Chickamauga Union order of battle


The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chickamauga of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

MG William Rosecrans, Commanding
General Staff

Chief of Staff: BG James A. Garfield
General Headquarters
Pioneer Brigade

BG James St. Clair Morton, Chief Engineer
MG George Henry Thomas
Headquarters
Provost guard:
Escort:
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

BG Absalom Baird
1st Brigade

Col Benjamin F. Scribner

  • 38th Indiana: Ltc Daniel F. Griffin
  • 2nd Ohio: Ltc Obadiah C. Maxwell, Maj William T. Beatty, Cpt James Warnock
  • 33rd Ohio: Col Oscar F. Moore
  • 94th Ohio: Maj Rue P. Hutchins
  • 10th Wisconsin: Ltc John H. Ely, Cpt Jacob W. Roby
First Division

BG Absalom Baird
2nd Brigade

BG John C. Starkweather

  • 24th Illinois: Col Geza Mihalotzy, Cpt August Mauff
  • 79th Pennsylvania: Col Henry A. Hambright
  • 1st Wisconsin: Ltc George B. Bingham
  • 21st Wisconsin: Ltc Harrison C. Hobart, Cpt Charles H. Walker
First Division

BG Absalom Baird
3rd Brigade

BG John H. King

First Division

BG Absalom Baird
Artillery
  • 4th Battery, Indiana Light: Lt David Flansburg, Lt Henry J. Willits
  • Battery A, 1st Michigan Light: Lt George W. Van Pelt, Lt Almerick W. Wilbur
  • Battery H, 5th United States: Lt Howard Mather Burnham, Lt Joshua A. Fessenden
Second Division

MG James S. Negley
1st Brigade

BG John Beatty

  • 104th Illinois: Ltc Douglas Hapeman
  • 42nd Indiana: Ltc William T. B. McIntire
  • 88th Indiana: Col George Humphrey
  • 15th Kentucky: Col Marion C. Taylor
Second Division

MG James S. Negley
2nd Brigade

Col Timothy R. Stanley

Col William L. Stoughton

  • 19th Illinois: Ltc Alexander W. Raffen
  • 11th Michigan: Col William L. Stoughton, Ltc Melvin Mudge
  • 18th Ohio: Ltc Charles H. Grosvenor
Second Division

MG James S. Negley
3rd Brigade

Col William Sirwell

  • 37th Indiana: Ltc William D. Ward
  • 21st Ohio: Ltc Dwella M. Stoughton, Maj Arnold McMahan, Cpt Charles H. Vantine
  • 74th Ohio: Cpt Joseph Fisher
  • 78th Pennsylvania: Ltc Archibald Blakeley
Second Division

MG James S. Negley
Artillery
  • Bridges' Battery, Illinois Light: Cpt Lyman Bridges
  • Battery G, 1st Ohio Light: Cpt Alexander Marshall
  • Battery M, 1st Ohio Light: Cpt Frederick Schultz
Third Division

BG John Milton Brannan
1st Brigade

Col John M. Connell

  • 82nd Indiana: Col Morton C. Hunter
  • 17th Ohio: Ltc Durbin Ward
  • 31st Ohio: Ltc Frederick W. Lister
  • 38th Ohio: Col Edward H. Phelps
Third Division

BG John Milton Brannan
2nd Brigade

Col John T. Croxton

Col William H. Hays

  • 10th Indiana: Col William B. Carroll, Ltc Marsh B. Taylor
  • 74th Indiana: Col Charles W. Chapman
  • 4th Kentucky: Ltc P. Burgess Hunt, Maj Robert M. Kelly
  • 10th Kentucky: Col William H. Hays, Ltc Gabriel C. Wharton
  • 14th Ohio: Ltc Henry D. Kingsbury
Third Division

BG John Milton Brannan
3rd Brigade

Col Ferdinand Van Derveer

  • 87th Indiana: Col Newell Gleason
  • 2nd Minnesota: Col James George
  • 9th Ohio: Col Gustave Kammerling
  • 35th Ohio: Ltc Henry Van Ness Boynton
Third Division

BG John Milton Brannan
Artillery
  • Battery D, 1st Michigan Light: Cpt Josiah W. Church
  • Battery C, 1st Ohio Light: Lt Marco B. Gary
  • Battery I, 4th United States: Lt Frank G. Smith
Fourth Division

MG Joseph J. Reynolds
1st Brigade

Col John T. Wilder

  • 92nd Illinois: Col Smith D. Atkins
  • 98th Illinois: Col John J. Funkhouser, Ltc Edward Kitchell
  • 123rd Illinois: Col James Monroe
  • 17th Indiana: Maj William T. Jones
  • 72nd Indiana: Col Abram O. Miller
Fourth Division

MG Joseph J. Reynolds
2nd Brigade

Col Edward A. King

Col Milton S. Robinson

  • 68th Indiana: Cpt Harvey J. Espy
  • 75th Indiana: Col Milton S. Robinson, Ltc William O'Brien
  • 101st Indiana: Ltc Thomas Doan
  • 105th Ohio: Maj George T. Perkins
Fourth Division

MG Joseph J. Reynolds
3rd Brigade

BG John B. Turchin

  • 18th Kentucky: Ltc Hubbard K. Milward, Cpt John B. Heltemes
  • 11th Ohio: Col Philander P. Lane
  • 36th Ohio: Col William G. Jones, Ltc Hiram F. Devol
  • 92nd Ohio: Col Benjamin D. Fearing, Ltc Douglas Putnam, Jr.
Fourth Division

MG Joseph J. Reynolds
Artillery
  • 18th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Eli Lilly
  • 19th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt Samuel J. Harris, Lt Robert S. Lackey
  • 21st Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt William W. Andrew

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MG Alexander McDowell McCook
Headquarters
Provost guard:
81st Indiana Infantry, Company H: Cpt William J. Richards
Escort:
2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Company I: Lt George W. L. Batman
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

BG Jefferson C. Davis
1st Brigade

Col P. Sidney Post

  • 59th Illinois: Ltc Joshua C. Winters
  • 74th Illinois: Col Jason Marsh
  • 75th Illinois: Col John E. Bennett
  • 22nd Indiana: Col Michael Gooding
  • 5th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery: Cpt George Q. Gardner
First Division

BG Jefferson C. Davis
2nd Brigade

BG William P. Carlin

  • 21st Illinois: Col John W. S. Alexander, Cpt Chester K. Knight
  • 38th Illinois: Ltc Daniel H. Gilmer, Cpt Willis G. Whitehurst
  • 81st Indiana: Cpt Nevil B. Boone, Maj James E. Calloway
  • 101st Ohio: Ltc John Messer, Maj Bedan B. McDonald, Cpt Leonard D. Smith
  • 2nd Battery, Minnesota Light Artillery: Lt Albert Woodbury, Lt Richard L. Dawley
First Division

BG Jefferson C. Davis
3rd Brigade

Col Hans C. Heg

Col John A. Martin

  • 25th Illinois: Maj Samuel D. Wall, Cpt Wesford Taggart
  • 35th Illinois: Ltc William P. Chandler
  • 8th Kansas: Col John Alexander Martin, Ltc James L. Abernathy
  • 15th Wisconsin: Ltc Ole C. Johnson
  • 8th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery: Lt John D. McLean
Second Division

BG Richard W. Johnson
1st Brigade

BG August Willich

  • 89th Illinois: Ltc Duncan J. Hall, Maj William D. Williams
  • 32nd Indiana: Ltc Frank Erdelmeyer
  • 39th Indiana: Col Thomas J. Harrison
  • 15th Ohio: Ltc Frank Askew
  • 49th Ohio: Maj Samuel F. Gray, Cpt Luther M. Strong
  • Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt Wilbur F. Goodspeed
Second Division

BG Richard W. Johnson
2nd Brigade

Col Joseph B. Dodge

  • 79th Illinois: Col Allen Buckner
  • 29th Indiana: Ltc David M. Dunn
  • 30th Indiana: Ltc Orrin D. Hurd
  • 77th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas E. Rose, Cpt Joseph J. Lawson
  • 20th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt John F. Edward Grosskopff
Second Division

BG Richard W. Johnson
3rd Brigade

Col Philemon P. Baldwin

Col William W. Berry

  • 6th Indiana: Ltc Hagerman Tripp, Maj Calvin D. Campbell
  • 5th Kentucky: Col William W. Berry, Cpt John M. Huston
  • 1st Ohio: Ltc Bassett Langdon
  • 93rd Ohio: Col Hiram Strong, Ltc William H. Martin
  • 5th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery: Cpt Peter Simonson
Third Division

MG Philip Sheridan
1st Brigade

BG William Haines Lytle

Col Silas Miller

  • 36th Illinois: Col Silas Miller, Ltc Porter C. Olson
  • 88th Illinois: Ltc Alexander S. Chadbourne
  • 21st Michigan: Col William B. McCreery, Maj Seymour Chase
  • 24th Wisconsin: Ltc Theodore S. West, Maj Carl von Baumbach
  • 11th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery: Cpt Arnold Sutermeister
Third Division

MG Philip Sheridan
2nd Brigade

Col Bernard Laiboldt

  • 44th Illinois: Col Wallace W. Barrett
  • 73rd Illinois: Col James F. Jaquess
  • 2nd Missouri: Maj Arnold Beck
  • 15th Missouri: Col Joseph Conrad
  • Battery G, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Lt Gustavus Schueler
Third Division

MG Philip Sheridan
3rd Brigade

Col Luther Prentice Bradley

Col Nathan H. Walworth

  • 22nd Illinois: Ltc Francis Swanwick
  • 27th Illinois: Col Jonathan R. Miles
  • 42nd Illinois: Col Nathan H. Walworth, Ltc John A. Hottenstein
  • 51st Illinois: Ltc Samuel B. Raymond
  • Battery C, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Mark H. Prescott

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MG Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
Headquarters
Escort:
15th Illinois Cavalry, Company K: Cpt Samuel B. Sherer
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

BG Thomas J. Wood
1st Brigade

Col George P. Buell

  • 100th Illinois: Col Frederick A. Bartleson, Maj Charles M. Hammond
  • 58th Indiana: Ltc James T. Embree
  • 13th Michigan: Col Joshua B. Culver, Maj Willard G. Eaton
  • 26th Ohio: Ltc William H. Young
First Division

BG Thomas J. Wood
2nd Brigade

BG George D. Wagner

  • 15th Indiana: Col Gustavus A. Wood
  • 40th Indiana: Col John W. Blake
  • 57th Indiana: Ltc George W. Lennard
  • 97th Ohio: Ltc Milton Barnes
First Division

BG Thomas J. Wood
3rd Brigade

Col Charles G. Harker

  • 3rd Kentucky: Col Henry C. Dunlap
  • 64th Ohio: Col Alexander McIlvaine
  • 65th Ohio: Ltc Horatio N. Whitbeck, Maj Samuel C. Brown, Cpt Thomas Powell
  • 125th Ohio: Col Emerson Opdycke
First Division

BG Thomas J. Wood
Artillery
  • 8th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt George Estep
  • 10th Battery, Indiana Light: Lt William A. Naylor
  • 6th Battery, Ohio Light: Cpt Cullen Bradley
Second Division

MG John M. Palmer
1st Brigade

BG Charles Cruft

  • 31st Indiana: Col John T. Smith
  • 1st Kentucky: Ltc Alva R. Hadlock
  • 2nd Kentucky: Col Thomas D. Sedgewick
  • 90th Ohio: Col Charles H. Rippey
Second Division

MG John M. Palmer
2nd Brigade

BG William Babcock Hazen

  • 9th Indiana: Col Isaac C. B. Suman
  • 6th Kentucky: Col George T. Shackelford, Ltc Richard Rockingham, Maj Richard T. Whitaker
  • 41st Ohio: Col Aquila Wiley
  • 124th Ohio: Col Oliver Hazard Payne, Maj James B. Hampson
Second Division

MG John M. Palmer
3rd Brigade

Col William Grose

  • 84th Illinois: Col Louis H. Waters
  • 36th Indiana: Ltc Oliver H. P. Carey, Maj Gilbert Trusler
  • 23rd Kentucky: Ltc James C. Foy
  • 6th Ohio: Col Nicholas Longworth Anderson, Maj Samuel C. Erwin
  • 24th Ohio: Col David J. Higgins
Second Division

MG John M. Palmer
Artillery

Cpt William E. Standart

  • Battery B, 1st Ohio Light: Lt Norman A. Baldwin
  • Battery F, 1st Ohio Light: Lt Giles J. Cockerill
  • Battery H, 4th United States: Lt Harry C. Cushing
  • Battery M, 4th United States: Lt Francis L. D. Russell
Second Division

MG John M. Palmer
Unattached
Third Division

BG Horatio P. Van Cleve
1st Brigade

BG Samuel Beatty

  • 79th Indiana: Col Frederick Knefler
  • 9th Kentucky: Col George H. Cram
  • 17th Kentucky: Col Alexander M. Stout
  • 19th Ohio: Ltc Henry G. Stratton
Third Division

BG Horatio P. Van Cleve
2nd Brigade

Col George F. Dick

  • 44th Indiana: Ltc Simeon C. Aldrich
  • 86th Indiana: Maj Jacob C. Dick
  • 13th Ohio: Ltc Elhannon M. Mast, Cpt Horatio G. Cosgrove
  • 59th Ohio: Ltc Granville A. Frambes
Third Division

BG Horatio P. Van Cleve
3rd Brigade

Col Sidney M. Barnes

  • 35th Indiana: Maj John P. Dufficy
  • 8th Kentucky: Ltc James D. Mayhew, Maj John S. Clark
  • 21st Kentucky: Col Samuel Woodson Price
  • 51st Ohio: Col Richard W. McClain, Ltc Charles H. Wood
  • 99th Ohio: Col Peter T. Swaine
Third Division

BG Horatio P. Van Cleve
Artillery
  • 7th Battery, Indiana Light: Cpt George R. Swallow
  • Battery B, Pennsylvania Light Artillery: Cpt Alanson J. Stevens, Lt Samuel M. McDowell
  • 3d Battery, Wisconsin Light: Lt Cortland Livingston

Reserve Corps

MG Gordon Granger
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First division

BG James B. Steedman
1st Brigade

BG Walter C. Whitaker

  • 96th Illinois: Col Thomas E. Champion
  • 115th Illinois: Col Jesse Hale Moore
  • 84th Indiana: Col Nelson Trusler
  • 22nd Michigan: Col Heber Le Favour, Ltc William Sanborn, Cpt Alonzo M. Keeler
  • 40th Ohio: Ltc William Jones
  • 89th Ohio: Col Caleb H. Carlton, Cpt Isaac C. Nelson
  • 18th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt Charles C. Aleshire
First division

BG James B. Steedman
2nd Brigade

Col John G. Mitchell

  • 78th Illinois: Ltc Carter Van Vleck, Lt George Green
  • 98th Ohio: Cpt Moses J. Urquhart, Cpt Armstrong J. Thomas
  • 113th Ohio: Ltc Darius B. Warner
  • 121st Ohio: Ltc Henry B. Banning
  • Battery M, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Lt Thomas Burton
Second Division

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2nd Brigade

Col Daniel McCook, Jr.

  • 85th Illinois: Col Caleb J. Dilworth
  • 86th Illinois: Ltc David W. Magee
  • 125th Illinois: Col Oscar F. Harmon
  • 52nd Ohio: Maj James T. Holmes
  • 69th Ohio: Ltc Joseph H. Brigham
  • Battery I, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Charles M. Barnett

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BG Robert B. Mitchell
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

Col Edward M. McCook
1st Brigade

Col Archibald P. Campbell

  • 2nd Michigan Cavalry: Maj Leonidas S. Scranton
  • 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc Roswell M. Russell
  • 1st Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc James P. Brownlow
First Division

Col Edward M. McCook
2nd Brigade

Col Daniel M. Ray

First Division

Col Edward M. McCook
3rd Brigade

Col Louis D. Watkins

Second Division

BG George Crook
1st Brigade

Col Robert H. G. Minty

  • 3rd Indiana Cavalry : Ltc Robert Klein
  • 4th Michigan Cavalry: Maj Horace Gray
  • 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc James J. Seibert
  • 4th United States Cavalry: Cpt James B. Mcintyre
Second Division

BG George Crook
2nd Brigade

Col Eli Long

  • 2nd Kentucky Cavalry: Col Thomas P. Nicholas
  • 1st Ohio Cavalry: Ltc Valentine Cupp, Maj Thomas J. Patten
  • 3rd Ohio Cavalry: Ltc Charles B. Seidel
  • 4th Ohio Cavalry: Ltc Oliver P. Robie
Second Division

BG George Crook
Artillery