Savannah Campaign Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Savannah Campaign (or Sherman's March to the Sea) of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Union Forces

MG William T. Sherman, Commanding

Headquarters guard:

Engineers:

Right Wing (Army of the Tennessee)

MG Oliver O. Howard
Escort:

  • Company K, 15th Illinois Cavalry: Lt John A. McQueen
  • 4th Company Ohio Cavalry: Cpt John L. King

XV Corps

MG Peter J. Osterhaus

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Charles R. Woods

1st Brigade

   Col Milo Smith

2nd Brigade

   BG Charles C. Walcutt[2] (w),

   Col Robert F. Catterson

  • 26th Illinois: Cpt George H. Reed
  • 40th Illinois: Ltc Hiram W. Hall
  • 103rd Illinois: Maj Asias Willison
  • 97th Indiana: Col Robert F. Catterson, Cpt George Elliott
  • 100th Indiana: Maj Ruel M. Johnson
  • 6th Iowa: Ltc William H. Clune
  • 46th Ohio: Ltc Isaac N. Alexander
3rd Brigade

   Col James A. Williamson

Second Division
     MG William Babcock Hazen

1st Brigade

   Col Theodore Jones

  • 55th Illinois: Cpt Charles A. Andress
  • 116th Illinois: Ltc John E. Maddux
  • 127th Illinois: Cpt Charles Schryver
  • 6th Missouri: Ltc Delos Van Deusen
  • 8th Missouri, (two companies): Cpt John W. White
  • 30th Ohio: Cpt Emory W. Muenscher
  • 57th Ohio: Maj John McClure
2nd Brigade

   Col Wells S. Jones[3] (w),

   Col James Stewart Martin

  • 111th Illinois: Col James Stewart Martin, Maj William M. Mabry
  • 83rd Indiana: Ltc George H. Scott
  • 47th Ohio: Col Augustus C. Parry
  • 53rd Ohio: Cpt David H. Lasley
  • 54th Ohio: Ltc Israel T. Moore
3rd Brigade

   BG John Morrison Oliver

  • 48th Illinois: Maj Edward Adams
  • 90th Illinois: Ltc Owen Stuart
  • 99th Indiana: Ltc John M. Berkey
  • 15th Michigan: Ltc Frederick S. Hutchinson
  • 70th Ohio: Ltc Henry L. Philips

3rd Division
     Bvt MG John E. Smith

1st Brigade

   Col Joseph B. McCown

  • 63rd Illinois: Ltc James Isaminger
  • 93rd Illinois:[4] Ltc Nicholas C. Buswell
  • 48th Indiana: Ltc Edward J. Wood
  • 59th Indiana: Ltc Jefferson K. Scott
  • 4th Minnesota: Col John Eaton Tourtellotte
2nd Brigade

   Bvt. BG Green B. Raum   

  • 56th Illinois: Cpt James P. Files
  • 10th Iowa: Ltc Paris P. Henderson
  • 26th Missouri:[5] Col Benjamin D. Dean
  • 80th Ohio: Ltc Pren Metham

4th Division
     BG John M. Corse

1st Brigade

   BG Elliott W. Rice

  • 52nd Illinois: Maj Wesley Boyd, Ltc Jerome D. Davis
  • 66th Indiana: Ltc Roger Martin
  • 2nd Iowa: Col Noel B. Howard
  • 7th Iowa: Ltc James C. Parrott
2nd Brigade

   Col Robert N. Adams

  • 12th Illinois: Ltc Henry Van Sellar
  • 66th Illinois: Ltc Andrew K. Campbell
  • 81st Ohio: Maj William C. Henry
3rd Brigade

   Col Frederick J. Hurlbut

  • 7th Illinois: Ltc Hector Perrin
  • 50th Illinois: Cpt Henry Horn
  • 57th Illinois: Maj Frederick A. Battey
  • 39th Iowa: Ltc Joseph M. Griffiths
Artillery

   Maj Charles J. Stolbrand

XVII Corps

MG Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
Escort:

  • Company G, 11th Illinois Cavalry: Cpt Stephen S. Tripp
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     MG Joseph A. Mower
    

1st Brigade

   BG John W. Fuller

2nd Brigade

   BG John W. Sprague

3rd Brigade  

   Col John Tillson

Third Division


     BG Mortimer Dormer Leggett

Provost Guard
  • 20th Illinois: Cpt Henry King
1st Brigade

   BG Manning F. Force

2nd Brigade

   Col Robert Kingston Scott

Fourth Division
     BG Giles Alexander Smith

1st Brigade

   Col Benjamin F. Potts

  • 14th Illinois (battalion)/15th Illinois: Lt Alonzo J. Gillespie
  • 41st Illinois (battalion): Maj Robert H. McFadden
  • 53rd Illinois: Col John W. McClanahan
  • 23rd Indiana: Col George S. Babbitt
  • 53rd Indiana: Cpt Henry Duncan
  • 32nd Ohio: Ltc Jefferson J. Hibbets
3rd Brigade

   BG William W. Belknap

Artillery

   Maj Allen C. Waterhouse

Left Wing (Army of Georgia)

MG Henry W. Slocum

Pontoniers:

XIV Corps

Bvt MG Jefferson C. Davis

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG William P. Carlin

1st Brigade

   Col Harrison C. Hobart

2nd Brigade

   Ltc Joseph H. Brigham

3rd Brigade

   Col Henry A. Hambright,[6]

   Ltc David Miles

  • 38th Indiana: Cpt James H. Low
  • 21st Ohio: Ltc Arnold McMahan
  • 74th Ohio: Maj Joseph Fisher, Maj Robert P. Findley
  • 79th Pennsylvania: Ltc David Miles, Maj Michael H. Locher

2nd Division
     BG James D. Morgan

1st Brigade

   Col Robert F. Smith

2nd Brigade

   Ltc John S. Pearce

3rd Brigade

   Ltc James W. Langley

  • 85th Illinois: Maj Robert G. Rider
  • 86th Illinois: Ltc Allen R. Fahnestock
  • 110th Illinois (four companies), Ltc E. Hibbard Topping
  • 125th Illinois: Cpt George W. Cook
  • 22nd Indiana: Cpt William H. Snodgrass
  • 37th Indiana (1 company): Lt Socrates Carver
  • 52nd Ohio: Ltc Charles W. Clancy

3rd Division
     BG Absalom Baird

1st Brigade

   Col Morton C. Hunter

2nd Brigade

   Col Newell Gleason

3rd Brigade

   Col George P. Este

Artillery

   Maj Charles Houghtaling

XX Corps

BG Alpheus S. Williams

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Nathaniel J. Jackson
 

1st Brigade

   BG James L. Selfridge

  • 5th Connecticut: Ltc Henry W. Daboll
  • 123rd New York: Ltc James C. Rogers
  • 141st New York: Cpt William Merrell
  • 46th Pennsylvania: Maj Patrick Griffith
2nd Brigade

   Col Ezra A. Carman

3rd Brigade

   Col James S. Robinson

  • 82nd Illinois: Maj Ferdinand H. Rolshausen
  • 101st Illinois: Ltc John B. LeSage
  • 143rd New York: Ltc Hezekiah Watkins
  • 61st Ohio: Cpt John Garrett
  • 82nd Ohio: Ltc David Thomson
  • 31st Wisconsin: Col Francis H. West

Second Division
     BG John W. Geary

1st Brigade

     Col Ario Pardee, Jr.

  • 5th Ohio: Ltc Robert Kirkup
  • 29th Ohio: Maj Myron T. Wright[9]
  • 66th Ohio: Ltc Eugene Powell
  • 28th Pennsylvania: Col John H. Flynn
  • 147th Pennsylvania:[10] Ltc John Craig
2nd Brigade

   Col Patrick Henry Jones

3rd Brigade

   Col Henry A. Barnum

  • 60th New York: Maj Thomas Elliott
  • 102nd New York: Ltc Harvey S. Chatfield
  • 137th New York: Ltc Koert S. Van Voorhees
  • 149th New York: Maj Nicholas Grumbach
  • 29th Pennsylvania: Col Samuel M. Zulich
  • 111th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas M. Walker

Third Division
     BG William Thomas Ward

1st Brigade

   Col Franklin C. Smith
 

  • 102nd Illinois: Maj Hiland H. Clay
  • 105th Illinois: Maj Henry D. Brown
  • 129th Illinois: Col Henry Case
  • 70th Indiana: Ltc Samuel Merrill
  • 79th Ohio: Ltc Azariah W. Doan
2nd Brigade

   Col Daniel Dustin

3rd Brigade

   Col Samuel Ross

  • 20th Connecticut: Ltc Philo B. Buckingham
  • 33rd Massachusetts: Ltc Elisha Doane
  • 136th New York: Ltc Lester B. Faulkner
  • 55th Ohio: Ltc Edwin H. Powers
  • 73rd Ohio: Ltc Samuel H. Hurst
  • 26th Wisconsin: Ltc Frederick C. Winkler
Artillery

   Maj John A. Reynolds
  

  • Battery I, 1st New York Light: Cpt Charles E. Winegar
  • Battery M, 1st New York Light: Cpt Edward P. Newkirk
  • Battery C, 1st Ohio Light : Cpt Marco B. Gary,[11] Lt Jerome B. Stephens
  • Battery E, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Thomas S. Sloan

Cavalry Corps

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Third Division
     BG Hugh Judson Kilpatrick

1st Brigade

   Colo Eli H. Murray

  • 8th Indiana Cavalry: Ltc Fielder A. Jones
  • 2nd Kentucky Cavalry: Cpt Joseph T. Forman, Cpt Robert M. Gilmore
  • 3rd Kentucky Cavalry: Ltc Robert H. King
  • 5th Kentucky Cavalry: Col Oliver L. Baldwin
  • 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col Thomas J. Jordan
2nd Brigade

   Col Smith D. Atkins

Unattached
  • 1st Alabama Cavalry:[12] Col George E. Spencer
  • 9th Illinois Mounted Infantry:[12] Ltc Samuel T. Hughes
Artillery
  • 10th Wisconsin Battery: Cpt Yates V. Beebe

See also

Notes

  1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XLIV, pages 19-25
  2. Wounded November 22.
  3. Wounded December 13
  4. Non-veterans 18th Wisconsin attached.
  5. Detachment 10th Missouri attached.
  6. Sick from November 18.
  7. Company A, 24th Illinois attached.
  8. Detachment 11th Ohio Infantry attached.
  9. Wounded December 19.
  10. Detachment Battery E, Pennsylvania Artillery, attached.
  11. Captured December 12.
  12. Serving with the Left Wing.

References

  • U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 18801901.
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