Second Battle of Charleston Harbor order of battle: Union

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

The following lists contain the commanders and units^[1] involved in the operations against Charleston Harbor from July to September 1863 which included the major engagements of First Fort Wagner, Grimball's Landing, Second Fort Wagner and the Siege of Charleston Harbor.

Abbreviations used

Military ranks

MG = Major General
BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain
Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other

Initial Operations (July 6–18, 1863)

X Corps (Department of the South)

BG Quincy A. Gillmore

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division BG Alfred H. Terry^[2] (Engaged at James Island)	1st Brigade BG Thomas G. Stevenson	10th Connecticut 97th Pennsylvania 24th Massachusetts 4th New Hampshire
	2nd Brigade Col William W. H. Davis	104th Pennsylvania 52nd Pennsylvania 56th New York 100th New York
	3rd Brigade Col James Montgomery	54th Massachusetts 2nd South Carolina
2nd Division BG Truman Seymour^[3] (Engaged at First Fort Wagner)	1st Brigade BG Israel Vogdes	85th Pennsylvania 39th Illinois 62nd Ohio 67th Ohio 7th New Hampshire Independent Battalion of New York Volunteers
	2nd Brigade BG George Crockett Strong	7th Connecticut 3rd New Hampshire 76th Pennsylvania 9th Maine

Fort Wagner (July 18, 1863)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Attacking Column^[4] BG Truman Seymour (w)	Strong's Brigade BG George C. Strong (mw)	54th Massachusetts: Col Robert G. Shaw (k) 6th Connecticut: Col John Lyman Chatfield (mw) 48th New York 3rd New Hampshire 9th Maine 76th Pennsylvania
	Putnam's Brigade Col Haldimand S. Putnam (k)	7th New Hampshire 100th New York 62nd Ohio 67th Ohio
	Stevenson's Brigade^[5] BG Thomas G. Stevenson	24th Massachusetts 10th Connecticut 97th Pennsylvania 2nd South Carolina

Siege Operations (July 18-September 7, 1863)

X Corps, Department of the South (July-August)

BG Quincy A. Gillmore^[6]

Chief of Staff and Artillery: Col John Wesley Turner^[7]
Engineers: Col Edward W. Serrell
Medical Director: Ltc Augustus C. Hamlin

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Morris Island BG Alfred H. Terry	1st Brigade BG Israel Vogdes until 1 Aug^[8] Col Henry R. Guss	7th Connecticut (detachment): Cpt Sylvester Gray 9th Maine: Ltc Zina H. Robinson 3rd New Hampshire: Cpt James F. Randlett 4th New Hampshire: Col Louis Bell 76th Pennsylvania: Cpt John S. Littell
	2nd Brigade Col Joshua B. Howell	39th Illinois: Col Thomas O. Osborn 62nd Ohio: Col Francis Bates Pond 67th Ohio: Maj Lewis Butler 85th Pennsylvania: Ltc Henry A. Purviance 2nd South Carolina: Col James Montgomery
	3rd Brigade BG Thomas G. Stevenson	10th Connecticut: Maj Edwin S. Greeley 24th Massachusetts: Col Francis A. Osborn 54th Massachusetts: Col Milton S. Littlefield 7th New Hampshire: Ltc Joseph C. Abbott 100th New York: Col George B. Dandy 97th Pennsylvania: Col Henry R. Guss
	Artillery Maj James E. Bailey	3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery A 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery B 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery C 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery D 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery H 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery I 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery M 3rd New York Artillery, Battery B: Lt Edward A. Wildt 3rd New York Artillery, Battery F: Lt Paul Birchmeyer 48th New York Infantry, detachment serving as artillery: Maj Dudley Strickland 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery B: Lt Guy V. Henry 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery C: Lt James E. Wilson 3rd U.S. Artillery, Battery E: Lt John R. Myrick 11th Maine Infantry, detachment serving as artillery: Lt Charles Sellmer
	Cavalry	1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Company I: Lt Charles V. Holt
	Engineers	1st New York Engineers: Col Edward W. Serrell, Maj Brooks
	Marines	Marine Battalion: Maj Jacob Zeilin^[9]
Folly Island Col William W. H. Davis	Davis' Brigade Col W.W.H. Davis	56th New York: Col Charles H. Van Wyck 52nd New York: Col John C. Dodge 104th Pennsylvania: Ltc Thompson D. Hart
	Not brigaded	47th New York: Ltc Albert B. Nicholson Independent New York Battalion: Ltc Simon Levy
	Artillery	1st Connecticut Battery: Cpt Alfred P. Rockwell 3rd New York Artillery, Battery B: Cpt James Ashcroft

X Corps, Department of the South (August-September)

MG Quincy A. Gillmore^[10]

Chief of Staff and Artillery: Col John Wesley Turner
Engineers: Col Edward W. Serrell
Medical Director: Ltc Augustus C. Hamlin

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Morris Island^[11] BG Alfred H. Terry	1st Brigade Col Henry R. Guss	9th Maine: Ltc Zina H. Robinson 3rd New Hampshire: Cpt James F. Randlett 4th New Hampshire: Col Louis Bell 97th Pennsylvania: Maj Galusha Pennypacker
	2nd Brigade Col Joshua B. Howell	39th Illinois: Col Thomas O. Osborn 62nd Ohio: Col Francis Bates Pond 67th Ohio: Maj Lewis Butler 85th Pennsylvania: Maj Edward Campbell
	3rd Brigade BG Thomas G. Stevenson	7th Connecticut: Col Joseph R. Hawley 10th Connecticut: Maj Edwin S. Greeley 24th Massachusetts: Col Francis A. Osborn 7th New Hampshire: Ltc Joseph C. Abbott 100th New York: Col George B. Dandy
	4th Brigade Col James Montgomery	54th Massachusetts: Col Milton S. Littlefield 2nd South Carolina: Col William W. Marple 3rd U.S.C.T.: Col Benjamin C. Tilghman
	5th Brigade^[12] Col William W. H. Davis	47th New York: Maj Christopher R. MacDonald 52nd Pennsylvania: Ltc Henry Hoyt 104th Pennsylvania: Maj Edward L. Rodgers Independent New York Battalion: Cpt Michael Schmitt
	Artillery	3rd New York Artillery, Battery B: Cpt James E. Ashcroft 3rd New York Artillery, Battery F: Lt Paul Birchmeyer 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery B: Cpt Albert E. Greene 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery C: Cpt Charles R. Brayton 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery D: Cpt Richard G. Shaw 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery H: Cpt Augustus Colwell 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery I: Cpt Charles G. Strahan 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Battery M: Cpt Joseph J. Comstock 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery B: Lt Guy V. Henry 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery C (detachment): Lt James W. Wilson 3rd U.S. Artillery, Battery E: Lt John R. Myrick 11th Maine Infantry (detachment serving as artillery): Lt Charles Sellmer
	Unassigned	1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Company I: Lt Charles V. Holt Marine Battalion: Cpt Edward M. Reynolds
	Engineers^[13]	1st New York Engineers: Col Edward W. Serrell
North End of Folly Island^[14] BG Israel Vogdes	1st Brigade BG Robert S. Foster	13th Indiana: Col Cyrus J. Dobbs 112th New York: Col Jeremiah C. Drake 169th New York: Col Clarence Buell
	2nd Brigade Col Samuel M. Alford	3rd New York: Ltc Eldridge G. Floyd 89th New York: Col Harrison S. Fairchild 103rd New York: Col Wilhelm Heine 117th New York: Col Alvin White
	3rd "African" Brigade BG Edward A. Wild	55th Massachusetts: Col Norwood Penrose Hallowell 1st North Carolina: Col James Chaplin Beecher 2nd North Carolina (detachment): Col Alonzo G. Draper 3rd North Carolina (one company): Cpt John Wilder
	Artillery	1st Connecticut Battery: Cpt Alfred P. Rockwell
South End of Folly Island^[15] BG George H. Gordon	1st Brigade BG Alexander Schimmelfennig	41st New York: Ltc Detleo von Einsiedel 54th New York: Cpt Clemens Knipschild 127th New York: Col Stewart L. Woodford 142nd New York: Col Newton Martin Curtis 107th Ohio: Cpt William Smith 74th Pennsylvania: Cpt Henry Krauseneck
South End of Folly Island^[15] BG George H. Gordon	2nd Brigade BG Adelbert Ames	17th Connecticut: Col William H. Noble 40th Massachusetts: Ltc Joseph A. Dalton 144th New York: Col David E. Gregory 157th New York: Maj James C. Carmichael 25th Ohio: Cpt Nathaniel Haughton 75th Ohio: Col Andrew L. Harris

Naval Blockade

South Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren

Class	Vessel
Ironclads	U.S.S. Montauk
	U.S.S. Nahant
	U.S.S. Catskill
	U.S.S. Passaic
	U.S.S. Patapsco
	U.S.S. New Ironsides
Gunboats	U.S.S. Canandaigua
	U.S.S. Mahaska
	U.S.S. Ottawa
	U.S.S. Wissahickon
	U.S.S. Dai Ching
	U.S.S. Lodona
	U.S.S. Seneca
U.S. Marines	Marine Battalion: Maj Jacob Zeilen^[16]

Notes

^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 15: Special Orders No. 399, Hdqrs. Dept. Of The South, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., July 6, 1863
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 16: Special Orders No. 399, Hdqrs. Dept. Of The South, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., July 6, 1863
^ Wise p. 232-233
^ In reserve but did not enter action, (See: Second Fort Wagner and Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 1, page 210: Return of Casualties in the Union forces)
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 33: Troops in the Department of the South, July 31, 1863
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 1, page 277:: In addition to being chief of staff, Turner was named chief of artillery on July 26, 1863
^ Eicher p. 546
^ Attached to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in August 1863 (Eicher p.586)
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 74:: Troops in the Department of the South, August 31, 1863
^ Wise p. 238
^ Davis' Brigade served as an independent brigade from 1-30 August. Attached to Terry's Division as the 5th Brigade on 30 August (Eicher p.203)
^ Gen Gillmore also served as chief of engineers
^ Regiments were transferred from the Department of Virginia and North Carolina between 29 July-9 August, 1863 (Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 75). Vogdes assumed command of the division on 16 August (Eicher p.546)
^ Formerly 1st Division, XII Corps, Army of the Potomac. Assigned to the Department of the South 16 August (Eicher p.259)
^ Eicher p.586

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.
Eicher, John H., & Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
Wise, Stephen R., Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863, University of South Carolina Press, 1994

[1] Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.

[2] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 15: Special Orders No. 399, Hdqrs. Dept. Of The South, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., July 6, 1863

[3] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 16: Special Orders No. 399, Hdqrs. Dept. Of The South, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., July 6, 1863

[4] Wise p. 232-233

[5] In reserve but did not enter action, (See: Second Fort Wagner and Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 1, page 210: Return of Casualties in the Union forces)

[6] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 33: Troops in the Department of the South, July 31, 1863

[7] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 1, page 277:: In addition to being chief of staff, Turner was named chief of artillery on July 26, 1863

[8] Eicher p. 546

[9] Attached to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in August 1863 (Eicher p.586)

[10] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 74:: Troops in the Department of the South, August 31, 1863

[11] Wise p. 238

[12] Davis' Brigade served as an independent brigade from 1-30 August. Attached to Terry's Division as the 5th Brigade on 30 August (Eicher p.203)

[13] Gen Gillmore also served as chief of engineers

[14] Regiments were transferred from the Department of Virginia and North Carolina between 29 July-9 August, 1863 (Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVIII, Part 2, page 75). Vogdes assumed command of the division on 16 August (Eicher p.546)

[15] Formerly 1st Division, XII Corps, Army of the Potomac. Assigned to the Department of the South 16 August (Eicher p.259)

[16] Eicher p.586

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