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

Abbreviations used[]

Military ranks[]

Other[]

  • w = wounded
  • mw = mortally wounded
  • k = killed


Army of the Potomac[]

MG Ambrose Burnside, Commanding


General Headquarters units[]


Escort:

Provost Guard:

BG Marsena R. Patrick

  • McClellan (Illinois) Dragoons, Company A: Cpt George W. Shears
  • McClellan (Illinois) Dragoons, Company B: Cpt David C. Brown
  • 9th New York Infantry, Company G: Cpt Charles Child
  • 93rd New York Infantry: Col John S. Crocker
  • 2nd U.S. Cavalry: Maj Charles J. Whiting
  • 8th U.S. Infantry: Cpt Royal T. Frank

Inspector General:

BG Delos B. Sackett Volunteer Engineer Brigade:

BG Daniel Phineas Woodbury

  • 15th New York: Maj James A. Magruder
  • 50th New York: Maj Ira Spaulding
  • Battalion U.S. Engineers: Lt Charles E. Cross

Artillery:

BG Henry Jackson Hunt Artillery Reserve:

Ltc William Hays

  • 5th Battery, New York Light: Cpt Elijah D. Taft
  • Battery A, 1st Battalion New York Light: Cpt Otto Diederichs
  • Battery B, 1st Battalion New York Light: Cpt Adolph Voegelee
  • Battery C, 1st Battalion New York Light: Lt Bernhard Wever
  • Battery D, 1st Battalion New York Light: Cpt Charles Kusserow
  • Battery K, 1st United States: Cpt William M. Graham
  • Battery A, 2nd United States: Cpt John C. Tidball
  • Battery G, 4th United States: Lt Marcus P. Miller
  • Battery K, 5th United States: Lt David H. Kinzie
  • 32nd Massachusetts Infantry, Company C: Cpt Josiah C. Fuller

Unattached Artillery:

Maj Thomas S. Trumbull

  • Battery B, 1st Connecticut Heavy: Cpt Albert F. Brooker
  • Battery M, 1st Connecticut Heavy: Cpt Franklin A. Pratt


Right Grand Division[]

MG Edwin Vose Sumner

II Corps[]

MG Darius N. Couch

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Winfield Scott Hancock

1st Brigade


   BG John C. Caldwell (w)
   Col George W. Von Schack

2nd Brigade


(Irish Brigade)
   BG Thomas F. Meagher

3rd Brigade


   Col Samuel K. Zook

  • 27th Connecticut: Col Richard S. Bostwick
  • 2nd Delaware: Col William P. Baily (w)
  • 52nd New York: Col Paul Frank
  • 57th New York: Ltc Alford B. Chapman, Maj N. Garrow Throop, Cpt James W. Britt
  • 66th New York: Ltc James H. Bull, Cpt Julius Wehle, Cpt John S. Hammell, Lt James G. Derrickson
  • 53rd Pennsylvania: Col John R. Brooke
Artillery
  • Battery B, 1st New York Light: Cpt Rufus D. Pettit
  • Battery C, 4th United States: Lt Evan Thomas

Second Division


     BG Oliver O. Howard

1st Brigade


   BG Alfred Sully

2nd Brigade (Philadelphia Brigade)


   Col Joshua T. Owen

3rd Brigade


   Col Norman J. Hall (w)
   Col William R. Lee

  • 19th Massachusetts: Cpt H. G. O. Weymouth
  • 20th Massachusetts: Cpt George N. Macy
  • 7th Michigan: Ltc Henry Baxter, Maj Thomas H. Hunt
  • 42nd New York: Ltc George N. Bomford
  • 59th New York: Ltc William Northedge
  • 127th Pennsylvania:[2] Col William W. Jennings
Artillery

Third Division


     BG William H. French

1st Brigade


("Gibraltar Brigade")
   BG Nathan Kimball (w)
   Col John S. Mason

2nd Brigade


   Col Oliver H. Palmer

  • 14th Connecticut: Ltc Sanford H. Perkins, Cpt Samuel H. Davis
  • 108th New York: Ltc Charles J. Powers
  • 130th Pennsylvania: Col Henry I. Zinn, Cpt William M. Porter
3rd Brigade


   Col John W. Andrews[3]
   Ltc William Jameson
   Ltc John W. Marshall

  • 1st Delaware: Maj Thomas A. Smyth
  • 4th New York: Col John D. MacGregor, Ltc William Jameson, Maj Charles W. Kruger
  • 10th New York: Col John E. Bendix, Cpt Salmon Winchester, Cpt George F. Hopper
  • 132nd Pennsylvania:[4] Ltc Charles Albright
Artillery
Corps Artillery Reserve


     Cpt Charles H. Morgan[5]

  • Battery I, 1st United States: Lt Edmund Kirby
  • Battery A, 4th United States: Lt Rufus King, Jr.

IX Corps[]

BG Orlando B. Willcox

Escort

  • 6th New York Cavalry, Company B: Cpt Hillman A. Hall
  • 6th New York Cavalry, Company C: Cpt William L. Heermance
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG William W. Burns

1st Brigade


   Col Orlando Poe

  • 2nd Michigan: Ltc Louis Dillman
  • 17th Michigan: Col William H. Withington
  • 20th Michigan: Col Adolphus W. Williams
  • 79th New York: Ltc David Morrison
2nd Brigade


   Col Benjamin C. Christ

  • 29th Massachusetts: Ltc Joseph H. Barnes
  • 8th Michigan: Maj Ralph Ely
  • 27th New Jersey: Col George W. Mindil
  • 46th New York: Ltc Joseph Gerhardt
  • 50th Pennsylvania: Ltc Thomas S. Bronholtz
3rd Brigade


   Col Daniel Leasure

  • 36th Massachusetts: Col Henry Bowman
  • 45th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas Welsh
  • 100th Pennsylvania: Ltc David A. Leckey
Artillery[6]
  • Battery D, 1st New York Light: Cpt Thomas W. Osborn
  • Batteries L and M, 3rd United States: Lt Horace J. Hayden

Second Division


     BG Samuel D. Sturgis

1st Brigade
  

BG James Nagle

2nd Brigade
  

BG Edward Ferrero

Artillery
  • Battery L, 2nd New York Light: Cpt Jacob Roomer
  • Battery D, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt George W. Durell
  • Battery D, 1st Rhode Island Light: Cpt William W. Buckley
  • Battery E, 4th United States: Lt George Dickenson, Lt John Egan

Third Division


     BG George W. Getty

1st Brigade


   Col Rush C. Hawkins

2nd Brigade


   Col Edward Harland

  • 8th Connecticut: Maj John E. Ward, Cpt Henry M. Hoyt
  • 11th Connecticut: Col Griffin Alexander Stedman, Jr.
  • 15th Connecticut: Ltc Samuel Tolles
  • 16th Connecticut: Cpt Charles L. Upham
  • 21st Connecticut: Col Arthur H. Dutton
  • 4th Rhode Island: Ltc Joseph B. Curtis, Maj Martin P. Buffum
Artillery
  • Battery E, 2nd United States: Lt Samuel N. Benjamin
  • Battery A, 5th United States: Lt James Gillies

Cavalry Division[]

BG Alfred Pleasonton

Brigade Regiments
1st Brigade


   BG John F. Farnsworth

2nd Brigade


   Col David McM. Gregg[7]
   Col Thomas Devin

  • 6th New York: Col Thomas C. Devin, Ltc Duncan McVicar
  • 8th Pennsylvania: Ltc Amos E. Griffiths
  • 6th United States: Cpt George C. Cram
Horse Artillery
  • Battery M, 2nd United States: Lt Alexander C. M. Pennington, Jr.


Center Grand Division[]

MG Joseph Hooker

III Corps[]

BG George Stoneman

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG David B. Birney

1st Brigade


   BG John C. Robinson

2nd Brigade


   BG J. H. Hobart Ward

  • 3rd Maine: Col Moses B. Lakeman
  • 4th Maine: Col Elijah Walker
  • 38th New York: Ltc William Birney
  • 40th New York: Ltc Nelson A. Gesner
  • 55th New York: Col Régis de Trobriand
  • 57th Pennsylvania: Col Charles T. Campbell, Ltc Peter Sides
  • 99th Pennsylvania: Col Asher S. Leidy, Ltc Edwin R. Biles
3rd Brigade


   BG Hiram G. Berry

  • 17th Maine: Col Thomas A. Roberts
  • 3rd Michigan: Maj Moses B. Houghton
  • 5th Michigan: Ltc John Gilluly, Maj Edward T. Sherlock
  • 1st New York: Col J. Frederick Pierson
  • 37th New York: Col Samuel B. Hayman
  • 101st New York: Col George F. Chester
Artillery


   Cpt George E. Randolph[8]

Second Division


     BG Daniel Sickles

1st Brigade


   BG Joseph B. Carr

2nd Brigade ("Excelsior Brigade")


   Col George B. Hall

  • 70th New York: Col J. Egbert Farnum
  • 71st New York: Maj Thomas Rafferty
  • 72nd New York: Col William O. Stevens
  • 73rd New York: Col William R. Brewster
  • 74th New York: Ltc William H. Lounsbury
  • 120th New York: Col George H. Sharpe
3rd Brigade


   BG Joseph W. Revere

Artillery


   Cpt James E. Smith

Third Division


     BG Amiel W. Whipple

1st Brigade


   BG Abram S. Piatt[9]
   Col Emlen Franklin

  • 86th New York: Ltc Barna J. Chapin
  • 124th New York: Col Augustus Van Horne Ellis
  • 122nd Pennsylvania: Col Emlen Franklin
2nd Brigade


   Col Samuel S. Carroll

Artillery
  • 10th Battery, New York Light: Cpt John T. Bruen
  • 11th Battery, New York Light: Cpt Albert A. von Puttkammer
  • Battery H, 1st Ohio Light: Lt George W. Norton

V Corps[]

BG Daniel Butterfield

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Charles Griffin

1st Brigade


   Col James Barnes

2nd Brigade


   Col Jacob B. Sweitzer

3rd Brigade


   Col T. B. W. Stockton

  • 20th Maine: Col Adelbert Ames
  • Michigan Sharpshooters, Brady's Company: Lt Jonas H. Titus Jr.
  • 16th Michigan: Ltc Norval E. Welch
  • 12th New York: Ltc Robert M. Richardson
  • 17th New York: Cpt John Vickers
  • 44th New York: Ltc Freeman Conner, Maj Edward B. Knox
  • 83rd Pennsylvania: Col Strong Vincent
Artillery[10]
  • 3d Battery (C), Massachusetts Light: Cpt Augustus P. Martin
  • 5th Battery (E), Massachusetts Light: Cpt Charles A. Phillips
  • Battery C, 1st Rhode Island Light: Cpt Richard Waterman
  • Battery D, 5th United States: Lt Charles E. Hazlett
Sharpshooters
  • 1st United States: Ltc Casper Trepp

Second Division


     BG George Sykes

1st Brigade


   Ltc Robert C. Buchanan

2nd Brigade


   Maj George L. Andrews
   Maj Charles S. Lovell

3rd Brigade


   BG Gouverneur K. Warren

Artillery

Third Division


     BG Andrew A. Humphreys

1st Brigade


   BG Erastus B. Tyler

  • 91st Pennsylvania: Col Edgar M. Gregory
  • 126th Pennsylvania: Col James G. Elder, Ltc David W. Rowe
  • 129th Pennsylvania: Col Jacob G. Frick
  • 134th Pennsylvania: Ltc Edward O'Brien
2nd Brigade


   Col Peter H. Allabach

  • 123rd Pennsylvania: Col John B. Clark
  • 131st Pennsylvania: Ltc William B. Shaut
  • 133rd Pennsylvania: Col Franklin B. Speakman
  • 155th Pennsylvania: Col Edward J. Allen
Artillery
  • Battery C, 1st New York Light: Lt William H. Phillips
  • Batteries E and G, 1st United States: Cpt Alanson M. Randol[12]
Cavalry Brigade


   BG William W. Averell

  • 1st Massachusetts: Col Horace B. Sargent
  • 3rd Pennsylvania: Ltc Edward S. Jones
  • 4th Pennsylvania: Col James K. Kerr
  • 5th United States: Cpt James E. Harrison
Artillery


Left Grand Division[]

MG William B. Franklin

Escort

  • 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col Richard H. Rush

I Corps[]

MG John F. Reynolds

Escort

  • 1st Maine Cavalry, Company L: Cpt Constantine Taylor
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Abner Doubleday

1st Brigade (Eastern Iron Brigade)


   Col Walter Phelps, Jr.

  • 22nd New York: Ltc John McKie, Jr.
  • 24th New York: Ltc Samuel R. Beardsley
  • 30th New York: Ltc Morgan H. Chrysler
  • 84th New York: Ltc William H. de Bevoise
  • 2nd U. S. Sharpshooters: Maj Homer R. Stoughton
2nd Brigade


   Col James Gavin

  • 7th Indiana: Ltc John F. Cheek
  • 76th New York: Col William P. Wainwright
  • 95th New York: Col George H. Biddle
  • 56th Pennsylvania: Ltc J. William Hofmann
3rd Brigade


   Col William F. Rogers

4th Brigade (Western Iron Brigade)


   BG Solomon Meredith
   Col Lysander Cutler

Artillery[13]


   Cpt George A. Gerrish
   Cpt John A. Reynolds

Second Division


     BG John Gibbon (w)
     BG Nelson Taylor

1st Brigade


   Col Adrian R. Root

  • 16th Maine: Ltc Charles W. Tilden
  • 94th New York: Maj John A. Kress
  • 104th New York: Maj Gilbert G. Prey
  • 105th New York: Maj Daniel A. Sharp, Cpt Abraham Moore
  • 107th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas F. McCoy
2nd Brigade


   Col Peter Lyle

  • 12th Massachusetts: Col James L. Bates
  • 26th New York: Ltc Gilbert S. Jennings, Maj Ezra F. Wetmore
  • 90th Pennsylvania: Ltc William A. Leech
  • 136th Pennsylvania: Col Thomas M. Bayne
3rd Brigade


   BG Nelson Taylor
   Col Samuel H. Leonard

  • 13th Massachusetts: Col Samuel H. Leonard, Ltc N. Walter Batchelder
  • 83rd New York: Cpt John Hendrickson, Cpt Joseph A. Moesch, Lt Isaac E. Hoagland, Lt Henry P. Claire
  • 97th New York: Col Charles Wheelock
  • 11th Pennsylvania: Col Richard Coulter, Cpt Christian Kuhn
  • 88th Pennsylvania: Maj David A. Griffith
Artillery


   Cpt George F. Leppien

Third Division


     MG George Meade

1st Brigade


   Col William Sinclair
   Col William McCandless

  • 1st Pennsylvania Reserves: Cpt William C. Talley
  • 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves: Col William McCandless, Cpt Timothy Mealey
  • 6th Pennsvlvania Reserves: Maj Wellington H. Ent
  • 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles): Cpt Charles F. Taylor
  • 121st Pennsylvania: Col Chapman Biddle
2nd Brigade


   Col Albert L. Magilton

3rd Brigade


   BG Conrad Feger Jackson
   Col Joseph W. Fisher
   Ltc Robert Anderson

  • 5th Pennsylvania Reserves: Col Joseph W. Fisher, Ltc George Dare
  • 9th Pennsylvania Reserves: Ltc Robert Anderson, Maj James McK. Snodgrass
  • 10th Pennsylvania Reserves: Maj James B. Knox
  • 11th Pennsylvania Reserves: Ltc Samuel M. Jackson
  • 12th Pennsylvania Reserves: Cpt Richard Gustin
Artillery
  • Battery A, 1st Pennsylvania Light: Lt John G. Simpson
  • Battery B, 1st Pennsylvania Light: Cpt James H. Cooper
  • Battery G, 1st Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Frank P. Amsden
  • Battery C, 5th United States: Cpt Dunbar R. Ransom

VI Corps[]

MG William F. Smith

Escort

  • 10th New York Cavalry, Company L: Lt George Vanderbilt
  • 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company I: Cpt James Starr
  • 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company K: Cpt Frederick C. Newhall
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG William T. H. Brooks

1st Brigade


("First New Jersey Brigade")
   Col Alfred Thomas Torbert

  • 1st New Jersey: Ltc Mark W. Collet
  • 2nd New Jersey: Col Samuel L. Buck
  • 3rd New Jersey: Col Henry W. Brown
  • 4th New Jersey: Col William B. Hatch, Ltc James N. Duffy
  • 15th New Jersey: Ltc Edward L. Campbell
  • 23rd New Jersey: Col Henry O. Ryerson
2nd Brigade


   Col Henry L. Cake

  • 5th Maine: Col Edward A. Scammon
  • 16th New York: Col Joel J. Seaver
  • 27th New York: Col Alexander D. Adams
  • 121st New York: Col Emory Upton
  • 96th Pennsylvania: Ltc Peter A. Filbert
3rd Brigade


   BG David Allen Russell

  • 18th New York: Col George R. Myers
  • 31st New York: Ltc Leopold C. Newman
  • 32nd New York: Col Francis E. Pinto
  • 95th Pennsylvania: Ltc Elisha Hall
Artillery[14]
  • Battery A, Maryland Light: Cpt John W. Wolcott
  • 1st Battery (A), Massachusetts Light: Cpt William H. McCarthey
  • 1st Battery, New Jersey Light: Cpt William Hexamer
  • Battery D, 2nd United States: Lt Edward B. Williston

Second Division


     BG Albion P. Howe

1st Brigade


   BG Calvin E. Pratt

  • 6th Maine: Col Hiram Burnham
  • 43rd New York: Col Benjamin F. Baker
  • 49th Pennsylvania: Col William H. Irwin
  • 119th Pennsylvania: Col Peter C. Ellmaker
  • 5th Wisconsin: Col Amasa Cobb
2nd Brigade


("1st Vermont Brigade")
   Col Henry Whiting

3rd Brigade


   BG Francis L. Vinton
   Col Robert F. Taylor
   BG Thomas H. Neill

Artillery
  • Battery B, Maryland Light: Cpt Alonzo Snow
  • 1st Battery, New York Light: Cpt Andrew Cowan
  • 3rd Battery, New York Light: Lt William A. Harn
  • Battery F, 5th United States: Lt Leonard Martin

Third Division


     BG John Newton

1st Brigade


   BG John Cochrane

  • 65th New York: Col Alexander Shaler
  • 67th New York: Col Nelson Cross
  • 122nd New York: Col Silas Titus
  • 23rd Pennsylvania: Maj John F. Glenn
  • 61st Pennsylvania: Col George C. Spear
  • 82nd Pennsylvania: Col David H. Williams
2nd Brigade


   BG Charles Devens

3rd Brigade


   Col Thomas A. Rowley
   BG Frank Wheaton

  • 62nd New York: Maj Wilson Hubbell
  • 93rd Pennsylvania: Maj John M. Mark
  • 98th Pennsylvania: Ltc Adolph Mehler
  • 102nd Pennsylvania: Ltc Joseph M. Kinkead
  • 139th Pennsylvania: Ltc James D. Owens
Artillery
  • Battery C, 1st Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Jeremiah McCarthy
  • Battery D, 1st Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Michael Hall
  • Battery G, 2nd United States; Lt John H. Buffer
Cavalry Brigade


   BG George D. Bayard (k)
   Col David McM. Gregg

  • District of Columbia, Independent Company: Lt William H. Orton [Orten?]
  • 1st Maine: Ltc Calvin S. Douty
  • 1st New Jersey: Ltc Joseph Kargé
  • 2nd New York: Maj Henry E. Davies
  • 10th New York: Ltc William Irvine
  • 1st Pennsylvania: Col Owen Jones
Artillery
  • Battery C, 3rd United States: Cpt Horatio G. Gibson


Reserve Grand Division[]

Further information:[15]


Notes[]

  1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXI, Part 1, pages 48-61
  2. Temporarily attached to Second Brigade.
  3. Disabled.
  4. Transferred from Second Brigade, December 13.
  5. Chief of the corps artillery.
  6. Captain John Edwards,jr.,chief of the corps artillery.
  7. Succeeded Brigadier-General Bayard in command of the Cavalry Brigade, Left Grand Division.
  8. Captain La Rhett L. Livingston, chief of the corps artillery.
  9. Disabled December 13.
  10. Captain Stephen H. Weed,chief of the corps artillery.
  11. Chief of artillery, Second Division.
  12. Chief of artillery, Third Division.
  13. Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, chief of the corps artillery.
  14. Captain Romeyn B. Ayres, chief of the corps artillery.
  15. Reserve Grand Division not engaged.


References[]

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