Wauhatchie Union order of battle

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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Wauhatchie of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the casualty returns[1] and the reports.[2]

Abbreviations used[]

Military rank[]

Other[]

Hooker's Command[]

MG Joseph Hooker

XI Corps[]

MG Oliver O. Howard

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division
     BG Adolph von Steinwehr

1st Brigade[3]


   Col Adolphus Buschbeck

  • 134th New York
  • 154th New York
  • 27th Pennsylvania
  • 73rd Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade


   Col Orland Smith

  • 33rd Massachusetts: Col Adin B. Underwood (w), Ltc Godfrey Rider Jr.
  • 136th New York: Col James Wood
  • 55th Ohio[4]
  • 73rd Ohio: Maj Samuel H. Hurst

Third Division
     MG Carl Schurz

1st Brigade


   BG Hector Tyndale

  • 101st Illinois
  • 45th New York
  • 143rd New York
  • 61st Ohio
  • 82nd Ohio
2nd Brigade


   Col Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski

  • 58th New York
  • 119th New York
  • 141st New York
  • 26th Wisconsin
3rd Brigade[5]


   Col Friedrich Hecker

  • 80th Illinois (6 companies)
  • 68th New York
  • 75th Pennsylvania
Cavalry

XII Corps[]

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division[7]
     BG John W. Geary

2nd Brigade


   Col George A. Cobham, Jr.

  • 29th Pennsylvania: Col William Rickards, Jr., Ltc Samuel M. Zulick[8]
  • 109th Pennsylvania: Cpt Frederick L. Gimber
  • 111th Pennsylvania: Ltc Thomas M. Walker (w), Maj John A. Boyle (k)
3rd Brigade[9]


   BG George S. Greene (w)
   Col David Ireland

  • 78th New York: Ltc Herbert von Hammerstein
  • 137th New York: Col David Ireland, Ltc Koert S. Van Voorhees (w), Cpt Milo B. Eldredge
  • 149th New York: Ltc Charles B. Randall
Artillery Brigade


   Maj John A. Reynolds[10]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 1, pages 74-76
  2. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 1, pages 952-953
  3. ^ In reserve
  4. ^ On picket duty
  5. ^ 82nd Illinois attached to the 3rd Brigade on October 21, 1863 (see: Itinerary 1st Brigade, Third Division, XI Corps), but was not mentioned in Schurz's report
  6. ^ See: Hooker's and Howard's reports
  7. ^ 1st Brigade (5th, 7th, 29th and 66th Ohio and 28th and 147th Pennsylvania) not present
  8. ^ On guard duty (see: Geary's, Cobham's and Rickards reports)
  9. ^ 60th New York detached at Whiteside Pike (see: Geary's and Ireland's reports); 102nd New York also belonged to this Brigade, but acted as escort to the division ambulance train, en route from Murfreesborough to Bridgeport (see: Geary's report and Itinerary 3rd Brigade, Second Division, XII Corps)
  10. ^ The command of Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery devolved on Reynolds as the only Artillery Officer present after Atwell and Geary were mortally wounded (see: Geary's and Reynolds' reports)

References[]

  • 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.
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