Perryville Union order of battle

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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Perryville of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1][2] during the battle and return of casualties.[3] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used[]

Military rank[]

Artillery[]

Other[]

Army of the Ohio[]

Main article: Army of the Ohio

55,000 men, 147 guns (k-889, w-2966, m-433 = 4,288)

MG Don Carlos Buell, Commanding
MG George Henry Thomas, second in command

Escort:


Signal detachment: Cpt Jesse Merrill

I Corps[]

Main article: I Corps (Union Army)

13,000 men, 38 guns (k-695, w-2290, m-346 = 3,331)

MG Alexander McDowell McCook

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Third Division
24 guns, k-494, w-1517, m-148 = 2,159


     BG Lovell Harrison Rousseau


Escort:

  • 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics (Companies A, C, & H): Maj Enos Hopkins
  • 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (6 companies): Col Buckner Board
 9th Brigade
k-142, w-427, m-39 = 608


   Col Leonard A. Harris

  • 38th Indiana: Col Benjamin Franklin Scribner (w)
  • 2nd Ohio: Ltc John Kell
  • 33rd Ohio: Ltc Oscar Fitzallen Moore (w)
  • 94th Ohio: Col Joseph Washington Frizell
  • 10th Wisconsin: Col Alfred Rose Chapin
  • 5th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [2 6-pdr M1841 Jam R, 2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr SB]: Cpt Peter Simonson
17th Brigade
k-187, w-614, m-35 = 836


   Col William Haines Lytle (w/c)
   Col Curran Pope (w)[4]

28th Brigade
k-165, w-458, m-70 = 693


   Col John Converse Starkweather

Tenth Division
14 guns, k-201, w-773, m-198 = 1,172


     BG James Streshly Jackson (k)
     Col Albert Sereno Hall

33rd Brigade
k-112, w-356, m-59 = 527


   BG William Rufus Terrill (mw)


Escort:

  • Terrill's Guards & Scouts: Cpt Louis Christman
  • Garrard's Detachment (7th Kentucky, 1 company; 32nd Kentucky, 1 company; 3rd Tennessee, 1 company): Col Theophilus Toulmin Garrard
  • 80th Illinois: Col Thomas G. Allen (w)
  • 123rd Illinois: Col James Monroe
  • 101st Indiana: Col William Garver [not engaged; supply train guard]
  • 105th Ohio: Col Albert Sereno Hall, Ltc William R. Tolles
  • Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery [1 section, attached to Parsons' Battery]: 2Lt Nathaniel M. Newell
  • Parsons' Independent Battery [5 12-pdr Nap, 2 12-pdr How, 1 10-pdr Par]: Lt Charles Carroll Parsons
34th Brigade
k-89, w-417, m-139 = 645


   Col George P. Webster (k)
   Ltc Silas A. Strickland[5]

  • 80th Indiana: Ltc Lewis Brooks
  • 50th Ohio: Col Jonah R. Taylor,[6] Ltc Silas A. Strickland
  • 98th Ohio: Ltc Christian L. Poorman
  • 121st Ohio: Col William Pitt Reid
  • 19th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [4 12-pdr How, 2 3" R]: Cpt Samuel J. Harris

II Corps[]

Main article: II Corps (Union Army)

20,000 men, 65 guns (k-2, w-4, m-6 = 12)

MG Thomas Leonidas Crittenden

Escort:

  • 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics (Companies B, E, I, & K): Col William Power Innes
  • 1st Ohio Cavalry (4 companies): Maj James Laughlin
  • 3rd Ohio Cavalry (4 companies): Maj John Howard Foster
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Fourth Division
27 guns, k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0


     BG William Sooy Smith


Escort:

  • 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (4 companies): Ltc Thomas Cochran
 10th Brigade


   Col William Grose

  • 84th Illinois: Col Louis H. Waters
  • 36th Indiana: Ltc Oliver Hazard Perry Cary
  • 23rd Kentucky: Ltc John P. Jackson
  • 6th Ohio: Col Nicholas Longworth Anderson
  • 24th Ohio: Ltc Frederick C. Jones
  • 4th US Light Artillery, Battery "H" [4 12-pdr Nap, 2 10-pdr Par]: Bvt Lt Samuel Canby
  • 4th US Light Artillery, Battery "M" [2 sections; 2 12-pdr Nap, 2 24-pdr How]: Cpt John Mendenhall
19th Brigade


   Col William Babcock Hazen

22nd Brigade


   BG Charles Cruft

  • 31st Indiana: Col John Osborn
  • 1st Kentucky: Ltc David A. Enyart
  • 2nd Kentucky: Col Thomas D. Sedgewick
  • 20th Kentucky: Ltc Charles S. Hanson
  • 90th Ohio: Col Isaac N. Ross
  • 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery "B" [4 6-pdr M1841 Jam R, 2 6-pdr SB]: Cpt William E. Standart

Fifth Division
18 guns, k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0


     BG Horatio Phillips Van Cleve

11th Brigade


   Col Samuel Beatty

14th Brigade


   Col Pierce Butler Hawkins

  • 44th Indiana: Col Hugh B. Reed
  • 86th Indiana: Col Orville S. Hamilton
  • 11th Kentucky: Ltc Smoloff Pallas Love
  • 26th Kentucky: Col Cicero Maxwell
  • 13th Ohio: Col Joseph C. Hawkins
  • Battery B, Pennsylvania Light Artillery [6 6-pdr SB]: Lt Alanson Stevens
23rd Brigade


   Col Stanley Matthews

Sixth Division
18 guns, k-0, w-0, m-2 = 2


     BG Thomas John Wood

15th Brigade

k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0


   BG Milo Smith Hascall

20th Brigade

k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0


   Col Charles Garrison Harker

  • 51st Indiana: Col Abel D. Streight
  • 73rd Indiana: Col Gilbert Hathaway
  • 13th Michigan: Ltc Frederick William Wordon
  • 64th Ohio: Col John Ferguson
  • 65th Ohio: Ltc William Young
  • 6th Ohio Light Artillery [2 12-pdr How, 4 10-pdr Par]: Cpt Cullen Bradley
21st Brigade

k-0, w-0, m-2 = 2


   Col George Day Wagner

  • 15th Indiana: Ltc Gustavus Adolphus Wood
  • 40th Indiana: Col John Wesley Blake
  • 57th Indiana: Col Cyrus Cooke Hines
  • 24th Kentucky: Col Lewis Braxton Grigsby
  • 97th Ohio: Col John Quincy Lane
  • 10th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [2 12-pdr How, 4 10-pdr Par]: Cpt Jerome B. Cox
Cavalry McCook's Cavalry Brigade

k-2, w-4, m-4 = 10


   Col Edward Moody McCook

  • 2nd Indiana Cavalry: Ltc Robert Reed Stewart
  • 1st Kentucky Cavalry: Col Frank Lane Wolford
  • 3rd Kentucky Cavalry: Col Eli Houston Murray
  • 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 1st Battalion: Maj John Estill Wynkoop
  • 4th US Light Artillery, Battery "M" [1 section; 2 12-pdr Nap]: Lt Henry Alonzo Huntington

III Corps[]

Main article: III Corps (Union Army)

22,000 men, 44 guns (k-192, w-672, m-80 = 944)

MG Charles Champion Gilbert

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
14 guns, k-4, w-14, m-7 = 25


     BG Albin Francisco Schoepf


Escort:

  • 1st Ohio Cavalry (6 companies): Col Minor Millikin


 1st Brigade

k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0


   Col Moses B. Walker

  • 82nd Indiana: Col Morton Craig Hunter
  • 12th Kentucky: Col William Hoskins
  • 17th Ohio: Col John M. Connell
  • 31st Ohio: Ltc Frederick William Lister
  • 38th Ohio: Ltc William Alden Choate
  • 1st Michigan Light Artillery, Battery "D" [2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr M1841 R]: Cpt Josiah W. Church
2nd Brigade

k-4, w-7, m-0 = 11


   BG Speed Smith Fry

3rd Brigade

k-0, w-7, m-7 = 14


   BG James Blair Steedman

  • 87th Indiana: Col Kline Godfrey Shryock
  • 2nd Minnesota: Col James George
  • 9th Ohio: Ltc Charles Joseph
  • 35th Ohio: Col Ferdinand Van Derveer
  • 18th US: Maj Frederick Townsend
  • 4th US Light Artillery, Battery "I" [4 12-pdr How]: Lt Frank G. Smith

Ninth Division
16 guns, k-133, w-356, m-58 = 547


     BG Robert Byington Mitchell


Escort:

30th Brigade

k-133, w-344, m-58 = 535


   Col Michael Gooding (w/c)

  • 59th Illinois: Maj Joshua Carroll Winters
  • 74th Illinois: Col James B. Kerr (not engaged; supply train guard)
  • 75th Illinois: Ltc John E. Bennett
  • 22nd Indiana: Ltc Squire Isham Keith (k)
  • 5th Wisconsin Battery Light Artillery [2 10-pdr Par, 2 12-pdr How, 2 12-pdr Mtn]: Cpt Oscar F. Pinney
31st Brigade

k-0, w-11, m-0 = 11


   Col William Passmore Carlin

32nd Brigade

k-0, w-1, m-0 = 1


   Col William Wallace Caldwell

Eleventh Division
12 guns, k-51, w-288, m-14 = 353


     BG Philip Henry Sheridan


Escort:

  • Company L, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry:
 35th Brigade

k-22, w-102, m-1 = 125


   Ltc Bernard Laiboldt

  • 44th Illinois: Cpt Wallace W. Barrett
  • 73rd Illinois: Col James F. Jaquess
  • 2nd Missouri: Cpt Walter Hoppe (k)
  • 15th Missouri: Maj John Weber
36th Brigade

k-8, w-62, m-9 = 79


   Col Daniel McCook, Jr.

  • 85th Illinois: Col Robert S. Moore
  • 86th Illinois: Col David D. Irons
  • 125th Illinois: Col Oscar Fitzalan Harmon
  • 52nd Ohio: Ltc Daniel D. T. Cowen
37th Brigade

k-21, w-118, m-4 = 143


   Col Nicholas Greusel

Artillery
  • 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery "I" [2 12-pdr Nap, 2 10-pdr Par, 2 6-pdr M1841 Jam R]: Cpt Charles M. Barnett
  • 1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery "G" [4 12-pdr Nap, 2 10-pdr Par]: Cpt Henry Hescock
Cavalry Gay's Cavalry Brigade

k-4, w-14, m-1 = 19


   Cpt Ebenezer Gay

  • 9th Kentucky Cavalry (Companies A, B, D, F, H, I, K, & M): Ltc John Boyle
  • 2nd Michigan Cavalry: Ltc Archibald P. Campbell (w)
  • 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc Thomas Chalkley James
  • 2nd Minnesota Battery Light Artillery [1 section; 2 12-pdr How]: Cpt William A. Hotchkiss

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVI, Part 2, pages 591-596.
  2. ^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  3. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVI, Part 1, pages 1033-1036.
  4. ^ Pope died in Danville, Kentucky on November 6, 1862 of symptoms "resembling typhoid fever"
  5. ^ Eicher p.516
  6. ^ Fled the field at the onset of battle

References[]

  • Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
  • Holman, Kurt. Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised January 10, 2008), unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
  • Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, University Press of Kentucky, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8131-2209-0.
  • U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume XVI, Part I and II (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), 1886.
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