IV Corps (ACW)

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IV Corps (ACW)

There were two corps

Corps

A Corps is either a large formation , or an administrative grouping of troops within an armed force with a common function such as Artillery or Signals representing an arm of service....
of the Union Army

Union Army

The Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S....
called IV Corps during the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
. They were separate units, one serving with the Army of the Potomac

Army of the Potomac

The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War....
and the Department of Virginia in the Eastern Theater, 1862–63

1863

Year 1863 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar ....
, the other with the Army of the Cumberland

Army of the Cumberland

The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater of the American Civil War during the American Civil War....
in the Western Theater, 1863–65

1865

Year 1865 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar ....
.

IV Corps (Eastern Theater)
The IV Corps, Army of the Potomac, was created on March 13, 1862, and placed under the command of Erasmus D. Keyes

Erasmus D. Keyes

Erasmus Darwin Keyes was a businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War....
, who had commanded a brigade at First Bull Run

First Battle of Bull Run

The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas , was the first major land battle of the American Civil War, fought on July 21, 1861, near Manassas, Virginia....
.

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There were two corps

Corps

Union Army

The Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S....
called IV Corps during the American Civil War

American Civil War

Army of the Potomac

The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War....
and the Department of Virginia in the Eastern Theater, 1862–63

1863

Year 1863 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar ....
, the other with the Army of the Cumberland

Army of the Cumberland

The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater of the American Civil War during the American Civil War....
in the Western Theater, 1863–65

1865

Year 1865 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar ....
.

IV Corps (Eastern Theater)

The IV Corps, Army of the Potomac, was created on March 13, 1862, and placed under the command of Erasmus D. Keyes

Erasmus D. Keyes

First Battle of Bull Run

The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas , was the first major land battle of the American Civil War, fought on July 21, 1861, near Manassas, Virginia....
. It consisted initially of three divisions, under Darius N. Couch

Darius N. Couch

Darius Nash Couch was a United States Army officer, naturalist, and a Union Army Major general in the American Civil War. Couch rose to command a corps in the Army of the Potomac, and led division in both the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War and Western Theater of the American Civil War....
, Silas Casey

Silas Casey

Silas Casey was a career United States Army officer who rose to the rank of Major general during the American Civil War....
, and William F. “Baldy” Smith

William Farrar Smith

William Farrar Smith , was a civil engineer, a member of the police commission, and Union army General officer in the American Civil War....
. Couch's division was transferred to join VI Corps

VI Corps (ACW)

The VI Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War....
during the Antietam Campaign and remained with them for the duration of the war. The corps' peak strength (in early 1862) was 37,000 men.

The corps took part in George B. McClellan

George B. McClellan

George Brinton McClellan was a Major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army....
's Peninsula Campaign

Peninsula Campaign

The Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War....
of 1862, playing a major role in repulsing Confederate attacks at Seven Pines

Battle of Seven Pines

The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War....
and Malvern Hill

Battle of Malvern Hill

The Battle of Malvern Hill, also known as the Battle of Poindexter's Farm, took place on July 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, was the sixth and last of the Seven Days Battles of the American Civil War....
. After the campaign, IV Corps remained on the Peninsula

Virginia Peninsula

The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River , James River , Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay.Hampton Roads is the common name for the metropolitan area that surrounds the body of water of the same name....
, with Couch's division later detached. The corps was attached to the Department of Virginia under John A. Dix

John Adams Dix

John Adams Dix was an United States politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and Governor of New York. He was also a distinguished American Civil War General....
, and took part (along with VII Corps

VII Corps (ACW)

Two corps of the Union Army were called VII Corps during the American Civil War....
) in minor diversionary actions against Richmond during the Gettysburg Campaign

Gettysburg Campaign

File:Meade and Lee.jpgThe Gettysburg Campaign was a series of battles fought in June and July 1863, during the American Civil War. After his victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate States Army Full General Robert E....
. The corps was officially discontinued on August 1, 1863.

Command History

Erasmus D. Keyes Erasmus D. Keyes Erasmus Darwin Keyes was a businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War....	March 13, 1862 – August, 1862	Army of the Potomac
Erasmus D. Keyes Erasmus D. Keyes Erasmus Darwin Keyes was a businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War....	August, 1862 – August 1, 1863	Department of Virginia

IV Corps (Western Theater)

This corps was created on October 10, 1863, from the remnants of XX

XX Corps (ACW)

Two corps of the Union Army were called XX Corps during the American Civil War. Though both served in the Union Army of the Cumberland, they were distinct units and should be recognized as such....
and XXI Corps

XXI Corps (ACW)

XXI Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served as part of William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and was in existence from January 9th to October 1863....
, both of which had suffered heavy casualties at Chickamauga

Battle of Chickamauga

The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863, marked the end of a Union Army offensive in south-central Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign....
. It was initially commanded by Gordon Granger

Gordon Granger

Gordon Granger was a career U.S. army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Chickamauga....
and its division commanders were Philip Sheridan

Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to Major general and his close association with Lieutenant general Ulysses S....
, John Palmer

John M. Palmer (politician)

John McAuley Palmer , was an Illinois, an American Civil War General officer who fought for the Union , Governor of Illinois, and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the United States presidential election, 1896 on a platform to defend the gold standard, free trade, and limited government....
, and Thomas J. Wood

Thomas J. Wood

Thomas John Wood was a career United States Army officer and a Union General officer during the American Civil War....
. It served with distinction in the famous unordered attack on Missionary Ridge

Missionary Ridge

Missionary Ridge is a geographic feature in Chattanooga, Tennessee, site of the Battle of Missionary Ridge, a battle in the American Civil War, fought on November 25, 1863....
at Chattanooga, and served in the Knoxville

Knoxville Campaign

The Knoxville Campaign was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee during the fall of 1863. Union Army forces under Major General Ambrose Burnside occupied Knoxville, Tennessee, and Confederate States Army forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet were detached from General Braxton Bragg's Army of...
and Atlanta

Atlanta Campaign

The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta, Georgia, during the summer of 1864, leading to the eventual fall of Atlanta and hastening the end of the American Civil War....
Campaigns. During John B. Hood's Franklin-Nashville Campaign

Franklin-Nashville Campaign

The Franklin-Nashville Campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee Campaign, was a series of battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War , fought in the fall of 1864 in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War....
, General William T. Sherman left the IV (and XXIII Corps

XXIII Corps (ACW)

XXIII Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War as part of the Army of the Ohio....
), under the overall command of General George H. Thomas

George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater of the American Civil War....
, to defend Tennessee, and the corps was heavily engaged in the battles at Spring Hill

Battle of Spring Hill

The Battle of Spring Hill was fought November 29, 1864, in Maury County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War....
, Franklin

Battle of Franklin

The Battle of Franklin may refer to two different battles:* First Battle of Franklin, April 10, 1863. A battle of the American Civil War. Also known as the Battle of the Harpeth River....
, and Nashville

Battle of Nashville

The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting in the Western Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War....
.

Records differ regarding the further history of the corps. Two sources report that it was deactivated on August 1, 1865. A third reports that after the war it was sent to Texas as part of the U.S. Army detachment dispatched to persuade French Emperor Napoleon III

Napoleon III of France

Napol?on III, also known as Louis-Napol?on Bonaparte was the first President of the French Republic and the only emperor of the Second French Empire....
to withdraw his troops from Mexico, and was not disbanded until December 1865.

Command History

Gordon Granger Gordon Granger Gordon Granger was a career U.S. army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Chickamauga....	October 10, 1863 – April 10, 1864	Chattanooga and Knoxville
Oliver O. Howard Oliver O. Howard Oliver Otis Howard was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. He was a corps commander noted for suffering two humiliating defeats, at Battle of Chancellorsville and Battle of Gettysburg, but he recovered from the setbacks while posted in the Western Theater of the American Civil War,...	April 10, 1864 – July 27, 1864	to Atlanta
David S. Stanley David S. Stanley David Sloane Stanley born in Cedar Valley, Wayne County, Ohio and was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Franklin....	July 27, 1864 – December 1, 1864	wounded at Franklin
Thomas J. Wood Thomas J. Wood Thomas John Wood was a career United States Army officer and a Union General officer during the American Civil War....	December 1, 1864 – January 31, 1865	Nashville
David S. Stanley David S. Stanley David Sloane Stanley born in Cedar Valley, Wayne County, Ohio and was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Franklin....	January 31, 1865 – August 1, 1865