Battle of the Wilderness order of battle: Union

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5–7, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organizationMultiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign. May 5, 1864,Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVI, Part 1, pages 106-116 the casualty returnsOfficial Records, Series I, Volume XXXVI, Part 1, pages 119-136 and the reports.Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVI, Part 1, pages 1162-1168

Abbreviations used

Military rank LTG = Lieutenant General MG = Major General BG = Brigadier General Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel Maj = Major Cpt = Captain Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other w = wounded mw = mortally wounded k = killed c = captured

Forces operating against Richmond LTG Ulysses S. Grant, General-in-Chief, Union Armies

Escort: 5th United States Cavalry, Companies B, F and K: Cpt Julius W. Mason

IX Corps

MG Ambrose BurnsideThe IX Corps was under the direct orders of Lieutenant General Grant until May 24, 1864, when it was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. (see: Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVI, Part 3, page 169) Chief of Staff: MG John G. Parke

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersFirst Division

BG Thomas G. Stevenson 1st Brigade

Col Sumner CarruthSun-struck May 6, 1864

Col Jacob P. Gould 35th Massachusetts:Train guard; not engaged Maj Nathaniel Wales 56th Massachusetts: Col Charles E. Griswold (k) 57th Massachusetts: Col William F. Bartlett (w) 59th Massachusetts: Col Jacob P. Gould 4th United States: Cpt Charles H. Brightly (mw) 10th United States: Maj Samuel B. Hayman (w) 2nd Brigade

Col Daniel Leasure 3rd Maryland: Col Joseph M. Sudsburg 21st Massachusetts: Ltc George P. Hawkes 100th Pennsylvania: Ltc Matthew M. Dawson Artillery Maine Light, 2nd Battery (B): Cpt Albert F. Thomas Massachusetts Light, 14th Battery: Cpt Joseph W. B. WrightSecond Division

BG Robert B. Potter 1st Brigade

Col Zenas Bliss

Col John I. Curtin 36th Massachusetts: Maj William F. Draper 58th Massachusetts: Ltc John C. Whiton 51st New York: Col Charles Le Gendre (w) 45th Pennsylvania: Col John I. Curtin 48th Pennsylvania: Ltc Henry Pleasants 7th Rhode Island:Train guard Cpt Theodore Winn 2nd Brigade

Col Simon G. Griffin 31st Maine: Ltc Thomas Hight 32nd Maine: Maj Arthur Deering 6th New Hampshire: Ltc Henry H. Pearson 9th New Hampshire: Ltc John W. Babbitt 11th New Hampshire: Col Walter Harriman (c) Ltc Moses Collins (k) 17th Vermont: Ltc Charles Cummings (w), Maj William B. Reynolds Artillery Massachusetts Light, 11th Battery: Cpt Edward J. Jones New York Light, 19th Battery: Cpt Edward W. RogersThird Division

BG Orlando B. Willcox 1st Brigade

Col John F. Hartranft 2nd Michigan: Col William Humphrey 8th Michigan: Col Frank Graves (k) 17th Michigan: Col Constant Luce 27th Michigan:1st and 2nd Companies Michigan Sharpshooters attached Maj Samuel Moody (w) 109th New York: Col Benjamin F. Tracy 51st Pennsylvania: Ltc Edwin Schall 2nd Brigade

Col Benjamin C. Christ 1st Michigan Sharpshooters: Col Charles V. DeLand 20th Michigan: Ltc Byron M. Cutcheon 79th New York:Detached at Warrenton Junction; rejoined Brigade on May 7, 1864 (see: Cutcheon's report) Col David Morrison 60th Ohio:9th and 10th Companies Ohio Sharpshooters attached Ltc James N. McElroy 50th Pennsylvania: Ltc Edward Overton, Jr. Artillery Maine Light, 7th Battery (G): Cpt Adelbert B. Twitchell New York Light, 34th Battery: Cpt Jacob RoemerFourth DivisionNot engaged

BG Edward Ferrero 1st Brigade

Col Joshua K. Sigfried 27th United States Colored Troops: Ltc Charles J. Wright 30th United States Colored Troops: Col Delavan Bates 39th United States Colored Troops: Col Ozora P. Stearns 43rd United States Colored Troops: Ltc H. Seymour Hall 2nd Brigade

Col Henry G. Thomas 30th Connecticut Colored (detachment): Cpt Charles Robinson 19th United States Colored Troops: Ltc Joseph G. Perkins 23rd United States Colored Troops: Ltc Cleaveland J. Campbell Artillery Pennsylvania Light, Battery D: Cpt George W. Durell Vermont Light, 3rd Battery: Cpt Romeo H. StartReporting directly Provost Guard 8th United States: Cpt Milton Cogswell Cavalry 3rd New Jersey: Col Andrew J. Morrison 22nd New York: Col Samuel J. Crooks 2nd Ohio: Ltc George A. Purington 13th Pennsylvania: Maj Michael Kerwin Reserve Artillery

Cpt John Edwards, Jr. New York Light, 27th Battery: Cpt John B. Eaton 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery D: Cpt William W. Buckley 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery H: Cpt Crawford Allen, Jr. 2nd United States, Battery E: Lt James S. Dudley 3rd United States, Battery G: Lt Edmund Pendleton 3rd United States, Batteries L and M: Lt Erskine Gittings Provisional Brigade

Col Elisha Marshall 24th New York Cavalry (dismounted): Col William C. Raulston 14th New York Heavy Artillery: Ltc Clarence H. Corning 2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery: Col Thomas Wilhelm

Army of the Potomac

MG George Meade

General Staff: Chief of Staff: MG Andrew A. Humphreys Assistant Adjutant General: BG Seth Williams Chief Quartermaster: BG Rufus Ingalls

General Headquarters:

Provost Guard: BG Marsena R. Patrick 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies C and D: Cpt Edward A. Flint 80th New York (20th Militia): Col Theodore B. Gates 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry: Maj James W. Walsh 68th Pennsylvania: Ltc Robert E. Winslow 114th Pennsylvania: Col Charles H. T. Collis

Engineer Troops: 50th New York Engineers (11 Companies): Ltc Ira Spaulding Battalion United States Engineers: Cpt George H. Mendell

Guards and Orderlies: Independent Company Oneida (New York) Cavalry: Cpt Daniel P. Mann

II Corps

MG Winfield S. Hancock

Escort: 1st Vermont Cavalry, Company M: Cpt John H. Hazelton

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersFirst Division

BG Francis C. Barlow 1st Brigade

Col Nelson A. Miles 26th Michigan: Maj Lemuel Saviers 61st New York: Ltc K. Oscar Broady 81st Pennsylvania: Col H. Boyd McKeen 140th Pennsylvania: Col John Fraser 183rd Pennsylvania: Col George P. McLean 2nd Brigade

Col Thomas A. Smyth 28th Massachusetts: Ltc George W. Cartwright 63rd New York: Maj Thomas Touhy (mw) 69th New York: Cpt Richard Moroney 88th New York: Cpt Denis F. Burke 116th Pennsylvania: Ltc Richard C. Dale 3rd Brigade

Col Paul Frank 39th New York: Col Augustus Funk (w) Ltc James Hughes (w) 52nd New York:Detachment 7th New York attached Maj Henry M. Karples 57th New York: Ltc Alford B. Chapman (k) 111th New York: Cpt Aaron P. Seeley (w) 125th New York: Ltc Aaron B. Myer (mw) 126th New York: Cpt Winfield Scott 4th Brigade

Col John R. Brooke 2nd Delaware: Col William P. Bailey 64th New York: Maj Leman W. Bradley 66th New York: Ltc John S. Hammell 53rd Pennsylvania: Ltc Richards McMichael 145th Pennsylvania: Col Hiram L. Brown 148th Pennsylvania: Col James A. BeaverSecond Division

BG John Gibbon 1st Brigade

BG Alexander S. Webb 19th Maine: Col Selden Connor 1st Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters: Lt Samuel G. Gilbreth 15th Massachusetts: Maj I. Harris Hooper 19th Massachusetts: Maj Edmund Rice 20th Massachusetts: Col George N. Macy (w), Maj Henry L. Abbott (mw) 7th Michigan: Maj Sylvanus W. Curtis 42nd New York: Maj Patrick J. Downing 59th New York: Cpt William McFadden 82nd New York: Col Henry W. Hudson 2nd Brigade

BG Joshua T. Owen 152nd New York: Ltc George W. Thompson 69th Pennsylvania: Maj William Davis 71st Pennsylvania: Ltc Charles Kochersperger 72nd Pennsylvania: Col De Witt C. Baxter 106th Pennsylvania: Cpt Robert H. Ford 3rd Brigade

Col Samuel S. Carroll (w)Wounded, but did not relinquish command (see: Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, page 395) 14th Connecticut: Col Theodore G. Ellis 1st Delaware: Ltc Daniel Woodall 14th Indiana: Col John Coons 12th New Jersey: Ltc Thomas H. Davis 10th New York Battalion: Cpt George M. Dewey (w) 108th New York: Col Charles J. Powers (w) 4th Ohio: Ltc Leonard W. Carpenter 8th Ohio: Ltc Franklin Sawyer 7th West Virginia: Ltc Jonathan H. Lockwood Provost Guard 2nd Company Minnesota Sharpshooters: Cpt Mahlon BlackThird Division

MG David B. Birney 1st Brigade

BG J. H. Hobart Ward 20th Indiana: Col William C. L. Taylor 3rd Maine: Col Moses B. Lakeman 40th New York: Col Thomas W. Egan 86th New York: Ltc Jacob H. Lansing 124th New York: Col Francis M. Cummins (w) 99th Pennsylvania: Ltc Edwin R. Biles 110th Pennsylvania: Ltc Isaac Rodgers 141st Pennsylvania: Ltc Guy H. Watkins 2nd United States Sharpshooters: Ltc Homer R. Stoughton 2nd Brigade

BG Alexander Hays (k)

Col John S. Crocker 4th Maine: Col Elijah Walker 17th Maine: Col George W. West 3rd Michigan: Col Byron R. Pierce 5th Michigan: Ltc John Pulford 93rd New York: Col John S. Crocker, Maj Samuel McConihe 57th Pennsylvania: Col Peter Sides 63rd Pennsylvania: Ltc John A. Danks, Maj George B. McCullough (k) 105th Pennsylvania: Col Calvin A. Craig (w) Ltc J. W. Greenawalt (mw) 1st United States Sharpshooters: Maj Charles P. MattocksFourth Division

BG Gershom Mott 1st Brigade

Col Robert McAllister 1st Massachusetts: Col Napoleon B. McLaughlen 16th Massachusetts: Ltc Waldo Merriam 5th New Jersey: Col William J. Sewell 6th New Jersey: Ltc Stephen R. Gilkyson 7th New Jersey: Maj Frederick Cooper 8th New Jersey: Col John Ramsey 11th New Jersey: Ltc John Schoonover 26th Pennsylvania: Maj Samuel G. Moffett 115th Pennsylvania: Maj William A. Reilly 2nd Brigade

Col William R. Brewster 11th Massachusetts: Col William E. Blaisdell 70th New York: Cpt William H. Hugo 71st New York: Ltc Thomas Rafferty 72nd New York: Ltc John Leonard 73rd New York: Ltc Michael W. Burns 74th New York: Col Thomas Holt 120th New York: Cpt Abram L. Lockwood 84th Pennsylvania: Ltc Milton Opp (mw) Artillery Brigade

Col John C. Tidball Maine Light, 6th Battery (F): Cpt Edwin B. Dow Massachusetts Light, 10th Battery: Cpt J. Henry Sleeper New Hampshire Light, 1st Battery: Cpt Frederick M. Edgell 1st New York Light, Battery G: Cpt Nelson Ames 4th New York Heavy, 3rd Battalion: Ltc Thomas Allcock 1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery F: Cpt R. Bruce Ricketts 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery A: Cpt William A. Arnold 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery B: Cpt Thomas F. Brown 4th United States, Battery K: Lt John W. Roder 5th United States, Battery C and I: Lt James Gilliss

V Corps

MG Gouverneur K. Warren

Provost Guard: 12th New York Battalion: Maj Henry W. Ryder

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersFirst Division

BG Charles Griffin 1st Brigade

BG Romeyn B. Ayres 140th New York: Col George Ryan 146th New York: Col David T. Jenkins (k), Maj Henry H. Curran (k) 91st Pennsylvania: Ltc Joseph H. Sinex 155th Pennsylvania: Ltc Alfred L. Pearson 2nd United States, Companies B, C, F, H, I, and K: Cpt James W. Long 11th United States, Companies B, C, D, E, F, and G, First Battalion: Cpt Francis M. Cooley 12th United States, Companies A, B, C, D, and G, 1st Battalion, and Companies A, C, D, F, and H, 2nd Battalion: Maj Luther B. Bruen 14th United States, 1st Battalion: Cpt Edward McK. Hudson (w) 17th United States, Companies A, C, D, G, and H, 1st Battalion, and Companies A, B, and C, 2nd Battalion: Cpt James F. Grimes 2nd Brigade

Col Jacob B. Sweitzer 9th Massachusetts: Col Patrick R. Guiney 22nd Massachusetts:2nd Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters attached Col William S. Tilton 32nd Massachusetts: Col George L. Prescott 4th Michigan: Ltc George W. Lumbard (mw) 62nd Pennsylvania: Ltc James C. Hull 3rd Brigade

BG Joseph J. Bartlett 20th Maine: Maj Ellis Spear 18th Massachusetts: Col Joseph Hayes 1st Michigan: Ltc William A. Throop 16th Michigan:Brady's Company Sharpshooters attached Maj Robert T. Elliott 44th New York: Ltc Freeman Conner 83rd Pennsylvania: Col Orpheus S. Woodward (w)