The following units and commanders fought in the Chattanooga–Ringgold campaign of the American Civil War on the Union side. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign,[2] the casualty returns[3] and the reports.[4]
Abbreviations used [ ]
Military rank [ ]
Other [ ]
Military Division of the Mississippi [ ]
MG Ulysses S. Grant
General Staff:
Chief of Staff: BG John A. Rawlins
Chief of Transportation: Col Joseph D. Webster [5]
Army of the Cumberland [ ]
MG George H. Thomas
General Staff:
General Headquarters:
1st Ohio Sharpshooter: Cpt Gershom M. Barber
10th Ohio : Ltc William M. Ward
IV Corps [ ]
MG Gordon Granger
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
First Division[6]
BG Charles Cruft
2nd Brigade
BG Walter C. Whitaker
96th Illinois : Col Thomas E. Champion,[7] Maj George Hicks
35th Indiana : Col Benjamin F. Mullen
8th Kentucky : Col Sidney M. Barnes
40th Ohio : Col Jacob E. Taylor
51st Ohio : Ltc Charles H. Wood
99th Ohio : Ltc John E. Cummins
3rd Brigade
Col William Grose
59th Illinois : Maj Clayton Hale
75th Illinois : Col John E. Bennett
84th Illinois : Col Louis H. Waters
9th Indiana : Col Isaac C. B. Suman
36th Indiana : Maj Gilbert Trusler
24th Ohio : Cpt George M. Bacon
Escort
92nd Illinois Mounted Infantry , Company E: Cpt Mathew Van Buskirk
Second Division
MG Philip H. Sheridan
1st Brigade
Col Francis T. Sherman
36th Illinois : Col Silas Miller,[8] Ltc Porter C. Olson
44th Illinois : Col Wallace W. Barrett
73rd Illinois : Col James F. Jacquess
74th Illinois : Col Jason Marsh
88th Illinois : Ltc George W. Chandler
22nd Indiana : Col Michael Gooding
2nd Missouri : Col Bernard Laiboldt ,[8] Ltc Arnold Beck
15th Missouri : Col Joseph Conrad (w ), Cpt Samuel Rexinger
24th Wisconsin : Maj Carl von Baumbach
2nd Brigade[9]
BG George D. Wagner
100th Illinois : Maj Charles M. Hammond
15th Indiana : Col Gustavus A. Wood,[8] Maj Frank White (w ), Cpt Benjamin F. Hegler
40th Indiana : Ltc Elias Neff
57th Indiana : Ltc George W. Leonard
58th Indiana : Ltc Joseph Moore
26th Ohio : Ltc William H. Young
97th Ohio : Ltc Milton Barnes
3rd Brigade
Col Charles G. Harker
22nd Illinois : Ltc Francis Swanwick
27th Illinois : Col Jonathan R. Miles
42nd Illinois : Col Nathan H. Walworth,[8] Cpt Edgar D. Swain
51st Illinois : Maj Charles W. Davis (w ), Cpt Albert M. Tilton
79th Illinois : Col Allen Buckner
3rd Kentucky : Col Henry C. Dunlap
64th Ohio : Col Alexander McIlvan
65th Ohio : Col William A. Bullitt
125th Ohio : Col Emerson Opdycke ,[8] Cpt Edward P. Bates
Artillery
Cpt Warren P. Edgarton
Third Division
BG Thomas J. Wood
1st Brigade
BG August Willich
25th Illinois : Col Richard H. Nodine
35th Illinois : Ltc William P. Chandler
89th Illinois : Ltc William D. Williams
32nd Indiana : Ltc Frank Erdelmeyer
68th Indiana : Ltc Harvey J. Espy (w ), Cpt Richard L. Leeson
8th Kansas : Col John A. Martin
15th Ohio : Ltc Frank Askew
49th Ohio : Maj Samuel F. Gray
15th Wisconsin : Cpt John A. Gordon
2nd Brigade
BG William B. Hazen
6th Indiana : Maj Calvin D. Campbell
5th Kentucky : Col William W. Berry (w ),[10] Ltc John L. Treanor
6th Kentucky : Maj Richard T. Whitaker
23rd Kentucky : Ltc James C. Foy[11]
1st Ohio : Ltc Bassett Langdon [12] (w ), Maj Joab A. Stafford[13] (w )
6th Ohio : Ltc Alexander C. Christopher
41st Ohio : Col Aquila Wiley [14] (w ), Ltc Robert L. Kimberly[15]
93rd Ohio : Maj William Birch (mw ), Cpt Daniel Bowman (w ), Cpt Samuel B. Smith
124th Ohio : Ltc James Pickands
3rd Brigade
BG Samuel Beatty
79th Indiana : Col Frederick Knefler
86th Indiana : Col George F. Dick
9th Kentucky : Col George H. Cram
17th Kentucky : Col Alexander Stout
13th Ohio : Col Dwight Jarvis, Jr.
19th Ohio : Col Charles F. Manderson
59th Ohio : Maj Robert J. Vanosdol
Artillery
Cpt Cullen Bradley
XIV Corps [ ]
MG John M. Palmer
Escort:
1st Ohio Cavalry, Company L: Cpt John D. Barker
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
First Division
BG Richard W. Johnson
1st Brigade
BG William P. Carlin
104th Illinois : Ltc Douglas Hapeman
38th Indiana : Ltc Daniel F. Griffin
42nd Indiana : Ltc William T. B. McIntire
88th Indiana : Col Cyrus E. Briant
2nd Ohio : Col Anson G. McCook
33rd Ohio : Cpt James H. M. Montgomery
94th Ohio : Maj Rue P. Hutchins
10th Wisconsin : Cpt Jacob W. Roby
2nd Brigade[16]
BG John H. King [17]
Col Marshall F. Moore
Col William L. Stoughton [18]
19th Illinois : Ltc Alexander W. Raffen
11th Michigan : Cpt Patrick H. Keegan
69th Ohio : Maj James J. Hanna
15th United States , 1st Battalion: Cpt Henry Keteltas
15th United States, 2nd Battalion: Maj John R. Edie ,[19] Cpt William McManus
16th United States , 1st Battalion: Maj Robert E. A. Crofton
18th United States , 1st Battalion: Cpt George W. Smith
18th United States, 2nd Battalion: Cpt Henry Haymond
19th United States , 1st Battalion: Cpt Henry S. Welton
3rd Brigade[20]
BG John C. Starkweather
24th Illinois : Col Geza Mihalotzy
37th Indiana : Col James S. Hull
21st Ohio : Cpt Charles H. Vantine
74th Ohio : Maj Joseph Fisher
78th Pennsylvania : Maj Augustus B. Bonnaffon
79th Pennsylvania : Maj Michael H. Locher
1st Wisconsin : Ltc George B. Bingham
21st Wisconsin : Cpt Charles H. Walker
Artillery
Second Division
BG Jefferson C. Davis
1st Brigade[22]
BG James D. Morgan
10th Illinois : Col John Tillson
16th Illinois : Ltc James B. Cahill
60th Illinois : Col William B. Anderson
21st Kentucky : Col Samuel W. Price
10th Michigan : Ltc Christopher J. Dickerson
2nd Brigade[23]
BG John Beatty
34th Illinois : Ltc Oscar Van Tassell
78th Illinois : Ltc Carter Van Vleck
98th Ohio : Maj James M. Shane
108th Ohio : Ltc Carlo Piepho
113th Ohio : Maj Lyne S. Sullivant
121st Ohio : Maj John Yager
3rd Brigade
Col Daniel McCook, Jr.
85th Illinois : Col Caleb J. Dilworth
86th Illinois : Ltc David Magee
110th Illinois : Ltc E. Hibbard Topping
125th Illinois : Col Oscar F. Harmon
52nd Ohio : Maj James T. Holmes
Artillery
Cpt William A. Hotchkiss
Third Division
BG Absalom Baird
1st Brigade
BG John B. Turchin
82nd Indiana : Col Morton C. Hunter
11th Ohio : Ltc Ogden Street
17th Ohio : Maj Benjamin F. Butterfield (mw ), Cpt Benjamin H. Showers
31st Ohio : Ltc Frederick W. Lister
36th Ohio : Ltc Hiram F. Devol
89th Ohio : Cpt John H. Jolly
92nd Ohio : Ltc Douglas Putnam, jr. (w ), Cpt Edward Grosvenor
2nd Brigade
Col Ferdinand Van Derveer
75th Indiana : Col Milton S. Robinson
87th Indiana : Col Newell Gleason
101st Indiana : Ltc Thomas Doan
2nd Minnesota : Ltc Judson W. Bishop
9th Ohio : Col Gustave Kammerling
35th Ohio : Ltc Henry V. Boynton (w ), Maj Joseph L. Budd
105th Ohio : Ltc William R. Tolles
3rd Brigade[24]
Col Edward H. Phelps (k )
Col William H. Hays
10th Indiana : Ltc Marsh B. Taylor
74th Indiana : Ltc Myron Baker
4th Kentucky : Maj Robert M. Kelly
10th Kentucky : Col William H. Hays , Ltc Gabriel C. Wharton
14th Ohio : Ltc Henry D. Kingsbury
38th Ohio : Maj Charles Greenwood
Artllery
Cpt George R. Swallow
Artillery Reserve [ ]
BG John M. Brannan [25]
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
First Division
Col James Barnett
1st Brigade
Maj Charles S. Cotter
2nd Brigade
Second Division
1st Brigade
Cpt Josiah W. Church
2nd Brigade
Cpt Arnold Sutermeister
Cavalry Corps [ ]
Main article: Cavalry Corps (Union Army) § Western Cavalry Corps
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
Second Division[27]
2nd Brigade
Col Eli Long
98th Illinois Mounted Infantry : Ltc Edward Kitchell
17th Indiana Mounted Infantry : Ltc Henry Jordan
2nd Kentucky : Col Thomas P. Nichols
4th Michigan : Maj Horace Gray
1st Ohio : Maj Thomas J. Patten
3rd Ohio : Ltc Charles B. Seidel
4th Ohio : Maj George W. Dobb
10th Ohio : Col Charles C. Smith
Engineers and garrison [ ]
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
Engineer troops
BG William F. Smith
Engineer Brigade
Col Timothy R. Stanley [28]
1st Michigan Engineers (detachment): Cpt Perrin V. Fox
18th Michigan : Maj Willard G. Eaton
21st Michigan : Cpt Loomis K. Bishop
22nd Michigan : Maj Henry S. Dean
18th Ohio : Col Timothy R. Stanley
Pioneer Brigade
Col George P. Buell
1st Battalion: Cpt Charles J. Stewart
2nd Battalion: Cpt Correll Smith
3rd Battalion: Cpt William Clark
Chattanooga garrison
BG James B. Steedman [29]
Post of Chattanooga
Col John G. Parkhurst
44th Indiana : Ltc Simeon C. Aldrich
15th Kentucky : Maj William G. Halpin
9th Michigan : Ltc William Wilkerson
Hooker's Command [ ]
MG Joseph Hooker [30]
Escort:
15th Illinois Cavalry , Company K: Cpt Samuel B. Sherer
XI Corps [ ]
MG Oliver O. Howard
General Headquarters:
8th New York, Independent Company: Cpt Anton Bruhn
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
Second Division
BG Adolph von Steinwehr
1st Brigade
Col Adolphus Buschbeck
33rd New Jersey : Col George W. Mindil
134th New York : Col Allan H. Jackson
154th New York : Col Patrick H. Jones
27th Pennsylvania : Maj Peter A. McAloon (mw ), Cpt August Riedt
73rd Pennsylvania : Ltc Joseph B. Taft (k ), Cpt Daniel F. Kelley (c ), Lt Samuel D. Miller
2nd Brigade
Col Orland Smith
33rd Massachusetts : Ltc Godfrey Rider, Jr.
136th New York : Col James Wood
55th Ohio : Col Charles B. Gambee
73rd Ohio : Maj Samuel H. Hurst
Third Division
MG Carl Schurz
1st Brigade
BG Hector Tyndale
101st Illinois : Col Charles H. Fox
45th New York : Maj Charles Koch
143rd New York : Col Horace Boughton
61st Ohio : Col Stephen J. McGroarty
82nd Ohio : Ltc David Thomson
2nd Brigade
Col Wladimir Krzyzanowski
58th New York : Cpt Michael Esembaux
119th New York : Col John T. Lockman
141st New York : Col William K. Logie
26th Wisconsin : Cpt Frederick C. Winkler
3rd Brigade
Col Frederick Hecker
80th Illinois : Cpt James Neville
82nd Illinois : Ltc Edward S. Salomon
68th New York : Ltc Albert von Steinhausen
75th Pennsylvania : Maj August Ledig
Artillery
Maj Thomas W. Osborn
1st New York Light, Battery I: Cpt Michael Wiedrich
New York Light, 13th Battery: Cpt William Wheeler
1st Ohio Light, Battery I :[21] Cpt Hubert Dilger
1st Ohio Light, Battery K : Lt Nicholas Sahm
4th United States, Battery G :[21] Lt Christopher F. Merkle
XII Corps [ ]
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
Second Division[31]
BG John W. Geary
1st Brigade
Col Charles Candy [32]
Col William R. Creighton (k )
Col Thomas J. Ahl
5th Ohio : Col John H. Patrick
7th Ohio : Col William R. Creighton, Ltc Orrin J. Crane (k ), Cpt Ernst J. Krieger
29th Ohio : Col William F. Fitch
66th Ohio : Ltc Eugene Powell, Cpt Thomas McConnell
28th Pennsylvania : Col Thomas J. Ahl, Cpt John H. Flynn
147th Pennsylvania : Ltc Ario Pardee, Jr.
2nd Brigade
Col George A. Cobham, Jr.
29th Pennsylvania : Col William Rickards, Jr.
109th Pennsylvania : Cpt Frederick L. Gimber
111th Pennsylvania : Col Thomas M. Walker
3rd Brigade
Col David Ireland
60th New York : Col Abel Godard
78th New York : Ltc Herbert von Hammerstein
102nd New York : Col James C. Lane
137th New York : Cpt Milo B. Eldredge
149th New York : Col Henry A. Barnum ,[33] Ltc Charles B. Randoll
Artillery
Maj John A. Reynolds[34]
Army of the Tennessee [ ]
MG William T. Sherman [35]
XV Corps [ ]
MG Francis P. Blair [36]
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
First Division
BG Peter J. Osterhaus
1st Brigade
BG Charles R. Woods
13th Illinois : Ltc Frederick W. Partridge (w ), Maj Douglas R. Bushnell (k ), Cpt George P. Brown
3rd Missouri : Ltc Theodore Meumann
12th Missouri : Col Hugo Wangelin (w ), Ltc Jacob Kaercher
17th Missouri : Col John F. Cramer
27th Missouri : Col Thomas Curley
29th Missouri : Col James Peckham (w ), Maj Philip H. Murphy
31st Missouri : Ltc Samuel P. Simpson
32nd Missouri : Ltc Henry C. Warmoth
76th Ohio : Maj Willard Warner
2nd Brigade
Col James A. Williamson
4th Iowa : Ltc George Burton
9th Iowa : Col David Carskaddon
25th Iowa : Col George A. Stone
26th Iowa : Col Milo Smith
30th Iowa : Ltc Aurelius Roberts
31st Iowa : Ltc Jeremiah W. Jenkins
Artillery
Cpt Henry H. Griffiths
Iowa Light, 1st Battery : Lt James M. Williams
2nd Missouri Light, Battery F : Cpt Clemens Landgraeber
Ohio Light, 4th Battery : Cpt George Froehlich
Second Division
BG Morgan L. Smith
1st Brigade
BG Giles A. Smith (w )
Col Nathan W. Tupper
55th Illinois : Col Oscar Malmborg
116th Illinois : Col Nathan W. Tupper, Ltc James P. Boyd
127th Illinois : Ltc Frank S. Curtiss
6th Missouri : Ltc Ira Boutell
8th Missouri : Ltc David C. Coleman
57th Ohio : Ltc Samuel R. Mott
13th United States , 1st Battalion: Cpt Charles C. Smith
2nd Brigade
BG Joseph A. J. Lightburn
83rd Indiana : Col Benjamin J. Spooner
30th Ohio : Col Theodore Jones
37th Ohio : Ltc Louis Von Blessingh
47th Ohio : Col Augustus C. Parry
54th Ohio : Maj Robert Williams, jr.
4th West Virginia : Col James H. Dayton
Artillery
Fourth Division
BG Hugh B. Ewing
1st Brigade
Col John M. Loomis
26th Illinois : Ltc Robert A. Gillmore
90th Illinois : Col Timothy O'Meara (k ), Ltc Owen Stuart
12th Indiana : Col Reuben Williams
100th Indiana : Ltc Albert Heath
2nd Brigade[37]
BG John M. Corse (w )
Col Charles C. Walcutt
40th Illinois : Maj Hiram W. Hall
103rd Illinois : Col William A. Dickerman
6th Iowa : Ltc Alexander J. Miller
46th Ohio : Col Charles C. Walcutt , Cpt Isaac N. Alexander
3rd Brigade
Col Joseph R. Cockerill
48th Illinois : Ltc Lucien Greathouse
97th Indiana : Col Robert F. Catterson
99th Indiana : Col Alexander Fowler
53rd Ohio : Col Wells S. Jones
70th Ohio : Maj William B. Brown
Artillery
Cpt Henry Richardson
XVII Corps [ ]
Division
Brigade
Regiments and others
Second Division
BG John E. Smith
1st Brigade
Col Jesse I. Alexander
63rd Illinois : Col Joseph B. McCown
48th Indiana : Ltc Edward J. Wood
59th Indiana : Cpt Willford H. Welman
4th Minnesota : Ltc John E. Tourtellotte
18th Wisconsin : Col Gabriel Bouck
2nd Brigade
Col Green B. Raum (w )
Col Francis C. Deimling
Col Clark R. Wever
56th Illinois : Maj Pinckney J. Welsh (w )
17th Iowa : Col Clark R. Wever, Maj John F. Walden
10th Missouri : Col Francis C. Deimling, Ltc Christian Happel, Col Francis C. Deimling
24th Missouri , Company E: Cpt William W. McCammon
80th Ohio : Ltc Pren Metham
3rd Brigade
BG Charles L. Matthies (w )
Col Benjamin D. Dean[18]
Col Jabez Banbury[38]
93rd Illinois : Col Holden Putnam (k ), Ltc Nicholas C. Buswell
5th Iowa : Col Jabez Banbury, Ltc Ezekiel S. Sampson
10th Iowa : Ltc Paris P. Henderson, Maj Nathaniel McCalla (w )
26th Missouri : Col Benjamin D. Dean
Artillery
Cpt Henry Dillon
Notes [ ]
^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 14-24
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 80-90
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 808-812
^ John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, page 558
^ The First Brigade and Battery M, 4th United States Artillery, at Bridgeport Alabama; the 115th Illinois and 84th Indiana , of the Second Brigade, and 5th Indiana Battery, at Shellmound, Tennessee, and the 30th Indiana and 77th Pennsylvania , of the Third Brigade, and Battery H, 4th United States Artillery, at Whiteside's, Tennessee
^ Relinquished command on account of sickness (see: Hicks' report )
^ a b c d e Temporarily in command of a demi-brigade
^ The 51st Indiana was between Nashville and Chattanooga en route to join the brigade
^ Commanded part of time 6th Indiana and 5th Kentucky (see: Berry's report )
^ Succeeded Lieutenant Colonel Langdon in command of the 23rd Kentucky and 1st Ohio (see: Stafford's report )
^ Commanded part of time 23rd Kentucky and 1st Ohio (see: Foy's and Stafford's report )
^ Wounded but remained on the field
^ Commanded part of time 41st Ohio and 93rd Ohio (see: Kimberly's and Smith's report )
^ Succeeded Colonel Wiley in command of the 41st Ohio and 93rd Ohio (see: Kimberly's and Smith's report )
^ After Colonel Stoughton assumed command, Colonel Moore (69th Ohio) took command of the 19th Illinois, 11th Michigan and 69th Ohio and Major John R. Edie (15th United States) of the 15th, 16th, 18th and 19th United States (see: Stoughton's and Moore's reports ).
^ Relinquished command on account of sickness (see: Johnson's report)
^ a b Assumed command November 25, 1863
^ Took command of the regular infantry detachments at Missionary Ridge
^ During the engagements of 23, 24, and 25 November 1863 was in line of battle holding fort and breastworks at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
^ a b c Temporarily attached to Second Division, Fourth Army Corps
^ 14th Michigan detached at Columbia, Tennessee
^ 3rd Ohio detached at Kelley's Ferry, Tennessee River
^ 18th Kentucky detached at Brown's Ferry, Tennessee
^ Chief of Artillery, Army of the Cumberland
^ Temporarily attached to Third Division, Fourth Army Corps
^ Corps headquarters and the First and Second Brigades and 18th Indiana Battery, of the First Division, at and about Alexandria, Tennessee; the Third Brigade at Caperton's Ferry, Tennessee River. The First and Third Brigades, and the Chicago Board, of Trade Battery, of the Second Division, at Maysville, Alabama.
^ John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, page 505
^ John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher , Civil War High Commands, page 507
^ Major General Joseph Hooker, commanding Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps had under his immediate command the First Division, Fourth Corps, the Second Division, Twelfth Corps, portions of the Fourteenth Corps, and the First Division, Fifteenth Corps.
^ The First Division engaged in guarding the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad from Wartrace Bridge, to Bridgeport, Alabama, etc. Major General Henry W. Slocum , the corps commander, had his headquarters at Tullahoma, Tennessee.
^ Disabled November 24, 1863
^ Relinquished command on account of sickness (see: Randoll's report )
^ Chief of Artillery, Twelfth Corps
^ General Sherman had under his immediate command the Eleventh Corps and the Second Division, Fourteenth Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland; the Second and Fourth Divisions, Fifteenth Corps.
^ The Third Division, Brigadier General James M. Tuttle commanding, at Memphis, La Grange, and Pocahontas, Tennessee.
^ 15th Michigan detached at Scottsborough, Alabama
^ Succeeded Colonel Benjamin D. Dean November 25, 1863
References [ ]
Eicher, John H. and David J. , Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
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.