Carolinas campaign Union order of battle

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

Abbreviations used[]

Military rank[]

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

Union Forces[]

MG William T. Sherman
Headquarters guard:

7th Company Ohio Sharpshooters: Lt James Cox

Engineers:

1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics: Col John B. Yates
1st Missouri Engineers (5 companies): Ltc William Tweeddale

Artillery: Bvt MG William Farquhar Barry

Right Wing, Army of the Tennessee[]

MG Oliver O. Howard
Escort:

Company K, 15th Illinois Cavalry: Cpt William Duncan
4th Company Ohio Cavalry: Cpt John L. King

Pontoon Train Guard:

Company E, 14th Wisconsin: Cpt William I. Henry

XV Corps[]

MG John A. Logan

Division	Brigade	Regiments and others
First Division Bvt MG Charles R. Woods	1st Brigade Bvt BG William Burnham Woods	12th Indiana: Col Reuben Williams 26th Iowa: Maj John Lubbers 27th Missouri: Col Thomas Curley 31st Missouri/32nd Missouri (6 companies): Ltc Abraham J. Seay 76th Ohio: Ltc Edward Briggs
	2nd Brigade Col Robert Francis Catterson	26th Illinois: Ltc Ira J. Bloomfield 40th Illinois: Ltc Hiram W. Hall 103rd Illinois: Ltc George W. Wright 97th Indiana: Ltc Aden G. Cavins 100th Indiana: Maj Ruel M. Johnson, Cpt John W. Headington 6th Iowa: Ltc William H. Clune 46th Ohio: Ltc Edward N. Upton
	3rd Brigade Col George A. Stone	4th Iowa: Maj Albert R. Anderson 9th Iowa: Maj Alonzo Abernethy 25th Iowa: Ltc David J. Palmer 30th Iowa: Ltc Aurelius Roberts 31st Iowa: Ltc Jeremiah W. Jenkins
Second Division MG William Babcock Hazen	1st Brigade Col Theodore Jones	55th Illinois: Cpt Charles A. Andress 116th Illinois: Ltc John E. Maddux, Cpt Necolas Geschwind 127th Illinois: Ltc Frank S. Curtiss 6th Missouri: Ltc Delos Van Deusen 30th Ohio: Ltc Emerson P. Brooks 57th Ohio: Ltc Samuel R. Mott
	2nd Brigade Col Wells S. Jones	111th Illinois: Col James Stewart Martin 83rd Indiana: Cpt Charles W. White, Cpt William N. Craw 37th Ohio: Ltc Louis von Blessingh 47th Ohio: Col Augustus C. Parry 53rd Ohio: Maj Preston R. Galloway 54th Ohio: Ltc Israel T. Moore
	3rd Brigade BG John Morrison Oliver	48th Illinois: Ltc Thomas L. B. Weems 90th Illinois: Ltc Owen Stuart 99th Indiana: Cpt Josiah Farrar 15th Michigan: Ltc Frederick S. Hutchinson 70th Ohio: Ltc Henry L. Philips
3rd Division Bvt MG John E. Smith	1st Brigade BG William Thomas Clark	63rd Illinois: Col Joseph B. McCown, Cpt Joseph R. Stanford 93rd Illinois: Ltc Nicholas C. Buswell 48th Indiana: Cpt Newton Bingham 59th Indiana: Ltc Jefferson K. Scott, Maj Thomas A. McNaught 4th Minnesota: Col John Eaton Tourtellotte, Cpt Leverett R. Wellman 18th Wisconsin: Ltc Charles H. Jackson
3rd Division Bvt MG John E. Smith	2nd Brigade Col Clark R. Wever	56th Illinois: Ltc John P. Hall 10th Iowa: Ltc William H. Silsby 17th Iowa (1 company): Cpt William Horner 10th Missouri/26th Missouri (2 companies): Lt Theron Moses Rice 80th Ohio: Ltc Pren Metham, Maj Thomas C. Morris
4th Division Bvt MG John M. Corse	1st Brigade BG Elliott W. Rice	52nd Illinois: Ltc Jerome D. Davis 66th Indiana: Ltc Roger Martin 2nd Iowa: Col Noel B. Howard 7th Iowa: Ltc James C. Parrott
	2nd Brigade Col Robert N. Adams	12th Illinois: Ltc Henry Van Sellar 66th Illinois: Ltc Andrew K. Campbell 81st Ohio: Maj William C. Henry
	3rd Brigade Col Frederick J. Hurlbut	7th Illinois: Ltc Hector Perrin 50th Illinois: Ltc William Hanna 57th Illinois: Maj Frederick A. Battey 39th Iowa: Ltc Joseph M. Griffiths
	Unassigned	29th Missouri Mounted Infantry: Col Joseph S. Gage 110th US Colored Troops: Maj William C. Hawley, Cpt Thomas Kennedy, Cpt Zachary C. Wilson, Cpt Jacob Kemnitzer
Artillery Ltc William H. Ross		Battery H, 1st Illinois: Cpt Francis DeGress, Lt Robert S. Gray Battery B, 1st Michigan: Lt Edward B. Wright Battery H, 1st Missouri: Cpt Charles M. Callahan 12th Wisconsin Battery: Cpt William Zickerick

XVII Corps[]

MG Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
Escort:

Company G, 11th Illinois Cavalry: Cpt Stephen S. Tripp

Division	Brigade	Regiments and others
First Division MG Joseph A. Mower BG Manning F. Force	1st Brigade BG John W. Fuller	64th Illinois: Maj Joseph S. Reynolds 18th Missouri: Col Charles S. Sheldon, Ltc William H. Minter, Maj William M. Edgar 27th Ohio: Maj Isaac N. Gilruth 39th Ohio: Ltc Daniel Weber
	2nd Brigade BG John W. Sprague	35th New Jersey: Col John J. Cladek 43rd Ohio: Maj Horace Park 63rd Ohio: Maj Oscar Lawrence Jackson 25th Wisconsin: Ltc Jeremiah McLain Rusk
	3rd Brigade Col Charles H. DeGroat Bvt BG John Tillson	10th Illinois: Ltc David Gillespie 25th Indiana: Ltc James S. Wright 32nd Wisconsin: Ltc Joseph H. Carleton, Maj William H. Burrows
Third Division Bvt MG Mortimer Dormer Leggett	1st Brigade BG Charles Ewing	20th Illinois: Cpt Henry King 30th Illinois: Ltc William C. Rhoades, Cpt John P. Davis 31st Illinois: Ltc Robert N. Pearson 45th Illinois: Maj John O. Duer 12th Wisconsin: Col James Kerr Proudfit 16th Wisconsin: Col Cassius Fairchild
Third Division Bvt MG Mortimer Dormer Leggett	2nd Brigade BG Robert Kingston Scott	20th Ohio: Ltc Harrison Wilson 68th Ohio: Ltc George E. Welles 78th Ohio: Col Greenbury F. Wiles, Ltc Gilbert D. Munson 17th Wisconsin: Col Adam Gale Malloy
Fourth Division Bvt MG Giles Alexander Smith	1st Brigade BG Benjamin F. Potts	14th/15th Illinois (battalion): Col George C. Rogers 53rd Illinois: Col John W. McClanahan 23rd Indiana: Ltc George S. Babbitt, Cpt John W. Hammond 53rd Indiana: Col Warner L. Vestal 32nd Ohio: Ltc Jefferson J. Hibbets
Fourth Division Bvt MG Giles Alexander Smith	3rd Brigade BG William W. Belknap	32nd Illinois: Cpt John J. Rider 11th Iowa: Ltc Benjamin Beach 13th Iowa: Ltc Justin C. Kennedy 15th Iowa: Maj George Pomutz 16th Iowa: Maj John H. Smith
Artillery Maj Frederick Welker		Battery C, 1st Michigan: Lt William W. Hyzer 1st Minnesota Battery: Cpt William Z. Clayton 15th Ohio Battery: Cpt James Burdick
Unassigned		9th Illinois Mounted Infantry: Ltc Samuel T. Hughes

Left Wing, Army of Georgia[]

MG Henry W. Slocum
Pontoniers:

58th Indiana: Ltc Joseph Moore

XIV Corps[]

Bvt MG Jefferson C. Davis
Provost guard: Ltc E. Hibbard Topping

110th Illinois (9 companies)
Company A, 24th Illinois

Division	Brigade	Regiments and others
First Division BG Charles C. Walcutt	1st Brigade Bvt BG Harrison C. Hobart	104th Illinois: Maj John H. Widmer 42nd Indiana: Maj Gideon R. Kellams 88th Indiana: Maj Lewis J. Blair 33rd Ohio: Cpt Joseph Hinson 94th Ohio: Maj William H. Snider 21st Wisconsin: Ltc Michael H. Fitch; Maj Charles H. Walker
	2nd Brigade Bvt BG George P. Buell	13th Michigan: Cpt Silas A. Yerkes 21st Michigan: Ltc Loomis K. Bishop 69th Ohio: Ltc Joseph H. Brigham
	3rd Brigade Col Henry A. Hambright	38th Indiana: Cpt David H. Patton 21st Ohio: Ltc Arnold McMahan 74th Ohio: Maj Robert P. Findley 79th Pennsylvania: Cpt John S. McBride
2nd Division Bvt MG James D. Morgan Provost Guard: Company B, 110th Illinois: Cpt William R. Hester	1st Brigade BG William Vandever	16th Illinois: Cpt Herman Lund 60th Illinois: Maj James H. McDonald 10th Michigan: Cpt William H. Dunphy 14th Michigan: Ltc George W. Grummond 17th New York: Maj Alexander S. Marshall
	2nd Brigade BG John G. Mitchell	34th Illinois: Ltc Peter Ege 78th Illinois: Ltc Maris R. Vernon 98th Ohio: Maj David E. Roatch 108th Ohio: Ltc Joseph Good 113th Ohio: Cpt Otway Watson 121st Ohio: Maj Aaron B. Robinson
	3rd Brigade Ltc James W. Langley	85th Illinois: Cpt James R. Griffith 86th Illinois: Ltc Allen R. Fahnestock 125th Illinois: Cpt George W. Cook 22nd Indiana: Cpt William H. Snodgrass 37th Indiana (1 company): Lt Socrates Carver 52nd Ohio: Maj James T. Holmes
3rd Division Bvt MG Absalom Baird	1st Brigade Col Morton C. Hunter	82nd Indiana: Ltc John M. Matheny 23rd Missouri (4 companies): Maj John H. Jolly 11th Ohio (detachment): Cpt Francis H. Loring 17th Ohio: Ltc Benjamin H. Showers 31st Ohio: Cpt Michael Stone, Cpt Eli Wilkin 89th Ohio: Ltc William H. Glenn 92nd Ohio: Ltc John C. Morrow
	2nd Brigade Col Newell Gleason	75th Indiana: Ltc William O'Brien 87th Indiana: Ltc Edwin P. Hammond 101st Indiana: Ltc Thomas Doan 2nd Minnesota: Ltc Judson W. Bishop 105th Ohio: Ltc George T. Perkins
	3rd Brigade Ltc Hubbard K. Milward BG George S. Greene	74th Indiana: Ltc Thomas Morgan 18th Kentucky: Maj John J. Hall, Ltc Hubbard K. Milward 14th Ohio: Ltc Albert Moore 38th Ohio: Cpt Charles M. Gilbert
	Artillery Maj Charles Houghtaling	Battery C, 1st Illinois: Lt Palmer F. Scovel Battery I, 2nd Illinois: Lt Judson Rich 19th Indiana Battery: Lt Clinton Keller 5th Wisconsin Battery: Cpt Joseph McKnight, Lt Elijah Booth, Jr.

XX Corps[]

Bvt MG Alpheus S. Williams
MG Joseph A. Mower

Division	Brigade	Regiments and others
First Division BG Nathaniel J. Jackson Bvt MG Alpheus S. Williams	1st Brigade BG James L. Selfridge	5th Connecticut: Ltc Henry W. Daboll 123rd New York: Col James C. Rogers 141st New York: Ltc Andrew J. McNett 46th Pennsylvania: Maj Patrick Griffith
	2nd Brigade Bvt BG William Hawley	2nd Massachusetts: Cpt Edward A. Phalen 13th New Jersey: Ltc Frederick H. Harris 107th New York: Col Nirom M. Crane 150th New York: Col Alfred B. Smith 3rd Wisconsin: Ltc George W. Stevenson
	3rd Brigade BG James S. Robinson	82nd Illinois: Ltc Edward S. Salomon 101st Illinois: Ltc John B. LeSage 143rd New York: Col Horace Boughton 61st Ohio/82nd Ohio: Maj James S. Crall 31st Wisconsin: Col Francis H. West
Second Division Bvt MG John W. Geary	1st Brigade Col George W. Mindil Bvt BG Ario Pardee, Jr.	5th Ohio: Ltc Robert Kirkup 29th Ohio: Ltc Jonas Schoonover 66th Ohio: Ltc Eugene Powell, Cpt Theodore G. Keller 28th Pennsylvania: Ltc James Fitzpatrick 147th Pennsylvania: Ltc John Craig
	2nd Brigade Col Patrick Henry Jones	33rd New Jersey: Ltc Enos Fourat, Maj Nathaniel K. Bray 119th New York: Col John T. Lockman 134th New York: Ltc Allan H. Jackson 154th New York: Ltc Lewis D. Warner 73rd Pennsylvania: Maj Christian H. Goebel
	3rd Brigade Bvt BG Henry A. Barnum	60th New York: Ltc Lester S. Williams 102nd New York: Maj Oscar J. Spaulding 137th New York: Ltc Koert S. Van Voorhees 149th New York: Maj Nicholas Grumbach 29th Pennsylvania: Col Samuel M. Zulich 109th/111th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas M. Walker
Third Division Bvt MG William Thomas Ward	1st Brigade Col Henry Case Bvt BG Benjamin Harrison	102nd Illinois: Col Franklin C. Smith 105th Illinois: Ltc Everell F. Dutton 129th Illinois: Ltc Thomas H. Flynn, Col Henry Case 70th Indiana: Ltc Samuel Merrill 79th Ohio: Ltc Azariah W. Doan
	2nd Brigade Bvt BG Daniel Dustin	33rd Indiana: Ltc James E. Burton 85th Indiana: Ltc Alexander B. Crane 19th Michigan: Maj David Anderson 22nd Wisconsin: Ltc Edward Bloodgood
	3rd Brigade Bvt BG William Cogswell	20th Connecticut: Ltc Philo B. Buckingham 33rd Massachusetts: Ltc Elisha Doane 136th New York: Col James Wood 55th Ohio: Maj Charles Preston Wickham 73rd Ohio: Maj Thomas W. Higgins 26th Wisconsin: Maj Francis Lackner
	Artillery Maj John A. Reynolds Cpt Charles E. Winegar	Battery I, 1st New York: Cpt Charles E. Winegar, Lt Warren L. Scott Battery M, 1st New York: Cpt Edward P. Newkirk Battery C, 1st Ohio: Lt Jerome B. Stephens Battery E, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Thomas S. Sloan

Center, Army of the Ohio[]

MG John M. Schofield
Escort:

Company G, 7th Ohio Cavalry: Cpt John A. Ashbury

Signal Corps: Cpt Edmund H. Russell
Engineers:

15th New York (3 companies): Maj Henry V. Slosson

Artillery: Ltc Terance J. Kennedy

X Corps[]

MG Alfred H. Terry
Escort: Company I, 20th New York Cavalry: Cpt John J. Carroll

Division	Brigade	Regiments and others
First Division Bvt MG Henry Warner Birge	1st Brigade at Morehead City
	2nd Brigade at Wilmington
	3rd Brigade Col Nicholas W. Day	24th Iowa: Ltc Edward Wright 38th Massachusetts: Ltc James P. Richardson 128th New York: Cpt Henry H. Sincerbox 156th New York: Cpt Alfred Cooley 175th New York (5 companies): Cpt Charles McCarthey 176th New York: Maj Charles Lewis
	Artillery	22nd Indiana Battery: Lt George W. Alexander
Second Division Bvt MG Adelbert Ames	1st Brigade Col Rufus Daggett	3rd New York: Ltc Alfred Dunham 112th New York: Col Ephraim A. Ludwick 117th New York: Cpt Edward Downer 142nd New York: Col Albert M. Barney
	2nd Brigade Col William B. Coan Col John S. Littell	47th New York: Col Christopher R. MacDonald 48th New York: Cpt Van Renssalaer K. Hilliard, Col William B. Coan 76th Pennsylvania: Maj Charles Knerr 97th Pennsylvania: Ltc John Wainwright 203rd Pennsylvania: Ltc Amos W. Bachman
	3rd Brigade Col G. Frederick Granger	13th Indiana: Ltc Samuel M. Zent 9th Maine: Ltc Joseph Noble 4th New Hampshire: Cpt John H. Roberts 115th New York: Ltc Nathan J. Johnson 169th New York: Col James A. Colvin
	Artillery	16th New York Battery: Cpt Richard H. Lee
Third Division BG Charles Jackson Paine	1st Brigade Bvt BG Delevan Bates	1st US Colored Troops: Ltc Giles H. Rich 30th US Colored Troops: Ltc Hiram A. Oakman 107th US Colored Troops: Col William H. Revere, Jr.
	2nd Brigade Bvt BG Samuel A. Duncan	4th US Colored Troops: Ltc George Rogers 5th US Colored Troops: Col Giles W. Shurtleff 39th US Colored Troops: Col Ozora P. Stearns
	Unattached	Battery E, 3rd US Artillery: Lt John R. Myrick

XXIII Corps[]

MG Jacob Dolson Cox
Engineer Battalion: Cpt Oliver S. McClure
Provost Guard:

Company H, 9th New Jersey: Cpt Edward S. Pullen

Artillery: Ltc George W. Schofield, Cpt Giles J. Cockerill

Division	Brigade	Regiments and others
First Division Bvt MG Thomas H. Ruger	1st Brigade Bvt BG Israel N. Stiles	120th Indiana: Col Allen W. Prather 124th Indiana: Col John M. Orr 128th Indiana: Ltc Jasper Packard 180th Ohio: Col Willard Warner
	2nd Brigade Col John C. McQuiston	123rd Indiana: Ltc Dewitt C. Walters 129th Indiana: Col Charles A. Zollinger 130th Indiana: Col Charles S. Parrish 28th Michigan: Col William W. Wheeler
	3rd Brigade Col Minor T. Thomas	25th Massachusetts: Ltc James Tucker 8th Minnesota: Maj George A. Camp 174th Ohio: Col John S. Jones 178th Ohio: Col Joab A. Stafford
	Artillery	Elgin Illinois Battery: Cpt Andrew M. Wood
Second Division MG Darius N. Couch BG Joseph Alexander Cooper	1st Brigade Col Orlando H. Moore BG Joseph A. Cooper	26th Kentucky: Col Thomas B. Farleigh 25th Michigan: Ltc Benjamin F. Orcutt 132nd New York (& 99th New York, detachment): Col Peter J. Claassen 52nd Pennsylvania: Ltc John B. Conyngham
	2nd Brigade Col John Mehringer	107th Illinois: Maj Thomas J. Milholland 80th Indiana: Ltc Alfred D. Owen 23rd Michigan: Col Oliver L. Spaulding 111th Ohio: Ltc Isaac R. Sherwood 118th Ohio: Ltc Edgar Sowers
	3rd Brigade Col Silas A. Strickland	91st Indiana: Ltc Charles H. Butterfield 50th Ohio: Cpt John S. Conahan, Ltc James A. Bope 181st Ohio: Ltc John E. Hudson, Col John O'Dowd 183rd Ohio: Col George W. Hoge
	Artillery	19th Ohio Battery: Cpt Frank Wilson, Sr.
Third Division BG James W. Reilly BG Samuel P. Carter Provost Guard: Company F, 100th Ohio: Lt John P. Denny	1st Brigade Col Oscar W. Sterl	12th Kentucky: Ltc Lawrence H. Rousseau 16th Kentucky: Ltc John S. White 100th Ohio: Cpt Frank Rundell 104th Ohio: Ltc William J. Jordan 8th Tennessee: Cpt James W. Berry
	2nd Brigade Bvt BG John S. Casement	65th Illinois: Ltc William S. Stewart 65th Indiana: Ltc John W. Hammond 9th New Jersey: Col James Stewart, Jr. 103rd Ohio: Cpt Henry S. Pickands 177th Ohio: Ltc William H. Zimmerman
	3rd Brigade Bvt BG Thomas J. Henderson	112th Illinois: Ltc Emery S. Bond 63rd Indiana: Ltc Daniel Morris, Maj Frank Wilcox 140th Indiana: Col Thomas J. Brady 17th Massachusetts: Ltc Henry Splaine
	Artillery	Battery D, 1st Ohio: Cpt Giles J. Cockerill, Lt Cecil C. Reed
Third Division - Cavalry Bvt MG Hugh Judson Kilpatrick	1st Brigade Bvt BG Thomas J. Jordan	8th Indiana Cavalry (& 3rd Indiana Cavalry, one battalion): Ltc Fielder A. Jones 2nd Kentucky Cavalry: Maj Owen Star 3rd Kentucky Cavalry: Ltc Robert H. King 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc David H. Kimmel
	2nd Brigade Bvt BG Smith D. Atkins	92nd Illinois Mounted Infantry: Ltc Matthew Van Buskirk 9th Michigan Cavalry: Col George S. Acker 9th Ohio Cavalry: Col William D. Hamilton 10th Ohio Cavalry: Col Thomas W. Sanderson McLaughlin's Squadron (Ohio): Cpt John Dalzell
	3rd Brigade Col Michael Kerwin Bvt BG Thomas T. Heath	1st Alabama Cavalry: Maj Sanford Tramel 5th Ohio Cavalry: Maj George H. Rader 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Maj George F. McCabe, Col Michael Kerwin
	Artillery	23rd New York Battery: Cpt Samuel Kittinger

Notes[]

^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLVII, Part 1, pages 46-60

References[]

U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
Bradley, Mark L. This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), 2000. ISBN 0-8078-2565-4

[1] Official Records, Series I, Volume XLVII, Part 1, pages 46-60

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