Vicksburg Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Siege of Vicksburg of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign.[2]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Army of the Tennessee

MG Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding

General Staff:

General Headquarters:


IX Corps

MG John Parke[4]

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Thomas Welsh

1st Brigade


   Col Henry Bowman

3rd Brigade


   Col Daniel Leasure

Artillery
  • Battery D, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt George W. Durell[5]

Second Division


     BG Robert B. Potter

1st Brigade


   Col Simon Goodell Griffin

2nd Brigade


   BG Edward Ferrero

3rd Brigade


   Col Benjamin C. Christ

Artillery
  • Battery L, 2nd New York Light: Cpt Jacob Roemer
Artillery Reserve

XIII Corps

MG John A. McClernand[6]
MG Edward Ord

Escort

Pioneers

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Ninth Division


     BG Peter J. Osterhaus

1st Brigade


   BG Albert L. Lee (w May 19)
   Col James Keigwin[7]

2nd Brigade


   Col Daniel W. Lindsey

Cavalry
Artillery


   Cpt Jacob T. Foster

Tenth Division


   BG Andrew J. Smith


Escort

  • 4th Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Andrew P. Gallagher
1st Brigade


   BG Stephen G. Burbridge

2nd Brigade


   Col William J. Landram

Artillery

Twelfth Division


     BG Alvin P. Hovey


Escort

  • 1st Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Lt James L. Carey
1st Brigade


   BG George F. McGinnis

2nd Brigade


   Col James R. Slack

Artillery

Fourteenth Division


     BG Eugene A. Carr


Escort

  • 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company G: Cpt Enos McPhail, Cpt Samuel S. Marrett
1st Brigade


   BG William P. Benton
   Col Henry D. Washburn[8]
   Col David Shunk[9]

  • 33rd Illinois: Col Charles E. Lippincott
  • 99th Illinois: Col George W. K. Bailey, Ltc Lemuel Parke
  • 8th Indiana: Col David Shunk, Maj Thomas J. Brady
  • 18th Indiana: Col Henry D. Washburn, Cpt Jonathan H. Williams
  • 1st United States (siege guns): Maj Maurice Maloney
2nd Brigade


   BG Michael K. Lawler

Artillery

XV Corps

MG William T. Sherman

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     MG Frederick Steele

1st Brigade


   Col Francis H. Manter
   Col Bernard G. Farrar[10]

2nd Brigade


   Col Charles R. Woods

  • 25th Iowa: Col George A. Stone
  • 31st Iowa: Col William Smyth, Maj Theodore Stimming
  • 3rd Missouri: Ltc Theodore Meumann
  • 12th Missouri: Col Hugo Wangelin
  • 17th Missouri: Col Francis Hassendeubel (mw July 2), Ltc John F. Cramer
  • 76th Ohio: Ltc William B. Woods
3rd Brigade


   BG John M. Thayer

Artillery[11]
  • 1st Battery, Iowa Light: Cpt Henry H. Griffiths
  • Battery F, 2nd Missouri Light: Cpt Clemens Landgraeber
  • 4th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Louis Hoffmann
Cavalry

Second Division


     MG Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

1st Brigade


   Col Giles A. Smith

  • 113th Illinois: Col George B. Hoge, Ltc John W. Paddock
  • 116th Illinois: Col Nathan W. Tupper
  • 6th Missouri: Ltc Ira Boutell, Col James H. Blood
  • 8th Missouri: Ltc David C. Coleman
  • 13th United States, 1st Battalion: Cpt Edward C. Washington, Cpt Charles Ewing, Cpt Charles C. Smith
2nd Brigade


   Col Thomas Kilby Smith
   BG Joseph A. J. Lightburn[12]

3rd Brigade


   BG Hugh Boyle Ewing

Artillery
  • Battery A, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Peter P. Wood
  • Battery B, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Samuel E. Barrett, Lt Israel P. Rumsey
  • Battery H, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Levi W. Hart
  • 8th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt James F. Putnam
Cavalry
  • Thielemann's (Illinois) Battalion, Companies A and B: Cpt Milo Thielemann
  • 10th Missouri, Company C: Cpt Daniel W. Ballou, Lt Benjamin Joel

Third Division


     BG James M. Tuttle

1st Brigade


   BG Ralph P. Buckland
   Col William L. McMillen[13]

  • 114th Illinois: Col James W. Judy
  • 93rd Indiana: Col De Witt C. Thomas
  • 72nd Ohio: Ltc Le Roy Crockett, Maj Charles G. Eaton
  • 95th Ohio: Col William L. McMillen, Ltc Jefferson Brumback
2nd Brigade


   BG Joseph A. Mower

3rd Brigade


   BG Charles L. Matthies
   Col Joseph J. Woods[14]

Artillery


   Cpt Nelson T. Spoor

  • Battery E, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Allen C. Waterhouse
  • 2nd Battery, Iowa Light: Lt Joseph R. Reed
Unattached cavalry

XVI Corps (detachment)

MG Cadwallader C. Washburn

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division[15]


     BG William Sooy Smith


Escort

1st Brigade


   Col John M. Loomis
   Col Sanford J. Stoughton

2nd Brigade


   Col Stephen G. Hicks

3rd Brigade


   Col Joseph R. Cockerill

4th Brigade


   Col William W. Sanford

Artillery


   Cpt William Cogswell

Fourth Division[16]


     BG Jacob G. Lauman

1st Brigade


   Col Isaac C. Pugh

2nd Brigade


   Col Cyrus Hall

3rd Brigade


   Col George E. Bryant
   Col Amory K. Johnson[18]

Cavalry
Artillery.


   Cpt George C. Gumbart

Provisional Division[19]


     BG Nathan Kimball

Engelmann's Brigade


   Col Adolph Engelmann

Richmond's Brigade


   Col Jonathan Richmond

Montgomery's Brigade


   Col Milton Montgomery

XVII Corps

MG James B. McPherson

Escort

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Third Division


     MG John A. Logan


Escort

  • 2nd Illinois Cavalry, Company A: Lt William B. Cummins
1st Brigade


   BG John E. Smith[20]
   BG Mortimer D. Leggett

2nd Brigade


   BG Mortimer D. Leggett
   Col Manning F. Force[21]

3rd Brigade


   BG John Dunlap Stevenson

Artillery


   Maj Charles J. Stolbrand

  • Battery D, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Henry A. Rogers, Lt George J. Wood, Cpt Frederick Sparrestrom
  • Battery G, 2nd Illinois Light:[22] Cpt Frederick Sparrestrom, Lt John W. Lowell
  • Battery L, 2nd Illinois Light: Cpt William H. Bolton
  • 8th Battery, Michigan Light: Cpt Samuel De Golyer, Lt Theodore W. Lockwood
  • 3rd Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt William S. Williams

Sixth Division


     BG John McArthur


Escort

  • 11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G: Lt Stephen S. Tripp
1st Brigade
(Post of Lake Providence)


   BG Hugh T. Reid

2nd Brigade


   BG Thomas E.G. Ransom

3rd Brigade


   Col William Hall
   Col Alexander Chambers[23]

Artillery


   Maj Thomas D. Maurice

Seventh Division


     BG Isaac Quinby
     BG John E. Smith[24]


Escort

1st Brigade


   Col John B. Sanborn

2nd Brigade


   Col Samuel A. Holmes
   Col Green B. Raum[25]

3rd Brigade


   Col George B. Boomer (k) [May 22]
   Col Holden Putnam[26]
   BG Charles L. Matthies[27]

  • 93rd Illinois: Col Holden Putnam, Ltc Nicholas C. Buswell, Col Holden Putnam
  • 5th Iowa: Ltc Ezekiel S. Sampson, Col Jabez Banbury
  • 10th Iowa: Col William E. Small
  • 26th Missouri: Maj Charles F. Brown (k) [May 16]; Cpt Benjamin D. Dean
Artillery.


   Cpt Frank C. Sands
   Cpt Henry Dillon[28]

Herron's Division[30]


     MG Francis J. Herron

1st Brigade


   BG William Vandever

2nd Brigade


   BG William W. Orme

Unattached cavalry


   Col Cyrus Bussey

  • 5th Illinois Cavalry: Maj Thomas A. Apperson
  • 3rd Iowa: Maj Oliver H. P. Scott
  • 2nd Wisconsin: Col Thomas Stephens

District of Northeast Louisiana

BG Elias S. Dennis

Brigades Regiments and batteries
Detached Brigade


   Col George W. Neeley

  • 63rd Illinois: Col Joseph B. McCown
  • 108th Illinois: Ltc Charles Turner
  • 120th Illinois: Col George W. McKeaig
  • 131st Illinois: Col George W. Neeley, Maj Joseph L. Purvis
  • 10th Illinois Cavalry, Companies A, D, G, and K: Maj Elvis P. Shaw
African Brigade


   Col Isaac F. Shepard

Post of Goodrich's Landing, La.


   Col William F. Wood

  • 1st Arkansas: Ltc James W. Campbell
  • 10th Louisiana: Ltc Frederick M. Crandall


Notes

  1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 148-158
  3. The judge advocate general declared this unit as a special contingent of the army, however Grant later wrote "the Marine Brigade is not subject to my orders"
  4. IX Corps: joined from the Department of the Ohio, June 14 to 17.
  5. Transferred from Second Division June 25.
  6. Relieved June 19.
  7. Assumed command May 19.
  8. Assumed command May 31.
  9. Assumed command June 27.
  10. Assumed command June 13.
  11. Major Ezra Taylor, chief of the corps artillery.
  12. Assumed command May 24.
  13. Assumed command June 22.
  14. Assumed command June 1.
  15. Joined from La Grange, Tenn., June 12.
  16. Joined from Memphis, Tenn., May 13 to 20. Temporarily attached to the Thirteenth Corps.
  17. Transferred to Third Brigade June 22.
  18. Assumed command June 9.
  19. Composed of the First and Second Brigades of the Third Division and four regiments from the Sixth Division. Joined from Memphis, Tenn., June 3.
  20. transferred to 7th Division, XVII Corps on June 3
  21. Assumed command June 3.
  22. By the collision of two steamers May 1, 1863, near Grand Gulf, MISS., this battery lost all its guns, and was sent to Memphis to refit. It rejoined the army at Vicksburg June 30. Meantime Captain Sparrestrom had been assigned, June 16, to the command of Battery D, first Illinois Light Artillery.
  23. Assumed command June 6.
  24. Assumed command June 3.
  25. Assumed command June 10.
  26. Assumed command May 22.
  27. Assumed command June 2.
  28. Assumed command June 6.
  29. Temporarily attached to Kimball's Division, XVI Corps, June 6.
  30. Joined from the Department of the Missouri June 11.

References


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