Battle of Franklin (1864) Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Franklin (1864) of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization^[1] during the campaign.^[2] The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Cpt = Captain
• Bvt = Brevet

Other

• w = wounded

Army of the Ohio

MG John M. Schofield

IV Corps

MG David S. Stanley (w)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division      BG Nathan Kimball	1st Brigade    Col Isaac M. Kirby    (K-2, W-8, M-4 =14)	21st Illinois: Cpt William H. Jamison 38th Illinois: Cpt Andrew M. Pollard 31st Indiana: Col John T. Smith 81st Indiana: Maj Edward G. Mathey 90th Ohio: Ltc Samuel N. Yeoman 101st Ohio: Ltc Bedan B. McDanald
	2nd Brigade    BG Walter C. Whitaker    (K-0, W-5, M-4 =9)	96th Illinois: Maj George Hicks 115th Illinois: Col Jesse Hale Moore 35th Indiana: Ltc Augustus G. Tassin 21st Kentucky: Ltc James C. Evans 23rd Kentucky: Ltc George W. Northup 40th Ohio (six companies): Ltc James Watson 45th Ohio: Ltc John H. Humphrey 51st Ohio: Ltc Charles H. Wood
	3rd Brigade    BG William Grose    (K-3, W-24, M-10 =37)	75th Illinois: Col John E. Bennett 80th Illinois: Cpt James Cunningham 84th Illinois: Ltc Charles H. Morton 9th Indiana: Col Isaac C. B. Suman 30th Indiana (three companies): Cpt Henry W. Lawton 36th Indiana (one company): Lt John P. Swisher 84th Indiana: Maj John C. Taylor 77th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas E. Rose
Second Division      BG George D. Wagner	1st Brigade    Col Emerson Opdycke    (K-16, W-125, M-65 =206)	36th Illinois: Maj Levi P. Holden 44th Illinois: Ltc John Russell 73rd Illinois: Maj Thomas W. Motherspaw 74th/88th Illinois: Ltc George W. Smith 125th Ohio: Cpt Edward P. Bates 24th Wisconsin: Cpt Edwin B. Parsons
	2nd Brigade    Col John Q. Lane    (K-29, W-269, M-340 =638)	100th Illinois: Ltc Charles M. Hammond 40th Indiana: Ltc Henry Leaming 57th Indiana: Maj John S. McGraw 28th Kentucky: Ltc J. Rowan Boone 26th Ohio: Cpt William Clark 97th Ohio: Ltc Milton Barnes
	3rd Brigade    Col Joseph Conrad    (K-7, W-125, M-265 =397)	42nd Illinois: Maj Frederick A. Atwater 51st Illinois: Cpt Merritt B. Atwater 79th Illinois:[3] Col Allen Buckner 15th Missouri: Cpt George Ernst 64th Ohio: Ltc Robert C. Brown 65th Ohio: Maj Orlow Smith
Third Division[4]      BG Thomas J. Wood	1st Brigade    Col Abel D. Streight	89th Illinois: Ltc William D. Williams 51st Indiana: Cpt William W. Scearce 8th Kansas: Ltc John Conover 15th Ohio: Col Frank Askew 49th Ohio: Maj Luther M. Strong
	2nd Brigade    Col Philip S. Post	59th Illinois: Maj James M. Stookey 41st Ohio: Ltc Robert L. Kimberly 71st Ohio: Col Henry K. McConnell 93rd Ohio: Ltc Daniel Bowman 124th Ohio: Ltc James Pickands
	3rd Brigade    Col Frederick Knefler	79th Indiana: Ltc George W. Parker 86th Indiana: Col George F. Dick 13th Ohio (battalion): Maj Joseph T. Snider 19th Ohio: Ltc Henry G. Stratton 17th Kentucky: Col A. M. Stout [5]
	Artillery    Cpt Lyman Bridges	Bridges' Illinois Battery: Lt Lyman A. White 1st Kentucky Battery: Cpt Theodore S. Thomasson Battery A, 1st Ohio Light: Lt Charles W. Scovill Battery G, 1st Ohio Light: Cpt Alexander Marshall 6th Ohio Battery: Lt Aaron P. Baldwin 20th Ohio Battery: Lt John S. Burdick Battery B, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Jacob Ziegler Battery M, 4th U.S. Light: Lt Samuel Canby

XXIII Corps

BG Jacob D. Cox^[6]

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Second Division[7]      BG Thomas H. Ruger	2nd Brigade    Col Orlando H. Moore     (K-21, W-89, M-12 =122)	107th Illinois: Ltc Francis H. Lowry 80th Indiana: Ltc Alfred D. Owen 129th Indiana: Col Charles A. Zollinger 23rd Michigan: Col Oliver L. Spaulding 111th Ohio: Ltc Isaac R. Sherwood 118th Ohio: Maj Edgar Sowers
	3rd Brigade    Col Silas Strickland    (K-73, W-178, M-280 =531)	72nd Illinois: Ltc Joseph Stockton 44th Missouri: Col Robert C. Bradshaw 50th Ohio: Ltc Hamilton S. Gillespie 183rd Ohio: Col George W. Hoge
Third Division      BG James W. Reilly[8]	1st Brigade    BG James W. Reilly    (K-33, W-130, M-70 =233)	12th Kentucky: Ltc Laurence H. Rousseau 16th Kentucky: Ltc John S. White 100th Ohio: Ltc Edwin L. Hayes 104th Ohio: Col Oscar W. Sterl 175th Ohio:[9] Ltc Daniel W. McCoy 8th Tennessee: Cpt James W. Berry
	2nd Brigade    Col John S. Casement    (K-3, W-16, M-0 =19)	65th Illinois: Ltc W. Scott Stewart 65th Indiana: Ltc John W. Hammond 124th Indiana: Col John M. Orr 103rd Ohio:[10] Cpt Henry S. Pickands 5th Tennessee: Maj David G. Bowers
	3rd Brigade    Col Israel N. Stiles    (K-11, W-51, M-21 =83)	112th Illinois: Ltc Emery S. Bond 63rd Indiana: Ltc Daniel Morris 120th Indiana: Col Allen W. Prather 128th Indiana: Ltc Jasper Packard

Cavalry Corps

MG James H. Wilson

Escort:

• 4th U.S. Cavalry: Lt Joseph Hedges

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division      BG Edward M. McCook	1st Brigade    BG John T. Croxton	8th Iowa Cavalry: Col Joseph B. Dorr 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry: Col Robert M. Kelly 2nd Michigan Cavalry: Col Benjamin Smith 1st Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc Calvin M. Dyer
Fifth Division      BG Edward Hatch	1st Brigade    Col Robert R. Stewart	3rd Illinois Cavalry: Ltc Robert H. Carnahan 11th Indiana Cavalry: Ltc Abram Sharra
	2nd Brigade    Col Datus E. Coon	2nd Iowa Cavalry: Maj Charles C. Horton 6th Illinois Cavalry: Ltc John Lynch 7th Illinois Cavalry: Maj John M. Graham 9th Illinois Cavalry: Cpt Joseph W. Harper 12th Tennessee Cavalry: Col George Spalding
Sixth Division      BG Richard W. Johnson	1st Brigade    Col Thomas J. Harrison	16th Illinois Cavalry: Maj Charles H. Beeres 5th Iowa Cavalry: Maj J. Morris Young 7th Ohio Cavalry: Col Israel Garrard
	2nd Brigade    Col James Biddle	14th Illinois Cavalry: Maj Francis M. Davidson 6th Indiana Cavalry: Maj Jacob S. Stephens 8th Michigan Cavalry: Ltc Grover S. Wormer 3rd Tennessee: Maj Benjamin Cunningham

Notes

1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
2. Official Records, Series I, Volume XLV, Part 1, pages 1197-1205
3. Veteran Detachment 27th Illinois attached.
4. Not engaged.
5. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unkyinf3.htm#17th, Dyer's Compendium
6. Schofield was the official corps commander but assigned temporary command of the corps to Cox during the battle.
7. 1st Brigade at Ford and not engaged
8. Reilly temporarily commanded the division during the battle while Cox was assigned to command the corps.
9. Unassigned, attached by Cox to Reilly as a reserve.
10. Guarding wagons at the bridge.

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, 1880–1901.
• Battle of Franklin: Union order of battle (Civil War Trust)