Nashville Union order of battle

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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Nashville of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.

Contents

[edit] Abbreviations Used

[edit] Military Rank

[edit] Other

  • w = wounded
  • mw = mortally wounded
  • k = killed

[edit] Union Army

MG George H. Thomas

  • Chief-of-Staff BG William D. Whipple

[edit] IV Corps

BG Thomas J. Wood

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Nathan Kimball

1st Brigade


   Col Isaac M. Kirby

  • 21st Illinois: Cpt William H. Jamison
  • 38th Illinois: Cpt Andrew M. Pollard
  • 31st Indiana: Col John T. Smith
  • 81st Indiana: Maj Edward G. Mathey
  • 90th Ohio: Ltc Samuel N. Yeoman
  • 101st Ohio: Ltc Bedan B. McDonald
2nd Brigade


   BG Walter C. Whitaker

  • 96th Illinois: Maj George Hicks
  • 115th Illinois: Col Jesse H. Moore
  • 35th Indiana: Ltc Augustus G. Tassin
  • 21st Kentucky: Ltc James C. Evans
  • 23rd Kentucky: Ltc George W. Northup
  • 45th Ohio: Ltc John H. Humphrey
  • 51st Ohio: Ltc Charles H. Wood
3rd Brigade


   BG William Grose

  • 75th Illinois: Col John E. Bennett
  • 80th Illinois: Cpt James Cunningham
  • 84th Illinois: Ltc Charles H. Morton
  • 9th Indiana: Col Isaac C. B. Suman
  • 30th Indiana: Cpt Henry W. Lawton
  • 36th Indiana (one company): Lt John P. Swisher
  • 84th Indiana: Maj John C. Taylor
  • 77th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas E. Rose

Second Division
     BG Washington L. Elliott

1st Brigade


   Col Emerson Opdycke

  • 36th Illinois: Maj Levi P. Holden
  • 44th Illinois: Cpt Alonzo W. Clark
  • 74th Illinois: Cpt Wilson Burroughs
  • 74th-88th Illinois: Ltc George W. Smith
  • 125th Ohio: Maj Joseph Bruff
  • 24th Wisconsin: Cpt William Kennedy
2nd Brigade


   Col John Q. Lane

  • 100th Illinois: Ltc Charles M.Hammend
  • 40th Indiana: Ltc Henry Learning
  • 57th Indiana: Ltc Willis Blanch, Maj John S. McGraw
  • 28th Kentucky: Maj George W. Barth, Ltc J. Rowan Boone
  • 26th Ohio: Cpt William Clark
  • 97th Ohio: Ltc Milton Barnes, Cpt Clarkson C. Nichols
3rd Brigade


   Col Joseph Conrad

Third Division
     BG Samuel Beatty

1st Brigade


   Col Abel D. Streight

  • 89th Illinois: Ltc William D. Williams
  • 51st Indiana: Cpt William W. Scearce
  • 8th Kansas: Ltc John Conover
  • 15th Ohio: Col Frank Askew, Ltc John McClenahan
  • 49th Ohio: Maj Luther M. Strong, Cpt Daniel Hartsough
2nd Brigade


   Col P. Sidney Post
   Ltc Robert L. Kimberly

  • 59th Illinois: Maj James M. Stookey
  • 41st Ohio: Ltc Robert L. Kimberly, Cpt Ezra Dunham
  • 71st Ohio: Ltc James H. Hart, Cpt William H. McClure
  • 93rd Ohio: Ltc Daniel Bowman
  • 124th Ohio: Ltc James Pickands
3rd Brigade


   Col Frederick Knefler

  • 79th Indiana: Ltc George W. Parker
  • 86th Indiana: Col George F. Dick
  • 13th Ohio (four companies): Maj Joseph T. Snider
  • 19th Ohio: Ltc Henry G. Stratton
Artillery


   Maj Wilbur F. Goodspeed

  • 25th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Frederick C. Sturm
  • 1st Battery, Kentucky Light: Cpt Theodore S. Thomasson
  • Battery E, 1st Michigan Light: Cpt Peter De Vries
  • Battery G, 1st Ohio Light: Cpt Alexander Marshall
  • 6th Battery, Ohio Light: Lt Aaron P. Baldwin
  • Battery B, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Jacob Ziegler
  • Battery M, 4th United States: Lt Samuel Canby

[edit] XXIII Corps

MG John M. Schofield

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division
     MG Darius N. Couch

1st Brigade


   BG Joseph A. Cooper

  • 130th Indiana: Col Charles S. Parrish
  • 26th Kentucky: Col Cicero Maxwell
  • 25th Michigan: Cpt Samuel L. Demarest
  • 99th Ohio: Ltc John E. Cummins
  • 3rd Tennessee: Col William Cross
  • 6th Tennessee: Ltc Edward Maynard
2nd Brigade


   Col Orlando H. Moore

  • 107th Illinois: Cpt John W. Wood
  • 80th Indiana: Ltc Alfred D. Owen
  • 129th Indiana: Col Charles A. Zollinger
  • 23rd Michigan: Col Oliver L. Spaulding
  • 111th Ohio: Ltc Isaac R. Sherwood
  • 118th Ohio: Maj Edgar Sowers
3rd Brigade


   Col John Mehringer

  • 91st Indiana: Ltc Charles H. Butterfield
  • 123rd Indiana: Col John C. McQuiston
  • 50th Ohio: Ltc Hamilton S. Gillespie
  • 183rd Ohio: Col George W. Hoge

Third Division
     BG Jacob D. Cox

1st Brigade


   Col Charles C. Doolittle

  • 12th Kentucky: Ltc Laurence H. Rousseau
  • 16th Kentucky: Cpt Jacob Miller
  • 100th Ohio: Ltc Edwin L. Hayes
  • 104th Ohio: Col Oscar W. Sterl
  • 8th Tennessee: Cpt James W. Berry
2nd Brigade


   Col John S. Casement

  • 65th Illinois: Ltc W. Scott Stewart
  • 65th Indiana: Ltc John W. Hammond
  • 124th Indiana: Col John M. Orr
  • 103rd Ohio: Cpt Henry S. Pickands
  • 5th Tennessee: Ltc Nathaniel Witt
3rd Brigade


   Col Israel N. Stiles

  • 112th Illinois: Maj Tristram T. Dow
  • 63rd Indiana: Ltc Daniel Morris
  • 120th Indiana: Maj John M. Barcus
  • 128th Indiana: Ltc Jasper Packard
Artillery
  • 15th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Alonzo D. Harvey
  • 19th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Frank Wilson
  • 23rd Battery, Indiana Light: Lt Aaron A. Wilber
  • Battery D, 1st Ohio Light: Cpt Giles J. Cockerill

[edit] Detachment, Army of the Tennessee

MG Andrew J. Smith

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG John McArthur

1st Brigade


   Col William L. McMillen

  • 114th Illinois: Cpt John M. Johnson
  • 93rd Indiana: Col DeWitt C. Thomas, Cpt Charles A. Hubbard
  • 10th Minnesota: Ltc Samuel P. Jennison, Cpt Edwin C. Sanders
  • 72nd Ohio: Ltc Charles G. Eaton
  • 95th Ohio: Ltc Jefferson Brumback
  • Cogswell's Battery, Illinois Light Artillery: Lt S. Hamilton McClaury
2nd Brigade


   Col Lucius F. Hubbard

  • 5th Minnesota: Ltc William B. Gere
  • 9th Minnesota: Col Josiah F. Marsh
  • 11th Missouri: Ltc Eli Bowyer, Maj Modesta J. Green
  • 8th Wisconsin: Ltc William B. Britton
  • 2nd Battery, Iowa Light Artillery: Cpt Joseph R. Reed
3rd Brigade


   Col Sylvester G. Hill
   Col William R. Marshall

  • 12th Iowa: Ltc John H. Stibbs
  • 35th Iowa: Maj William Dill, Cpt Abraham N. Snyder
  • 7th Minnesota: Col William R. Marshall, Ltc George Bradley
  • 33rd Missouri: Ltc William H. Heath
  • Battery I, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Stephen H. Julian

Second Division
   BG Kenner Garrard

1st Brigade


   Col David Moore

  • 119th Illinois: Col Thomas J. Kinney
  • 122nd Illinois: Ltc James F. Drish
  • 89th Indiana: Ltc Hervey Craven
  • 21st Missouri: Ltc Edwin Moore
  • 9th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery: Lt Samuel G. Calfee
2nd Brigade


   Col James I. Gilbert

  • 58th Illinois: Maj Robert W. Healy
  • 27th Iowa: Ltc Jed Lake
  • 32nd Iowa: Ltc Gustavus A. Eberhart
  • 10th Kansas (four companies): Cpt William C. Jones
  • 3rd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery: Lt Thomas J. Ginn
3rd Brigade


   Col Edward H. Wolfe

  • 49th Illinois: Col Phineas Pease
  • 117th Illinois: Ltc Jonathan Merriam
  • 52nd Indiana: Ltc Zalmon S. Main
  • 178th New York: Cpt John B. Gandolfo
  • Battery G, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt John W. Lowell

Third Division
   Col Jonathan B. Moore

1st Brigade


   Col Lyman M. Ward

2nd Brigade


   Col Leander Blanden

Artillery
  • 14th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Francis W. Morse
  • Battery A, 2nd Missouri Light: Lt John Zepp

[edit] Provisional Detachment (District of the Etowah)

MG James B. Steedman

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Provisional Division
     BG Charles Cruft

1st Colored Brigade


   Col Thomas J. Morgan

  • 14th U.S. Colored Troops: Ltc Henry C. Corbin
  • 16th U.S. Colored Troops: Col William B. Gaw
  • 17th U.S. Colored Troops: Col William R. Shafter
  • 18th U.S. Colored Troops (battalion): Maj Lewis D. Joy
  • 44th U.S. Colored Troops: Col Lewis Johnson
2nd Colored Brigade


   Col Charles R. Thompson

  • 12th U S. Colored Troops: Ltc William R. Sellon, Cpt Henry Hegner
  • 13th U.S. Colored Troops: Col John A. Hottenstein
  • 100th U.S. Colored Troops: Maj Collin Ford
  • 1st Battery, Kansas Light Artillery: Cpt Marcus D. Tenney
1st Brigade


   Col Benjamin Harrison

  • 3 battalions detached from the XX Corps
2nd Brigade


   Col John G. Mitchell

  • Consisted of men on detached duty from the Army of the Tennessee
3rd Brigade


   Ltc Charles H. Grosvenor

  • 68th Indiana
  • 18th Ohio
  • 121th Ohio
  • 2nd Battalion, XIV Corps
Artillery
  • 20th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Milton A. Osborne
  • 18th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Charles C. Aleshire
Miscellaneous
  • 68th Indiana: Ltc Harvey J Espy
  • 18th Ohio: Cpt Ebenezer Grosvenor, Cpt John M. Benedict, Lt Charles Grant

Post of Nashville
     BG John F. Miller

2nd Brigade, Fourth Division, XX Corps


   Col Edwin C. Mason

  • 142nd Indiana: Col John M. Comparet
  • 45th New York: Ltc Adolphus Dobke
  • 176th Ohio: Ltc William B. Nesbitt
  • 179th Ohio: Col Harley H. Sage
  • 182nd Ohio: Col Lewis Butler
Unattached
  • 3rd Kentucky
  • 28th Michigan: Col William W. Wheeler
  • 173rd Ohio: Col John R. Hurd
  • 78th Pennsylvania (detachment): Maj Henry W. Torbett
  • Veteran Reserve Corps: Col Frank P. Cahill
  • 44th Wisconsin (battalion): Ltc Oliver C. Bissell
  • 45th Wisconsin (battalion)
Garrison Artillery


   Maj John J. Ely

  • Bridges' Battery, Illinois Light: Lt Lyman A. White
  • 2nd Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt James S. Whicher
  • 4th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Benjamin F. Johnson
  • 12th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt James E. White
  • 21st Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Abram P. Andrew
  • 22nd Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Edward W. Nicholson
  • 24th Battery, Indiana Light: Lt Hiram Allen
  • Battery F, 1st Michigan Light: Cpt Byron D. Paddock
  • Battery A, 1st Ohio Light: Lt Charles W. Scovill
  • Battery E, 1st Ohio Light: Lt Frank B. Reckard
  • 20th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt William Backus
  • Battery C, 1st Tennessee Light: Lt Joseph Grigsby
  • Battery D, 1st Tennessee Light: Cpt Samuel D. Leinart
  • Battery A, 3rd U.S. Colored Light: Cpt Josiah V. Meigs
Quartermaster’s Division


   Bvt. BG James L. Donaldson

[edit] Cavalry Corps

Bvt. MG James H. Wilson

Escort

4th United States, Lt. Joseph Hedges
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division

1st Brigade


   BG John T. Croxton

  • 8th Iowa: Col Joseph B. Dorr
  • 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry: Col Robert M. Kelly
  • 2nd Michigan: Ltc Benjamin Smith
  • 1st Tennessee: Ltc Calvin M. Dyer
  • Board of Trade Battery, Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt George I. Robinson
2nd and 3rd Brigades under BG E. M. McCook in Western Kentucky

5th Division
     BG Edward Hatch

1st Brigade


   Col Robert R. Stewart

  • 3rd Illinois: Ltc Robert H. Carnahan
  • 11th Indiana: Ltc Abram Sharra
  • 12th Missouri: Col Oliver Wells
  • 10th Tennessee: Maj William P. Story, Maj James T. Abernathy
2nd Brigade


   Col Datus E. Coon

  • 6th Illinois: Ltc John Lynch
  • 7th Illinois: Maj John M. Graham
  • 9th Illinois: Cpt Joseph W. Harper
  • 2nd Iowa: Maj Charles C. Horton
  • 12th Tennessee: Col George Spalding
  • Battery I, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Lt Joseph A. McCarthey

6th Division
     BG Richard W. Johnson

1st Brigade


   Col Thomas J. Harrison

  • 16th Illinois: Maj Charles H. Beeres
  • 5th Iowa: Ltc Harlon Baird
  • 7th Ohio: Col Israel Garrard
2nd Brigade


   Col James Biddle

  • 14th Illinois: Maj Haviland Tompkins
  • 6th Indiana: Maj Jacob S. Stephens
  • 8th Michigan: Col Elisha Mix
  • 3rd Tennessee: Maj Benjamin Cunningham
Artillery
  • Battery I, 4th United States: Lt Frank G. Smith

7th Division
   BG Joseph F. Knipe

1st Brigade


   Bvt. BG John H. Hammond

  • 9th Indiana: Col George W. Jackson
  • 10th Indiana: Ltc Benjamin Q. A. Gresham
  • 19th Pennsylvania: Ltc Joseph C. Hess
  • 2nd Tennessee: Ltc William R. Cook
  • 4th Tennessee: Ltc Jacob M. Thornburgh
2nd Brigade


   Col Gilbert M. L. Johnson

  • 12th Indiana: Col Edward Anderson
  • 13th Indiana: Ltc William T. Pepper
  • 6th Tennessee: Col Fielding Hurst
Artillery
  • 14th Battery, Ohio Light: Lt William C. Myers

[edit] References

  • McDonough, James Lee. Nashville: The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
  • Sword, Wiley. The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin & Nashville. University Press of Kansas, 1992.
  • Nashville page, Civil War Home site