Vicksburg Union order of battle

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

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Army of the Tennessee

MG Ulysses S. Grant

Escort

Engineers

Acting Inspector General: BG Jeremiah C. Sullivan

IX Corps

MG John Parke

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Thomas Welsh

 1st Brigade

   Col Henry Bowman
3rd Brigade

   Col Daniel Leasure
Artillery
  • Battery D, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt George W. Durell

Second Division
     BG Robert B. Potter

 1st Brigade

   Col Simon Goodell Griffin
2nd Brigade

   BG Edward Ferrero
3rd Brigade

   Col Benjamin C. Christ
  • 29th Massachusetts: Ltc Joseph H. Barnes
  • 46th New York: Col Joseph Gerhardt
  • 50th Pennsylvania: Ltc Thomas S. Brenholtz
Artillery
  • Battery L, 2nd New York Light: Cpt Jacob Roemer
Artillery Reserve
  • Battery E, 2nd United States: Lt Samuel N. Benjamin

XIII Corps

MG John A. McClernand
MG Edward Ord

Escort

Pioneers

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Ninth Division
     BG Peter J. Osterhaus

 1st Brigade

   BG Albert L. Lee (w May 19)
   Col James Keigwin
2nd Brigade

   Col Daniel W. Lindsey
Cavalry
Artillery

   Cpt Jacob T. Foster

Tenth Division
   BG Andrew J. Smith
Escort

  • 4th Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Andrew P. Gallagher
 1st Brigade

   BG Stephen G. Burbridge
2nd Brigade

   Col William J. Landram
Artillery

Twelfth Division
     BG Alvin P. Hovey
Escort

  • 1st Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Lt James L. Carey
 1st Brigade

   BG George F. McGinnis
2nd Brigade

   Col James R. Slack
Artillery

Fourteenth Division
     BG Eugene A. Carr
Escort

  • 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company G: Cpt Enos McPhail, Cpt Samuel S. Marrett
 1st Brigade

   BG William P. Benton
   Col Henry D. Washburn
   Col David Shunk
  • 33rd Illinois: Col Charles E. Lippincott
  • 99th Illinois: Col George W. K. Bailey, Ltc Lemuel Parke
  • 8th Indiana: Col David Shunk, Maj Thomas J. Brady
  • 18th Indiana: Col Henry D. Washburn, Cpt Jonathan H. Williams
  • 1st United States (siege guns): Maj Maurice Maloney
2nd Brigade

   BG Michael K. Lawler
Artillery

XV Corps

MG William T. Sherman

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     MG Frederick Steele

 1st Brigade

   Col Francis H. Manter
   Col Bernard G. Farrar
  • 13th Illinois: Col Adam B. Gorgas
  • 27th Missouri: Col Thomas Curly
  • 29th Missouri: Col James Peckham
  • 30th Missouri: Ltc Otto Schadt
  • 31st Missouri: Col Thomas C. Fletcher, Maj Frederick Jaensch, Ltc Samuel P. Simpson
  • 32nd Missouri: Maj Abraham J. Seay
2nd Brigade

   Col Charles R. Woods
  • 25th Iowa: Col George A. Stone
  • 31st Iowa: Col William Smyth, Maj Theodore Stimming
  • 3rd Missouri: Ltc Theodore Meumann
  • 12th Missouri: Col Hugo Wangelin
  • 17th Missouri: Col Francis Hassendeubel, Ltc John F. Cramer
  • 76th Ohio: Ltc William B. Woods
3rd Brigade

   BG John M. Thayer
Artillery
  • 1st Battery, Iowa Light: Cpt Henry H. Griffiths
  • Battery F, 2nd Missouri Light: Cpt Clemens Landgraeber
  • 4th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Louis Hoffmann
Cavalry

Second Division
     MG Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

 1st Brigade

   Col Giles A. Smith
  • 113th Illinois: Col George B. Hoge, Ltc John W. Paddock
  • 116th Illinois: Col Nathan W. Tupper
  • 6th Missouri: Ltc Ira Boutell, Col James H. Blood
  • 8th Missouri: Ltc David C. Coleman
  • 13th United States, 1st Battalion: Cpt Edward C. Washington, Cpt Charles Ewing, Cpt Charles C. Smith
2nd Brigade

   Col Thomas Kilby Smith
   BG Joseph A. J. Lightburn
3rd Brigade

   BG Hugh Boyle Ewing
Artillery
  • Battery A, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Peter P. Wood
  • Battery B, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Samuel E. Barrett, Lt Israel P. Rumsey
  • Battery H, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Levi W. Hart
  • 8th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt James F. Putnam
Cavalry
  • Thielemann's (Illinois) Battalion, Companies A and B: Cpt Milo Thielemann
  • 10th Missouri, Company C: Cpt Daniel W. Ballou, Lt Benjamin Joel

Third Division
     BG James M. Tuttle

 1st Brigade

   BG Ralph P. Buckland
   Col William L. McMillen
  • 114th Illinois: Col James W. Judy
  • 93rd Indiana: Col De Witt C. Thomas
  • 72nd Ohio: Ltc Le Roy Crockett, Maj Charles G. Eaton
  • 95th Ohio: Col William L. McMillen, Ltc Jefferson Brumback
2nd Brigade

   BG Joseph A. Mower
3rd Brigade

   BG Charles L. Matthies
   Col Joseph J. Woods
Artillery

   Cpt Nelson T. Spoor
  • Battery E, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Allen C. Waterhouse
  • 2nd Battery, Iowa Light: Lt Joseph R. Reed
Unattached cavalry

XVI Corps (detachment)

MG Cadwallader C. Washburn

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG William Sooy Smith
Escort

 1st Brigade

   Col John M. Loomis
   Col Sanford J. Stoughton
2nd Brigade

   Col Stephen G. Hicks
3rd Brigade

   Col Joseph R. Cockerill
4th Brigade

   Col William W. Sanford
Artillery

   Cpt William Cogswell

Fourth Division
     BG Jacob G. Lauman

 1st Brigade

   Col Isaac C. Pugh
2nd Brigade

   Col Cyrus Hall
3rd Brigade

   Col George E. Bryant
   Col Amory K. Johnson
Cavalry
Artillery.

   Cpt George C. Gumbart

Provisional Division
     BG Nathan Kimball

 Engelmann's Brigade

   Col Adolph Engelmann
Richmond's Brigade

   Col Jonathan Richmond
Montgomery's Brigade

   Col Milton Montgomery

XVII Corps

MG James B. McPherson

Escort

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Third Division
     MG John A. Logan
Escort

  • 2nd Illinois Cavalry, Company A: Lt William B. Cummins
 1st Brigade

   BG John E. Smith
   BG Mortimer D. Leggett
2nd Brigade

   BG Mortimer D. Leggett
   Col Manning F. Force
3rd Brigade

   BG John Dunlap Stevenson
Artillery

   Maj Charles J. Stolbrand
  • Battery D, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Henry A. Rogers, Lt George J. Wood, Cpt Frederick Sparrestrom
  • Battery G, 2nd Illinois Light: Cpt Frederick Sparrestrom, Lt John W. Lowell
  • Battery L, 2nd Illinois Light: Cpt William H. Bolton
  • 8th Battery, Michigan Light: Cpt Samuel De Golyer, Lt Theodore W. Lockwood
  • 3rd Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt William S. Williams

Sixth Division
     BG John McArthur
Escort

  • 11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G: Lt Stephen S. Tripp
 1st Brigade
(Post of Lake Providence)

   BG Hugh T. Reid
2nd Brigade

   BG Thomas E.G. Ransom
3rd Brigade

   Col William Hall
   Col Alexander Chambers
Artillery

   Maj Thomas D. Maurice

Seventh Division
     BG Isaac Quinby
     BG John E. Smith
Escort

 1st Brigade

   Col John B. Sanborn
2nd Brigade

   Col Samuel A. Holmes
   Col Green B. Raum
3rd Brigade

   Col George B. Boomer (k) [May 22]
   Col Holden Putnam
   BG Charles L. Matthies
  • 93rd Illinois: Col Holden Putnam, Ltc Nicholas C. Buswell, Col Holden Putnam
  • 5th Iowa: Ltc Ezekiel S. Sampson, Col Jabez Banbury
  • 10th Iowa: Col William E. Small
  • 26th Missouri: Maj Charles F. Brown (k) [May 16]; Cpt Benjamin D. Dean
Artillery.

   Cpt Frank C. Sands
   Cpt Henry Dillon

Herron's Division
     MG Francis J. Herron

 1st Brigade

   BG William Vandever
2nd Brigade

   BG William W. Orme
Unattached cavalry

   Col Cyrus Bussey
  • 5th Illinois Cavalry: Maj Thomas A. Apperson
  • 3rd Iowa: Maj Oliver H. P. Scott
  • 2nd Wisconsin: Col Thomas Stephens

District of Northeast Louisiana

BG Elias S. Dennis

Brigades Regiments and batteries
Detached Brigade

   Col George W. Neeley
  • 63rd Illinois: Col Joseph B. McCown
  • 108th Illinois: Ltc Charles Turner
  • 120th Illinois: Col George W. McKeaig
  • 131st Illinois: Col George W. Neeley, Maj Joseph L. Purvis
  • 10th Illinois Cavalry, Companies A, D, G, and K: Maj Elvis P. Shaw
African Brigade

   Col Isaac F. Shepard
Post of Goodrich's Landing, La.

   Col William F. Wood
  • 1st Arkansas: Ltc James W. Campbell
  • 10th Louisiana: Ltc Frederick M. Crandall

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