Order of Battle (USA)

Union Order of Battle
Chickamauga Campaign
21 August-20 September, 1863

(k): killed
(mw): mortally wounded
(w): wounded
(c): captured

ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
     Maj. Gen. WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS, Commanding

Rosecrans' HQ

1st Battalion Ohio Sharpshooters
     Capt. Gershom M. Barber
10th Ohio Infantry (Provost Guard)
     Lieut. Col. William M. Ward
15th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Escort)
     Col. William J. Palmer

XIV ARMY CORPS
     Maj. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS

Thomas' HQ
Provost guard, 9th Michigan Infantry (Provost Guard, not engaged)
     Col. John G. Parkhurst
Escort, 1st Ohio Cavalry, Company L (Escort)
     Capt. John D. Barker

FIRST DIVISION, XIV CORPS
     Brig. Gen. ABSALOM BAIRD

First Brigade
     Col. BENJAMIN F. SCRIBNER
38th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. Daniel F. Griffin
2nd Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Obadiah C. Maxwell
     Maj. William T. Beatty
     Capt. James Warnock
33rd Ohio
     Col. Oscar F. Moore
94th Ohio
     Maj. Rue P. Hutchins
10th Wisconsin
     Lieut. Col. John H. Ely
     Capt. Jacob W. Roby

Second Brigade
     Brig. Gen. JOHN C. STARKWEATHER
24th Illinois
     Col. Geza Mihalotzy
    Capt. August Mauff
79th Pennsylvania
     Col. Henry A. Hambright
1st Wisconsin
     Lieut. Col. George B. Bingham
21st Wisconsin
     Lieut. Col. Harrison C. Hobart
     Capt. Charles H. Walker

Third ("Regular") Brigade
     Brig. Gen. JOHN H. KING
15th United States, 1st Battalion
     Capt. Albert B. Dod
16th United States, 1st Battalion
     Maj. Sidney Coolidge
     Capt. R. E. A. Crofton
18th United States, 1st Battalion
     Capt. George W. Smith
18th United States, 2nd Battalion
     Capt. Henry Haymond
19th United States, 1st Battalion
     Maj. Samuel K. Dawson
     Capt. Edmund L. Smith

First Division Artillery
Indiana Light, 4th Battery (2nd Brigade)
     Lieut. David Flansburg
     Lieut. Henry J. Willits
1st Michigan Light, Battery A (1st Brigade)
     Lieut. George W. Van Pelt
     Lieut. Almerick W. Wilbur
5th United States, Battery H (3rd Brigade)
     Lieut. Howard M. Burnham
     Lieut. Joshua A. Fessenden

SECOND DIVISION, XIV CORPS
     Maj. Gen. JAMES S. NEGLEY

First Brigade
     Brig. Gen. JOHN BEATTY
104th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Douglas Hapeman
42nd Indiana
     Lieut. Col. William T. B. McIntire
88th Indiana
     Col. George Humphrey
15th Kentucky
     Col. Marion C. Taylor

Second Brigade
     Col. TIMOTHY R. STANLEY (w)
     Col. WILLIAM L. STOUGHTON
19th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Alexander W. Raffen
11th Michigan
     Col. William L. Stoughton
     Lieut. Col. Melvin Mudge
18th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Charles H. Grosvenor

Third Brigade
     Col. WILLIAM SIRWELL
37th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. William D. Ward
21st Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Dwella M. Stoughton
     Maj. Arnold McMahan
     Capt. Charles H. Vantine
74th Ohio
     Capt. Joseph Fisher
78th Pennsylvania
     Lieut. Col. Archibald Blakeley

Second Division Artillery
Illinois Light, Bridges' Battery (1st Brigade)
      Capt. Lyman Bridges
1st Ohio Light, Battery G (3rd Brigade)
      Capt. Alexander Marshall
1st Ohio Light, Battery M (2nd Brigade)
      Capt. Frederick Schultz

THIRD DIVISION, XIV CORPS
     Brig. Gen. JOHN M. BRANNAN

First Brigade
     Col. JOHN M. CONNELL
82d Indiana
     Col. Morton C. Hunter
17th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Durbin Ward
31st Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Frederick W. Lister
38th Ohio
     Col. Edward I. Phelps

Second Brigade
     Col. John T. CROXTON (w)
     Col. WILLIAM H. HAYS
10th Indiana
     Col. William B. Carroll
     Lieut. Col. Marsh B. Taylor
74th Indiana
     Col. Charles W. Chapman
     Lieut. Col. Myron Baker
4th Kentucky
     Lieut. Col. P. Burgess Hunt
     Maj. Robert M. Kelly
10th Kentucky
     Col. William H. Hays
     Lieut. Col. Gabriel C. Wharton
14th Ohio
      Lieut. Col. Henry D. Kingsbury

Third Brigade
     Col. FERDINAND VAN DERVEER
87th Indiana
     Col. Newell Gleason
2nd Minnesota
     Col. James George
9th Ohio
     Col. Gustave Kammerling
35th Ohio 
     Lieut. Col. Henry V. N. Boynton

Third Division Artillery
1st Michigan Light, Battery D (1st Brigade)
     Capt. Josiah W. Church
1st Ohio Light, Battery C (2nd Brigade)
     Lieut. Marco B. Gary
4th United States, Battery I (3rd Brigade)
     Lieut. Frank G. Smith

FOURTH DIVISION, XIV CORPS
     Maj. Gen. JOSEPH J. REYNOLDS

First ("Lightning") Brigade (mounted, on detached duty throughout)
     Col. JOHN T. WILDER
92nd Illinois
     Col. Smith D. Atkins
98th Illinois
     Col. John J. Funkhouser
     Lieut. Col. Edward Kitchell
123rd Illinois
     Col. James Monroe
17th Indiana
     Maj. William T. Jones
72nd Indiana
     Col. Abram O. Miller

Second Brigade
     Col. EDWARD A. KING (k)
     Col. MILTON S. ROBINSON
68th Indiana
     Capt. Harvey J. Espy
75th Indiana
     Col. Milton S. Robinson
     Lieut. Col. William O'Brien
101st Indiana
     Lieut. Col. Thomas Doan
105th Ohio
     Maj. George T. Perkins

Third Brigade
     Brig. Gen. JOHN B. TURCHIN
18th Kentucky
     Lieut. Col. Hubbard K. Milward
     Capt. John B. Heltemes.    
11th Ohio
     Col. Philander P. Lane
36th Ohio
     Col. William G. Jones
     Lieut. Col. Hiram F. Devol
92nd Ohio
     Col. Benjamin D. Fearing
     Lieut. Col. Douglas Putnam, Jr.

Fourth Division Artillery
Indiana Light, 18th Battery (1st Brigade)
      Capt. Eli Lilly
Indiana Light, 19th Battery (2nd Brigade)
     Capt. Samuel J. Harris
     Lieut. Robert S. Lackey
Indiana Light, 21st Battery (3rd Brigade)
     Capt. William W. Andrew

XX ARMY CORPS
     Maj. Gen. ALEXANDER McD. McCOOK

McCook's HQ
81st Indiana Infantry, Company H (Provost Guard)
     Capt. William J. Richards
2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Company I (Escort)
     Lieut. George W. L. Batman

FIRST DIVISION, XX CORPS
     Brig. Gen. JEFFERSON C. DAVIS

First Brigade (left at Stevens' Gap with trains. On 20 September, acted with cavalry on right.)
     Col. P. SIDNEY POST
59th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Joshua C. Winters
74th Illinois
     Col. Jason Marsh
75th Illinois
     Col. John E. Bennett
22nd Indiana
     Col. Michael Gooding
Wisconsin Light Artillery, 5th Battery
     Capt. George Q. Gardner

Second Brigade
     Brig. Gen. WILLIAM P. CARLIN
21st Illinois
     Col. John W. S. Alexander
     Capt. Chester K. Knight
38th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Daniel H. Gilmer
     Capt. Willis G. Whitehurst
81st Indiana
     Capt. Nevil B. Boone
     Maj. James E. Calloway
101st Ohio
     Lieut. Col. John Messer
     Maj. Bedan B. McDanald
     Capt. Leonard D. Smith
Minnesota Light Artillery, 2nd Battery
     Lieut. Albert Woodbury
     Lieut. Richard L. Dawley

Third Brigade
     Col. HANS C. HEG (mw)
     Col. JOHN A. MARTIN
25th Illinois
     Maj. Samuel D. Wall
     Capt. Wesford Taggart
35th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. William P. Chandler
8th Kansas
     Col. John A. Martin
     Lieut. Col. James L. Abernathy
15th Wisconsin
     Lieut. Col. Ole C. Johnson
Wisconsin Light Artillery, 8th Battery
     Lieut. John D. McLean

SECOND DIVISION, XX CORPS
     Brig. Gen. RICHARD W. JOHNSON

First Brigade
     Brig. Gen. AUGUST WILLICH
89th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Duncan J. Hall
     Maj. William D. Williams
32d Indiana
     Lieut. Col. Frank Erdelmeyer
39th Indiana (mounted and detached)
     Col. Thomas J. Harrison
15th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Frank Askew
49th Ohio
     Maj. Samuel F. Gray
     Capt. Luther M. Strong
1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery A
     Capt. Wilbur F. Goodspeed

Second Brigade
     Col. JOSEPH B. DODGE
79th Illinois
     Col. Allen Buckner
29th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. David M. Dunn
30th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. Orrin D. Hurd
77th Pennsylvania
     Col. Thomas E. Rose
     Capt. Joseph J. Lawson
Ohio Light Artillery, 20th Battery
     Capt. Edward Grosskopff

Third Brigade
     Col. PHILEMON P. BALDWIN (k)
     Col. WILLIAM W. BERRY
6th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. Hagerman Tripp
     Maj. Calvin D. Campbell
5th Kentucky
     Col. William W. Berry
     Capt. John M. Huston
1st Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Bassett Langdon
93rd Ohio
     Col. Hiram Strong
     Lieut. Col. William H. Martin
Indiana Light Artillery, 5th Battery
     Capt. Peter Simonson

THIRD DIVISION, XX CORPS
     Maj. Gen. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN

First Brigade
     Brig. Gen. WILLIAM H. LYTLE (mw)
     Col. SILAS MILLER
36th Illinois
     Col. Silas Miller
     Lieut. Col. Porter C. Olson
88th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Alexander S. Chadbourne
21st Michigan
     Col. William B. McCreery
     Maj. Seymour Chase
24th Wisconsin
     Lieut. Col. Theodore S. West
     Maj. Carl von Baumbach
Indiana Light Artillery, 11th Battery
     Capt. Arnold Sutermeister

Second 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
1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery G
     Lieut. Gustavus Schueler

Third Brigade
     Col. LUTHER P. BRADLEY (w)
     Col. NATHAN H. WALWORTH
22nd Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Francis Swanwick
27th Illinois
     Col. Jonathan R. Miles
42nd Illinois
     Col. Nathan H. Walworth
     Lieut. Col. John A. Hottenstein
51st Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Samuel B. Raymond
1st Illinois Light Artillery, Battery C
     Capt. Mark H. Prescott

XXI ARMY CORPS
     Maj. Gen. THOMAS L. CRITTENDEN

Crittenden's HQ
15th Illinois Cavalry, Company K (Escort)
     Capt. Samuel B. Sherer

FIRST DIVISION, XXI CORPS
     Brig. Gen. THOMAS J. WOOD

First Brigade
     Col. GEORGE P. BUELL
100th Illinois
     Col. Frederick A. Bartleson
     Maj. Charles M. Hammond
58th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. James T. Embree
13th Michigan
     Col. Joshua B. Culver
     Maj. Willard G. Eaton
26th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. William H. Young

Second Brigade (not engaged; stationed in Chattanooga, TN)
     Brig. Gen. GEORGE D. WAGNER
15th Indiana
     Col. Gustavus A. Wood
40th Indiana
     Col. John W. Blake
57th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. George W. Lennard
97th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Milton Barnes

Third Brigade
     Col. CHARLES G. HARKER
3rd Kentucky
     Col. Henry C. Dunlap
64th Ohio
     Col. Alexander McIlvain
65th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Horatio N. Whitbeck
     Maj. Samuel C. Brown
     Capt. Thomas Powell
125th Ohio
     Col. Emerson Opdycke

First Division Artillery
Indiana Light, 8th Battery (1st Brigade)
     Capt. George Estep
Indiana Light, 10th Battery (2nd Brigade) (not engaged; stationed in Chattanooga, TN)
     Lieut. William A. Naylor
Ohio Light, 6th Battery (3d Brigade)
     Capt. Cullen Bradley

SECOND DIVISION, XXI CORPS
     Maj. Gen. JOHN M. PALMER

First Brigade
     Brig. Gen. CHARLES CRUFT
31st Indiana
     Col. John T. Smith
1st Kentucky (five companies detached as wagon guard)
     Lieut. Col. Alva R. Hadlock
2nd Kentucky
     Col. Thomas D. Sedgewick
90th Ohio
     Col. Charles H. Rippey

Second Brigade
     Brig. Gen. WILLIAM B. HAZEN
9th Indiana
     Col. Isaac C. B. Suman
6th Kentucky
     Col. George T. Shackelford
     Lieut. Col. Richard Rockingham
     Maj. Richard T. Whitaker
41st Ohio
     Col. Aquila Wiley
124th Ohio
    Col. Oliver H. Payne
    Maj. James B. Hampson

Third Brigade
     Col. WILLIAM GROSE
84th Illinois
     Col. Louis H. Waters
36th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. Oliver H. P. Carey
     Maj. Gilbert Trusler
23rd Kentucky
     Lieut. Col. James C. Foy
6th Ohio
     Col. Nicholas L. Anderson
     Maj. Samuel C. Erwin
24th Ohio
     Col. David J. Higgins

Second Division Artillery
     Capt. WILLIAM E. STANDART
1st Ohio Light, Battery B (1st Brigade)
     Lieut. Norman A. Baldwin
1st Ohio Light, Battery F (2nd Brigade)
     Lieut. Giles J. Cockerill
4th United States, Battery H (3rd Brigade)
     Lieut. Harry C. Cushing
4th United States, Battery M (3rd Brigade)
     Lieut. Francis L. D. Russell

Unattached
110th Illinois (Battalion)
     Capt. E. Hibbard Topping

THIRD DIVISION, XXI CORPS
     Brig. Gen. HORATIO P. VAN CLEVE

First Brigade
     Brig. Gen. SAMUEL BEATTY
79th Indiana
     Col. Frederick Knefler
9th Kentucky
     Col. George H. Cram
17th Kentucky
     Col. Alexander M. Stout
19th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Henry G. Stratton

Second Brigade
     Col. GEORGE F. DICK
44th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. Simeon C. Aldrich
86th Indiana
     Maj. Jacob C. Dick
13th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Elhannon M. Mast
     Capt. Horatio G. Cosgrove
59th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Granville A. Frambes

Third Brigade
     Col. SIDNEY M. BARNES
35th Indiana
     Maj. John P. Dufficy
8th Kentucky
     Lieut. Col. James D. Mayhew
     Maj. John S. Clark
21st Kentucky (not engaged; stationed at Whiteside's)
     Col. S. Woodson Price
51st Ohio
     Col. Richard W. McClain
     Lieut. Col. Charles H. Wood
99th Ohio
     Col. Peter T. Swaine

Third Division Artillery
Indiana Light, 7th Battery
     Capt. George R. Swallow
Pennsylvania Light. 26th Battery
     Capt. Alanson J. Stevens
     Lieut. Samuel M. McDowell
Wisconsin Light, 3rd Battery
     Lieut. Cortland Livingston

RESERVE CORPS (composed of three divisions, though only three brigades engaged)
     Maj. Gen. GORDON GRANGER

RESERVE CORPS HQ
1st Missouri Cavalry, Company F (Escort)

FIRST DIVISION, RESERVE CORPS
     Brig. Gen. JAMES B. STEEDMAN

First Brigade
     Brig. Gen. WALTER C. WHITAKER
96th Illinois
     Col. Thomas E. Champion
115th Illinois
     Col. Jesse H. Moore
84th Indiana
     Col. Nelson Trusler
22nd Michigan (temporarily attached)
     Col. Heber Le Favour
     Lieut. Col. William Sanborn
     Capt. Alonzo M. Keeler
40th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. William Jones
89th Ohio (temporarily attached)
     Col. Caleb H. Carlton
     Capt. Isaac C. Nelson
Ohio Light Artillery, 18th Battery
     Capt. Charles C. Aleshire

Second Brigade
     Col. JOHN G. MITCHELL
78th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. Carter Van Vleck
     Lieut. George Green
98th Ohio
     Capt. Moses J. Urquhart
     Capt. Armstrong J. Thomas
113th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Darius B. Warner
121st Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Henry B. Banning
1st Illinois Light Artillery, Battery M
     Lieut. Thomas Burton

SECOND DIVISION, RESERVE CORPS
     No Commander


Second Brigade
     Col. DANIEL McCOOK, JR.
85th Illinois
     Col. Caleb J. Dilworth
86th Illinois
     Lieut. Col. David W. Magee
125th Illinois
     Col. Oscar F. Harmon
52nd Ohio
     Maj. James T. Holmes
69th Ohio (temporarily attached)
     Lieut. Col. Joseph H. Brigham
2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery I
     Capt. Charles M. Barnett

CAVALRY CORPS
     Maj. Gen. David S. Stanley (ill and did not participate)
     Brig. Gen. ROBERT B. MITCHELL

FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION
     Col. EDWARD M. McCOOK

First Cavalry Brigade
     Col. ARCHIBALD P. CAMPBELL
2nd Michigan
     Maj. Leonidas S. Scranton.
9th Pennsylvania
     Lieut. Col. Roswell M. Russell
1st Tennessee
     Lieut. Col. James P. Brownlow

Second Cavalry Brigade
     Col. DANIEL M. RAY
2nd Indiana
     Maj. Joseph B. Presdee
4th Indiana
     Lieut. Col. John T. Deweese
2nd Tennessee
     Lieut. Col. William R. Cook
1st Wisconsin
     Col. Oscar H. LaGrange
1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery D (section)
     Lieut. Nathaniel M. Newell

Third Cavalry Brigade
     Col. Louis D. WATKINS
4th Kentucky
     Col. Wickliffe Cooper
5th Kentucky
     Lieut. Col. William T. Hoblitzell
6th Kentucky
     Maj. Louis A. Gratz

SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION
     Brig. Gen. GEORGE CROOK

First Cavalry Brigade
     Col. ROBERT H. G. MINTY
3rd Indiana (Battalion)
     Lieut. Col. Robert Klein
4th Michigan
     Maj. Horace Gray
7th Pennsylvania
     Lieut. Col. James J. Seibert
4th United States
     Capt. James B. Mcintyre

Second Cavalry Brigade
     Col. ELI LONG
2nd Kentucky
     Col. Thomas P. Nicholas
1st Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Valentine Cupp
     Maj. Thomas J. Patten
3rd Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Charles B. Seidel
4th Ohio
     Lieut. Col. Oliver P. Robie

Second Cavalry Division Artillery
Chicago (Illinois) Board of Trade Battery
     Capt. James H. Stokes

Sources:
Peter Cozzens, This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992),  537-553.
John Basil Turchin, Chickamauga (Chicago: Fergus Publishing Company, 1888).
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the  Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1.


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