Fredericksburg Union order of battle

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

Abbreviations used

Military ranks

Other


Army of the Potomac

MG Ambrose Burnside, Commanding

Chief of Staff: MG John Parke
Chief of Artillery: BG Henry Jackson Hunt
Inspector General: BG Delos B. Sackett

General Headquarters units

Escort:


Provost Guard: BG Marsena R. Patrick

  • Sturgis (Illinois) Rifles: Cpt James Steel
  • 22nd New Jersey
  • 29th New Jersey
  • 30th New Jersey
  • 31st New Jersey
  • 9th New York Infantry, Company G: Cpt Charles Child
  • 93rd New York Infantry: Col John S. Crocker
  • 147th New York
  • 137th Pennsylvania
  • 2nd U.S. Cavalry: Maj Charles J. Whiting
  • 8th U.S. Infantry (5 companies): Cpt Royal T. Frank


Volunteer Engineer Brigade: BG Daniel Phineas Woodbury


Artillery Reserve: Ltc William Hays


Unattached Artillery: Maj Thomas S. Trumbull

  • Battery B, 1st Connecticut Heavy: Cpt Albert F. Brooker
  • Battery M, 1st Connecticut Heavy: Cpt Franklin A. Pratt


Right Grand Division

MG Edwin Vose Sumner

II Corps

MG Darius N. Couch

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     MG Winfield Scott Hancock

1st Brigade


   BG John C. Caldwell (w)
   Col George W. Von Schack

2nd Brigade


   BG Thomas F. Meagher

  • 28th Massachusetts: Col Richard Byrnes
  • 63rd New York: Ltc Richard C. Bentley (w), Maj Joseph O'Neill (w), Cpt Patrick J. Condon
  • 69th New York: Col Robert Nugent (w), Cpt James Saunders
  • 88th New York: Col Patrick Kelly
  • 116th Pennsylvania: Col Dennis Heenan (w), Ltc St. Clair Augustine Mulholland (w), Lt Francis T. Quinlan
3rd Brigade


   Col Samuel K. Zook

  • 27th Connecticut: Col Richard S. Bostwick
  • 2nd Delaware: Col William P. Bailey (w)
  • 52nd New York: Col Paul Frank
  • 57th New York: Ltc Alford B. Chapman (w), Maj N. Garrow Throop (mw), Cpt James W. Britt
  • 66th New York: Ltc James H. Bull (k), Cpt Julius Wehle (k), Cpt John S. Hammell (w), Lt James G. Derrickson
  • 53rd Pennsylvania: Col John R. Brooke
Artillery

Second Division


     MG Oliver O. Howard

1st Brigade


   BG Alfred Sully

2nd Brigade


   Col Joshua T. Owen

  • 69th Pennsylvania: Ltc Dennis O'Kane
  • 71st Pennsylvania: Ltc John Markoe
  • 72nd Pennsylvania: Col DeWitt C. Baxter
  • 106th Pennsylvania: Col Turner G. Morehead
3rd Brigade


   Col Norman J. Hall (w)
   Col William R. Lee

  • 19th Massachusetts: Cpt H. G. O. Weymouth (w)
  • 20th Massachusetts: Cpt George N. Macy
  • 7th Michigan: Ltc Henry Baxter (w), Maj Thomas J. Hunt
  • 42nd New York: Ltc George N. Bomford
  • 59th New York: Ltc William Northedge
  • 127th Pennsylvania:[3] Col William W. Jennings
Artillery
  • Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light: Cpt William A. Arnold
  • Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light: Cpt John G. Hazard

Third Division


     MG William H. French

1st Brigade


   BG Nathan Kimball (w)
   Col John S. Mason

  • 14th Indiana: Maj Elijah H. C. Cavins
  • 24th New Jersey: Col William B. Robertson
  • 28th New Jersey: Col Moses N. Wisewell (w), Ltc E. A. L. Roberts
  • 4th Ohio: Col John S. Mason, Ltc James H. Godman (w), Cpt Gordon A. Stewart
  • 8th Ohio: Ltc Franklin Sawyer
  • 7th West Virginia: Col Joseph Snider (w), Ltc Jonathan H. Lockwood
2nd Brigade


   Col Oliver H. Palmer

  • 14th Connecticut: Ltc Sanford H. Perkins (w), Cpt Samuel H. Davis
  • 108th New York: Ltc Charles J. Powers
  • 130th Pennsylvania: Col Henry I. Zinn (k), Cpt William M. Porter
3rd Brigade


   Col John W. Andrews[4]
   Ltc William Jameson
   Ltc John W. Marshall

Artillery
Corps Artillery Reserve


     Cpt Charles H. Morgan[6]

IX Corps

BG Orlando B. Willcox

Escort

  • 6th New York Cavalry, Company B: Cpt Hillman A. Hall
  • 6th New York Cavalry, Company C: Cpt William L. Heermance
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG William W. Burns

1st Brigade


   Col Orlando Poe

2nd Brigade


   Col Benjamin C. Christ

  • 29th Massachusetts: Ltc Joseph H. Barnes
  • 8th Michigan: Maj Ralph Ely
  • 27th New Jersey: Col George W. Mindil
  • 46th New York: Ltc Joseph P. Gerhardt
  • 50th Pennsylvania: Ltc Thomas S. Brenholtz
3rd Brigade


   Col Daniel Leasure

  • 36th Massachusetts: Col Henry Bowman
  • 45th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas Welsh
  • 100th Pennsylvania: Ltc David A. Leckey
Artillery[7]
  • Battery D, 1st New York Light: Cpt Thomas W. Osborn
  • Batteries L and M, 3rd United States: Lt Horace J. Hayden

Second Division


     BG Samuel D. Sturgis

1st Brigade
  

BG James Nagle

2nd Brigade
  

BG Edward Ferrero

Artillery

Third Division


     BG George W. Getty

1st Brigade


   Col Rush C. Hawkins

2nd Brigade


   Col Edward Harland

Artillery

Cavalry Division

BG Alfred Pleasonton

Brigade Regiments
1st Brigade


   BG John F. Farnsworth

  • 8th Illinois Cavalry: Col William Gamble
  • 3rd Indiana Cavalry: Maj George H. Chapman
  • 8th New York Cavalry: Col Benjamin Franklin Davis
2nd Brigade


   Col David M. Gregg[8]
   Col Thomas Devin

  • 6th New York Cavalry: Col Thomas C. Devin, Ltc Duncan McVicar
  • 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc Amos E. Griffiths
  • 6th United States Cavalry: Cpt George C. Cram
Horse Artillery
  • Battery M, 2nd United States: Lt Alexander C. M. Pennington, Jr.


Center Grand Division

MG Joseph Hooker

III Corps

BG George Stoneman

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG David B. Birney

1st Brigade


   BG John C. Robinson

  • 20th Indiana: Col John Van Valkenburg
  • 63rd Pennsylvania: Maj John A. Danks
  • 68th Pennsylvania: Col Andrew H. Tippin
  • 105th Pennsylvania: Col Amor A. McKnight
  • 114th Pennsylvania: Col Charles H. T. Collis
  • 141st Pennsylvania: Col Henry J. Madill
2nd Brigade


   BG J. H. Hobart Ward

3rd Brigade


   BG Hiram G. Berry

Artillery


   Cpt George E. Randolph[9]

  • Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light: Lt Pardon S. Jastram
  • Batteries F and K, 3rd United States: Lt John G. Turnbull

Second Division


     BG Daniel Sickles

1st Brigade


   BG Joseph B. Carr

2nd Brigade


   Col George B. Hall

3rd Brigade


   BG Joseph W. Revere

  • 5th New Jersey: Col William J. Sewell
  • 6th New Jersey: Col George C. Burling
  • 7th New Jersey: Col Louis R. Francine
  • 8th New Jersey: Col Adolphus J. Johnson
  • 2nd New York: Col Sidney W. Park
  • 115th Pennsylvania: Ltc William A. Olmsted
Artillery


   Cpt James E. Smith

Third Division


     BG Amiel W. Whipple

1st Brigade


   BG Abram S. Piatt[10]
   Col Emlen Franklin

2nd Brigade


   Col Samuel S. Carroll

  • 12th New Hampshire: Col Joseph H. Potter
  • 163rd New York: Maj James J. Byrne
  • 84th Pennsylvania: Col Samuel M. Bowman
  • 110th Pennsylvania: Ltc James Crowther
Artillery
  • 10th Battery, New York Light: Cpt John T. Bruen
  • 11th Battery, New York Light: Cpt Albert A. Von Puttkammer
  • Battery H, 1st Ohio Light: Lt George W. Norton

V Corps

MG Daniel Butterfield

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Charles Griffin

1st Brigade


   Col James Barnes

2nd Brigade


   Col Jacob B. Sweitzer

3rd Brigade


   Col T. B. W. Stockton

Artillery[11]
Sharpshooters
  • 1st United States: Ltc Casper Trepp

Second Division


     MG George Sykes

1st Brigade


   Ltc Robert C. Buchanan

2nd Brigade


   Maj George L. Andrews
   Maj Charles S. Lovell

3rd Brigade


   BG Gouverneur K. Warren

Artillery

Third Division


     BG Andrew A. Humphreys

1st Brigade


   BG Erastus B. Tyler

  • 91st Pennsylvania: Col Edgar M. Gregory (w)
  • 126th Pennsylvania: Col James G. Elder (w), Ltc David W. Rowe
  • 129th Pennsylvania: Col Jacob G. Frick
  • 134th Pennsylvania: Ltc Edward O'Brien
2nd Brigade


   Col Peter H. Allabach

  • 123rd Pennsylvania: Col John B. Clark
  • 131st Pennsylvania: Ltc William B. Shaut
  • 133rd Pennsylvania: Col Franklin B. Speakman
  • 155th Pennsylvania: Col Edward J. Allen
Artillery
Cavalry Brigade


   BG William W. Averell

  • 1st Massachusetts Cavalry: Col Horace B. Sargent
  • 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc Edward S. Jones
  • 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col James K. Kerr
  • 5th United States Cavalry: Cpt James E. Harrison
Artillery
  • Batteries B and L, 2nd United States: Cpt James M. Robertson


Left Grand Division

MG William B. Franklin

Escort

  • 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col Richard H. Rush

I Corps

MG John F. Reynolds

Escort

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Abner Doubleday

1st Brigade


   Col Walter Phelps, Jr.

2nd Brigade


   Col James Gavin

3rd Brigade


   Col William F. Rogers

4th Brigade


   BG Solomon Meredith
   Col Lysander Cutler

Artillery[14]


   Cpt George A. Gerrish (w)
   Cpt John A. Reynolds

Second Division


     BG John Gibbon (w)
     BG Nelson Taylor

1st Brigade


   Col Adrian R. Root

2nd Brigade


   Col Peter Lyle

  • 12th Massachusetts: Col James L. Bates
  • 26th New York: Ltc Gilbert S. Jennings (w), Maj Ezra F. Wetmore
  • 90th Pennsylvania: Ltc William A. Leech
  • 136th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas McKee Bayne
3rd Brigade


   BG Nelson Taylor
   Col Samuel H. Leonard

  • 13th Massachusetts: Col Samuel H. Leonard, Ltc N. Walter Batchelder
  • 83rd New York: Cpt John Hendrickson (w), Cpt Joseph A. Moesch (w), Lt Isaac E. Hoagland, Lt Henry P. Claire
  • 97th New York: Col Charles Wheelock
  • 11th Pennsylvania: Col Richard Coulter (w), Cpt Christian Kuhn
  • 88th Pennsylvania: Maj David A. Griffith
Artillery


   Cpt George F. Leppien

Third Division


     MG George Meade

1st Brigade


   Col William Sinclair (w)
   Col William McCandless

2nd Brigade


   Col Albert L. Magilton

3rd Brigade


   BG Conrad Feger Jackson (k)
   Col Joseph W. Fisher
   Ltc Robert Anderson

Artillery

VI Corps

MG William F. Smith

Escort

  • 10th New York Cavalry, Company L: Lt George Vanderbilt
  • 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company I: Cpt James Starr
  • 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company K: Cpt Frederick C. Newhall
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG William T. H. Brooks

1st Brigade


   Col Alfred Thomas Torbert

  • 1st New Jersey: Ltc Mark W. Collet
  • 2nd New Jersey: Col Samuel L. Buck
  • 3rd New Jersey: Col Henry W. Brown
  • 4th New Jersey: Col William B. Hatch (w), Ltc James N. Duffy
  • 15th New Jersey: Ltc Edward L. Campbell
  • 23rd New Jersey: Col Henry O. Ryerson
2nd Brigade


   Col Henry L. Cake

3rd Brigade


   BG David Allen Russell

  • 18th New York: Col George R. Myers
  • 31st New York: Ltc Leopold C. Newman
  • 32nd New York: Col Francis E. Pinto
  • 95th Pennsylvania: Ltc Elisha Hall
Artillery[15]

Second Division


     BG Albion P. Howe

1st Brigade


   BG Calvin E. Pratt

2nd Brigade


   Col Henry Whiting

  • 26th New Jersey: Col Andrew J. Morrison
  • 2nd Vermont: Ltc Charles H. Joyce
  • 3rd Vermont: Col Breed N. Hyde
  • 4th Vermont: Col Charles B. Stoughton
  • 5th Vermont: Col Lewis A. Grant
  • 6th Vermont: Col Nathan Lord, Jr.
3rd Brigade


   BG Francis L. Vinton (w)
   Col Robert F. Taylor
   BG Thomas H. Neill

Artillery

Third Division


     BG John Newton

1st Brigade


   BG John Cochrane

2nd Brigade


   BG Charles Devens

3rd Brigade


   Col Thomas A. Rowley
   BG Frank Wheaton

  • 62nd New York: Maj Wilson Hubbell
  • 93rd Pennsylvania: Maj John M. Mark
  • 98th Pennsylvania: Ltc Adolph Mehler
  • 102nd Pennsylvania: Ltc Joseph M. Kinkead
  • 139th Pennsylvania: Ltc James D. Owens
Artillery
Cavalry Brigade


   BG George D. Bayard (k)
   Col David McM. Gregg

  • District of Columbia Cavalry, Independent Company: Lt William H. Orton [Orten?]
  • 1st Maine Cavalry: Ltc Calvin S. Douty
  • 1st New Jersey Cavalry: Ltc Joseph Kargé
  • 2nd New York Cavalry: Maj Henry E. Davies
  • 10th New York Cavalry: Ltc William Irvine
  • 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col Owen Jones
Artillery
  • Battery C, 3rd United States: Cpt Horatio G. Gibson


Reserve Grand Division

Further information:[16]

XI Corps

BG Julius Stahel[17]

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division[18]


     BG Nathaniel C. McLean

1st Brigade
   Col Leopold Von Gilsa

2nd Brigade[19]


   BG Nathaniel C. McLean

Cavalry Brigade


   Col Luigi Palma Di Cesnola

  • Connecticut Cavalry, 1st Battalion: Cpt Charles Farnsworth
  • 4th New York Cavalry: Maj Alfred W. Taylor,
  • 9th New York Cavalry: Maj Edgar A. Kimball
  • 6th Ohio Cavalry: Cpt J. H. Cryer
Artillery


   Cpt William L. De Beck

  • 2nd New York Battery: Cpt Louis Schirmer
  • 13th New York Battery: Cpt Julius Dieckmann
  • 1st Ohio, Company K: Cpt William L. De Beck

Second Division[20]


     BG Adolph Von Steinwehr[21]

1st Brigade


   Col Adolphus Buschbeck

  • 29th New York: Maj U. Gullman
  • 154th New York: Col Patrick H. Jones
  • 27th Pennsylvania: Ltc Lorenz Cantador
  • 73rd Pennsylvania: Col Gustavus A. Muhleck
2nd Brigade


   Col Orland Smith

Artillery


  

Third Division[22]


     BG Carl Schurz

1st Brigade


   Col Alexander Schimmelfennig

2nd Brigade[23]


   Col Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski

Unattached

  • 1st Indiana Cavalry (two companies): Cpt Theodore Majtheny
  • 82nd Ohio: Ltc David Thompson
  • 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col Josiah H. Kellogg
  • 3rd West Virginia Cavalry (2 companies): Cpt S. B. Conger

XII Corps

MG Henry Warner Slocum

Escort

  • 12th Illinois Cavalry, Company A: Cpt P. E. Fisher
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Alpheus S. Williams

1st Brigade
   Col Joseph F. Knipe

2nd Brigade


   BG Thomas L. Kane

3rd Brigade


   BG John K. Murphy

Artillery[24]


   Cpt Robert H. Fitzugh

  • 1st New York, Battery K: Ltc E. L. Bailey
  • 1st New York, Battery M: Ltc C. E. Winegar
  • 4th United States, Battery F: Ltc E. D. Muhlenberg
Cavalry

Second Division


     BG John W. Geary

1st Brigade


   BG Charles Candy

  • 5th Ohio: Col John H. Patrick
  • 7th Ohio: Col William R. Creigton
  • 29th Ohio: Col Lewis P. Buckley
  • 66th Ohio: Ltc Eugene Powell
  • 28th Pennsylvania: Cpt Joseph B. Copeland
  • 147th Pennsylvania: Ltc Ario Pardee, Jr.
  • 12th Illinois Cavalry: Col Hasbrouck Davis
  • 1st Maryland Cavalry (3 companies): Cpt J. H. Cook
2nd Brigade


   Col Joseph M. Sudsburg

3rd Brigade


   BG George S. Greene

Artillery


   Maj L. Kieffer

  • 6th Maine Battery: Lt Edwin B. Dow
  • Pennsylvania Battery E: Cpt J. M. Knap
  • Pennsylvania Battery F: Cpt R. B. Hampton
Cavalry


Notes

  1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXI, Part 1, pages 48-61
  2. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  3. Temporarily attached to Second Brigade.
  4. Disabled.
  5. Transferred from Second Brigade, December 13.
  6. Chief of the corps artillery.
  7. Captain John Edwards,jr.,chief of the corps artillery.
  8. Succeeded BG Bayard in command of the Cavalry Brigade, Left Grand Division.
  9. Captain La Rhett L. Livingston, chief of the corps artillery.
  10. Disabled December 13.
  11. Captain Stephen H. Weed,chief of the corps artillery.
  12. Chief of artillery, Second Division.
  13. Chief of artillery, Third Division.
  14. Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, chief of the corps artillery.
  15. Captain Romeyn B. Ayres, chief of the corps artillery.
  16. Reserve Grand Division not engaged.
  17. XI Corps: Headquarters Stafford Court-House, Va.
  18. Headquarters Stafford Court-House, Va.
  19. December 10-16, marched from Chantilly to Falmouth; December 17, marched to Stafford Court-House.
  20. Headquarters at Falmouth, Va., December 10-14, marched from Germantown to Stafford Court-House.
  21. One copy of the monthly return reports Col A. Buschbeck as commanding.
  22. Headquarters at Stafford Court-House.
  23. December 10-14, marched from Centreville to Stafford Court-House.
  24. Cpt Clermont L. Best, chief of corps artillery.


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