Second Petersburg Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Second Battle of Petersburg (June 15–18, 1864) of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the casualty returns.[1] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Other

General in Chief

LTG Ulysses S. Grant, commanding general, U.S. armies

Army of the James

MG Benjamin F. Butler

Headquarters units

Naval Brigade
BG Charles K. Graham

Siege Artillery
Col Henry L. Abbot

  • 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery
  • 13th New York Heavy Artillery, Companies A and H
  • 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Company M

X Corps

BG Alfred H. Terry

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

2nd Division
BG Adelbert Ames

1st Brigade


Col Newton Martin Curtis

2nd Brigade


Col William B. Barton

3rd Brigade


Col Louis Bell

Artillery Brigade


  • 5th Battery, New Jersey Artillery
  • Battery D, 1st U.S. Artillery
  • Battery E, 3rd U.S. Artillery
  • Battery D, 4th U.S. Artillery

XVIII Corps

MG William F. Smith

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
BG William T. H. Brooks
BG Gilman Marston

1st Brigade


BG Gilman Marston
Col Edgar M. Cullen

2nd Brigade


BG Hiram Burnham

3rd Brigade


Col Guy V. Henry

  • 21st Connecticut
  • 40th Massachusetts
  • 92nd New York
  • 58th Pennsylvania
  • 188th Pennsylvania
Artillery Brigade


Cpt Samuel S. Elder

Second Division
BG John H. Martindale

1st Brigade


BG George J. Stannard

2nd Brigade


Col Griffin A. Stedman, Jr.

  • 11th Connecticut
  • 8th Maine
  • 12th New Hampshire
  • 148th New York
  • 19th Wisconsin
3rd Brigade


Col Augustus A. Gibson

  • 5th Maryland
  • 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
Artillery
  • Battery F, 1st Rhode Island Light

Third Division
BG Edward W. Hinks

1st Brigade


BG Edward A. Wild

2nd Brigade


Col Samuel A. Duncan

  • 2nd U.S.C.T. Cavalry (dismounted)
  • 4th U.S.C.T.
  • 5th U.S.C.T.
  • 6th U.S.C.T.
  • 22nd U.S.C.T.
3rd Brigade


Col John Henry Holman

  • 1st U.S.C.T.
  • 5th Massachusetts Cavalry

Cavalry

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Cavalry Division
BG August V. Kautz

1st Brigade


Col Simon H. Mix (k) June 15
Col Robert M. West

2nd Brigade


Col Samuel P. Spear

  • 1st District of Columbia Cavalry
  • 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry
Unassigned
  • Companies F & G, 4th Massachusetts Cavalry
  • 1st New York Mounted Rifles
Artillery Brigade


  • 1st Section, 4th Wisconsin Battery
  • 2nd Section, 4th Wisconsin Battery

Army of the Potomac

MG George Meade

Headquarters units

Provost Guard
BG Marsena R. Patrick

  • 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies C & D
  • 80th New York
  • 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry
  • 68th Pennsylvania
  • 114th Pennsylvania

Artillery
BG Henry J. Hunt

Volunteer Engineer Brigade
BG Henry W. Benham

  • 15th New York Engineers
  • 50th New York Engineers
  • Battalion U.S. Engineers

II Corps

MG Winfield S. Hancock relinquished command June 18
MG David B. Birney

  • 1st Vermont Cavalry, Company M
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
BG Francis C. Barlow

1st Brigade


Col Nelson A. Miles

2nd Brigade
(Irish Brigade)


Col Patrick Kelly (k) June 16
Cpt Richard Moroney

3rd Brigade


Col Clinton D. MacDougall

4th Brigade


Col James A. Beaver (w) June 16
Ltc John Hastings

  • 2nd Delaware
  • 7th New York Heavy Artillery
  • 64th New York
  • 66th New York
  • 53rd Pennsylvania
  • 145th Pennsylvania
  • 148th Pennsylvania

Second Division
BG John Gibbon

1st Brigade


BG Byron R. Pierce (w) June 18

2nd Brigade
(Philadelphia Brigade)


Col John Fraser

3rd Brigade


Col Thomas A. Smyth

4th Brigade


Col John Ramsey (w) June 16
Col James Patrick McIvor

Third Division
MG David B. Birney
BG Gershom Mott

1st Brigade


Col Thomas W. Egan (w) June 16
Col Henry J. Madill

2nd Brigade


Col Thomas R. Tannatt June 16
Maj Levi P. Duff June 16
Maj John Willian June 16
Col Robert McAllister

3rd Brigade


BG Gershom Mott June 18
Col Daniel Chaplin

  • 1st Maine Heavy Artillery
  • 16th Massachusetts
  • 5th New Jersey
  • 6th New Jersey
  • 7th New Jersey
  • 8th New Jersey
  • 11th New Jersey
  • 115th Pennsylvania
4th Brigade


Col William R. Brewster

Artillery Brigade


Col John C. Tidball

V Corps

MG Gouverneur K. Warren

  • 12th New York Battalion
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
BG Charles Griffin

1st Brigade


Col Joshua L. Chamberlain (w) June 18
Col William S. Tilton

  • 121st Pennsylvania
  • 142nd Pennsylvania
  • 143rd Pennsylvania
  • 149th Pennsylvania
  • 150th Pennsylvania
  • 187th Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade


Col Jacob B. Sweitzer

  • 22nd Massachusetts
  • 32nd Massachusetts: Col George L. Prescott (mw)
  • 4th Michigan
  • 62nd Pennsylvania
  • 91st Pennsylvania
  • 155th Pennsylvania
  • 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry
3rd Brigade


BG Joseph J. Bartlett

Second Division
BG Romeyn B. Ayres

1st Brigade


Col Edgar M. Gregory

2nd Brigade


Col Nathan T. Dushane

  • 1st Maryland
  • 4th Maryland
  • 7th Maryland
  • 8th Maryland
  • Purnell (Maryland) Legion
3rd Brigade


Col J. Howard Kitching

  • 6th New York Heavy Artillery
  • Battery M, 15th New York Heavy Artillery: Cpt William D. Dickey (w)

Third Division
BG Samuel W. Crawford

1st Brigade


Col Peter Lyle

2nd Brigade


Col James L. Bates

3rd Brigade


Col James Carle

  • 190th Pennsylvania
  • 191st Pennsylvania

Fourth Division
BG Lysander Cutler

1st Brigade
(Iron Brigade)


BG Edward S. Bragg

2nd Brigade


Col J. William Hofmann

Artillery Brigade


Col Charles S. Wainwright

VI Corps

MG Horatio G. Wright

  • 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company A
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
BG David A. Russell

1st Brigade


Col William H. Penrose

  • 1st Delaware Dismounted Cavalry
  • 4th New Jersey
  • 10th New Jersey
  • 15th New Jersey
2nd Brigade


BG Emory Upton

  • 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery
  • 5th Maine
  • 121st New York
  • 95th Pennsylvania
  • 96th Pennsylvania
3rd Brigade


Col Gideon Clark

  • 6th Maine
  • 49th Pennsylvania
  • 119th Pennsylvania
  • 5th Wisconsin
4th Brigade


Col Nelson Cross

  • 65th New York
  • 67th New York
  • 122nd New York
  • 23rd Pennsylvania
  • 82nd Pennsylvania

Second Division
BG Thomas H. Neill
(attached to 2nd Division, XVIII Corps on June 18)

1st Brigade


BG Frank Wheaton

  • 62nd New York
  • 93rd Pennsylvania
  • 98th Pennsylvania
  • 102nd Pennsylvania
  • 139th Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade
(1st Vermont Brigade)


BG Lewis A. Grant

  • 2nd Vermont
  • 3rd Vermont
  • 4th Vermont
  • 5th Vermont
  • 6th Vermont
  • 11th Vermont Heavy Artillery
3rd Brigade


Col Daniel D. Bidwell

4th Brigade


Col Oliver Edwards

Third Division
BG James B. Ricketts

1st Brigade


Col William S. Truex

2nd Brigade


Col Benjamin F. Smith

Artillery Brigade


Col Charles H. Tompkins

IX Corps

MG Ambrose E. Burnside

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
BG James Ledlie

1st Brigade


Col Jacob P. Gould

2nd Brigade


Col Ebenezer Peirce until 17 June
Ltc Joseph H. Barnes

3rd Brigade


Col Elisha G. Marshall (w) June 17
Col Benjamin G. Barney[2]

  • 14th New York Heavy Artillery
  • 2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery
Artillery


Cpt John B. Eaton

  • 2nd Maine Light Battery
  • 14th Massachusetts Battery
  • 27th Battery, New York Artillery

Second Division
BG Robert B. Potter

1st Brigade


Col John I. Curtin (w) June 18
Ltc Henry Pleasants

  • 36th Massachusetts
  • 58th Massachusetts
  • 2nd New York Mounted Rifles
  • 45th Pennsylvania
  • 48th Pennsylvania
  • 7th Rhode Island
2nd Brigade


Col Simon Goodell Griffin

Artillery

Third Division
BG Orlando B. Willcox

1st Brigade


Col John F. Hartranft

2nd Brigade


Col Benjamin C. Christ (w) June 17
Col William Raultson (w) June 18
Ltc George Travers (w) June 18
Col Walter C. Newberry

  • 1st Michigan Sharpshooters
  • 2nd Michigan
  • 20th Michigan
  • 24th New York Dismounted Cavalry
  • 60th Ohio
  • 50th Pennsylvania
Artillery
  • 7th Maine Battery
  • 34th New York Battery

Fourth Division
BG Edward Ferrero

1st Brigade


Col Joshua K. Sigfried

  • 27th U.S. Colored Troops
  • 30th U.S. Colored Troops
  • 39th U.S. Colored Troops
  • 43rd U.S. Colored Troops
2nd Brigade


Col Henry Goddard Thomas

  • 19th U.S. Colored Troops
  • 23rd U.S. Colored Troops
  • 31st U.S. Colored Troops
Artillery

Cavalry Corps

MG Philip H. Sheridan

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
BG Alfred T. A. Torbert

1st Brigade (Wolverine Brigade)


BG George A. Custer

2nd Brigade


Col Thomas C. Devin

Reserve Brigade


BG Wesley Merritt

  • 19th New York (1st Dragoon)
  • 6th Pennsylvania
  • 1st United States
  • 2nd United States
  • 5th United States

Second Division
BG David McMurtrie Gregg

1st Brigade


BG Henry E. Davies, Jr.

  • 1st Massachusetts
  • 1st New Jersey
  • 10th New York
  • 6th Ohio
  • 1st Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade


Col John Irvin Gregg

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

Third Division
BG James H. Wilson

1st Brigade


Col John Baillie McIntosh

  • 1st Connecticut
  • 3rd New Jersey
  • 2nd New York
  • 5th New York
  • 2nd Ohio
  • 18th Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade


Col George H. Chapman

  • 3rd Indiana
  • 8th New York
  • 1st Vermont

Horse Artillery

1st Brigade


Cpt James M. Robertson

  • 6th New York Battery
  • Batteries B & L, 2nd United States
  • Battery D, 2nd United States
  • Battery M, 2nd United States
  • Battery A, 4th United States
  • Battery C & Battery E, 4th United States
2nd Brigade


Cpt Dunbar R. Ransom

  • Batteries E and G, 1st United States
  • Batteries H and I, 1st United States
  • Battery K, 1st United States
  • Battery A, 2nd United States

Notes

  1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XL, Part 1, pages 218-238.
  2. Eicher p.120.

References

  • U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 18801901.
  • Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
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