Perryville Union order of battle
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Perryville of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1][2] during the battle and return of casualties.[3] 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 = 1st Lieutenant
- 2Lt = 2nd Lieutenant
- Sgt = Sergeant
- Bvt = Brevet
Artillery
- 10-pdr Par = 10-pounder Parrott rifle
- 12-pdr How = M1841 12-pounder howitzer
- 12-pdr Mtn = M1841 mountain howitzer
- 12-pdr Nap = M1857 12-pounder Napoleon
- 24-pdr How = M1841 24-pounder howitzer
- 3" R = 3-inch Ordnance rifle
- 6-pdr SB = M1841 6-pounder field gun
- Jam R = James rifle
- How = howitzer
- pdr = pound (projectile weight)
- R = rifled gun
- SB = smoothbore gun
Other
- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k = killed
- c = captured
- m = missing
Army of the Ohio
55,000 men, 147 guns (k-889, w-2966, m-433 = 4,288)
MG Don Carlos Buell, Commanding
MG George Henry Thomas, second in command
Escort:
- Anderson Troop, Pennsylvania Cavalry: 2Lt Thomas S. Maple
- 4th US Cavalry (Companies B, C, D, G, I, & K): Ltc James Oakes
Signal detachment: Cpt Jesse Merrill
I Corps
13,000 men, 38 guns (k-695, w-2290, m-346 = 3,331)
- Chief of Staff: Ltc James Vote Bomford (w)
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Third Division
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9th Brigade k-142, w-427, m-39 = 608
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17th Brigade k-187, w-614, m-35 = 836
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28th Brigade k-165, w-458, m-70 = 693
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Tenth Division
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33rd Brigade k-112, w-356, m-59 = 527
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34th Brigade k-89, w-417, m-139 = 645
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II Corps
20,000 men, 65 guns (k-2, w-4, m-6 = 12)
Escort:
- 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics (Companies B, E, I, & K): Col William Power Innes
- 1st Ohio Cavalry (4 companies): Maj James Laughlin
- 3rd Ohio Cavalry (4 companies): Maj John Howard Foster
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Fourth Division
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10th Brigade
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19th Brigade
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22nd Brigade |
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Fifth Division |
11th Brigade
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14th Brigade
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23rd Brigade
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Sixth Division
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15th Brigade
k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0 |
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20th Brigade
k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0 |
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21st Brigade
k-0, w-0, m-2 = 2 |
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Cavalry | McCook's Cavalry Brigade k-2, w-4, m-4 = 10
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III Corps
22,000 men, 44 guns (k-192, w-672, m-80 = 944)
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division
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1st Brigade
k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0
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2nd Brigade
k-4, w-7, m-0 = 11 |
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3rd Brigade
k-0, w-7, m-7 = 14 |
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Ninth Division
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30th Brigade
k-133, w-344, m-58 = 535
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31st Brigade
k-0, w-11, m-0 = 11
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32nd Brigade
k-0, w-1, m-0 = 1
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Eleventh Division
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35th Brigade
k-22, w-102, m-1 = 125
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36th Brigade
k-8, w-62, m-9 = 79
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37th Brigade
k-21, w-118, m-4 = 143
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Artillery |
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Cavalry | Gay's Cavalry Brigade
k-4, w-14, m-1 = 19
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See also
Notes
- Official Records, Series I, Volume XVI, Part 2, pages 591-596.
- Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
- Official Records, Series I, Volume XVI, Part 1, pages 1033-1036.
- Pope died in Danville, Kentucky on November 6, 1862 of symptoms "resembling typhoid fever"
- Eicher p.516
- Fled the field at the onset of battle
References
- Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- Holman, Kurt. Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised January 10, 2008), unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
- Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, University Press of Kentucky, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8131-2209-0.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume XVI, Part I and II (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), 1886.