Siege of Vicksburg order of battle: Union
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Siege of Vicksburg of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign.[2]
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
Army of the Tennessee
MG Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding
General Staff:
- Acting Inspector General: BG Jeremiah C. Sullivan
- Chief of Transportation: Col Joseph D. Webster
- Chief of Staff: Ltc John A. Rawlins
General Headquarters:
- Escort: 4th Illinois Cavalry, Company A: Cpt Embury D. Osband
- Engineers: 1st Battalion, Engineer Regiment of the West: Maj William Tweeddale
- Mississippi Marine Brigade: BG Alfred W. Ellet[3]
- Mississippi Ram Fleet: Col Charles Rivers Ellet
- 1st Battalion Infantry: Ltc George E. Currie
- 1st Battalion Cavalry: Major James M. Hubbard
- Artillery Battery: Cpt Daniel Walling
IX Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
First Division
|
1st Brigade
|
|
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery |
| |
|
Second Division |
1st Brigade |
|
| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| 3rd Brigade |
| |
| Artillery |
| |
| Artillery Reserve |
XIII Corps
MG John A. McClernand[6]
MG Edward Ord
Escort
- 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company L: Cpt David R. Sparks
Pioneers
- Kentucky Engineers (Independent Company): Cpt William F. Patterson
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
Ninth Division |
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| Cavalry |
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
|
Tenth Division Escort
|
1st Brigade |
|
| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| Artillery |
| |
|
Twelfth Division Escort
|
1st Brigade |
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery |
| |
|
Fourteenth Division Escort
|
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| Artillery |
|
XV Corps
- Chief of Staff: Ltc John Henry Hammond
- Chief of Artillery: Maj Ezra Taylor
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
First Division |
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| 3rd Brigade |
| |
| Artillery |
| |
| Cavalry |
| |
|
Second Division |
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| 3rd Brigade |
| |
| Artillery |
| |
| Cavalry |
| |
|
Third Division |
1st Brigade |
|
| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
| Unattached cavalry |
|
XVI Corps (detachment)
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
First Division[14] Escort
|
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| 3rd Brigade |
| |
| 4th Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
|
Fourth Division[15] |
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Cavalry |
| |
| Artillery.
|
| |
|
Provisional Division[18] |
Engelmann's Brigade
|
|
| Richmond's Brigade
|
| |
| Montgomery's Brigade |
|
XVII Corps
Escort
- 4th Company Ohio Cavalry: Cpt John S. Foster
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
Third Division Escort
|
1st Brigade |
|
| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| 3rd Brigade |
| |
| Artillery |
| |
|
Sixth Division Escort
|
1st Brigade (Post of Lake Providence)
|
|
| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
|
Seventh Division
Escort
|
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery.
|
| |
|
Herron's Division[29] |
1st Brigade |
|
| 2nd Brigade |
| |
| Unattached cavalry
|
|
District of Northeast Louisiana
| Brigades | Regiments and batteries |
|---|---|
| Detached Brigade
|
|
| African Brigade |
|
| Post of Goodrich's Landing, La.
|
|
Notes
- ^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 148-158
- ^ The judge advocate general declared this unit as a special contingent of the army, however Grant later wrote "the Marine Brigade is not subject to my orders"
- ^ IX Corps: joined from the Department of the Ohio, June 14 to 17.
- ^ Transferred from Second Division June 25.
- ^ Relieved June 19.
- ^ Assumed command May 19.
- ^ Assumed command May 31.
- ^ Assumed command June 27.
- ^ Assumed command June 13.
- ^ Assumed command May 24.
- ^ Assumed command June 22.
- ^ Assumed command June 1.
- ^ Joined from La Grange, Tenn., June 12.
- ^ Joined from Memphis, Tenn., May 13 to 20. Temporarily attached to the Thirteenth Corps.
- ^ Transferred to Third Brigade June 22.
- ^ Assumed command June 9.
- ^ Composed of the First and Second Brigades of the Third Division and four regiments from the Sixth Division. Joined from Memphis, Tenn., June 3.
- ^ transferred to 7th Division, XVII Corps on June 3
- ^ Assumed command June 3.
- ^ By the collision of two steamers May 1, 1863, near Grand Gulf, MISS., this battery lost all its guns, and was sent to Memphis to refit. It rejoined the army at Vicksburg June 30. Meantime Captain Sparrestrom had been assigned, June 16, to the command of Battery D, First Illinois Light Artillery.
- ^ Assumed command June 6.
- ^ Assumed command June 3.
- ^ Assumed command June 10.
- ^ Assumed command May 22.
- ^ Assumed command June 2.
- ^ Assumed command June 6.
- ^ Temporarily attached to Kimball's Division, XVI Corps, June 6.
- ^ Joined from the Department of the Missouri June 11.
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.
- 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: General summary of Casualties in the Union forces against Vicksburg, May 1–July 4, 1863.
- Civil War Home: Organization of the Union Army At Vicksburg May 19–July 4, 1863 -- The Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.
- National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Siege of Vicksburg: Union order of battle).
- National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Troops in the Campaign, Siege and Defense of Vicksburg).
- National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Campaign, Siege and Defense of Vicksburg -- General summary of Casualties, March 29–July 4).
- Hess, Earl J. "Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863." University of North Carolina Press (2020)