Port Hudson Union order of battle

The following is the organization of the Union forces engaged at the Siege of Port Hudson, during the American Civil War in 1863. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Union forces

Army of the Gulf

XIX Corps

MG Nathaniel P. Banks

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division
     MG Christopher C. Augur

1st Brigade


   Col Edward P. Chapin (k)
   Col Charles J. Paine[3]

2nd Brigade


   BG Godfrey Weitzel[5]
   Col Stephen Thomas[6][7]

3rd Brigade


   Col Nathan Dudley

Artillery
  • 1st Battery, Indiana Heavy Artillery: Col John A. Keith
  • 1st Battery, Maine Light Artillery: Lt John E. Morton
  • 6th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery: Lt John F. Phelps
  • 12th Massachusetts Light Artillery (section): Lt Edwin M. Chamberlin
  • 18th Battery, New York Light Artillery: Cpt Albert G. Mack
  • Battery A, 1st U.S. Light Artillery: Cpt Edmund C. Bainbridge
  • Battery G, 5th U.S. Artillery: Lt Jacob B. Rawles

2nd Division
     BG Thomas W. Sherman (w)
     BG George L. Andrews[8]
     BG Frank S. Nickerson[9]
     BG William Dwight[10]

1st Brigade


   BG Neal S. Dow (w&c)[11]
   Col David S. Cowles (k)[12]
   Col Thomas S. Clark[13]

2nd Brigade[15]


   Col Alpha B. Farr
   Col Thomas W. Cahill[16]
   Col Lewis Benedict[17][18]

3rd Brigade


   BG Frank S. Nickerson

  • 14th Maine: Col Thomas W. Porter
  • 24th Maine: Col George Marston Atwood
  • 28th Maine: Col Ephraim W. Woodman
  • 165th New York: Ltc Abel Smith Jr. (mw)
  • 175th New York: Col Michael K. Bryan (k)
  • 177th New York: Col Ira W. Ainsworth
Artillery

3rd Division
     BG Halbert E. Paine (w)
     Col Hawkes Fearing[19]

1st Brigade


   Col Timothy Ingraham
   Col Samuel P. Ferris[20][21]

2nd Brigade


   Col Hawkes Fearing
   Maj John H. Alcot[23]

  • 8th New Hampshire: Ltc Oliver W. Lull (k, May 27)
  • 133rd New York: Col Leonard D. H. Currie
  • 173rd New York: Maj A. Power Gallway
  • 4th Wisconsin: Col Sidney A. Bean
3rd Brigade


   Col Oliver P. Gooding

Artillery
  • 4th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery: Lt Frederick W. Reinhard
  • Battery F, 1st U.S. Light Artillery: Cpt Richard C. Duryea
  • 2nd Battery, Vermont Light Artillery: Cpt Pythagoras E. Holcomb

4th Division
     BG Cuvier Grover

1st Brigade


   BG William Dwight
   Col Joseph S. Morgan[24]

2nd Brigade


   Col William K. Kimball

3rd Brigade


   Col Henry W. Birge

Artillery


   Cpt Henry W. Closson

  • 2nd Battery Massachusetts Light Artillery: Cpt Ormand F. Nims
  • Battery L, 1st U.S. Light Artillery: Cpt Henry W. Closson
  • Battery C, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery: Lt Theodore Bradley

United States Colored Troops

Corps D'Afrique


   BG Daniel Ullman

Native Guard

Cavalry

Grierson's Brigade


   Col Benjamin H. Grierson

West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Rear Admiral David G. Farragut

Class Vessel

Steam frigate

USS Hartford

   Cpt James S. Palmer

USS Richmond

   Cpt James Alden

USS Mississippi

   Cpt Melancton Smith

USS Monongahela

   Cpt James P. McKinstry

Gunboat

USS Albatross

   Lt Commander John E. Hart

USS Genesee

   Commander William H. Macomb

USS Kineo

   Lt Commander John Watters

Ironclad

USS Essex

   Commander Charles H. B. Caldwell

Notes

  1. assigned to command the 2nd Division on 27 May
  2. from 27 May
  3. from 27 May
  4. mustered out 25 August
  5. Weitzel commanded the "Right Flank" of the Union forces during the siege.
  6. Eicher p.528
  7. from 14 May
  8. from 27 May
  9. from 28 May
  10. from 30 May
  11. Dow was wounded 27 May and was taken prisoner by Confederate cavalry in July while convalescing on a nearby plantation.
  12. from 27 May
  13. from 27 May
  14. mustered out 17 August
  15. 19th Corps Organization
  16. from 12 May
  17. temporarily on 14 June
  18. At the time Benedict assumed command the 2nd Brigade consisted of 175th New York, 28th Maine, 48th Massachusetts, 162nd New York; Benedict, Henry Marvin (1866). A memorial of Brevet Brigadier General Lewis Benedict, colonel of 162d regiment N.Y.V.I., who fell in battle at Pleasant Hill, La., April 9, 1864. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell. p. 55. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  19. from 14 June
  20. Union Land Forces at Port Hudson - June 30, 1863
  21. from 14 June
  22. mustered out 17 August
  23. from 14 June
  24. from 30 May
  25. mustered out 30 September
  26. mustered out 25 August

References

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