First Deep Bottom Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the First Battle of Deep Bottom (July 27–29, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Other

Union Forces

General in Chief

LTG Ulysses S. Grant

Army of the Potomac

MG George Meade

II Corps

MG Winfield Scott Hancock

Escort:

  • 1st Vermont Cavalry, Company M: Cpt John H. Hazelton

Engineers:

  • 1st Battalion, New York Infantry: Maj Wesley Brainerd

Chief of Artillery: Col John C. Tidball

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Francis C. Barlow

1st Brigade

   Col James C. Lynch

  • 28th Massachusetts: Maj James Flemming
  • 26th Michigan: Cpt Lucius H. Ives
  • 5th New Hampshire: Maj James E. Larkin
  • 61st New York: Maj George W. Scott
  • 81st Pennsylvania: Ltc William Wilson
  • 140th Pennsylvania: Cpt Thomas Henry[1]
  • 183rd Pennsylvania: Ltc George T. Egbert
  • 2nd New York Heavy Artillery: Maj George Hogg
Consolidated Brigade[2]

   Col Clinton D. MacDougall[3]

4th Brigade

   Ltc Knut Oscar Broady

  • 2nd Delaware (5 companies):
  • 64th New York: Ltc William Glenny
  • 66th New York: Cpt Nathaniel P. Lane
  • 53rd Pennsylvania: Cpt Philip H. Schreyer[5]
  • 145th Pennsylvania: Cpt James H. Hamlin
  • 148th Pennsylvania: Cpt Alfred A. Rhinehart
  • 7th New York Heavy Artillery: Ltc Joseph H. Murphy
  • 116th Pennsylvania: Cpt David W. Megraw

Second Division
     MG John Gibbon
Provost guard:
2nd Company Minnesota Sharpshooters: Cpt Mahlon Black

1st Brigade

   Ltc Francis E. Pierce

2nd Brigade

   Col Mathew Murphy

3rd Brigade

   Col Thomas A. Smyth

Third Division
     BG Gershom Mott

1st Brigade

   BG Régis de Trobriand

2nd Brigade

   Col Daniel Chaplin (until July 28)[10]
   Col Henry J. Madill (July 28)

  • 5th Michigan: Col John Pulford
  • 93rd New York: Maj Samuel McConihe
  • 57th Pennsylvania: Ltc William B. Neeper
  • 63rd Pennsylvania:
  • 105th Pennsylvania: Cpt John C. Conser
  • 141st Pennsylvania: Col Henry J. Madill
  • 1st U.S. Sharpshooters: Cpt John Wilson
  • 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery: Maj Nathaniel Shatswell
  • 1st Maine Heavy Artillery: Ltc Thomas H. Talbot [transferred to 1st Brigade, July 28]
3rd Brigade

   Col Robert McAllister

4th Brigade

   Col William R. Brewster

Artillery Brigade

   Maj John G. Hazard

Cavalry Corps

MG Philip Sheridan

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Cavalry Division
     BG David McMurtrie Gregg

1st Brigade

   BG Henry Eugene Davies

  • 1st Massachusetts Cavalry:
  • 1st New Jersey Cavalry:
  • 10th New York Cavalry:
  • 6th Ohio Cavalry: Col William Stedman
  • 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry:
2nd Brigade

   Col John Irvin Gregg

  • 1st Maine Cavalry:
  • 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry:
  • 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry:
  • 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry:
  • 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry:
  • 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry:

Army of the James

MG Benjamin F. Butler

X Corps

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division

3rd Brigade

   BG Robert Sanford Foster

XIX Corps

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division

1st Brigade

   BG Henry Warner Birge

Cavalry

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Cavalry Division
     BG August Kautz

1st Brigade

   Col Robert M. West

2nd Brigade

   Col Samuel P. Spear

Unassigned
  • 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Company F:
  • 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Company G:
  • 1st New York Mounted Rifles:
Artillery
  • 4th Wisconsin Battery (1st section): Cpt George B. Easterly
  • 4th Wisconsin Battery (2nd section): Lt William P. Powers

See also

References

  • Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
  1. On picket duty; not engaged.
  2. 2nd and 3rd Brigades consolidated on June 27 Civil War in the East: Second Army Corps (June 1864)
  3. Eicher p.358
  4. Not engaged.
  5. Not engaged.
  6. Not engaged.
  7. Not engaged.
  8. Not engaged.
  9. Not engaged.
  10. Eicher p.170
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