Fredericksburg Union order of battle

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

Abbreviations used

Military ranks

Other


Army of the Potomac

MG Ambrose Burnside, Commanding


General Headquarters units


Escort:


Provost Guard:

BG Marsena R. Patrick


Inspector General:

BG Delos B. Sackett


Volunteer Engineer Brigade:

BG Daniel Phineas Woodbury


Artillery:

BG Henry Jackson Hunt


Artillery Reserve:

Ltc William Hays


Unattached Artillery:

Maj Thomas S. Trumbull


Right Grand Division

MG Edwin Vose Sumner


II Corps

MG Darius N. Couch

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Winfield Scott Hancock

1st Brigade


   BG John C. Caldwell (w)
   Col George W. Von Schack

2nd Brigade


   BG Thomas F. Meagher

3rd Brigade


   Col Samuel K. Zook

Artillery

Second Division


     BG Oliver O. Howard

1st Brigade


   BG Alfred Sully

2nd Brigade


   Col Joshua T. Owen

3rd Brigade


   Col Norman J. Hall (w)
   Col William R. Lee

Artillery

Third Division


     BG William H. French

1st Brigade


   BG Nathan Kimball (w)
   Col John S. Mason

  • 14th Indiana: Maj Elijah H. C. Cavins
  • 24th New Jersey: Col William B. Robertson
  • 28th New Jersey: Col Moses N. Wisewell (w), Ltc E. A. L. Roberts
  • 4th Ohio: Col John S. Mason, Ltc James H. Godman (w), Cpt Gordon A. Stewart
  • 8th Ohio: Ltc Franklin Sawyer
  • 7th West Virginia: Col Joseph Snider (w), Ltc Jonathan H. Lockwood
2nd Brigade


   Col Oliver H. Palmer

3rd Brigade


   Col John W. Andrews[4]
   Ltc William Jameson
   Ltc John W. Marshall

Artillery
Corps Artillery Reserve


     Cpt Charles H. Morgan[6]

IX Corps

BG Orlando B. Willcox

Escort

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG William W. Burns

1st Brigade


   Col Orlando Poe

2nd Brigade


   Col Benjamin C. Christ

3rd Brigade


   Col Daniel Leasure

Artillery[7]
  • Battery D, 1st New York Light: Cpt Thomas W. Osborn
  • Batteries L and M, 3rd United States: Lt Horace J. Hayden

Second Division


     BG Samuel D. Sturgis

1st Brigade
  

BG James Nagle

2nd Brigade
  

BG Edward Ferrero

Artillery
  • Battery L, 2nd New York Light: Cpt Jacob Roomer
  • Battery D, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt George W. Durell
  • Battery D, 1st Rhode Island Light: Cpt William W. Buckley
  • Battery E, 4th United States: Lt George Dickenson (k), Lt John Egan

Third Division


     BG George W. Getty

1st Brigade


   Col Rush C. Hawkins

2nd Brigade


   Col Edward Harland

Artillery
  • Battery E, 2nd United States: Lt Samuel N. Benjamin
  • Battery A, 5th United States: Lt James Gillies

Cavalry Division

BG Alfred Pleasonton

Brigade Regiments
1st Brigade


   BG John F. Farnsworth

2nd Brigade


   Col David M. Gregg[8]
   Col Thomas Devin

  • 6th New York: Col Thomas C. Devin, Ltc Duncan McVicar
  • 8th Pennsylvania: Ltc Amos E. Griffiths
  • 6th United States: Cpt George C. Cram
Horse Artillery


Center Grand Division

MG Joseph Hooker


III Corps

BG George Stoneman

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG David B. Birney

1st Brigade


   BG John C. Robinson

2nd Brigade


   BG J. H. Hobart Ward

3rd Brigade


   BG Hiram G. Berry

Artillery


   Cpt George E. Randolph[9]

Second Division


     BG Daniel Sickles

1st Brigade


   BG Joseph B. Carr

2nd Brigade


   Col George B. Hall

3rd Brigade


   BG Joseph W. Revere

Artillery


   Cpt James E. Smith

Third Division


     BG Amiel W. Whipple

1st Brigade


   BG Abram S. Piatt[10]
   Col Emlen Franklin

2nd Brigade


   Col Samuel S. Carroll

Artillery

V Corps

BG Daniel Butterfield

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Charles Griffin

1st Brigade


   Col James Barnes

2nd Brigade


   Col Jacob B. Sweitzer

3rd Brigade


   Col T. B. W. Stockton

Artillery[11]
Sharpshooters
  • 1st United States: Ltc Casper Trepp

Second Division


     BG George Sykes

1st Brigade


   Ltc Robert C. Buchanan

2nd Brigade


   Maj George L. Andrews
   Maj Charles S. Lovell

3rd Brigade


   BG Gouverneur K. Warren

Artillery

Third Division


     BG Andrew A. Humphreys

1st Brigade


   BG Erastus B. Tyler

2nd Brigade


   Col Peter H. Allabach

Artillery
Cavalry Brigade


   BG William W. Averell

Artillery


Left Grand Division

MG William B. Franklin

Escort


I Corps

MG John F. Reynolds

Escort

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Abner Doubleday

1st Brigade


   Col Walter Phelps, Jr.

2nd Brigade


   Col James Gavin

3rd Brigade


   Col William F. Rogers

4th Brigade


   BG Solomon Meredith
   Col Lysander Cutler

Artillery[14]


   Cpt George A. Gerrish (w)
   Cpt John A. Reynolds

Second Division


     BG John Gibbon (w)
     BG Nelson Taylor

1st Brigade


   Col Adrian R. Root

2nd Brigade


   Col Peter Lyle

3rd Brigade


   BG Nelson Taylor
   Col Samuel H. Leonard

Artillery


   Cpt George F. Leppien

Third Division


     MG George Meade

1st Brigade


   Col William Sinclair (w)
   Col William McCandless

2nd Brigade


   Col Albert L. Magilton

3rd Brigade


   BG Conrad Feger Jackson (k)
   Col Joseph W. Fisher
   Ltc Robert Anderson

Artillery

VI Corps

MG William F. Smith

Escort

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG William T. H. Brooks

1st Brigade


   Col Alfred Thomas Torbert

2nd Brigade


   Col Henry L. Cake

3rd Brigade


   BG David Allen Russell

Artillery[15]

Second Division


     BG Albion P. Howe

1st Brigade


   BG Calvin E. Pratt

2nd Brigade


   Col Henry Whiting

3rd Brigade


   BG Francis L. Vinton (w)
   Col Robert F. Taylor
   BG Thomas H. Neill

Artillery

Third Division


     BG John Newton

1st Brigade


   BG John Cochrane

2nd Brigade


   BG Charles Devens

3rd Brigade


   Col Thomas A. Rowley
   BG Frank Wheaton

Artillery
Cavalry Brigade


   BG George D. Bayard (k)
   Col David McM. Gregg

Artillery
  • Battery C, 3rd United States: Cpt Horatio G. Gibson


Reserve Grand Division

Further information:[16]

XI Corps

BG Julius Stahel[17]

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division[18]


     BG Nathaniel C. McLean

1st Brigade
   Col Leopold Von Gilsa

  • 8th New York: Col Felix P Salm
  • 41st New York: Ltc Ernst Von Holmstedt
  • 45th New York: Ltc George Von Amsberg
  • 54th New York: Cpt Charles Wahle
  • 153rd Pennsylvania: Col Charles Glanz
2nd Brigade[19]


   BG Nathaniel C. McLean

  • 17th Connecticut: Col William H. Noble
  • 25th Ohio: Col William P. Richardson
  • 55th Ohio: Col John C. Lee
  • 75th Ohio: Ltc Robert A. Constable
  • 107th Ohio, Col Seraphim Meyer
Cavalry Brigade


   Col Luigi Palma Di Cesnola

  • Connecticut Cavalry, 1st Battalion: Cpt Charles Farnsworth
  • 4th New York: Maj Alfred W. Taylor,
  • 9th New York: Maj Edgar A. Kimball
  • 6th Ohio: Cpt J. H. Cryer
Artillery


   Cpt William L. De Beck

  • 2nd New York Battery: Cpt Louis Schirmer
  • 13th New York Battery: Cpt Julius Dieckmann
  • 1st Ohio, Company K: Cpt William L. De Beck

Second Division[20]


     BG Adolph Von Steinwehr[21]

1st Brigade


   Col Adolphus Buschbeck

  • 29th New York: Maj U. Gullman
  • 154th New York: Col Patrick H. Jones
  • 27th Pennsylvania: Ltc J. Cantador
  • 73rd Pennsylvania: Col G. A. Muhleck
2nd Brigade


   Col Orland Smith

  • 33rd Massachusetts: Col A. C. Maggi
  • 134th New York: Col Charles R. Coster
  • 136th New York: Ltc L. B. Faulkner
  • 73rd Ohio: Ltc Richard Long
Artillery


  

  • 1st New York, Battery I: Cpt M. Wiedrich
  • 12th Ohio Battery: Cpt A. C. Johnson

Third Division[22]


     BG Carl Schurz

1st Brigade


   Col Alexander Schimmelfennig

  • 82nd Illinois: Col Frederick Hecker
  • 68th New York: Maj C. Von Wedell
  • 157th New York: Col P. P. Brown, jr
  • 61st Ohio: Col S. J. McGroarty
  • 74th Pennsylvania: Maj A. Von Hartung
  • 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery I: Cpt Hubert Dilger
2nd Brigade[23]


   Col Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski

  • 58th New York: Ltc Frederick Gellman
  • 119th New York: Col Elias Peissner
  • 75th Pennsylvania: Col Francis Mahler
  • 26th Wisconsin: Col W. H. Jacobs
  • 1st West Virginia Artillery, Battery C: Cpt Wallace Hill

Unattached

  • 1st Indiana Cavalry (two companies): Cpt Theodore Majtheny
  • 82nd Ohio: Ltc D. Thomson
  • 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col Josiah H. Kellogg
  • 3rd West Virginia Cavalry (two companies): Cpt S. B. Conger

XII Corps

MG Henry Warner Slocum

Escort

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Alpheus S. Williams

1st Brigade
   Col Joseph F. Knipe

  • 5th Connecticut: Col George D. Chapman
  • 10th Maine: Col George L. Beal
  • 28th New York: Ltc E. W. Cook
  • 46th Pennsylvania: Ltc James L. Selfridge
  • 128th Pennsylvania: Col J. A. Mathews
2nd Brigade


   BG Thomas L. Kane

  • 20th Connecticut: Col Samuel Ross
  • 123rd New York: Col A. L. McDougall
  • 124th Pennsylvania: Col J. W. Hawley
  • 125th Pennsylvania: Col Jacob Higgins
3rd Brigade


   BG John K. Murphy

  • 27th Indiana: Col Silas Colgrove
  • 2nd Massachusetts: Maj C. R. Mudge
  • 13th New Jersey: Col E. A. Carman
  • 107th New York: Col A. S. Diven
  • 29th Pennsylvania: Maj Michael Scott
  • 3rd Wisconsin: Ltc W. Hawley
Artillery[24]


   Cpt Robert H. Fitzugh

  • 1st New York, Battery K: Ltc E. L. Bailey
  • 1st New York, Battery M: Ltc C. E. Winegar
  • 4th United States, Battery F: Ltc E. D. Muhlenberg
Cavalry
  • 1st Maine, Company H: Cpt George S. Summat
  • 1st Michigan, Company L: Cpt Melvin Brewer

Second Division


     BG John W. Geary

1st Brigade


   BG Charles Candy

  • 5th Ohio: Col John H. Patrick
  • 7th Ohio: Col William R. Creigthon
  • 29th Ohio: Col Lewis P. Buckley
  • 66th Ohio: Ltc Eugene Powell
  • 28th Pennsylvania: Cpt Joseph B. Copeland
  • 147th Pennsylvania: Ltc Ario Pardee
  • 12th Illinois Cavalry: Col Hasbrouck Davis
  • 1st Maryland Cavalry (three companies): Cpt J. H. Cook
2nd Brigade


   Col Joseph M. Sudsburg

  • 3rd Maryland: Ltc Gilbert P. Robinson
  • 60th New York: Ltc John C. O. Redington
  • 145th New York: Maj R. L. Van Wagenen
3rd Brigade


   BG George S. Greene

  • 78th New York: Maj H. C. Blanchard
  • 102nd New York: Ltc J. C. Lane
  • 137th New York: Col David Ireland
  • 149th New York: Maj Abel G. Cook
  • 109th Pennsylvania: Col H. J. Stainrook
  • 111th Pennsylvania: Ltc George A. Cobham
Artillery


   Maj L. Kieffer

  • 6th Maine Battery: Ltc Edwin Dow
  • Pennsylvania Battery E: Cpt J. M. Knap
  • Pennsylvania Battery F: Cpt R. B. Hampton
Cavalry
  • 1st Maine, Company M: Cpt G. M. Brown


Notes

  1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXI, Part 1, pages 48-61
  2. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  3. Temporarily attached to Second Brigade.
  4. Disabled.
  5. Transferred from Second Brigade, December 13.
  6. Chief of the corps artillery.
  7. Captain John Edwards,jr.,chief of the corps artillery.
  8. Succeeded BG Bayard in command of the Cavalry Brigade, Left Grand Division.
  9. Captain La Rhett L. Livingston, chief of the corps artillery.
  10. Disabled December 13.
  11. Captain Stephen H. Weed,chief of the corps artillery.
  12. Chief of artillery, Second Division.
  13. Chief of artillery, Third Division.
  14. Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, chief of the corps artillery.
  15. Captain Romeyn B. Ayres, chief of the corps artillery.
  16. Reserve Grand Division not engaged.
  17. XI Corps: Headquarters Stafford Court-House, Va.
  18. Headquarters Stafford Court-House, Va.
  19. December 10-16, marched from Chantilly to Falmouth; December 17, marched to Stafford Court-House.
  20. Headquarters at Falmouth, Va., December 10-14, marched from Germantown to Stafford Court-House.
  21. One copy of the monthly return reports Col A. Buschbeck as commanding.
  22. Headquarters at Stafford Court-House.
  23. December 10-14, marched from Centreville to Stafford Court-House.
  24. Cpt Clermont L. Best, chief of corps artillery.


References

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