Knoxville Union order of battle
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The following Union Army
Union Army
The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...

 units and commanders fought in the Knoxville Campaign
Knoxville Campaign
The Knoxville Campaign was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee during the fall of 1863. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside occupied Knoxville, Tennessee, and Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet were detached from Gen...

 during the American Civil War from November 4 to December 23, 1863 under the command of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. Engagements fought during this time included the battles of Campbell's Station
Battle of Campbell's Station
The Battle of Campbell's Station was a battle of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, occurring on November 16, 1863, at Campbell's Station, , Knox County, Tennessee....

 and Fort Sanders
Battle of Fort Sanders
The Battle of Fort Sanders was the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863. Assaults by Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet failed to break through the defensive lines of Union Maj. Gen...

 and the siege of Knoxville.

Military rank

  • 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 = 1st Lieutenant

IX Corps

BG Robert B. Potter
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division

    
BG Edward Ferrero
Edward Ferrero
Edward Ferrero was one of the leading dance instructors, choreographers, and ballroom operators in the United States. He also served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best remembered for his role in the Battle of the Crater in 1864.-Early life and career:Ferrero was born in...


1st Brigade

  
Col David Morrison
  • 36th Massachusetts: Maj William E. Draper
  • 8th Michigan
    8th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 8th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 8th Michigan Infantry was organized at Grand Rapids and Detroit, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on September 23,...

    : Ltc Ralph Ely
  • 79th New York
    79th New York Volunteer Infantry
    The 79th New York Volunteer Infantry was a military regiment organized on June 20, 1859 in the state of New York. Prior to the American Civil War it was one of the three regiments which formed the Fourth Brigade of the First Division of the New York State Militia. The Fourth Brigade included the...

    : Cpt William S. Montgomery
  • 45th Pennsylvania: Ltc Francis M. Hills
2nd Brigade

  
Col Benjamin C. Christ
Benjamin C. Christ
Benjamin C. Christ was an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade in the IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac at several important battles, including the Battle of Antietam....

  • 29th Massachusetts: Col Ebenezer W. Pierce
  • 27th Michigan
    27th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 27th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 27th Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at Port Huron, Ovid, and Ypsilanti, Michigan on April 10, 1863.The regiment was mustered out of...

    : Maj William B. Wright
  • 46th New York: Cpt Alphons Serieri
  • 50th Pennsylvania: Maj Edward Overton Jr.
3rd Brigade

  
Col William Humphrey
  • 2nd Michigan
    2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 2nd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 2nd Michigan Infantry was organized by Francis William Kellogg and others at Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. It mustered into Federal service for a...

    : Maj Cornelius Byington (mw)
  • 17th Michigan
    17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 17th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 17th Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan, between August 8 and August 22, 1862...

    : Ltc Lorin L. Comstock (k)
  • 20th Michigan
    20th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 20th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 20th Michigan Infantry was organized at Jackson, Michigan between August 15 and August 19, 1862....

    : Maj Byron M. Cutcheon
    Byron M. Cutcheon
    -See also:*List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F-References:...

  • 100th Pennsylvania: Ltc Matthew M. Dawson
Artillery

  
  • 34th Battery, New York Artillery: Cpt Jacob Roemer
  • Battery D, 1st Rhode Island Artillery
    Battery D, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery
    Battery D, 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 4, 1861 under the command of Captain John Albert...

    : Cpt William W. Buckley

Second Division

    
Col John F. Hartranft
John F. Hartranft
John Frederick Hartranft was the 17th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1879 and a Union Major General who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

1st Brigade

  
Col Joshua K. Sigfried
  • 2nd Maryland
    2nd Maryland Infantry
    The 2nd Maryland Infantry was an American military regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It should not be confused with the 2nd Maryland Infantry, CSA, which was composed of Maryland volunteers who fought for the Confederacy during the war....

    : Col Thomas B. Allard
  • 21st Massachusetts
    21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
    The 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized in Worcester, Massachusetts and mustered into service on August 23, 1861....

    : Ltc George P. Hawkes
  • 48th Pennsylvania: Maj Joseph A. Gilmour
2nd Brigade

  
Ltc Edwin Schall
  • 35th Massachusetts: Maj Nathaniel Wales
  • 11th New Hampshire
    11th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment
    The 11th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment was a Union army infantry regiment that participated in the American Civil War. It was raised in the New England state of New Hampshire, serving from October 4, 1862, to June 4, 1865....

    : Cpt Leander W. Cogswell
  • 51st Pennsylvania: Maj William J. Bolton
Unattached

  
  • Battery "E", 2nd U.S. Artillery: Lt Samuel B. Benjamin

XXIII Corps

BG Mahlon D. Manson

General Headquarters
  • McLaughlin's Ohio Cavalry Squadron: Maj Richard Rice
  • Engineer Battalion: Cpt O. S. McClure

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division

    
BG Julius White
Julius White
Julius White was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as well as a postbellum diplomat.-Civil War:...


1st Brigade

  
Col Samuel R. Mott
  • 44th Ohio Infantry
    44th Ohio Infantry
    The 44th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 44th Ohio Infantry was organized in Springfield, Ohio September 12 through October 14, 1861 and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel Samuel A...

  • 100th Ohio Infantry
    100th Ohio Infantry
    The 100th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 100th Ohio Infantry was organized in Toledo, Ohio July through September 1862 and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel John C...

  • 104th Ohio Infantry
    104th Ohio Infantry
    The 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It played a conspicuous role at the Battle of Franklin during the 1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign, where six members later received the Medal of Honor, most for capturing enemy...

2nd Brigade

  
Col Marshall W. Chapin
  • 107th Illinois: Ltc Francis H. Lowry
  • 13th Kentucky
    13th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
    The 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 13th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Camp Hobson near Greensburg, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 10, 1861 under the...

    : Col William E. Hobson
  • 13th Kentucky: Maj William W. Wheeler
  • 23rd Michigan
    23rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 23rd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 23rd Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at East Saginaw, Michigan on September 13, 1862....

    : Maj Isaac R. Sherwood
  • Illinois Artillery Battery: Cpt Edward C. Henshaw

Third Division

    
BG Milo S. Hascall
1st Brigade

  
Col James W. Reilly
James W. Reilly
James William Reilly was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Ohio who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

  • 44th Ohio
    44th Ohio Infantry
    The 44th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 44th Ohio Infantry was organized in Springfield, Ohio September 12 through October 14, 1861 and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel Samuel A...

    : Maj Alpheus S. Moore
  • 100th Ohio
    100th Ohio Infantry
    The 100th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 100th Ohio Infantry was organized in Toledo, Ohio July through September 1862 and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel John C...

    : Col Patrick S. Slevin
  • 104th Ohio
    104th Ohio Infantry
    The 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It played a conspicuous role at the Battle of Franklin during the 1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign, where six members later received the Medal of Honor, most for capturing enemy...

    : Ltc Oscar W. Sterl
  • Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
    Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
    Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio in September 1861 and mustered in for a three year enlistment on October 17, 1861. The regiment was...

    : Lt William H. Pease
2nd Brigade

  
Col Daniel Cameron
  • 65th Illinois
    65th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
    The 65th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed the "Second Scotch Regiment" was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

    : Ltc William S. Stewart
  • 24th Kentucky
    24th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
    The 24th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 24th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Lexington, Kentucky and mustered in for a three year enlistment on December 31, 1861.The regiment was attached to...

    : Col John S. Hunt
  • 103rd Ohio
    103rd Ohio Infantry
    The 103rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was a three-years' infantry regiment from northeastern Ohio that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It participated in many of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Ohio in the Western Theater.On July 21, 1862, William B...

    : Cpt John T. Philpot
  • Indiana Artillery Battery: Cpt Hubbard T. Thomas
Artillery

  
  • 24th Battery Indiana Artillery
    24th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery
    24th Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana and mustered in November 29, 1862 for a three year enlistment....

    : Cpt Joseph A. Sims
  • 19th Battery Ohio Artillery
    19th Ohio Battery
    19th Ohio Independent Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Cleveland, Ohio and mustered in September 10, 1862 for a three year enlistment under Captain Joseph C. Shields.The battery was attached to Army of...

    : Cpt Joseph C. Shields
Provisional Brigade

  
Col William A. Haskins
  • 12th Kentucky
    12th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
    The 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:Company A of the 12th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Camp Dick Robinson on September 26, 1861, while the remaining nine companies were organized near...

    : Maj Joseph M. Owens
  • 8th Tennessee: Col Felix A. Reeve

Cavalry Corps

BG James M. Shackelford
James M. Shackelford
James Murrell Shackelford was a lawyer, judge, and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...


Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division

    
BG William P. Sanders
William P. Sanders
William Price Sanders was an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War, who died at the Siege of Knoxville.-Birth and early years:...

 (mw)
    
Col Frank Wolford
1st Brigade

  
Col Frank Wolford
  
Ltc Silas Adams
  • 11th Kentucky Cavalry
    11th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry
    The 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:Companies A, C, D, and F of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry were organized at Harrodsburg, Kentucky in July 1862...

    : Ltc Silas Adams
  • 12th Kentucky Cavalry
    12th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry
    The 12th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 12th Kentucky Cavalry was organized at Caseyville and Owensboro, Kentucky and mustered in on November 17, 1862 for three years under the command of Colonel...

    :
  • Law's Howitzer Battery:
2nd Brigade

  
Ltc Emery S. Bond
  • 112th Illinois Mounted Infantry: Maj Tristram T. Dow
  • 8th Michigan Cavalry
    8th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
    The 8th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 8th Michigan Cavalry was organized at Mt...

    :
  • 45th Ohio Mounted Infantry
    45th Ohio Infantry
    The 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 45th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio August 19, 1862 and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel Benjamin Piatt Runkle.The...

    :
  • 15th Battery, Indiana Artillery
    15th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery
    15th Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The battery was organized in Indianapolis, Indiana March 11, 1862 and mustered in July 5, 1862 for three years service under the command of Captain John C. H...

    :
3rd Brigade

  
Col Charles D. Pennebaker
  • 11th Kentucky Cavalry
    11th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry
    The 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:Companies A, C, D, and F of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry were organized at Harrodsburg, Kentucky in July 1862...

    : Col S. Palace Love
  • 27th Kentucky Mounted Infantry
    27th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
    The 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 27th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Rochester, Kentucky and mustered in for a three year enlistment on March 21, 1862 under the command of Colonel...

    : Ltc John H. Ward

Second Division

    
Col John W. Foster
John W. Foster
John Watson Foster was an American military man, journalist and diplomat.Born in Petersburg, Indiana, and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War. Following the war he worked as a journalist, editing the Evansville...

1st Brigade

  
Col Israel Garrard
  • 2nd Ohio Cavalry
    2nd Ohio Cavalry
    The 2nd Ohio Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 2nd Ohio Cavalry was organized in Cleveland, Ohio and at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio from August to October 1861, and mustered in for a three years under the command of...

    : Ltc George A. Purington
  • 7th Ohio Cavalry
    7th Ohio Cavalry
    The 7th Regiment, Ohio Cavalry was a regiment of Union cavalry raised in southern Ohio for service during the American Civil War. Nicknamed the "River Regiment" as its men came from nine counties along the Ohio River, it served in the Western Theater in several major campaigns of the Army of the...

  • 2nd Tennessee Infantry
    2nd Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry
    The 2nd Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 2nd Tennessee Infantry was organized at Camp Dick Robinson in Garrard County, Kentucky and at Somerset, Kentucky and mustered in for a three year...

2nd Brigade

  
Col Felix W. Graham
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