was a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, later received a brevet as a brigadier general of volunteers, served as a city councilman, a U.S. Congressman from the third district of Maryland, and received the Medal of Honor...

    • 8th Maryland
      8th Maryland Volunteer Infantry
      The 8th Maryland Infantry was a Union Army regiment that fought in the American Civil War.-History:The regiment was organized at Baltimore, Maryland, in August, 1862. It moved to the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 18, 1862 and was attached to Kenly's Maryland Brigade, VIII...


    Third Division
    Pennsylvania Reserves
    The Pennsylvania Reserves were an infantry division in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Noted for its famous commanders and high casualties, it served in the Eastern Theater, and fought in many important battles, including Antietam and Gettysburg....



        
    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 William McCandless
    William McCandless
    William McCandless was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, commanding a regiment and then a brigade in the Pennsylvania Reserve Division.-Biography:...

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    Col William C. Talley (c)

      
    Col Wellington H. Ent

      
    Col Samuel M. Jackson
    • 1st Pennsylvania Reserves: Col William C. Talley
    • 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 6th Pennsylvania Reserves: Col Wellington H. Ent
    • 7th Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 11th Pennsylvania Reserves: Col Samuel M. Jackson
    • 13th Pennsylvania Reserves
      13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment
      The 13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, also known as the 42nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 1st Bucktail Regiment, or the 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

       (1st Rifles)
    3rd Brigade

      
    Col Joseph W. Fisher
    Joseph W. Fisher
    Joseph Washington Fisher was a Pennsylvania politician and soldier who commanded a brigade of the Pennsylvania Reserves in some of the most important battles of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War....

    • 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 8th Pennsylvania Reserves
      8th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment
      The 8th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment was an infantry regiment of the northern Union Army during the American Civil War.-History:The regiment was organized at Camp Wilkins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with George S. Hays as colonel, S. D. Oliphant as lieutenant colonel, and J. B. Gardner as...

    • 10th Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 12th Pennsylvania Reserves

    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
    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...



      
    Col William W. Robinson
    • 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 New York Battalion Sharpshooters
    • 2nd Wisconsin
      2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 2nd 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 of the Army of the Potomac.-Service:...

    • 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

      
    BG James C. Rice (k)

      
    Col Edward B. Fowler
    • 76th New York
    • 84th New York (14th Militia): Col Edward B. Fowler
    • 95th New York
    • 147th New York
    • 56th Pennsylvania
    3rd Brigade

      
    Col 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...

    • 121st Pennsylvania
      121st Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a regiment of the Union Army during the United States Civil War.-History:This regiment, chiefly recruited in the city of Philadelphia, and in the county of Venango, was organized at camp of rendezvous, near Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, early in...

    • 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
      150th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 150th Pennsylvania Infantry was a Union Army volunteer regiment during the American Civil War. The first major battle that the 150th was in was Gettysburg, where it held back overwhelming numbers of confederates for several hours...

    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...

    • Massachusetts Light, Battery C
    • Massachusetts Light, Battery E
    • 1st New York Light, Battery D
    • 1st New York Light, Batteries E and L
    • 1st New York Light, Battery H
    • 4th New York Heavy (2nd Battalion)
    • 1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery B
    • 4th United States, Battery B
    • 5th United States, Battery D

    VI Corps

    MG John Sedgwick
    John Sedgwick
    John Sedgwick was a teacher, a career military officer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He was the highest ranking Union casualty in the Civil War, killed by a sniper at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.-Early life:Sedgwick was born in the Litchfield Hills town of...

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    BG Horatio G. Wright


    Escort:
    • 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Company A)

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division

        
    BG Horatio G. Wright

        
    BG David A. Russell
    1st Brigade
    First New Jersey Brigade
    The First New Jersey Brigade is the common name for an American Civil War brigade of New Jersey infantry regiments in the Union Army of the Potomac...



      
    Col Henry W. Brown

      
    Col William H. Penrose
    • 1st New Jersey
      1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War Union Army regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac....

    • 2nd New Jersey
    • 3rd New Jersey
      3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War Union Army regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac....

    • 4th New Jersey
    • 10th New Jersey
      10th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 10th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was a regiment was organized under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 22, 1861, and by authority issued by the War Department. It was created to recruit from residents of the State of New Jersey, but was not under the control or supervision of...

    • 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

      
    Col 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...

    • 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 Infantry
      95th Pennsylvania Infantry
      For other units with the same regimental number, see 95th Regiment of Foot .The 95th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army in the American Civil War. They are also known as Gosline's Zouaves based on the fact that the men wore an...

    • 96th Pennsylvania
    3rd 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:...



      
    BG Henry L. Eustis
    • 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
      5th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 5th Wisconsin was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 5th Infantry was assembled at Camp Randall, in Madison on July 12, 1861. It left Wisconsin for Washington, D.C. on July 24, 1861. During the war it moved through Virginia, Maryland,...

    4th Brigade

      
    Col Nelson Cross
    • 65th New York
    • 67th New York
    • 122nd New York
    • 82nd Pennsylvania (detachment)

    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...

    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
    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...



      
    Col 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...

    • 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery
      11th Vermont Infantry
      The 11th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry or simply known as 11th VVI was a three-years infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in eastern theater, from September 1862 to August 1865...

    • 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...

    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

      
    BG Henry L. Eustis
    Henry L. Eustis
    Henry Lawrence Eustis was a civil engineer, college professor, and soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...



      
    Col Oliver Edwards
    • 7th Massachusetts
      7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It was formed on June 15, 1861 in Taunton. Its original commander was Colonel Darius N...

    • 10th Massachusetts
      10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War.Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on...

    • 37th Massachusetts
      37th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 37th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War.-History:The regiment was formed in July 1862 and served until the end of the war in April 1865, seeing action at many battles including Fredricksburg and Gettysburg, duty in...

      : Col Oliver Edwards
      Oliver Edwards
      Oliver Edwards was a machine company executive, an inventor, and a volunteer officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....

    • 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

      
    BG William H. Morris (w)

      
    Col John W. Schall

      
    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...

      : Col John W. Schall
    • 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
    • 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
    • Maine Light, 4th Battery (D)
    • Massachusetts Light, 1st Battery (A)
    • New York Light, 1st Battery
    • New York Light, 3rd Battery
    • 4th New York Heavy (1st Battalion)
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery C
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery E
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery G
    • 5th United States, Battery M

    Cavalry Corps

    MG Philip H. Sheridan

    Escort:
    • 6th United States

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division

        
    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:...

    1st 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
    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:...

    • 4th New York
    • 6th New York
    • 9th New York
    • 17th New York
    Reserve Brigade

      
    Col Alfred Gibbs
    Alfred Gibbs
    Alfred Gibbs was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

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

    Second 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

      
    BG Henry E. Davies, Jr.
    • 1st Massachusetts
    • 1st New Jersey
    • 6th Ohio
    • 1st Pennsylvania
    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:...

    • 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...

    • 10th New York
    • 2nd Pennsylvania
    • 4th Pennsylvania
    • 8th 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 B. McIntosh
    • 1st Connecticut
    • 2nd New York
    • 5th New York
    • 18th Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col George H. Chapman
    • 3rd Indiana
    • 8th New York
    • 1st Vermont
      1st Vermont Cavalry
      The 1st Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Cavalry was a three years' cavalry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater from November 1861 to August 1865, in the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac....

    1st Brigade 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
    • New York Light, 6th Battery
    • 2nd United States, Batteries B and L
    • 2nd United States, Battery D
    • 2nd United States, Battery M
    • 4th United States, Battery A
    • 4th United States, Batteries C and E

    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...


    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    Artillery Reserve

        
    Col Henry S. Burton
    1st 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
    • 15th New York Heavy (1st and 3rd Battalions)
    2nd Brigade

      
    Maj John A. Tompkins
    • Maine Light, 5th Battery (E)
      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 New Jersey Light, Battery A
    • 1st New Jersey Light, Battery B
    • New York Light, 5th Battery
    • New York Light, 12th Battery
    • 1st New York Light, Battery B
    3rd Brigade

      
    Maj Robert H. Fitzhugh
    • Massachusetts Light, 9th Battery
    • New York Light, 15th Battery
    • 1st New York Light, Battery C
    • New York Light, 11th Battery
    • 1st Ohio Light, Battery H
      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:...

    • 5th United States, Battery E
    2nd Brigade Horse Artillery

      
    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....

    • 1st United States, Batteries E and G
    • 1st United States, Batteries H and I
    • 1st United States, Battery K
    • 2nd United States, Battery A
    • 2nd United States, Battery G
    • 3rd United States, Batteries C, F, and K
    Artillery Park

      
    Ltc Freeman McGilvery
    Freeman McGilvery
    Freeman McGilvery was a United States Army artillery officer during the American Civil War. He gained fame at the Battle of Gettysburg for taking the initiative to piece together a line of guns that greatly contributed to the Union victory.-Biography:McGilvery was born in Prospect, Maine...

    • 15th New York Heavy (2nd Battalion)

    Forces operating against Richmond May 17-21, 1864

    LTG Ulysses S. Grant
    Ulysses S. Grant
    Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...

    , General-in-Chief
    General-in-Chief
    General-in-Chief has been a military rank or title in various armed forces around the world.- France :In France, General-in-Chief was first an informal title for the lieutenant-general commanding over others lieutenant-generals, or even for some marshals in charge of an army...

    , Union armies

    Escort:
    • 5th United States Cavalry (Companies B, F and K)

    IX Corps

    MG Ambrose E. Burnside
    • Chief of Staff: MG John G. Parke
      John Parke
      John Grubb Parke was a United States Army engineer and a Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...


    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division

        
    MG Thomas L. Crittenden
    1st Brigade

      
    BG James Ledlie
    • 35th Massachusetts
    • 56th Massachusetts: Ltc Stephen M. Weld, Jr.
    • 57th Massachusetts
    • 59th Massachusetts
    • 4th United States
    • 10th United States
    2nd Brigade

      
    Ltc Gilbert P. Robinson
    • 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....

    • 100th Pennsylvania
    Provisional Brigade

      
    Col Elisha G. Marshall
    • 2nd New York Mounted Rifles (dismounted)
    • 14th New York Heavy Artillery
    • 24th New York Cavalry (dismounted)
    • 2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery
    Artillery
  • Maine Light, 2nd Battery (B)
    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....

  • Massachusetts Light, 14th Battery

  • 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...

    • 36th Massachusetts
    • 58th Massachusetts
    • 51st New York
    • 45th Pennsylvania
    • 48th Pennsylvania
    • 7th Rhode Island
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col Simon G. 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
      2nd Maryland Infantry
      The 2nd Maryland Infantry was an American military regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It should not be confused with the 2nd Maryland Infantry, CSA, which was composed of Maryland volunteers who fought for the Confederacy during the war....

       (detachment)
    • 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
      17th Vermont Infantry
      The 17th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three years' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

    Artillery
  • Massachusetts Light, 11th Battery
  • New York Light, 19th Battery

  • Third Division

        
    BG Orlando B. Wilcox
    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:...

    • 2nd Michigan
      2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 2nd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 2nd Michigan Infantry was organized by Francis William Kellogg and others at Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. It mustered into Federal service for a...

    • 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,...

    • 17th Michigan
      17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 17th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 17th Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan, between August 8 and August 22, 1862...

    • 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
    • 51st Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col William Humphrey
    • 1st Michigan Sharpshooters
    • 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....

    • 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
  • Maine Light, 7th Battery (G)
    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....

  • New York Light, 34th Battery

  • Fourth Division
    United States Colored Troops
    The United States Colored Troops were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African American soldiers. First recruited in 1863, by the end of the Civil War, the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted approximately one-tenth of the Union...



        
    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 United States Colored Troops
    • 30th United States Colored Troops
    • 39th United States Colored Troops
    • 43rd United States Colored Troops
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col Henry G. Thomas
    • 30th Connecticut Colored (detachment)
    • 19th United States Colored Troops
    • 23rd United States Colored Troops
    Artillery
  • Pennsylvania Light, Battery D
  • Vermont Light, 3rd Battery

  • Reporting directly
    Provost Guard
    • 8th United States
    Cavalry
  • 3rd New Jersey
  • 22nd New York
  • 2nd Ohio

  • Army of the Potomac
    Army of the Potomac
    The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.-History:The Army of the Potomac was created in 1861, but was then only the size of a corps . Its nucleus was called the Army of Northeastern Virginia, under Brig. Gen...

    MG George G. Meade
    George Meade
    George Gordon Meade was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Second Seminole War and Mexican-American War. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from...



    General Staff:
    • Chief of Staff: MG Andrew A. Humphreys
      Andrew A. Humphreys
      Andrew Atkinson Humphreys , was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union General in the American Civil War. He served in senior positions in the Army of the Potomac, including division command, chief of staff, and corps command, and was Chief Engineer of the U.S...

    • Assistant Adjutant General: BG Seth Williams
      Seth Williams
      Seth Williams was an American military officer who served as assistant adjutant general of the Union's Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

    • Chief Quartermaster: BG Rufus Ingalls
      Rufus Ingalls
      Rufus Ingalls was an American military general who served as the 16th Quartermaster General of the United States Army.-Early life and career:...



    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 and D)
    • 80th New York (20th Militia)
    • 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry
    • 68th Pennsylvania
    • 114th Pennsylvania


    Engineer Troops:
    • 50th New York Engineers
    • Battalion United States Engineers


    Guards and Orderlies:
    • Independent Company Oneida (New York) Cavalry

    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...



    Escort:
    • 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...

    • 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...

    • 61st New York
    • 81st Pennsylvania
    • 140th Pennsylvania
    • 183rd Pennsylvania
    2nd Brigade
    Irish Brigade
    Irish Brigade may refer to:* Irish Brigade , the Jacobite brigade in the French army, 1690–1792 * Irish Brigade , pro-Union Civil War brigade of Irish immigrants...



      
    Col Thomas A. Smyth
    Thomas Alfred Smyth
    Thomas Alfred Smyth was a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the last Union general killed in the war.-Early life:...



      
    Col Richard Byrnes
    • 28th Massachusetts
      28th Massachusetts Infantry regiment
      The 28th Massachusetts Infantry regiment was the second primarily Irish American volunteer infantry regiment recruited in Massachusetts for service in the American Civil War. The regiment's motto was Faugh a Ballagh ...

      : Col Richard Byrnes
    • 63rd New York
      63rd New York Infantry
      The 63rd New York Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the Irish Brigade during the American Civil War. It served in some of the leading campaigns and battles of the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater of operations....

    • 69th New York
      U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment
      The 69th Infantry Regiment is a military unit from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard. It is known as the Fighting Sixty-Ninth, a name said to have been given to it by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War...

    • 88th New York
      88th New York Infantry
      The 88th New York Infantry was a volunteer regiment in the Union Army's Irish Brigade during the American Civil War.-1861:The regiment was mustered into service in the autumn of 1861 at Fort Schuyler in New York when the government approved the commissioning of an Irish Brigade...

    • 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
    • 39th New York
      39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the "Garibaldi Guard", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 52nd New York
    • 111th New York
    • 125th New York
      125th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 125th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment from Rensselaer County, New York, during the American Civil War. Formed during the summer of 1862, the unit was officially mustered into United States Service on 27–29 August 1862, by Col. George L. Willard. He had seen...

    • 126th New York
    4th Brigade

      
    Col John R. Brooke
    John R. Brooke
    John Rutter Brooke was a major general in the United States Army during both the American Civil War and the Spanish American War...

    • 2nd Delaware
    • 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

      
    Col H. Boyd McKeen
    H. Boyd McKeen
    H. Boyd McKeen led a regiment in the American Civil War, and he occasionally led a brigade before being killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor....

    • 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....

    • 15th Massachusetts
    • 19th Massachusetts
    • 20th Massachusetts
      20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Harvard Regiment", was a regiment of infantry in the American Civil War. The regiment was so nicknamed because the officers of the 20th were young Harvard graduates. In addition some, but not all, the private soldiers had attended...

    • 1st Company Andrew (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...

    • 42nd New York
      42nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 42nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War which was formed up in mid-1861 and mustered in on June 22, 1861. It was organized by the Tammany Club, a New York Democratic Party club.-Service:...

    • 59th New York
      59th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 59th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As part of the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac, it played a significant role in battles such as Antietam and Gettysburg.-Recruitment:...

    • 82nd New York (2nd Militia)
    • 36th Wisconsin
      36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 36th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 36th Wisconsin was organized at Madison, Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service on March 23, 1864....

    2nd 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...



      
    BG Joshua T. Owen
    Joshua T. Owen
    Joshua Thomas Owen was an educator, politician, and soldier from Pennsylvania who served as a Union brigadier general during the American Civil War. He commanded the famed Philadelphia Brigade for part of the war, but was relieved of duty for alleged cowardice during battle.-Early life and...

    • 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...

    • 71st Pennsylvania
      71st Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers was an infantry regiment of the Union Army that participated in the American Civil War.-History:...

    • 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 Theodore G. Ellis

      
    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....

      : Col Theodore G. Ellis
    • 1st Delaware
    • 14th Indiana
      14th Indiana Infantry Regiment
      The 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment, otherwise known as the Gallant Fourteenth, was an Civil War infantry regiment. A part of the celebrated Gibraltar Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, the 14th helped secure Cemetery Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.- Service :*The 14th Indiana was...

    • 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 Mathew Murphy (w)

      
    Col James P. MacIvor
    • 155th New York
    • 164th New York
    • 170th New York: Col James P. MacIvor
    • 182nd New York
    Provost Guard
  • 2nd Company Minnesota Sharpshooters

  • Third Division

        
    BG 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 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 :...

    • 20th Indiana
      20th Regiment Indiana Infantry
      The 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:*The 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Lafayette, Indiana on July 22, 1861.*Peninsular Campaign...

    • 3rd Maine
      3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was mustered in at Augusta, Maine for three year's service on June 4, 1861 and were mustered out on June 28, 1864. Veterans who had re-enlisted and those recruits still liable to serve were transferred to 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment.-Casualties...

    • 40th New York
      40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, also known as the "Mozart Regiment" or the "Constitution Guard", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 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 United States Sharpshooters
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col John S. Crocker

      
    Col Elijah Walker
    • 4th Maine
      4th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 4th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was assembled in Rockland, Maine on By May 20th, 1861 with Colonel Hiram G. Berry as it's commanding officer. He received four Knox County companies, one from Searsport, Winterport, Wiscasset, and Damariscotta, and two from Belfast. In all, 1,085 men,...

      : Col Elijah Walker
    • 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...

    • 3rd Michigan
      3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 3rd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:At 8:30 on the morning of Thursday, June 13, 1861, ten companies of the Third Michigan infantry, led by its regimental band and the field and staff officers,...

    • 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: Col John S. Crocker
    • 57th Pennsylvania
    • 63rd Pennsylvania
    • 105th Pennsylvania
      105th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 105th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Wildcat Regiment" was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Organization and early battles:...

    • 1st United States 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:...

    • 1st Massachusetts
      1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War.Organized at "Camp Ellsworth" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the regiment was made up partly of companies that had belonged to the 1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, a...

    • 16th Massachusetts
    • 5th New Jersey
      5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was one of four regiments formed by Governor Charles Olden upon requisition of President Abraham Lincoln on July 24, 1861. The regiment departed for Washington, DC on August 24, 1861 and camped at Meridian Hill...

    • 6th New Jersey
      6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 7th New Jersey
      7th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      -Organizing:Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, New Jersey, and mustered in September 3, 1861. 7 Companies left State for Washington, D.C., September 19, 1861, and 3 Companies October 3, 1861.Attached to:...

    • 8th New Jersey
    • 11th New Jersey
      11th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 11th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was a regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    • 26th Pennsylvania
    • 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
      11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. Organized in Boston in May 1861, the 11th Massachusetts was made up mostly of men from Boston, but also from Charlestown and Dorchester...

    • 70th New York
      70th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 70th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of Union Army in the American Civil War. The unit served in the Excelsior Brigade in several battles, including Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Overland Campaign.-Service:...

    • 71st New York
    • 72nd New York
    • 73rd New York
      73rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 73rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of Union Army in the American Civil War. The regiment was organized in New York City in May 1861 as a Zouave regiment, known for its unusual dress and drill style...

    • 74th New York
      74th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 74th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union regiment that served in the American Civil War. They were part of the Excelsior Brigade. They regiment was uniformed after French chasseur soldiers. Companies A and B however uniformed themselves as Zouaves...

    • 120th New York
    • 84th Pennsylvania

    Fourth Division

        
    BG Robert O. Tyler
    Robert O. Tyler
    Robert Ogden Tyler was an American soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best known as the commander of the Artillery Reserve of the Army of the Potomac, including at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, where many of his batteries played...

    no Brigade organization
    • 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...

    • 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
    • 2nd New York Heavy Artillery
    • 7th New York Heavy Artillery
    • 8th New York Heavy Artillery
    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...

    • Maine Light, 6th Battery (F)
      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...

    • Massachusetts Light, 10th Battery
    • New Hamsphire Light, 1st Battery
    • 1st New Jersey Light, Battery B
    • 1st New York Light, Battery G
    • 4th New York Heavy (3rd Battalion)
    • New York Light, 11th Battery
    • New York Light, 12th Battery
    • 1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery F
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery A
      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...

    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery B
      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...

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

    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...



    Provost Guard:
    • 12th New York Battalion

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division

        
    BG Charles Griffin
    1st Brigade

      
    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...

    • 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...

    • 91st Pennsylvania
      91st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
      The 91st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union infantry regiment that fought in the American Civil War. They wore an americanized zouave uniform that consisted of a dark blue zouave jacket with yellow trimming, dark blue zouave vest with yellow trimming, sky blue sash, sky blue...

    • 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....

    • 2nd United States
      2nd Infantry Regiment (United States)
      The 2nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army. It has served the United States for more than two hundred years. It is the third oldest regiment in the US Army with a Lineage date of 1808 and a history extending back to 1791...

      , Companies B, C, F, H, I, and K
    • 11th United States
      11th Infantry Regiment (United States)
      The 11th Infantry Regiment is a regiment in the United States Army.-The First 11th Infantry:Under the authority granted the President by the Act of July 16, 1798, to raise twelve additional regiments of infantry, the first 11th Infantry came into existence in the Army of the United States in...

      , Companies B, C, D, E, F, and G, 1st Battalion
    • 12th United States, Companies A, B, C, D, and G, 1st Battalion, and Companies A, C, D, F, and H, 2nd Battalion
    • 14th United States, 1st Battalion
    • 17th United States
      17th Infantry Regiment (United States)
      The 17th Infantry Regiment is a United States Army infantry regiment. While the 17th Infantry Regiment was organized on January 11, 1812, it was consolidated with the 3rd Infantry due to extremely heavy losses at Frenchtown, and lost its identity two years later until May 3, 1861, when it was...

      , Companies A, C, D, G, and H, 1st Battalion, and Companies A, B, and C, 2nd Battalion
    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...

    • 9th Massachusetts
      9th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 9th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was a military unit from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, part of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. It is also known as "The Fighting Ninth". It existed from 1861 to 1864 and participated in several key battles during the war...

    • 22nd Massachusetts
    • 32nd Massachusetts
      32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. The nucleus of the regiment was a battalion of six companies raised in September 1861 to garrison Fort Warren, the largest fortification in Boston harbor...

    • 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
    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
      44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War which was formed up in mid-1861, and mustered in on August 30, 1861.-Service:The regiment was first mustered by Stephen W...

    • 83rd Pennsylvania
    • 118th Pennsylvania

    Third Division
    Pennsylvania Reserves
    The Pennsylvania Reserves were an infantry division in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Noted for its famous commanders and high casualties, it served in the Eastern Theater, and fought in many important battles, including Antietam and Gettysburg....



        
    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 Samuel M. Jackson

      
    Col Martin D. Hardin
    • 1st Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 6th Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 7th Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 11th Pennsylvania Reserves: Col Samuel M. Jackson
    • 13th Pennsylvania Reserves
      13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment
      The 13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, also known as the 42nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 1st Bucktail Regiment, or the 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

       (1st Rifles)
    2nd Brigade

      
    Col Richard Coulter
    Richard Coulter (general)
    Richard Coulter, Sr. was an American Civil War general in the Union Army, a businessman, and banker. During the Civil War he was colonel of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, often rising to brigade command upon the wounding of superior officers.-Early life and career:Richard Coulter, Sr...

     (w)

      
    Col James L. Bates
    • 12th Massachusetts: Col James L. Bates
    • 83rd New York (9th Militia)
    • 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 Joseph W. Fisher
    Joseph W. Fisher
    Joseph Washington Fisher was a Pennsylvania politician and soldier who commanded a brigade of the Pennsylvania Reserves in some of the most important battles of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War....

    • 5th Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 10th Pennsylvania Reserves
    • 12th Pennsylvania Reserves

    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
    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...



      
    Col William W. Robinson
    • 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 New York Battalion 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 Edward B. Fowler

      
    Col J. William Hofmann
    • 76th New York
    • 84th New York (14th Militia)
    • 95th New York
    • 147th New York
    • 56th Pennsylvania: Col J. William Hofmann
    3rd Brigade

      
    Col 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...

    • 121st Pennsylvania
      121st Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a regiment of the Union Army during the United States Civil War.-History:This regiment, chiefly recruited in the city of Philadelphia, and in the county of Venango, was organized at camp of rendezvous, near Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, early in...

    • 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
      150th Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 150th Pennsylvania Infantry was a Union Army volunteer regiment during the American Civil War. The first major battle that the 150th was in was Gettysburg, where it held back overwhelming numbers of confederates for several hours...

    4th 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
      13th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 13th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It was formed on July 16, 1861 at Fort Independence in Boston, Massachusetts. Its original commander was Colonel Samuel H. Leonard....

    • 39th Massachusetts
    • 104th New York
    • 90th Pennsylvania
    • 107th Pennsylvania
    Provost Guard
  • 2nd Wisconsin
    2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 2nd 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 of the Army of the Potomac.-Service:...


  • Reporting directly
    Heavy Artillery 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 (1st and 3rd Battalions)
    Maryland Brigade

      
    Col Richard N. Bowerman
    • 1st Maryland
    • 4th Maryland
    • 7th Maryland
    • 8th Maryland
      8th Maryland Volunteer Infantry
      The 8th Maryland Infantry was a Union Army regiment that fought in the American Civil War.-History:The regiment was organized at Baltimore, Maryland, in August, 1862. It moved to the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 18, 1862 and was attached to Kenly's Maryland Brigade, VIII...

    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...

    • Massachusetts Light, Battery C
    • Massachusetts Light, Battery E
    • Massachusetts Light, 9th Battery
    • 1st New York Light, Battery B
    • 1st New York Light, Battery C
    • 1st New York Light, Battery D
    • 1st New York Light, Batteries E and L
    • 1st New York Light, Battery H
    • New York Light, 5th Battery
    • New York Light, 15th Battery
    • 4th New York Heavy (2nd Battalion)
    • 1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery B
    • 4th United States, Battery B
    • 5th United States, Battery D

    VI Corps

    BG Horatio G. Wright


    Escort:
    • 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Company A)

    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division

        
    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:...

    1st Brigade
    First New Jersey Brigade
    The First New Jersey Brigade is the common name for an American Civil War brigade of New Jersey infantry regiments in the Union Army of the Potomac...



      
    Col William H. Penrose
    • 1st New Jersey
      1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War Union Army regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac....

    • 2nd New Jersey
    • 3rd New Jersey
      3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War Union Army regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac....

    • 4th New Jersey
    • 10th New Jersey
      10th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
      The 10th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was a regiment was organized under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 22, 1861, and by authority issued by the War Department. It was created to recruit from residents of the State of New Jersey, but was not under the control or supervision of...

    • 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

      
    Col 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
      2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery
      The 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery was a volunteer infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-History:...

    • 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 Infantry
      95th Pennsylvania Infantry
      For other units with the same regimental number, see 95th Regiment of Foot .The 95th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army in the American Civil War. They are also known as Gosline's Zouaves based on the fact that the men wore an...

    • 96th Pennsylvania
    3rd Brigade

      
    BG Henry L. Eustis
    Henry L. Eustis
    Henry Lawrence Eustis was a civil engineer, college professor, and soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

    • 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
      5th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 5th Wisconsin was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 5th Infantry was assembled at Camp Randall, in Madison on July 12, 1861. It left Wisconsin for Washington, D.C. on July 24, 1861. During the war it moved through Virginia, Maryland,...

    4th Brigade

      
    Col Nelson Cross
    • 65th New York
    • 67th New York
    • 122nd New York
    • 82nd Pennsylvania (detachment)

    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...

    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
    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...



      
    Col 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...

    • 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery
      11th Vermont Infantry
      The 11th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry or simply known as 11th VVI was a three-years infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in eastern theater, from September 1862 to August 1865...

    • 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...

    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
    Oliver Edwards
    Oliver Edwards was a machine company executive, an inventor, and a volunteer officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....

    • 7th Massachusetts
      7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It was formed on June 15, 1861 in Taunton. Its original commander was Colonel Darius N...

    • 10th Massachusetts
      10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War.Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on...

    • 37th Massachusetts
      37th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 37th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War.-History:The regiment was formed in July 1862 and served until the end of the war in April 1865, seeing action at many battles including Fredricksburg and Gettysburg, duty in...

    • 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
    • 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
    • Maine Light, 4th Battery (D)
    • Maine Light, 5th Battery (E)
    • Massachusetts Light, 1st Battery (A)
    • 1st New Jersey Light, Battery A
    • New York Light, 1st Battery
    • New York Light, 3rd Battery
    • 4th New York Heavy (1st Battalion)
    • 1st Ohio Light, Battery H
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery C
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery E
    • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery G
    • 5th United States, Battery E
    • 5th United States, Battery M

    Cavalry

    Brigade Regiments and Others
    Torbert's Command

      
    BG Alfred T. A. Torbert
    • 5th New York
    • 1st Pennsylvania (detachment)
    • 13th Pennsylvania
    • 16th Pennsylvania (detachment)
    • 1st Massachusetts (detachment)

    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...


    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    Artillery
    2nd Brigade Horse Artillery

      
    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....

    • 1st United States, Batteries E and G
    • 1st United States, Batteries H and I
    • 1st United States, Battery K
    • 2nd United States, Battery A
    • 2nd United States, Battery G
    • 3rd United States, Batteries C, F, and K
    Artillery Park

      
    Ltc Freeman McGilvery
    Freeman McGilvery
    Freeman McGilvery was a United States Army artillery officer during the American Civil War. He gained fame at the Battle of Gettysburg for taking the initiative to piece together a line of guns that greatly contributed to the Union victory.-Biography:McGilvery was born in Prospect, Maine...

    • 15th New York Heavy (2nd Battalion)
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