New Bern order of battle

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Orders of battle of the Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of New Bern, 14 March 1862.[1]

Military Rank Abbreviations Used[]

Union Army[]

Department of North Carolina "Coast Division of the US Army"[]

BG Ambrose E. Burnside

Brigades Regiments and batteries
First Brigade:


   BG John G. Foster

  • 10th Connecticut: Ltc Albert Drake
  • 23rd Massachusetts: Col John Kurtz
  • 24th Massachusetts: Col Thomas G. Stevenson
  • 25th Massachusetts: Col Edwin Upton
  • 27th Massachusetts: Col Horace C. Lee
Second Brigade


   BG Jesse L. Reno

  • 21st Massachusetts: Ltc William S. Clark
  • 9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry (Jersey Muskrats): Ltc Charles Heckman
  • 51st New York: Col Edward Ferrero
  • 51st Pennsylvania: Col John Hartranft
Third Brigade


   BG John G. Parke

Unassigned units
  • 1st New York Marine Artillery (detachment): Col William A. Howard
  • 99th New York (Union Coast Guard) (Company B): Ltc Charles W. Tillotson
  • New York Rocket Battalion
  • Army gunboat Picket

Union Navy[]

US Naval Forces in Pamlico Sound
      Commander Stephen C. Rowan

Confederate Army[]

Regiments and batteries

Pamlico District of the Department of North Carolina
      BG Lawrence O'Bryan Branch

  • 2nd North Carolina Cavalry
  • 7th North Carolina
  • 26th North Carolina
  • 27th North Carolina
  • 28th North Carolina
  • 33rd North Carolina
  • 35th North Carolina
  • 37th North Carolina
  • North Carolina Heavy Artillery (company)
  • Special Battalion, North Carolina Militia

Notes[]

  1. ^ Buel, Clarence (1956). Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 1. Robert Johnson (ed.). Thomas Yoseloff. p. 670.
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