Wauhatchie Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Wauhatchie of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the casualty returns[1] and the reports.[2]

Contents

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Hooker's Command

MG Joseph Hooker

XI Corps

MG Oliver O. Howard

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division
     BG Adolph von Steinwehr

1st Brigade [3]

   Col Adolphus Buschbeck

  • 134th New York
  • 154th New York
  • 27th Pennsylvania
  • 73rd Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade

   Col Orlando Smith

  • 33rd Massachusetts: Col Adin B. Underwood (w), Ltc Godfrey Rider Jr.
  • 136th New York: Col James Wood, Jr.
  • 55th Ohio [4]
  • 73rd Ohio: Maj Samuel H. Hurst

Third Division
     MG Carl Schurz

1st Brigade

   BG Hector Tyndale

2nd Brigade

   Col Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski

3rd Brigade [5]

   Col Friedrich Hecker

Cavalry

XII Corps

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division [7]
     BG John W. Geary

2nd Brigade

   Col George A. Cobham, Jr.

  • 29th Pennsylvania: Col William Rickards, Jr., Ltc Samuel M. Zulick [8]
  • 109th Pennsylvania: Cpt Frederick L. Gimber
  • 111th Pennsylvania: Ltc Thomas M. Walker (w), Maj John A. Boyle (k)
3rd Brigade [9]

   BG George S. Greene (w)
   Col David Ireland

  • 60th New York: Col Abel Godard [10]
  • 78th New York: Ltc Herbert von Hammerstein
  • 137th New York: Col David Ireland, Ltc Robert S. Van Vorhees (w), Cpt Milo B. Eldredge
  • 149th New York: Ltc Charles B. Randall
Artillery Brigade

   Maj John A. Reynolds [11]

  • Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery (two sections): Cpt Charles A. Atwell (mw), Lt Edward R. Geary (mw)

Notes

  1. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 1, pages 74-76
  2. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 1, pages 952-953
  3. ^ in reserve
  4. ^ on picket duty
  5. ^ 82nd Illinois attached to the 3rd Brigade on October 21, 1863 (see Itinerary 1st Brigade, Third Division, XI Corps), but was not mentioned in Schurz's report
  6. ^ see Hooker's and Howard's reports
  7. ^ 1st Brigade (5th, 7th, 29th and 66th Ohio and 28th and 147th Pennsylvania) not present
  8. ^ on guard duty (see Geary's, Cobham's and Rickards reports)
  9. ^ 102nd New York also belonged to this Brigade, but acted as escort to the division ambulance train, en route from Murfreesborough to Bridgeport (see Geary's report and Itinerary 3rd Brigade, Second Division, XII Corps)
  10. ^ detached at Whiteside Pike (see Geary's and Ireland's reports)
  11. ^ the command of Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery devolved on Reynolds as the only Artillery Officer present after Atwell and Geary were mortally wounded (see Geary's and Reynolds' reports)

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