Appomattox Campaign Union order of battle
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1][2] The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.
Abbreviations used
Military rank
- LTG = Lieutenant General
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Cpt = Captain
- Lt = Lieutenant
Other
- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k = killed in action
Union forces
LTG Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding
Staff:
- Assistant adjutant general: BG Seth Williams
Escort:
- 5th U.S. Cavalry, Companies B, F, and K: Cpt Julius W. Mason
Headquarters Guard:
- 4th U.S. Infantry: Cpt Joseph B. Collins
Army of the Potomac
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Headquarters units |
Provost Guard
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Independent Brigade |
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Headquarters Guard |
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Quartermaster's Guard |
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Engineers |
Engineer Brigade |
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Other engineers |
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Artillery |
Siege Train |
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Artillery Reserve |
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II Corps
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
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3rd Brigade
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4th Brigade
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Second Division
|
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
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3rd Brigade
|
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Unattached |
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Third Division
|
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
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3rd Brigade
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Artillery Brigade
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V Corps
MG Gouverneur K. Warren (Relieved of command, April 1)
MG Charles Griffin[11]
Escort
- 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Napoleon J. Horrell
Provost Guard
- 104th New York Infantry: Cpt William W. Graham
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division
|
1st Brigade |
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2nd Brigade
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3rd Brigade
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Second Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
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3rd Brigade
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Third Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
|
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3rd Brigade |
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Unattached |
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Artillery Brigade |
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VI Corps
Escort
- 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company E: Cpt William H. Royd, jr.
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade |
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3rd Brigade
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Second Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
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3rd Brigade
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Third Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade |
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Artillery Brigade
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IX Corps
Provost Guard
- 79th New York Infantry: Maj Andrew D. Baird
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
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3rd Brigade
|
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Acting Engineers |
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Second Division
|
1st Brigade |
|
2nd Brigade |
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Third Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
|
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Artillery Brigade |
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Cavalry |
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Cavalry
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
---|---|---|
2nd Division[22]
|
1st Brigade |
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2nd Brigade
|
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3rd Brigade
|
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Army of the James
Chief of Staff: BG Theodore Read (mw, April 6)
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Headquarters units |
Headquarters guards |
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Engineers |
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Pontoniers |
| |
Unattached Cavalry |
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Defenses of Bermuda Hundred
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Infantry Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
|
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Artillery |
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Separate Brigade |
Fort Pocahontas, VA
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Harrison's Landing, VA
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Fort Powhatan, VA |
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Artillery |
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XXIV Corps
MG John Gibbon
Headquarters Guard
Cpt Charles E. Thomas
- 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Company F: Cpt Joseph J. Baker
- 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Company K: Cpt Charles E. Thomas
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division |
1st Brigade
|
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3rd Brigade
|
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4th Brigade
|
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Third Division |
1st Brigade
|
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2nd Brigade
|
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3rd Brigade
|
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Independent Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
|
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3rd Brigade |
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Artillery
|
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XXV Corps
Provost Guard
- 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies E and H: Maj Atherton H. Stevens, jr.
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division |
1st Brigade |
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2nd Brigade |
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3rd Brigade |
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Attached Brigade[28] |
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Cavalry |
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Second Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade |
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3rd Brigade
|
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Artillery Brigade
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Cavalry
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Cavalry Division[22] |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade
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Artillery |
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Army of the Shenandoah
Chief of staff: Col James Forsyth[30]
Cavalry Corps
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division |
1st Brigade
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2nd Brigade |
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3rd (Reserve) Brigade
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Artillery |
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Third Division |
1st Brigade |
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2nd Brigade
|
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3rd Brigade
|
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Notes
- ↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 1, pages 564-580
- ↑ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the campaign.
- ↑ Commanding detachment at Washington, D. C., the remainder of regiment serving in the field under Bvt. Colonel Ira Spaulding and other subordinate officers.
- 1 2 3 In command from April 6.
- ↑ Attached from VI Corps.
- ↑ Attached from II Corps.
- ↑ Temporarily disabled April 2.
- ↑ Assigned to command of Artillery Reserve April 6.
- ↑ Assigned April 6
- ↑ Succeeded General Hays in command of division April 6; was relieved same day by assignment of General Barlow, and resumed command of Third Brigade; was mortally wounded April 7. During the time Smyth commanded the division, Colonel Woodall commanded the Third Brigade, which he resumed April 7, when Smyth was wounded.
- 1 2 3 4 In command from April 1.
- ↑ Brady's and Jardine's companies Michigan Sharpshooters attached.
- 1 2 3 4 In command from April 3.
- 1 2 Consolidated April 1 and commanded by Major Funk.
- ↑ In command part of April 2.
- ↑ Commanded 3rd and 4th Vermont on March 31.
- 1 2 In command from April 4.
- ↑ Sick from April 2.
- ↑ In command April 2.
- ↑ In command from April 2.
- ↑ In command of brigade parts of April 2 and 3.
- 1 2 Temporarily assigned April 1 to Sheridan's cavalry command.
- ↑ Detached with Artillery Brigade, IX Army Corps.
- ↑ On expedition into North Carolina.
- ↑ Provost guard at division headquarters.
- ↑ Detached at Bermuda Hundred.
- ↑ Detached from First Brigade, Second Division.
- ↑ Detached from Third Brigade, Second Division.
- ↑ Calkins, p. 89.
- ↑ Marvel, p. 177.
References
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
- National Park Service: Appomattox Court House (Union order of battle).
- Calkins, Chris. The Appomattox Campaign: March 29 – April 9, 1865. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 1997. ISBN 0-938289-54-3.