Vicksburg Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Vicksburg of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = Lieutenant
• Sgt = Sergeant

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed

Army of the Tennessee

MG Ulysses S. Grant

Escort

• 4th Illinois Cavalry, Company A: Cpt Embury D. Osband

Engineers

• 1st Battalion Engineer Regiment of the West: Maj William Tweeddale

Acting Inspector General: BG Jeremiah C. Sullivan

IX Corps

MG John Parke

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division      BG Thomas Welsh	1st Brigade    Col Henry Bowman	36th Massachusetts: Ltc John B. Norton 17th Michigan: Ltc Constant Luce 27th Michigan: Col Dorus M. Fox 45th Pennsylvania: Col John I. Curtin
	3rd Brigade    Col Daniel Leasure	2nd Michigan: Col William Humphrey 8th Michigan: Col Frank Graves 20th Michigan: Ltc W. Huntington Smith 79th New York: Col David Morrison 100th Pennsylvania: Ltc Mathew M. Dawson
	Artillery	Battery D, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt George W. Durell
Second Division      BG Robert B. Potter	1st Brigade    Col Simon Goodell Griffin	6th New Hampshire: Ltc Henry H. Pearson 9th New Hampshire: Col Herbert B. Titus 7th Rhode Island: Col Zenas Bliss
	2nd Brigade    BG Edward Ferrero	35th Massachusetts: Col Sumner Carruth 11th New Hampshire: Ltc Moses N. Collins 51st New York: Col Charles W. Le Gendre 51st Pennsylvania: Col John F. Hartranft
	3rd Brigade    Col Benjamin C. Christ	29th Massachusetts: Ltc Joseph H. Barnes 46th New York: Col Joseph Gerhardt 50th Pennsylvania: Ltc Thomas S. Brenholtz
	Artillery	Battery L, 2nd New York Light: Cpt Jacob Roemer
Artillery Reserve	Battery E, 2nd United States: Lt Samuel N. Benjamin

XIII Corps

MG John A. McClernand
MG Edward Ord

Escort

• 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company L: Cpt David R. Sparks

Pioneers

• Kentucky Engineers (Independent Company): Cpt William F. Patterson

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Ninth Division      BG Peter J. Osterhaus	1st Brigade    BG Albert L. Lee (w May 19)    Col James Keigwin	118th Illinois: Col John G. Fonda 49th Indiana: Maj Arthur J. Hawhe, Ltc Joseph H. Thornton 69th Indiana: Col Thomas W. Bennett, Ltc Oran Perry 7th Kentucky: Ltc John Lucas, Col Reuben May 120th Ohio: Col Marcus M. Spiegel
	2nd Brigade    Col Daniel W. Lindsey	54th Indiana: Col Fielding Mansfield 22nd Kentucky: Ltc George W. Monroe 16th Ohio: Cpt Eli W. Botsford, Maj Milton Mills 42nd Ohio: Ltc Don A. Pardee, Col Lionel A. Sheldon 114th Ohio: Col John Cradlebaugh, Ltc John H. Kelly
	Cavalry	2nd Illinois (5 companies): Ltc Daniel B. Bush, Jr. 3rd Illinois (3 companies): Cpt John L. Campbell 6th Missouri (7 companies): Col Clark Wright
	Artillery    Cpt Jacob T. Foster	7th Battery, Michigan Light: Cpt Charles H. Lanphere 1st Battery, Wisconsin Light: Lt Oscar F. Nutting
Tenth Division    BG Andrew J. Smith Escort 4th Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Andrew P. Gallagher	1st Brigade    BG Stephen G. Burbridge	16th Indiana: Col Thomas J. Lucas, Maj James H. Redfield 60th Indiana: Col Richard Owen 67th Indiana: Ltc Theodore E. Buehler 83rd Ohio: Col Frederick W. Moore 96th Ohio: Col Joseph W. Vance 23rd Wisconsin: Col Joshua J. Guppey, Ltc William F. Vilas
	2nd Brigade    Col William J. Landram	77th Illinois: Col David P. Grier 97th Illinois: Col Friend S. Rutherford, Ltc Lewis D. Martin 130th Illinois: Col Nathaniel Niles 19th Kentucky: Ltc John Cowan, Maj Josiah J. Mann 48th Ohio: Ltc Job R. Parker, Col Peter J. Sullivan
	Artillery	Chicago Mercantile Battery, Illinois Light: Cpt Patrick H. White 17th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Ambrose A. Blount, Cpt Charles S. Rice
Twelfth Division      BG Alvin P. Hovey Escort 1st Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Lt James L. Carey	1st Brigade    BG George F. McGinnis	11th Indiana: Ltc William W. Darnall 24th Indiana: Col William T. Spicely 34th Indiana: Col Robert A. Cameron, Maj Robert B. Jones, Col Robert A. Cameron 46th Indiana: Col Thomas H. Bringhurst 29th Wisconsin: Col Charles R. Gill, Ltc William A. Greene
	2nd Brigade    Col James R. Slack	87th Illinois: Col John E. Whiting 47th Indiana: Ltc John A. McLaughlin 24th Iowa: Col Eber C. Byam, Ltc John Q. Wilds 28th Iowa: Col John Connell 56th Ohio: Col William H. Raynor
	Artillery	Battery A, 1st Missouri Light: Cpt George W. Schofield 2nd Battery, Ohio Light: Lt Augustus Beach 16th Battery, Ohio Light: Lt Russell P. Twist
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    Col David Shunk	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	21st Iowa: Ltc Cornelius W. Dunlap, Maj Salue G. Van Anda 22nd Iowa: Col William M. Stone, Ltc Harvey Graham, Maj Joseph B. Atherton, Cpt James Robertson, Cpt Charles N. Lee 23rd Iowa: Col Samuel L. Glasgow 11th Wisconsin: Col Charles L. Harris, Maj Arthur Platt
	Artillery	Battery A, 2nd Illinois Light: Lt Frank B. Fenton, Cpt Peter Davidson 1st Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Martin Klauss

XV Corps

MG William T. Sherman

• Chief-of-Staff: Ltc John Henry Hammond

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division      MG Frederick Steele	1st Brigade    Col Francis H. Manter    Col Bernard G. Farrar	13th Illinois: Col Adam B. Gorgas 27th Missouri: Col Thomas Curly 29th Missouri: Col James Peckham 30th Missouri: Ltc Otto Schadt 31st Missouri: Col Thomas C. Fletcher, Maj Frederick Jaensch, Ltc Samuel P. Simpson 32nd Missouri: Maj Abraham J. Seay
	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, Ltc John F. Cramer 76th Ohio: Ltc William B. Woods
	3rd Brigade    BG John M. Thayer	4th Iowa: Col James A. Williamson, Ltc George Burton 9th Iowa: Maj Don. A. Carpenter, Cpt Frederick S. Washburn, Col David Carskaddon 26th Iowa: Col Milo Smith 30th Iowa: Col Charles H. Abbott, Col William M. G. Terrence
	Artillery	1st Battery, Iowa Light: Cpt Henry H. Griffiths Battery F, 2nd Missouri Light: Cpt Clemens Landgraeber 4th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Louis Hoffmann
	Cavalry	Kane County (Illinois) Independent Company: Lt Thomas J. Beebe 3rd Illinois, Company D: Lt Jonathan Kershner
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	55th Illinois: Col Oscar Malmborg 127th Illinois: Col Hamilton N. Eldridge 83rd Indiana: Col Benjamin J. Spooner 54th Ohio: Ltc Cyrus W. Fisher 57th Ohio: Col Americus V. Rice, Ltc Samuel R. Mott
	3rd Brigade    BG Hugh Boyle Ewing	30th Ohio: Ltc George H. Hildt, Col Theodore Jones 37th Ohio: Ltc Louis von Blessing, Maj Charles Hipp, Col Edward Siber 47th Ohio: Col Augustus C. Parry 4th West Virginia: Col James H. Dayton
	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	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	47th Illinois: Ltc Samuel R. Baker 5th Minnesota: Col Lucius F. Hubbard 11th Missouri: Col Andrew J. Weber, Ltc William L. Barnum 8th Wisconsin: Col George W. Robbins
	3rd Brigade    BG Charles L. Matthies    Col Joseph J. Woods	8th Iowa: Col James L. Geddes 12th Iowa: Col Joseph J. Woods, Ltc Samuel R. Edgington 35th Iowa: Col Sylvester G. Hill
	Artillery    Cpt Nelson T. Spoor	Battery E, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Allen C. Waterhouse 2nd Battery, Iowa Light: Lt Joseph R. Reed
Unattached cavalry	4th Iowa: Ltc Simeon D. Swan

XVI Corps (detachment)

MG Cadwallader C. Washburn

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division      BG William Sooy Smith Escort 7th Illinois Cavalry, Company B: Cpt Henry C. Forbes	1st Brigade    Col John M. Loomis    Col Sanford J. Stoughton	26th Illinois: Maj John B. Harris 90th Illinois: Col Timothy O'Meara 12th Indiana: Col Reuben Williams 100th Indiana: Ltc Albert Heath
	2nd Brigade    Col Stephen G. Hicks	40th Illinois: Maj Hiram W. Hall 103rd Illinois: Col Willard A. Dickerman 15th Michigan: Col John M. Oliver 46th Ohio: Col Charles C. Walcutt
	3rd Brigade    Col Joseph R. Cockerill	97th Indiana: Col Robert F. Catterson 99th Indiana: Col Alexander Fowler 53rd Ohio: Col Wells S. Jones 70th Ohio: Maj William B. Brown
	4th Brigade    Col William W. Sanford	48th Illinois: Ltc Lucien Greathouse 6th Iowa: Col John M. Corse
	Artillery    Cpt William Cogswell	Battery F, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt John T. Cheney Battery I, 1st Illinois Light: Lt William N. Lansing Cogswell's Battery, Illinois Light: Lt Henry G. Eddy 6th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Michael Mueller
Fourth Division      BG Jacob G. Lauman	1st Brigade    Col Isaac C. Pugh	41st Illinois: Ltc John H. Nale 53rd Illinois: Ltc Seth C. Earl 3rd Iowa: Col Aaron Brown 33rd Wisconsin: Col Jonathan B. Moore
	2nd Brigade    Col Cyrus Hall	14th Illinois: Ltc William Cam, Cpt Augustus H. Cornman 15th Illinois: Col George C. Rogers 46th Illinois: Col Benjamin Dornblaser 76th Illinois: Col Samuel T. Busey 53rd Indiana: Col Walter Q. Gresham
	3rd Brigade    Col George E. Bryant    Col Amory K. Johnson	28th Illinois: Maj Hinman Rhodes 32nd Illinois: Col John Logan, Ltc William Hunter 12th Wisconsin: Ltc De Witt C. Poole, Col George E. Bryant
	Cavalry	15th Illinois, Companies F and I: Maj James G. Wilson
	Artillery.    Cpt George C. Gumbart	Battery E, 2nd Illinois Light: Lt George Lewis Nispel Battery K, 2nd Illinois Light: Cpt Benjamin F. Rodgers 5th Battery, Ohio Light: Lt Anthony B. Burton 7th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Silas A. Burnap 15th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Edward Spear, Jr.
Provisional Division      BG Nathan Kimball	Engelmann's Brigade    Col Adolph Engelmann	43rd Illinois: Ltc Adolph Dengler 61st Illinois: Maj Simon P. Ohr 106th Illinois: Maj John M. Hurt 12th Michigan: Col William H. Graves
	Richmond's Brigade    Col Jonathan Richmond	18th Illinois: Col Daniel H. Brush 54th Illinois: Col Greenville M. Mitchell 126th Illinois: Maj William W. Wilshire 22nd Ohio: Col Oliver Wood
	Montgomery's Brigade    Col Milton Montgomery	40th Iowa: Col John A. Garrett 3rd Minnesota: Col Chauncey W. Griggs 25th Wisconsin: Ltc Samuel J. Nasmith 27th Wisconsin: Col Conrad Krez

XVII Corps

MG James B. McPherson

Escort

• 4th Company Ohio Cavalry: Cpt John S. Foster

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    BG Mortimer D. Leggett	20th Illinois: Maj Daniel Bradley 31st Illinois: Ltc John D. Rees, Maj Robert N. Pearson 45th Illinois: Col Jasper A. Maltby 124th Illinois: Col Thomas J. Sloan 23rd Indiana: Ltc William P.
	2nd Brigade    BG Mortimer D. Leggett    Col Manning F. Force	30th Illinois: Ltc Warren Shedd 20th Ohio: Col Manning F. Force, Cpt Francis M. Shaklee 68th Ohio: Col Robert K. Scott 78th Ohio: Ltc Greenberry F. Wiles
	3rd Brigade    BG John Dunlap Stevenson	8th Illinois: Ltc Robert H. Sturgess 17th Illinois: Ltc Francis M. Smith 81st Illinois: Col James J. Dollins, Col Franklin Campbell 7th Missouri: Cpt Robert Buchanan, Cpt William B. Collins 32nd Ohio: Col Benjamin F. Potts
	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: 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	1st Kansas: Col William Y. Roberts 16th Wisconsin: Col Benjamin Allen
	2nd Brigade    BG Thomas E.G. Ransom	11th Illinois: Ltc Garrett Nevins, Ltc James H. Coates 72nd Illinois: Col Frederick A. Starring 95th Illinois: Col Thomas W. Humphrey, Ltc Leander Blanden, Col Thomas W. Humphrey 14th Wisconsin: Col Lyman M. Ward 17th Wisconsin: Ltc Thomas McMahon, Col Adam G. Malloy
	3rd Brigade    Col William Hall    Col Alexander Chambers	11th Iowa: Ltc John C. Abercrombie, Col William Hall 13th Iowa: Col John Shane 15th Iowa: Col William W. Belknap 16th Iowa: Ltc Addison H. Sanders
	Artillery    Maj Thomas D. Maurice	Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light: Cpt John Wesley Powell 1st Battery, Minnesota Light: Lt Henry Hurter, Cpt William Z. Clayton Battery C, 1st Missouri Light: Cpt Charles Mann 10th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Hamilton Berlace White, Lt William L. Newcomb
Seventh Division      BG Isaac Quinby      BG John E. Smith Escort 4th Missouri Cavalry, Company F: Lt Alexander Mueller	1st Brigade    Col John B. Sanborn	48th Indiana: Col Norman Eddy 59th Indiana: Col Jesse I. Alexander 4th Minnesota: Ltc John Eaton Tourtellotte 18th Wisconsin: Col Gabriel Bouck
	2nd Brigade    Col Samuel A. Holmes    Col Green B. Raum	56th Illinois: Col Green B. Raum, Cpt Pinckney J. Welsh 17th Iowa: Col David B. Hillis, Col Clark R. Wever, Maj John F. Walden 10th Missouri: Maj Francis C. Deimling 24th Missouri, Company E: Lt Daniel Driscoll 80th Ohio: Col Matthias H. Bartilson, Maj Pren Metham
	3rd Brigade    Col George B. Boomer (k) [May 22]    Col Holden Putnam    BG Charles L. Matthies	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	Battery M, 1st Missouri Light: Lt Julius W. MacMurray 11th Battery, Ohio Light: Lt Fletcher E. Armstrong 6th Battery, Wisconsin Light: Cpt Henry Dillon, Lt Samuel F. Clark 12th Battery, Wisconsin Light: Cpt William Zickerick
Herron's Division      MG Francis J. Herron	1st Brigade    BG William Vandever	37th Illinois: Col John C. Black 26th Indiana: Col John G. Clark 20th Iowa: Col William McEntyre Dye 34th Iowa: Col George W. Clark 38th Iowa: Col D. Henry Hughes Battery E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Nelson Cole Battery F, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Joseph Foust
	2nd Brigade    BG William W. Orme	94th Illinois: Col John McNulta 19th Iowa: Ltc Daniel Kent 20th Wisconsin: Col Henry Bertram Battery B, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Martin Welfley
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	8th Louisiana: Col Hiram Scofield (also commanded Post of Milliken's Bend, La) 9th Louisiana: Col Hermann Lieb, Maj Erastus N. Owen, Ltc Charles J. Paine 11th Louisiana: Col Edwin W. Chamberlain, Ltc Cyrus Sears 13th Louisiana: Lt H. Knoll 1st Mississippi: Ltc A. Watson Webber 3rd Mississippi: Col Richard H. Ballinger
Post of Goodrich's Landing, La.    Col William F. Wood	1st Arkansas: Ltc James W. Campbell 10th Louisiana: Ltc Frederick M. Crandall

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