Chaffin's Farm Union order of battle
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.
Abbreviations used[]
Military rank[]
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
Other[]
Army of the James[]
MG Benjamin F. Butler
- Chief of Engineers: BG Godfrey Weitzel[1]
X Corps[]
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division
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1st Brigade
Col Francis B. Pond (w) |
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2nd Brigade
Col Joseph C. Abbott |
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3rd Brigade |
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Second Division
|
1st Brigade
Col Rufus Daggett (w) |
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2nd Brigade |
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3rd Brigade
Col Louis Bell |
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Third Division
|
1st Brigade |
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Artillery |
Artillery Brigade
Col Richard H. Jackson |
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XVIII Corps[]
MG Edward O. C. Ord (w) September 29
BG Charles A. Heckman
BG Godfrey Weitzel[2]
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division
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1st Brigade
Col Aaron Fletcher Stevens (w) |
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2nd Brigade
BG Hiram Burnham (k) |
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3rd Brigade
Col Samuel H. Roberts (w) |
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Second Division
|
1st Brigade
Col James Jourdan |
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2nd Brigade
Col Edward H. Ripley |
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3rd Brigade
Col Harrison S. Fairchild |
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Third Division[5]
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1st Brigade
Col John Henry Holman |
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2nd Brigade
Col Alonzo G. Draper |
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3rd Brigade
Col Samuel A. Duncan (w) |
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Unattached |
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Artillery |
Artillery Brigade
Maj George B. Cook |
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Cavalry[]
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Cavalry Division
|
1st Brigade
Col Robert M. West |
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2nd Brigade
Col Samuel P. Spear |
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Artillery |
Notes[]
- ^ Weitzel served as Butler's Chief Engineer until September 30, when he was placed in command of the XVIII Corps
- ^ Official Records Volume XLII, part II, page 1146 Weitzel was assigned to command on 30 Sept 1864 by Butler's field order No. 116.
- ^ Sommers p.575
- ^ Fairchild temporarily commanded the 2nd Division in conjunction with his own 3rd Brigade when Heckman commanded the corps (Eicher p. 230) though Colonel James Anderson may have assumed brigade command until his death (Sommers p. 575). Some reports say Colonel James Jourdan was in temporary command of the division by order of General Heckman (Sommers p.575)
- ^ Temporarily attached to X Corps during the fighting at New Market Heights on September 29.
Sources[]
- Composition is taken from the Official Records
- Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- American Civil War orders of battle