Bristoe Campaign Union order of battle
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The following units and commanders fought in the Bristoe Campaign
Bristoe Campaign
The Bristoe Campaign was a series of minor battles fought in Virginia during October and November 1863, in the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, commanding the Union Army of the Potomac, began to maneuver in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern...

 of the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 on the Union
Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty free states and five border slave states. It was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the...

 side. The Confederate order of battle
Bristoe Campaign Confederate order of battle
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Bristoe Campaign of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately...

 is shown separately. When multiple names of commanders are shown, this indicates the succession of command through the Campaign.

Military rank abbreviations used

  • MG = Major General
    Major general (United States)
    In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a two-star general-officer rank, with the pay grade of O-8. Major general ranks above brigadier general and below lieutenant general...

  • BG = Brigadier General
    Brigadier general (United States)
    A brigadier general in the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, is a one-star general officer, with the pay grade of O-7. Brigadier general ranks above a colonel and below major general. Brigadier general is equivalent to the rank of rear admiral in the other uniformed...

  • Col = Colonel
    Colonel (United States)
    In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, colonel is a senior field grade military officer rank just above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general...

  • Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
    Lieutenant Colonel (United States)
    In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of major and just below the rank of colonel. It is equivalent to the naval rank of commander in the other uniformed services.The pay...

  • Maj = Major
    Major (United States)
    In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, major is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel...

  • Cpt = Captain
  • Lt = Lieutenant

General Staff and Headquarters

General Staff and Headquarters
  • Chief of Staff: MG Andrew A. Humphreys
    Andrew A. Humphreys
    Andrew Atkinson Humphreys , was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union General in the American Civil War. He served in senior positions in the Army of the Potomac, including division command, chief of staff, and corps command, and was Chief Engineer of the U.S...

  • Chief of Artillery: BG Henry J. Hunt
  • Assistant Adjutant General: BG Seth Williams
    Seth Williams
    Seth Williams was an American military officer who served as assistant adjutant general of the Union's Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

  • Chief Quartermaster: BG Rufus Ingalls
    Rufus Ingalls
    Rufus Ingalls was an American military general who served as the 16th Quartermaster General of the United States Army.-Early life and career:...


  • Provost Marshal General: BG Marsena R. Patrick
    Marsena R. Patrick
    Marsena Rudolph Patrick was a college president and an officer in the United States Army, serving as a general in the Union volunteer forces during the American Civil War. He was the provost marshal for the Army of the Potomac in many of its campaigns.-Early life:Patrick was born in Hounsfield,...

    • 80th New York (20th Militia): Ltc Jacob B. Hardenbergh
    • 93rd New York: Ltc Benjamin C. Butler
    • 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc Joseph B. Printon
    • 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Detachment)
    • Detachments Regular Cavalry and Volunteer Cavalry

  • Engineer Brigade: BG Henry W. Benham
    • 15th New York (battalion): Capt Joseph Wood, jr.
    • 50th New York: Col William H. Pettes
    • U.S. Battalion: Capt George H. Mendell

  • Guards and Orderlies
    • Oneida (New York) Cavalry: Capt Daniel P. Mann

  • Signal Corps: Capt Lemuel B. Norton

I Corps 

  • MG John Newton
  • Escort: 4th and 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry (detachments)
    Division Brigade Regiments and Others

    First Division:

        
    BG Lysander Cutler
    Lysander Cutler
    Lysander Cutler was an American businessman, educator, politician, and a Union Army General during the American Civil War.-Early years:Cutler was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, the son of a farmer...

    1st Brigade ("Iron Brigade
    Iron Brigade
    The Iron Brigade, also known as the Iron Brigade of the West or the Black Hat Brigade, was an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Although it fought entirely in the Eastern Theater, it was composed of regiments from Western states...

    "):

      
    Col William W. Robinson
    • 19th Indiana
      19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was one of the original regiments in the Army of the Potomac's Iron Brigade.-Service:...

      : Col Samuel J. Williams
    • 24th Michigan: Col Henry A. Morrow
    • 1st New York Sharpshooters (battalion): Cpt Joseph C. Arnold
    • 2nd Wisconsin
      2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac.-Service:...

      : Ltc John Mansfield
      John Mansfield
      John Mansfield was the 15th Lieutenant Governor of California from 1880 to 1883. He also was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as the last colonel of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the famed Iron Brigade.Mansfield responded to President Abraham...

    • 6th Wisconsin
      6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 6th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac.-Service:...

      : Col Edward S. Bragg
      Edward S. Bragg
      Edward Stuyvesant Bragg was a Democratic politician, lawyer and Union Army general from Wisconsin. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1877 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1887 and subsequently served as a foreign diplomat.-Early life and career:Born in Unadilla, New York, Bragg attended...

    • 7th Wisconsin
      7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 7th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac.-Service:...

      : Maj Mark Finnicum
    2nd Brigade:

      
    BG James C. Rice
    • 7th Indiana
      7th Regiment Indiana Infantry (3 years)
      The 7th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

      : Col Ira G. Grover
    • 76th New York: Maj John W. Young
    • 84th New York ("14th Brooklyn Militia"): Col Edward B. Fowler
    • 95th New York: Maj Edward Pye
    • 147th New York: Maj George Harney
    • 56th Pennsylvania: Ltc George B. Osborn

    Second Division:

        
    BG John C. Robinson
    John C. Robinson
    John Cleveland Robinson had a long and distinguished career in the United States Army, fighting in numerous wars and culminating his career as a Union Army brigadier general of volunteers and brevet major general of volunteers in the American Civil War. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated...

    1st Brigade:

      
    Col Thomas F. McCoy
    • 16th Maine
      16th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
      The 16th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was particularly noted for its service during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.-Service:...

      : Ltc Charles W. Tilden
    • 13th Massachusetts
      13th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 13th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It was formed on July 16, 1861 at Fort Independence in Boston, Massachusetts. Its original commander was Colonel Samuel H. Leonard....

      : Col Samuel H. Leonard
    • 39th Massachusetts: Col Phineas S. Davis
    • 94th New York: Maj Samuel A. Moffett
    • 104th New York: Col Gilbert G. Prey
    • 107th Pennsylvania: Maj Henry J. Shaefer
    2nd Brigade:

      
    BG Henry Baxter
    Henry Baxter
    Henry Baxter was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. At the Battle of Gettysburg, his brigade resisted a Confederate assault from parts of Maj. Gen. Robert E...

    • 12th Massachusetts
      12th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
      The 12th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It was formed on June 14, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts. Its original commander was Colonel Fletcher Webster, son of the famed U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Daniel Webster...

      : Maj Benjamin F. Cook
    • 83rd New York (9th Militia): Col Joseph A. Moesch
    • 97th New York: Maj Charles Northrup
    • 11th Pennsylvania: Col Richard Coulter
      Richard Coulter (general)
      Richard Coulter, Sr. was an American Civil War general in the Union Army, a businessman, and banker. During the Civil War he was colonel of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, often rising to brigade command upon the wounding of superior officers.-Early life and career:Richard Coulter, Sr...

    • 88th Pennsylvania: Cpt Edmund Y. Patterson
    • 90th Pennsylvania: Ltc William A. Leech

    Third Division:

        
    BG John R. Kenly
    1st Brigade:

      
    Col Chapman Biddle
    Chapman Biddle
    Chapman Biddle was a member of the prominent Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who rose to fame as an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade of infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg.-Early life:Chapman Biddle was born in Pennsylvania on January 22,...

    • 121st Pennsylvania: Ltc Alexander Biddle
      Alexander Biddle
      Alexander Biddle was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Life:His father was Thomas A. Biddle , the son of American Revolutionary War soldier Clement Biddle ....

    • 142nd Pennsylvania
      142nd Pennsylvania Infantry
      The 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment primarily served in the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater and was heavily engaged in the first day of fighting at Gettysburg.-History:The...

      : Ltc Alfred. B. McCalmont
    2nd Brigade:

      
    Col Langhorne Wister
    • 143rd Pennsylvania: Col Edmund L. Dana
    • 149th Pennsylvania: Ltc Walton Dwight
    • 150th Pennsylvania: Capt Horatio Bell
    3rd Brigade:

      
    Col Nathan T. Dushane
    • 1st Maryland: Ltc John W. Wilson
    • 4th Maryland: Col Richard N. Bowerman
    • 7th Maryland
      7th Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry
      The 7th Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry was a regiment that participated in the American Civil War. Edwin H. Webster was one of the regimental commanders. This regiment was inducted into service on May 15, 1861. After serving guard duty in the defenses of Washington, the regiment was sent...

      : Col Edwin H. Webster
    • 8th Maryland: Col Andrew W. Denison
    Artillery Brigade:

      
    Col Charles S. Wainwright
    Charles S. Wainwright
    Charles Shiels Wainwright was a produce farmer in the state of New York and an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He played an important role in the defense of Cemetery Hill during the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, where his artillery helped repel a Confederate...

    • 2nd Maine Light
      2nd Maine Battery
      2nd Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 2nd Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on November 20, 1861....

      : Cpt James A. Hall
    • 5th Maine Light
      5th Maine Battery
      5th Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 5th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on December 4, 1861....

      : Cpt Greenleaf T. Stevens
      Greenleaf T. Stevens
      Greenleaf T. Stevens commanded the 5th Maine Battery in the American Civil War. His battery is commemorated by a monument on Stevens' Knoll, named for him, on the Gettysburg Battlefield. It was among the first parts of the battlefield purchased for preservation.-Pre War:Greenleaf Thurlow Stevens...

    • 1st New York Light, Batteries E & L: Cpt Gilbert H. Reynolds
    • 1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery B: Cpt James H. Cooper
    • 4th US, Battery B: Lt James Stewart

II Corps 

  • MG Gouverneur K. Warren
    Gouverneur K. Warren
    Gouverneur Kemble Warren was a civil engineer and prominent general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

     (temporarily absent; returned October 12)
  • BG John C. Caldwell
    John C. Caldwell
    John Curtis Caldwell was a teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat.-Early life:Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont...

  • Escort:
    • 10th New York Cavalry, Company M: Lt James Matthews
    • 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company G: Lt Robert Brown
      Division Brigade Regiments and Others

      First Division:

          
      BG John C. Caldwell
      John C. Caldwell
      John Curtis Caldwell was a teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat.-Early life:Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont...



          
      Col Paul Frank
      1st Brigade:

        
      Col Nelson A. Miles
      Nelson A. Miles
      Nelson Appleton Miles was a United States soldier who served in the American Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War.-Early life:Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm...

      • 61st New York: Ltc K. Oscar Broady
      • 81st Pennsylvania: Col H. Boyd McKeen
        H. Boyd McKeen
        H. Boyd McKeen led a regiment in the American Civil War, and he occasionally led a brigade before being killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor....

      • 140th Pennsylvania: Col John Fraser
      2nd Brigade ("Irish Brigade
      Irish Brigade (US)
      The Irish Brigade was an infantry brigade, consisting predominantly of Irish Americans, that served in the Union Army in the American Civil War. The designation of the first regiment in the brigade, the 69th New York Infantry, or the "Fighting 69th", continued in later wars...

      "):

        
      Col Patrick Kelly
      Patrick Kelly (Colonel)
      Patrick Kelly was an Irish-American Union Army officer during the American Civil War. He led the famed Irish Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg.-Early life:...

      • 28th Massachusetts
        28th Massachusetts Infantry regiment
        The 28th Massachusetts Infantry regiment was the second primarily Irish American volunteer infantry regiment recruited in Massachusetts for service in the American Civil War. The regiment's motto was Faugh a Ballagh ...

        : Col Richard Byrnes
      • 63rd New York: Capt Thomas Touhy
      • 69th New York
        U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment
        The 69th Infantry Regiment is a military unit from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard. It is known as the Fighting Sixty-Ninth, a name said to have been given to it by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War...

        : Cpt Richard Moroney
      • 88th New York: Cpt Denis F. Burke
      • 116th Pennsylvania
        116th Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 116th Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It formed a part of the Irish Brigade.-History:...

        : Cpt Seneca G. Willauer
      3rd Brigade:

        
      Col Paul Frank

        
      Col James A. Beaver
      James A. Beaver
      James Addams Beaver was an American politician who served as the 20th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891...

      • 52nd New York: Ltc Charles G. Freudenberg
      • 57th New York: Ltc Alford B. Chapman
      • 66th New York: Ltc John S. Hammell
      • 148th Pennsylvania: Col James A. Beaver
        James A. Beaver
        James Addams Beaver was an American politician who served as the 20th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891...

        , Maj George A. Fairlamb
      4th Brigade:

        
      Col John R. Brooke
      John R. Brooke
      John Rutter Brooke was a major general in the United States Army during both the American Civil War and the Spanish American War...

      • 2nd Delaware: Ltc David L. Stricker
      • 64th New York: Maj Leman W. Bradley
      • 53rd Pennsylvania
        53rd Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Formation:The regiment was organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1861, with John R. Brooke, of Pottstown, Montgomery County, was commissioned...

        : Capt Henry S. Dimm
      • 145th Pennsylvania: Col Hiram L. Brown

      Second Division:

          
      BG Alexander S. Webb
      Alexander S. Webb
      Alexander Stewart Webb was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg...

      1st Brigade:

        
      Col Francis E. Heath
      • 19th Maine
        19th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 19th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:19th Maine was organized at Bath, Maine and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on August 25, 1862....

        : Ltc Henry W. Cunningham
      • 15th Massachusetts
        15th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
        The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served from the State of Massachusetts during the American Civil War from 1861-1864. A part of the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac, the regiment was engaged in many battles from Ball's Bluff to Petersburg, and...

        : Ltc George C. Joslin
      • 1st Minnesota
        1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
        The 1st Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was noted in particular for its gallant service and heavy casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg....

        : Maj Mark W. Downie
      • 82nd New York (2nd Militia): Maj Thomas W. Baird
      2nd Brigade "Philadelphia Brigade
      Philadelphia Brigade
      The Philadelphia Brigade was a Union Army brigade that served in the American Civil War. It was raised primarily in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the exception of the 106th regiment which contained men from Lycoming and Bradford counties.The brigade fought with the Army of the...

      ":

        
      Col De Witt C. Baxter
      • 69th Pennsylvania
        69th Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 69th Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. Part of the famed Philadelphia Brigade, it played a key role defending against Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. Companies I and K wore a very americanized zouave uniform...

        : Maj James Duffie
      • 71st Pennsylvania: Col Richard PennSmith
      • 72nd Pennsylvania
        72nd Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was part of the famous Philadelphia Brigade. They wore a very americanized zouave uniform...

        : Ltc Theodore Hesser
      • 106th Pennsylvania
        106th Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 106th Pennsylvania was a volunteer infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

        : Ltc William L. Curry
      3rd Brigade:

        
      Col James E. Mallon
      • 19th Massachusetts: Ltc Ansel D. Wass
      • 20th Massachusetts: Maj Henry L. Abbott
      • 7th Michigan: Maj Sylvanus W. Curtis
      • 42nd New York: Cpt Robert C. Wright
      • 59th New York: Cpt Horace P. Rugg

      Third Division:

          
      BG Alexander Hays
      Alexander Hays
      Alexander Hays was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, killed in the Battle of the Wilderness.-Early life and career:...

      1st Brigade ("Gibraltar Brigade
      Gibraltar Brigade
      The "Gibraltar Brigade" was a famed infantry brigade within the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Noted for its tenacity in combat, the brigade drew its nickname from the steadfastness of the Rock of Gibraltar...

      "):

        
      Col Samuel S. Carroll
      Samuel S. Carroll
      Samuel Spriggs "Red" Carroll was a career officer in the United States Army who rose to the rank of brigadier general during the American Civil War...

      • 14th Indiana
        14th Indiana Infantry Regiment
        The 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment, otherwise known as the Gallant Fourteenth, was an Civil War infantry regiment. A part of the celebrated Gibraltar Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, the 14th helped secure Cemetery Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.- Service :*The 14th Indiana was...

        : Col John Coons
      • 4th Ohio
        4th Ohio Infantry
        The 4th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater in a number of campaigns and battles, but perhaps is most noted for its actions in helping secure Cemetery Hill during the Battle of...

        : Maj Gordon A. Stewart
      • 8th Ohio
        8th Ohio Infantry
        The 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater in a number of campaigns and battles, but perhaps is most noted for its actions in helping repulse Pickett's Charge during the Battle of...

        : Ltc Franklin Sawyer
      • 7th West Virginia
        7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. For much of the war, it was a part of the famed "Gibraltar Brigade" in the Army of the Potomac...

         (battalion): Ltc Jonathan H. Lockwood
      2nd Brigade:

        
      Col Thomas A. Smyth
      • 14th Connecticut
        14th Connecticut Infantry
        The 14th Connecticut Infantry was an infantry regiment that participated in the American Civil War. It participated in the Battle of Gettysburg, helping to repulse the Confederate attack on the third day known as Pickett's Charge....

        : Col Theodore G. Ellis
      • 1st Delaware: Ltc Edward P. Harris
      • 12th New Jersey: Col J. Howard Willets
      • 10th New York (battalion): Maj George F. Hopper
      • 108th New York: Col Charles J. Powers
      3rd Brigade:

        
      BG Joshua T. Owen
      Joshua T. Owen
      Joshua Thomas Owen was an educator, politician, and soldier from Pennsylvania who served as a Union brigadier general during the American Civil War. He commanded the famed Philadelphia Brigade for part of the war, but was relieved of duty for alleged cowardice during battle.-Early life and...

      • 39th New York: Maj Hugo Hildebrandt
      • 111th New York: Col Clinton D. MacDougall
      • 125th New York
        125th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 125th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment from Rensselaer County, New York, during the American Civil War. Formed during the summer of 1862, the unit was officially mustered into United States Service on 27–29 August 1862, by Col. George L. Willard. He had seen...

        : Col Levin Crandell
      • 126th New York: Col James M. Bull
      Artillery Brigade:

        
      Cpt John G. Hazard
      • 1st New York Light, Battery G: Cpt Nelson Ames
      • 1st Ohio Light, Battery H
        Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
        Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was also known as Huntington's Battery.-Service:...

        : Cpt James F. Huntington
      • 1st Pennsylvania Light, Batteries F and G: Cpt R. Bruce Ricketts
        R. Bruce Ricketts
        Robert Bruce Ricketts distinguished himself as an artillery officer in the American Civil War. He is best known for his battery’s defense against a Confederate attack on Cemetery Hill on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.-Early life:...

      • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery A
        Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
        Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on June 6, 1861 under the command of Captain William H...

        : Cpt William A. Arnold
      • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery B
        Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
        Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 18, 1861 under the command of Captain Thomas F...

        : Cpt Thomas Frederick Brown
      • 1st US Light, Battery I: Lt Frank S. French

    III Corps 

    • MG William H. French
      William H. French
      William Henry French was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General in the American Civil War. He rose to temporarily command a corps within the Army of the Potomac, but was relieved of active field duty following poor performance during the Mine Run Campaign in late 1863.-Early...

      Division Brigade Regiments and Others

      First Division:

          
      MG David B. Birney
      David B. Birney
      David Bell Birney was a businessman, lawyer, and a Union General in the American Civil War.-Early life:Birney was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the son of an abolitionist from Kentucky, James G. Birney. The Birney family returned to Kentucky in 1833, and James Birney freed his slaves...

      1st Brigade:

        
      Col Charles H. T. Collis
      Charles H. T. Collis
      Charles Henry Tucker "Tucky" Collis was an Irish-American US Army officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the American Civil War. He was born in Ireland....

      • 57th Pennsylvania: Col Peter Sides,
      • 63rd Pennsylvania: Maj John A. Danks,
      • 68th Pennsylvania: Col Andrew H. Tippin
      • 105th Pennsylvania: Col Calvin A. Craig
      • 114th Pennsylvania ("Collis' Zouaves"): Maj Edward R. Bowen
      • 141st Pennsylvania
        141st Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 141st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment served in the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater and was heavily engaged in the second day of fighting at the Peach Orchard outside of...

        : Cpt Edwin A.Spaulding
      2nd Brigade:

        
      BG John Henry Hobart Ward
      • 3rd Maine
        3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was mustered in at Augusta, Maine for three year's service on June 4, 1861 and were mustered out on June 28, 1864. Veterans who had re-enlisted and those recruits still liable to serve were transferred to 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment.-Casualties...

        : Col Moses B. Lakeman
      • 4th Maine
        4th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 4th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was assembled in Rockland, Maine on By May 20th, 1861 with Colonel Hiram G. Berry as it's commanding officer. He received four Knox County companies, one from Searsport, Winterport, Wiscasset, and Damariscotta, and two from Belfast. In all, 1,085 men,...

        : Col Elijah Walker,
      • 86th New York: Maj Michael B. Stafford
      • 124th New York
        124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commonly known as the Orange Blossoms, was a volunteer regiment from Orange County, New York, during the American Civil War. Formed in Goshen during the summer of 1862, The unit was officially mustered into United States Service on September 5, 1862,...

        : Ltc Francis M. Cummins
      • 99th Pennsylvania: Ltc Edwin R. Biles
      • 2nd US Sharpshooters: Ltc Homer R. Stoughton
      3rd Brigade:

        
      Col P. Régis de Trobriand
      Régis de Trobriand
      Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand was a French aristocrat, lawyer, poet, and novelist who emigrated at a young age to the United States...

      • 17th Maine
        17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was mustered in at Cape Elizabeth, Maine for three year's service on August 18, 1862 and were mustered out on June 10, 1865. Recruits still liable to serve were transferred to 1st Maine Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment.-Casualties and total strength:The...

        : Ltc Charles B. Merrill
      • 3rd Michigan: Col Byron R. Pierce,
      • 5th Michigan: Ltc John Pulford
      • 40th New York: Col Thomas W. Egan
        Thomas W. Egan
        Thomas Wilberforce Egan was a Union Army officer who led the Mozart Regiment during most of the American Civil War, later becoming a general.-Early life :...

      • 110th Pennsylvania: Maj Isaac Rogers
      • 1st US Sharpshooters: Ltc Casper Trepp

      Second Division:

        
      BG Henry Prince
      1st Brigade:

        
      Col Robert McAllister
      • 11th Massachusetts
        11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
        The 11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. Organized in Boston in May 1861, the 11th Massachusetts was made up mostly of men from Boston, but also from Charlestown and Dorchester...

        : Ltc Porter D. Tripp
      • 16th Massachusetts: Ltc Waldo Merriam
      • 11th New Jersey: Ltc John Schoonover
      • 26th Pennsylvania: Maj Robert L. Bodine
      • 84th Pennsylvania: Ltc Milton Opp
      2nd Brigade ("Excelsior Brigade
      Excelsior Brigade
      The Excelsior Brigade was a military unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Comprising primarily infantry regiments raised in the state of New York primarily by former U.S...

      "):

        
      Col William R. Brewster
      William R. Brewster
      William Root Brewster was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who commanded a regiment in the famed Excelsior Brigade of the Army of the Potomac...

      • 70th New York
        70th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 70th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of Union Army in the American Civil War. The unit served in the Excelsior Brigade in several battles, including Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Overland Campaign.-Service:...

        : Col J. Egbert Farnum
      • 71st New York
        71st Infantry Regiment (New York)
        The 71st Infantry Regiment is an organization of the New York State Guard. Formerly, the 71st Infantry was a regiment of the New York State Militia and then the Army National Guard from 1850 to 1993.-Foundation:...

        : Maj Thomas Rafferty
      • 72nd New York: Ltc John Leonard
      • 73rd New York
        73rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 73rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of Union Army in the American Civil War. The regiment was organized in New York City in May 1861 as a Zouave regiment, known for its unusual dress and drill style...

        : Ltc Michael W. Burns
      • 74th New York: Maj Henry M. Alles
      • 120th New York: Cpt Abram L. Lockwood
      3rd Brigade:

        
      BG Gershom Mott
      Gershom Mott
      Gershom Mott was a United States Army officer and a General in the Union Army, a commander in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.-Early life:...

      • 5th New Jersey: Col William J. Sewell
      • 6th New Jersey
        6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
        The 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.-Service:...

        : Col George C. Burling
        George C. Burling
        George Childs Burling was a United States Union Army officer during the American Civil War, serving mostly as colonel and commander of the 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. Burling was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, raised on his father's farm and educated at a private school in...

      • 7th New Jersey: Maj Frederick Cooper
      • 8th New Jersey: Col John Ramsey
      • 115th Pennsylvania: Ltc John P. Dunne

      Third Division:

          
      BG Joseph B. Carr
      Joseph Bradford Carr
      Joseph Bradford Carr was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:Carr was born in Albany, New York, the son of Irish immigrants, and worked as a tobacconist...

      1st Brigade:

        
      BG William Hopkins Morris
      • 14th New Jersey
        14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
        The 14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 14th New Jersey Infantry was organized at Camp Vredenburgh near Freehold, New Jersey and mustered in for three years service on August 26, 1862 under the command of Colonel...

        : Col William Snyder Truex
        William S. Truex
        William S. Truex was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He led a brigade of Union soldiers against the Confederate Army at the Battle of Cold Harbor....

      • 151st New York
        151st New York Volunteer Infantry
        The 151st New York Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 151st New York Infantry was organized at Lockport, New York and mustered in for three years service on October 22, 1862 under the command of Colonel William Emerson.The...

        : Ltc Erwin A. Bowen
      • 10th Vermont: Col Albert B. Jewett
      2nd Brigade:

        
      Col Joseph Warren Keifer
      J. Warren Keifer
      Joseph Warren Keifer was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a prominent U.S. politician during the 1880s. He served in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from Ohio from 1877 to 1885 and from 1905 to 1911...

      • 6th Maryland: Col John Watt Horn
      • 110th Ohio
        110th Ohio Infantry
        The 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 110th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Piqua in Piqua, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on October 3, 1862 under the command of Colonel Joseph Warren Keifer.The...

        : Maj Otho H. Binkley
      • 122d Ohio: Col William H. Ball
      • 138th Pennsylvania
        138th Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 138th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 138th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 16, 1862 under the command of...

        : Col Matthew R. McClennan
      3rd Brigade:

        
      Col Benjamin Franklin Smith
      • 106th New York
        106th New York Volunteer Infantry
        The 106th New York Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

        : Maj Andrew N. McDonald
      • 126th Ohio
        126th Ohio Infantry
        The 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 126th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on September 4, 1862 under the command of Colonel Benjamin F...

        : Ltc William H. Harlan
      • 67th Pennsylvania: Cpt Samuel Barry
      • 87th Pennsylvania
        87th Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 87th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 87th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at York, Pennsylvania and mustered in for a three year enlistment in September 1861 under the command of Colonel George...

        : Col John W. Schall
      Artillery Brigade:

        
      Cpt George E. Randolph
      • 4th Battery Maine Light
        4th Maine Battery
        4th Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 4th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on December 21, 1861....

        : Cpt O'Neil W. Robinson, Jr.
      • 10th Massachusetts Light Battery: Cpt J. Henry Slepper
      • 1st New Jersey Light, Battery B: Cpt A. Judson Clark
        A. Judson Clark
        -Civil War:Clark enlisted in the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in April 1861. He became a sergeant in Company F. When the regiment’s three months enlistment ended, Clark was involved in raising 2nd Battery "B" New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery. It was mustered into service on September 3,...

      • 1st New York Light, Battery D: Cpt George B. Winslow
      • 12th Battery New York Light: Lt George K. Dauchy
      • 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery E
        Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
        Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on September 23, 1861 under the command of Captain George E...

        :
      • 4th US, Battery K: Lt Robert James

    V Corps 

    • MG George Sykes
      George Sykes
      George Sykes was a career United States Army officer and a Union General during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

    • Escort: 5th Michigan Cavalry (squadron): Lt Samuel Harris
    • Provost Guard: 12th New York, Companies D and E: Cpt Henry W. Rider
      Division Brigade Regiments and Others

      First Division:

          
      BG Charles Griffin
      1st Brigade:

        
      BG James Barnes
      • 18th Massachusetts
        18th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
        -External links:**...

        : Maj William B. White
      • 22nd Massachusetts: Col William S. Tilton
        William S. Tilton
        William Stowell Tilton was an American businessman and soldier who led a regiment, and occasionally a brigade, in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War...

      • 1st Michigan: Ltc William A. Throop
      • 118th Pennsylvania: Maj Charles P. Herring
      2nd Brigade:

        
      Col Jacob B. Sweitzer
      Jacob B. Sweitzer
      Jacob Bowman Sweitzer was a Pennsylvania lawyer and soldier who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War...

      • 9th Massachusetts: Col Patrick R. Guiney
        Patrick Robert Guiney
        Patrick Robert Guiney was an American Civil War soldier.-Early life and career:...

      • 32nd Massachusetts
        32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
        The 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. The nucleus of the regiment was a battalion of six companies raised in September 1861 to garrison Fort Warren, the largest fortification in Boston harbor...

        : Col George L. Prescott
      • 4th Michigan: Ltc George W. Lumbard
      • 62nd Pennsylvania: Ltc James C. Hull
      3rd Brigade:

        
      Col Joshua L. Chamberlain
      • 20th Maine
        20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a combat unit of the United States Army during the American Civil War, most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863.-Organization:...

        : Maj Ellis Spear
      • 16th Michigan: Cpt George H. Swan
      • 44th New York: Ltc Freeman Conner
      • 83rd Pennsylvania: Maj William H. Lamont

      Second Division:

          
      BG Romeyn B. Ayres
      Romeyn B. Ayres
      Romeyn Beck Ayres was a Union Army general in the American Civil War.-Early life:Ayres was born at East Creek, New York, along the Mohawk River in Montgomery County. He was the son of a small-town doctor who urged all of his sons into professional careers...

      1st Brigade:

        
      Col Sidney Burbank
      Sidney Burbank
      Sidney Burbank served as an officer in the regular army before and during the American Civil War. For a time he led a brigade in the Army of the Potomac.-Pre War:...

      • 2nd US (6 companies): Cpt James W. Long
      • 3rd US (6 companies): Maj William E. Prince
      • 11th US: Maj Jonathan W. Gordon
      • 12th US: Maj Luther B. Bruen
      • 14th US
        U.S. 14th Infantry Regiment
        The 14th Infantry Regiment is a United States Army light infantry regiment, known as the Golden Dragons. It has been active in every major conflict since its creation, except World War I, including the American Civil War, Boxer Rebellion, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Operation Desert...

        : Capt Edward Mck. Hudson
      • 17th US: Ltc James D. Greene
      3rd Brigade:

        
      BG Kenner Garrard
      Kenner Garrard
      Kenner Garrard was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. A member of one of Ohio's most prominent military families, he performed well at the Battle of Gettysburg, and then led a cavalry division in the army of Major General William T. Sherman during the Atlanta...

      • 140th New York: Col George Ryan
      • 146th New York
        146th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 146th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, nicknamed Garrard's Tigers, was a Federal regiment mustered on October 10, 1862, and was mustered out on July 16, 1865. The regiment was raised and organized in Utica New york, and was known as the 5th Oneida Regiment...

         (Zouaves): Col David T. Jenkins
      • 91st Pennsylvania: Col Edgar M. Gregory
      • 155th Pennsylvania: Maj Alfred L. Pearson

      Third Division:

          
      Col William McCandless
      William McCandless
      William McCandless was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, commanding a regiment and then a brigade in the Pennsylvania Reserve Division.-Biography:...

      1st Brigade:

        
      Col William C. Talley
      • 1st Pennsylvania Reserves: Ltc William W. Stewart
      • 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves: Maj Patrick C. Donough
      • 6th Pennsylvania Reserves: Col Wellington H. Ent
      • 13th Pennsylvania Reserves: Maj William R. Hartshorne
      3rd Brigade:

        
      Col Martin D. Hardin
      Martin D. Hardin
      Martin Davis Hardin was a United States Senator from Kentucky.-Biography:Born along the Monongahela River in western Pennsylvania, Hardin moved with his parents to Kentucky in 1786. He pursued an academic course, and attended Transylvania Seminary in Lexington, Kentucky...

      • 5th Pennsylvania Reserves: Ltc George Dare
      • 9th Pennsylvania Reserves: Ltc James McK. Snodgrass
      • 10th Pennsylvania Reserves: Ltc James B. Knox
      • 11th Pennsylvania Reserves: Col Samuel M. Jackson
      • 12th Pennsylvania Reserves : Ltc Richard Gustin
      Artillery Brigade:

        
      Cpt Augustus P. Martin
      • 3rd Battery Massachusetts Light: Lt Aaron F. Walcott
      • 5th Battery Massachusetts Light: Cpt Charles A. Phillips
      • 1st New York Light, Battery C: Cpt Almont Barnes
      • 1st Ohio Light, Battery L
        Battery L, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
        Battery L, 1st Ohio Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Portsmouth, Ohio October 8, 1861 and mustered in at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio for a three year enlistment on January 20, 1862...

        : Cpt Frank C. Gibbs
      • 5th US, Battery D: Lt Benjamin F. Rittenhouse
        Benjamin F. Rittenhouse
        Benjamin Franklin Rittenhouse was a U.S. Army 1st lieutenant during the American Civil War.-Early life:...


    VI Corps 

    • MG John Sedgwick
      John Sedgwick
      John Sedgwick was a teacher, a career military officer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He was the highest ranking Union casualty in the Civil War, killed by a sniper at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.-Early life:Sedgwick was born in the Litchfield Hills town of...

    • Escort: 1st Vermont Cavalry (detachment): Capt Andrew J. Grover
      Division Brigade Regiments and Others

      First Division:

          
      BG Horatio G. Wright
      1st Brigade
      (First New Jersey Brigade
      First New Jersey Brigade
      The First New Jersey Brigade is the common name for an American Civil War brigade of New Jersey infantry regiments in the Union Army of the Potomac...

      ):

        
      BG Alfred T. A. Torbert
      Alfred Thomas Torbert
      Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert was a career United States Army officer, a Union Army General commanding both infantry and cavalry forces in the American Civil War, and a U.S. diplomat.-Early life:...

      • 1st New Jersey
        1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
        The 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War Union Army regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac....

        : Ltc William Henry, Jr.
      • 2nd New Jersey: Col. Samuel L. Buck
      • 3rd New Jersey
        3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
        The 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War Union Army regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac....

        : Col Henry W. Brown
      • 4th New Jersey: Ltc Charles Ewing
      • 15th New Jersey
        15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
        The 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War infantry regiment from New Jersey that served from September 1862 through 1865 in the Union Army.The Fifteenth Regiment was organized at Flemington, New Jersey in July and August 1862...

        : Col William H. Penrose
      2nd Brigade:

        
      BG Joseph J. Bartlett
      Joseph J. Bartlett
      Joseph Jackson Bartlett was a New York attorney, brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and postbellum international diplomat and pensions administrator for the United States Government. He was chosen to receive the stacked arms of General Robert E...

      • 5th Maine
        5th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 5th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The regiment, organized in May 1861, was mustered in at Portland, Maine on 24 June 1861 for three years' service...

        : Col Clark S. Edwards
      • 121st New York: Col Emory Upton
        Emory Upton
        Emory Upton was a United States Army General and military strategist, prominent for his role in leading infantry to attack entrenched positions successfully at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the American Civil War, but he also excelled at artillery and cavalry assignments...

      • 95th Pennsylvania: Ltc Edward Carroll
      • 96th Pennsylvania: Ltc William H. Lessig
      3rd Brigade:

        
      BG David Allen Russell
      David Allen Russell
      David Allen Russell was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He was killed in action as a brigadier general in the Union Army.-Early life:...

      • 6th Maine
        6th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 6th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 6th Maine Infantry was organized in Portland, Maine and mustered in for a three year enlistment on July 15, 1861....

        : Col Benjamin F. Harris
      • 49th Pennsylvania: Ltc Thomas M. Hulings
      • 119th Pennsylvania: Col Peter C. Ellmaker
      • 5th Wisconsin
        5th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 5th Wisconsin was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 5th Infantry was assembled at Camp Randall, in Madison on July 12, 1861. It left Wisconsin for Washington, D.C. on July 24, 1861. During the war it moved through Virginia, Maryland,...

        : Col Thomas S. Allen

      Second Division:

          
      BG Albion P. Howe
      Albion P. Howe
      Albion Parris Howe was a Union Army general in the American Civil War. Howe's contentious relationships with superior officers in the Army of the Potomac eventually led to his being deprived of division command....

      2nd Brigade ("Vermont Brigade"):

        
      Col Lewis A. Grant
      Lewis A. Grant
      Lewis Addison Grant was a teacher, lawyer, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later Assistant U.S. Secretary of War...

      • 2nd Vermont
        2nd Vermont Infantry
        The 2nd Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three year' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the eastern theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from June 1861 to July 1865...

        : Col James H. Walbridge
      • 3rd Vermont
        3rd Vermont Infantry
        The 3rd Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three-years infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the eastern theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from July 1861 to July 1865...

        : Col Thomas O. Seaver
        Thomas O. Seaver
        Thomas Orville Seaver rose to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and received the Medal of Honor, America's highest military decoration, for his actions at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House...

      • 4th Vermont
        4th Vermont Infantry
        The 4th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three year' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from September 1861 to July 1865...

        : Ltc George P. Foster
      • 5th Vermont
        5th Vermont Infantry
        The 5th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three years' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from September 1861 to June 1865. It was a member of the Vermont Brigade.The...

        : Maj Charles P. Dudley
      • 6th Vermont
        6th Vermont Infantry
        The 6th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three years' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, from October 1861 to June 1865. It was a member of the Vermont Brigade.The...

        : Col Elisha L. Barney
      3rd Brigade:

        
      BG Thomas H. Neill
      Thomas H. Neill
      Thomas Hewson Neill, a native of Pennsylvania, became a general in the American Civil War, serving in the Army of the Potomac in some of its most important campaigns.-Birth and early years:Neill was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1826...

      • 7th Maine
        7th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
        The 7th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It participated in most of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater.-Service:...

        : Col Edwin C. Mason
      • 43rd New York: Col Benjamin F. Baker
      • 49th New York: Col Daniel D. Bidwell
        Daniel D. Bidwell
        Daniel Davidson Bidwell was a civic leader in Buffalo, New York, before the outbreak of the American Civil War. He enlisted early in the war and then was appointed colonel of a regiment of infantry...

      • 77th New York: Ltc Winsor B. French
      • 61st Pennsylvania: Ltc George F. Smith

      Third Division:

          
      BG Henry D. Terry
      1st Brigade:

        
      BG Alexander Shaler
      Alexander Shaler
      Alexander Shaler was a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Second Battle of Fredericksburg...

      • 65th New York: Col Joseph E. Hamblin
      • 67th New York: Col Nelson Cross
      • 122nd New York: Ltc Augustus Wade Dwight
        Augustus Wade Dwight
        Augustus Wade Dwight was a lawyer who became an officer in the American Civil War. He served in 21 battles and was wounded three times, the last wound being fatal.-Life:...

      • 23rd Pennsylvania
        23rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
        The 23rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Known for its colorful uniforms based upon the popular French Zouave style, the regiment served in the Eastern Theater.-History:...

        : Col John Ely
      • 82nd Pennsylvania: Col Isaac C. Bassett
      2nd Brigade:

        
      BG Henry L. Eustis
      Henry L. Eustis
      Henry Lawrence Eustis was a civil engineer, college professor, and soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

      • 7th Massachusetts
        7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
        The 7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It was formed on June 15, 1861 in Taunton. Its original commander was Colonel Darius N...

        : Col Thomas D. Johns
      • 10th Massachusetts
        10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
        The 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War.Organized at Hampden Park in Springfield, Massachusetts in the early summer of 1861 and consisting mostly of men from western Massachusetts, the regiment was mustered in on...

        : Ltc Joseph B. Parsons
      • 2nd Rhode Island: Col Horatio Rogers, Jr.
      3rd Brigade:

        
      BG Frank Wheaton
      Frank Wheaton
      Frank Wheaton was a career military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and Indian Wars.-Early life and career:...

      • 62nd New York: Col David J. Nevin
      • 93rd Pennsylvania: Ltc John S. Long
      • 98th Pennsylvania: Col John F. Ballier
      • 102nd Pennsylvania: Col John W. Patterson
      • 139th Pennsylvania
        139th Pennsylvania Infantry
        The 139th Pennsylvania was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-History:The 139th was formed at Camp Howe, near Pittsburgh, on September 1, 1862. Frederick H. Collier was the first colonel...

        : Ltc William H. Moody
      Artillery Brigade:

        
      Col Charles H. Tompkins
      • 1st Massachusetts Light, Battery A: Cpt William H. McCartney
      • 1st Battery New York Light: Cpt Andrew Cowan
        Andrew Cowan (artillerist)
        Andrew Cowan served as a Union artillerist in the American Civil War. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of Sayler's Creek.-Pre-War:...

      • 3rd Battery New York Light: Cpt William A. Harn
        William A. Harn
        -The Creation of the 3rd New York Battery:The 3rd New York Battery began its existence as Company D of the 2nd New York Militia. It was designated a howitzer company. It was to Washington, D. C. with the regiment, which became the 82nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Led by Capt Thaddeus...

      • 1st Rhode Island, Battery C
        Battery C, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
        Battery C, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 25, 1861 under the command of Captain William B....

        : Cpt Richard Waterman
      • 1st Rhode Island, Battery G
        Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
        Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Providence, Rhode Island and mustered in for a three year enlistment in December 1861 under the command of Captain Charles D....

        : Cpt George W. Adams
      • 5th US, Battery F: Lt Leonard Martin
      • 5th US, Battery M: Cpt James McKnight

    Cavalry Corps 

    • MG Alfred Pleasonton
      Alfred Pleasonton
      Alfred Pleasonton was a United States Army officer and General of Union cavalry during the American Civil War. He commanded the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Gettysburg Campaign, including the largest predominantly cavalry battle of the war, Brandy Station...

    • Headquarters Guard: 6th US
      U.S. 6th Cavalry Regiment
      The 6th Cavalry is a historic regiment of the United States Army that began as a regiment of cavalry in the American Civil War. It currently is organized into aviation squadrons that are assigned to several different combat aviation brigades.-Civil War:The 6th U.S...

      : Maj Robert M. Morris
      Division Brigade Regiments and Others

      First Division:

          
      BG John Buford
      John Buford
      John Buford, Jr. was a Union cavalry officer during the American Civil War, with a prominent role at the start of the Battle of Gettysburg.-Early years:...

      1st Brigade:

        
      Col George H. Chapman
      George Henry Chapman
      George Henry Chapman was an American sailor, newspaper editor, lawyer, and soldier. He served in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War and as a Union Army general during the American Civil War. Later in life he was a judge and a state legislator.-Early life and career:Chapman was...

      • 8th Illinois: Maj John L. Beveridge
      • 12th Illinois
        12th Illinois Cavalry
        The 12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment was a volunteer cavalry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.- History :The 12th Cavalry was organized at Camp Butler in February 1862...

        : Cpt Henry L. Reans
      • 3rd Indiana: Maj William S. McClure
      • 8th New York: Maj William H. Benjamin
      2nd Brigade:

        
      Col Thomas Devin
      Thomas Devin
      Thomas Casimer Devin was an United States Army officer and general. He commanded Union cavalry during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars.-Early life:...

      • 4th New York: Ltc Augustus Pruyn
      • 6th New York: Maj William P. Hall
      • 9th New York: Col William Sackett
      • 17th Pennsylvania: Ltc Coe Durland
      • 3rd West Virginia
        3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
        The 3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 3rd West Virginia Cavalry was organized in western Virginia between December, 1861...

        , Companies A & C: Maj Seymour B. Conger

      Second Division:

          
      BG David McM. Gregg
      1st Brigade:

        
      Col John P. Taylor
      • 1st Maryland: Maj Charles H. Russell
      • 1st Massachusetts: Col Horace B. Sargent
      • 1st New Jersey: Col Percy Wyndham
      • 6th Ohio: Ltc William Stedman
      • 1st Pennsylvania: Ltc David Gardner
      • 3rd Pennsylvania: Cpt James W. Walsh
      • 1st Rhode Island: Col John L. Thompson
      2nd Brigade:

        
      Col J. Irvin Gregg
      • District of Columbia, Independent Company: Cpt William H. Orton
      • 1st Maine
        1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
        The 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was one of the Maine units used during the American Civil War.- History :Organized in Augusta, Maine on October 31, 1861 for three years...

        : Col Charles H. Smith
      • 10th New York: Maj M. Henry Avery
      • 4th Pennsylvania: Maj George H. Covode
      • 8th Pennsylvania: Col Pennock Huey
        Pennock Huey
        Pennock Huey was an officer and cavalry brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

      • 13th Pennsylvania: Ltc Garrick Mallery, Jr.
        Garrick Mallery
        Garrick Mallery was an American ethnologist.-Ancestry:His family was of English origin, he himself being in direct descent from Peter Mallery, who landed at Boston in 1638. Some of his ancestors were military officers in the colonial service, and at a later period others of them served in the...

      • 16th Pennsylvania: Ltc John K. Robison

      Third Division:

          
      BG Judson Kilpatrick
      1st Brigade:

        
      BG Henry E. Davies, Jr.
      • 2nd New York: Ltc Otto Harhaus
      • 5th New York: Maj John Hammond
      • 18th Pennsylvania: Maj Harvey B. VanVorhis
      • 1st West Virginia
        1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
        The 1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 1st West Virginia Cavalry was organized at Wheeling, Clarksburg, and Morgantown in western Virginia between July 10 and November 25, 1861.An analysis of...

         (10 companies): Maj Charles E. Capehart
        Charles E. Capehart
        Charles E. Capehart was an officer in the U.S. Cavalry during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for action following the Battle of Gettysburg on July 4, 1863.-Military service:...

      2nd Brigade ("Michigan Brigade
      Michigan Brigade
      The Michigan Brigade, sometimes called the Wolverines, the Michigan Cavalry Brigade or Custer's Brigade, was a brigade of cavalry in the volunteer Union Army during the latter half of the American Civil War...

      "):

        
      BG George A. Custer
      • 1st Michigan
        1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
        The 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.-Service:...

        : Col Charles H. Town
      • 5th Michigan
        5th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
        The 5th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.-Service:...

        : Col Russell A. Alger
        Russell A. Alger
        Russell Alexander Alger was the 20th Governor and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan and also U.S. Secretary of War during the Presidential administration of William McKinley...

      • 6th Michigan
        6th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
        The 6th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.-Service:...

        : Ltc Henry E. Thompson
      • 7th Michigan
        7th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
        The 7th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.-Service:...

        : Col William D. Mann
      • 1st Vermont
        1st Vermont Cavalry
        The 1st Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Cavalry was a three years' cavalry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater from November 1861 to August 1865, in the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac....

        : Col Edward B. Sawyer
      Headquarters Guard
    • 1st Ohio, Companies A & C: Cpt Noah Jones
    • Reserve Brigade:

        
      BG Wesley Merritt
      Wesley Merritt
      Wesley Merritt was a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. He is noted for distinguished service in the cavalry.-Early life:...

      • 6th Pennsylvania
        6th Pennsylvania Cavalry
        The 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry was a Union cavalry regiment during the American Civil War. They were known for their early use of 15-foot lances, and were called "Rush's Lancers."-History:...

        : Maj Henry C. Whelam
      • 1st US
        U.S. 1st Cavalry Regiment
        The 1st Cavalry Regiment is a unit in the United States Army which has its antecedents in the early 19th Century in the formation of the United States Regiment of Dragoons. To this day, the unit's Special Designation is "First Regiment of Dragoons".-Origins:The "United States Regiment of Dragoons"...

        : Cpt Marcus A. Reno
      • 2nd US: Cpt George A. Gordon
      • 5th US
        U.S. 5th Cavalry Regiment
        The 5th Cavalry Regiment is a historical unit of the United States Army that began its service in the decade prior to the American Civil War and continues in modified organizational format in the U.S. Army.-Nineteenth century:...

        : Cpt Abraham K. Arnold
      unattached
    • 19th New York (1st Dragoons): Col Alfred Gibbs

    • Horse Artillery
      U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade
      The Horse Artillery Brigade of the Army of the Potomac was a brigade of various batteries of horse artillery during the American Civil War.Made up almost entirely of individual, company-strength batteries from the Regular Army’s five artillery regiments, the Horse Artillery operated under the...

      1st Brigade:

        
      Capt James M. Robertson
      James Madison Robertson
      James Madison Robertson was an artillery officer in the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

      • 6th Battery New York Light: Cpt Joseph W. Martin
      • 2nd US, Batteries B and L: Lt Albert O. Vincent
      • 2nd US, Battery D: Lt Edward B. Williston
      • 2nd US, Battery M: Lt Alexander C. M. Pennington, Jr.
        Alexander Cummings McWhorter Pennington, Jr.
        Alexander Cummings McWhorter Pennington, Jr. , was an artillery officer and brigadier general in the United States Army and a veteran of both the American Civil War and Spanish-American War.-Early life and career:...

      • 4th US, Battery A: Lt Horatio B. Reed
      • 4th US, Battery E: Cpt Samuel S. Elder
        Samuel Sherer Elder
        Samuel Sherer Elder was a career soldier in the United States Army, and a battery commander in the famed U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade.- Biography :...

      2nd Brigade:

        
      Capt William M. Graham
      William Montrose Graham, Jr.
      William Montrose Graham, Jr. , was a career soldier in the United States Army, reaching the rank of major general. He was a veteran of both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War.-Biography:...

      • 9th Battery Michigan Light: Cpt Jabez J. Daniels
      • 1st US, Batteries E: Lt Egbert W. Olcott
      • 1st US, Battery K: Lt John Egan
      • 2nd US, Battery A: Lt Robert Clarke
      • 2nd US, Battery G: Lt John H. Butler
      • 3rd US, Battery C: Cpt Dunbar R. Ransom
        Dunbar R. Ransom
        -Early life:Dunbar Ransom was born at Fayetteville, North Carolina on January 10, 1831 but moved to Vermont. He is listed as the eldest son of Col Truman B. Ransom and brother of Gen Thomas E. G. Ransom. On June 7, 1855 Ransom was appointed from civilian life as a 2nd lieutenant in the Third U....


    Artillery Reserve

    • BG Robert O. Tyler
      Robert O. Tyler
      Robert Ogden Tyler was an American soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best known as the commander of the Artillery Reserve of the Army of the Potomac, including at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, where many of his batteries played...

      Brigade Batteries
      1st Regular Brigade:

        
      Cpt Alanson M. Randol
      Alanson Merwin Randol
      Alanson Merwin Randol was an army officer in the artillery and cavalry during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

      • 1st US, Battery H: Lt Philip D. Mason
      • 3rd US, Batteries F & K: Lt George F. Barstow
      • 4th US, Battery C: Lt Charles L. Fitzhugh
      1st Volunteer Brigade:

        
      Ltc Freeman McGilvery
      Freeman McGilvery
      Freeman McGilvery was a United States Army artillery officer during the American Civil War. He gained fame at the Battle of Gettysburg for taking the initiative to piece together a line of guns that greatly contributed to the Union victory.-Biography:McGilvery was born in Prospect, Maine...

      • 6th Maine Light
        6th Maine Battery
        6th Maine Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 6th Maine Battery was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for three years' service on January 1, 1862 under the command of Captain Freeman McGilvery.The battery was attached...

        : Lt William H. Rogers
      • 9th Battery Massachusetts Light : Cpt John Bigelow
      • 4th Battery New York Light : Lt Thomas Goodman
      • Pennsylvania Light, Batteries C & F: Cpt James Thompson
      2nd Volunteer Brigade:

        
      Capt Elijah D. Taft
      Elijah D. Taft
      -Pre-War:Elijah D. Taft was born in Mamaroneck, New York April 28, 1819. He worked as a carpenter in Brooklyn, New York. Taft entered a New York militia unit, rising to the rank of captain by the year 1855. In the same year Taft stood for political office in Brooklyn. He was nominated by the...

      • 1st Connecticut Heavy, Battery B: Cpt Albert F. Brooker
      • 1st Connecticut Heavy, Battery M: Cpt Franklin A. Pratt
      • 1st New York Light, Battery B: Cpt Robert E. Rogers
      • 5th Battery New York Light: Cpt Elijah D. Taft
      • 1st West Virginia Light, Battery C: Cpt Wallace Hill
      3rd Volunteer Brigade:

        
      Maj Robert H. Fitzhugh
      • 1st Maryland Light, Battery A: Lt Thomas Binyon
      • 1st Battery New Hampshire Light
        1st New Hampshire Light Battery
        1st New Hampshire Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 1st New Hampshire Artillery was organized in Manchester, New Hampshire and mustered in September 21, 1861 for three years service under Captain George A. Gerrish.The...

        : Cpt Frederick M. Edgell
      • 1st New Jersey Light, Battery A: Cpt William Hexamer
        William Hexamer
        William Hexamer commanded an artillery battery in the American Civil War. Hexamer was born in Koblenz, Germany on April 12, 1825. During the 1848 Revolution he served as an aide to Franz Sigel...

      • 1st New York Light, Battery K (11th Battery New York Light attached): Lt Edward L. Bailey
      • 15th Battery New York Light: Cpt Patrick Hart

      Ammunition Guard
      • 6th New York Heavy Artillery: Col J. Howard Kitching
        J. Howard Kitching
        John Howard Kitching , often referred to as J. Howard Kitching, was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served in the cavalry, artillery and infantry in the Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah...

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