Gettysburg Union order of battle
The Union order of battle during the Battle of Gettysburg includes the American Civil War officers and men of the Army of the Potomac (multiple commander names indicate succession of command during the three-day battle (July 1–3, 1863)). Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle,[1] the casualty returns[2] and the reports.[3]
Abbreviations used[]
Military rank[]
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Cpt = Captain
- Lt = Lieutenant
- Sgt = Sergeant
Other[]
- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k = killed
- c = captured
- m = missing
Army of the Potomac[]
MG George G. Meade, Commanding
General Staff and Headquarters[]
General Staff:
- Chief of Staff: MG Daniel Butterfield (w)
- Assistant Adjutant General: BG Seth Williams
- Assistant Inspector General: Col Edmund Schriver
- Chief Quartermaster: BG Rufus Ingalls
- Commissaries and subsistence: Col Henry F. Clarke
- Chief of Artillery: BG Henry J. Hunt (w)
- Chief Ordnance Officer: Cpt Daniel W. Flagler
- Chief Signal Officer: Cpt Lemuel B. Norton
- Medical Director: Maj Jonathan Letterman
- Chief of Engineers: BG Gouverneur K. Warren (w)
- Bureau of Military Information: Col George H. Sharpe
General Headquarters:
Command of the Provost Marshal General: BG Marsena R. Patrick[4]
- 93rd New York: Col John S. Crocker
- 8th United States (8 companies): Cpt Edwin W. H. Read
- 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col Richard Butler Price
- 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Companies E & I): Cpt James Starr
- Regular cavalry[5]
Guards and Orderlies:
- Oneida (New York) Cavalry: Cpt Daniel P. Mann
Engineer Brigade: BG Henry W. Benham[6]
- 15th New York (3 companies): Maj Walter L. Cassin
- 50th New York: Col William H. Pettes
- U.S. Battalion: Cpt George H. Mendell
I Corps[]
MG John F. Reynolds (k) [7]
MG Abner Doubleday[8]
MG John Newton
General Headquarters:
- 1st Maine Cavalry, Company L: Cpt Constantine Taylor
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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First Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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Second Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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Third Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade[11]
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| Artillery Brigade
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II Corps[]
MG Winfield S. Hancock[12] (w)
BG John Gibbon
BG William Hays
General Headquarters:
- 6th New York Cavalry, Companies D and K: Cpt Riley Johnson (Escort)
- 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry , Companies A, B and K: Maj Octavus Bull (Provost Marshal 2nd Corps) [13]
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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First Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade
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| 4th Brigade
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Second Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade
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| unattached |
| |
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Third Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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||
| 3rd Brigade
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| Artillery Brigade
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III Corps[]
MG Daniel E. Sickles (w)
MG David B. Birney (w)
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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First Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade |
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Second Division
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1st Brigade [23]
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| 2nd Brigade |
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| 3rd Brigade |
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| Artillery Brigade
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V Corps[]
MG George Sykes
General Headquarters:
- 12th New York Infantry (Companies D and E): Cpt Henry W. Ryder
- 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Companies D and H: Cpt William Thompson
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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First Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| 3rd Brigade
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Second Division |
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade
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1st Brigade |
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| 3rd Brigade
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| Artillery Brigade
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VI Corps[]
MG John Sedgwick
General Headquarters:
- 1st New Jersey Cavalry, Company L and 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company H: Cpt William S. Craft
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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First Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| |
| 3rd Brigade |
| |
| Provost Guard |
| |
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Second Division [29] |
2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade |
| |
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Third Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade [30]
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| Artillery Brigade
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XI Corps[]
MG Oliver O. Howard[31]
MG Carl Schurz
General Headquarters:
- 1st Indiana Cavalry, Companies I and K: Cpt Abram Sharra
- 8th New York Infantry (1 company): Lt Hermann Foerster
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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First Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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Second Division
|
1st Brigade |
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| 2nd Brigade
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Third Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| Artillery Brigade
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XII Corps[]
MG Henry W. Slocum[32]
BG Alpheus S. Williams
Provost Guard:
- 10th Maine Battalion (3 companies): Cpt John D. Beardsley
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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First Division
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1st Brigade |
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| 3rd Brigade
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Second Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade
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| Reporting directly | Lockwood's Brigade [34]
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| Artillery Brigade |
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Cavalry Corps[]
MG Alfred Pleasonton
Headquarter Guards:
- 1st Ohio Cavalry, Company A: Cpt Noah Jones (Second Division)
- 1st Ohio Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Samuel N. Stanford (Third Division)
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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First Division
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1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| Reserve Brigade
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Second Division [35]
|
1st Brigade
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| 3rd Brigade
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Third Division
|
1st Brigade
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| 2nd Brigade
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| 1st Brigade |
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| 2nd Brigade [38]
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Artillery Reserve[]
BG Robert O. Tyler
Cpt James M. Robertson
Headquarter Guard:
- 32nd Massachusetts Infantry, Company C: Cpt Josiah C. Fuller
| Brigade | Batteries |
|---|---|
| 1st Regular Brigade
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| 1st Volunteer Brigade
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| 2nd Volunteer Brigade
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| 3rd Volunteer Brigade
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| 4th Volunteer Brigade
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| Train Guard |
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Notes[]
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVII, Part 1, pages 155-168; Gettysburg National Military Park-Army of the Potomac
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVII, Part 1, pages 173-187
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXVII, Part 1, pages 5-14
- ^ 93rd New York and 8th United States not engaged
- ^ detachments from 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 6th Regiments
- ^ not engaged. With the exception of the regular battalion, it was July 1, and while at Beaver Dam Creek (Maryland), ordered to Washington D.C. , where it arrived July 3.
- ^ Major General Reynolds was killed July 1, while in command of the left wing of the army (I, III, and XI Corps and First Division, Cavalry Corps)
- ^ Major General Doubleday commanded the Corps July 1, and Major General Newton, who was assigned to that command on the 1st [1] [2], superseded him July 2
- ^ transferred, in afternoon of July 1, to the First Brigade
- ^ temporarily transferred to the First Brigade
- ^ arrived on the evening of July 1 and did not take part on the first day of the battle [3]; 12th Vermont and 15th Vermont were detached as train guard
- ^ After the death of General Reynolds, General Hancock was assigned to the command of all troops on the field of battle [4], relieving General Howard, who had succeeded General Reynolds. General Gibbon, of the Second Division, assumed command of the corps. These assignments terminated on the evening of July 1. Similar changes in commanders occurred during the battle of the 2nd, when General Hancock was put in command of the Third Corps in addition to that of his own. He was wounded on the 3rd, and Brigadier General William Hays [5] was assigned to the command of the corps.
- ^ under the command of General Patrick (Provost Marshal General of the Army) during the battle [6]
- ^ Col McKeen was placed in temporary command of the 148th Pennsylvania Infantry because Colonel James Addams Beaver was ill. Col Edward E. Cross believed that Ltc McFarlane was too inexperienced to lead the regiment.
- ^ 2nd Company Minnesota Sharpshooters attached
- ^ arrested by Hancock on July 2; restored on July 4
- ^ served as Provost Guard during the battle
- ^ arrested by Hancock; released July 3 upon application by Hays and MacDougall
- ^ Transferred from Artillery Reserve, July 1; 14th New York Battery attached
- ^ relieved on July 3
- ^ also commanded 141st Pennsylvania
- ^ Cpt Fritz commanded the regiment after Maj Moore was wounded; Maj Moore returned to command on July 3
- ^ The 84th Pennsylvania guarded the corps trains, and was not engaged in the battle.
- ^ on picket duty on July 2; rejoined brigade after the fighting of the second day of the battle had ceased [7]
- ^ Brady's Company Michigan Sharpshooters attached [8]
- ^ joined corps June 28. The Second Brigade left in the Department of Washington
- ^ Also in command of the Third Brigade, Third Division, on July 3,
- ^ Upton commanded the Brigade for part of time on July 1
- ^ no First Brigade in division
- ^ The 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry guarded the wagon trains at Westminster, and was not engaged in the battle. However, a detachment of 103 men commanded by Lt Robert W. Lyon was sent as a guard with a supply train and placed on defensive line north of Round Top.
- ^ During the interval between the death of General Reynolds and the arrival of General Hancock on the afternoon of July 1, all the troops on the field of battle were commanded by General Howard, General Schurz taking command of the Eleventh Corps, and General Schimmelfennig of the Third Division
- ^ Exercised command of the right wing of the army during a part of the battle. But see Slocum to Meade, December 30, 1863 and Meade to Slocum, February 25, 1864
- ^ Kane returned to the army at Gettysburg on July 2, but he had to share command with Cobham on account of sickness [9]
- ^ Unassigned during progress of battle; afterward attached to First Division, as Second Brigade. The command theretofore known as the Second Brigade had previously been consolidated with the First Brigade
- ^ The Second Brigade (2nd and 4th New York Cavalry, 6th Ohio Cavalry, and 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry) under Colonel Pennock Huey was at Westminster, and not engaged in the battle
- ^ Served with VI Corps, and on the right flank.
- ^ Served as light artillery.
- ^ Battery C, 3rd United States was with the Second Brigade, Second Division and not engaged in the Battle
- ^ 10th New York Battery attached
- ^ a b not engaged
- ^ 11th New York Battery attached
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.
- Gettysburg National Military Park - The Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg
- Civil War Trust - Gettysburg Union order of battle
- Civilwarhome - Gettysburg Union order of battle
- Gettysburg Discussion Group - Union order of battle
- Eicher, John H. "Gettysburg Order of Battle" at Gettysburg Discussion Group website.
External links[]
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- American Civil War orders of battle
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