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
  • Battery B, 1st New York Light: Cpt Rufus D. Pettit
  • Battery C, 4th United States: Lt Evan Thomas

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

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]

  • Battery I, 1st United States: Lt Edmund Kirby
  • Battery A, 4th United States: Lt Rufus King, Jr.

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

  • 36th Massachusetts: Col Henry Bowman
  • 45th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas Welsh
  • 100th Pennsylvania: Ltc David A. Leckey
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, 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

  • 123rd Pennsylvania: Col John B. Clark
  • 131st Pennsylvania: Ltc William B. Shaut
  • 133rd Pennsylvania: Col Franklin B. Speakman
  • 155th Pennsylvania: Col Edward J. Allen
Artillery
  • Battery C, 1st New York Light: Lt William H. Phillips
  • Batteries E and G, 1st United States: Cpt Alanson M. Randol[13]
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
   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
   Col William McCandless

2nd Brigade


   Col Albert L. Magilton

3rd Brigade


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

  • 5th Pennsylvania Reserves: Col Joseph W. Fisher, Ltc George Dare
  • 9th Pennsylvania Reserves: Ltc Robert Anderson, Maj James McK. Snodgrass
  • 10th Pennsylvania Reserves: Maj James B. Knox
  • 11th Pennsylvania Reserves: Ltc Samuel M. Jackson
  • 12th Pennsylvania Reserves: Cpt Richard Gustin
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
   Col Robert F. Taylor
   BG Thomas H. Neill

Artillery
  • Battery B, Maryland Light: Cpt Alonzo Snow
  • 1st Battery, New York Light: Cpt Andrew Cowan
  • 3rd Battery, New York Light: Lt William A. Harn
  • Battery F, 5th United States: Lt Leonard Martin

Third Division


     BG John Newton

1st Brigade


   BG John Cochrane

  • 65th New York: Col Alexander Shaler
  • 67th New York: Col Nelson Cross
  • 122nd New York: Col Silas Titus
  • 23rd Pennsylvania: Maj John F. Glenn
  • 61st Pennsylvania: Col George C. Spear
  • 82nd Pennsylvania: Col David H. Williams
2nd Brigade


   BG Charles Devens

3rd Brigade


   Col Thomas A. Rowley
   BG Frank Wheaton

Artillery
  • Battery C, 1st Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Jeremiah McCarthy
  • Battery D, 1st Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Michael Hall
  • Battery G, 2nd United States; Lt John H. Buffer
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]


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.


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