1861 August 18th

August 18 1861 Sunday

Confederate Invasion of New Mexico

Rosecrans’ West Virginia Campaign

Florida. The Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis attempted to enter St Augustine, but arrived off the coast during a gale. Unwilling to risk capture by nearby blockaders, her captain chose not to ride out the storm. Jefferson Davis ran aground and could not get free. The crew was saved, but the ship was wrecked.

Maryland. Incident at Sandy Hook.

Virginia. Reconnaissance to Accotink. Incident at Pohick Church.

Union Organisation

Commander in Chief: President Abraham Lincoln

Vice-President: Hannibal Hamlin

Secretary of War: Simon Cameron

Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles

Coast Blockading Squadron USN: Flag Officer Silas Horton Stringham USN
Gulf Blockading Squadron USN: Flag Officer William Mervine USN
Pacific Squadron USN: Captain John B Montgomery USN
Potomac Flotilla USN: Commander Thomas Tingey Craven USN

General–in-Chief: Winfield Scott

Department of the Cumberland: Robert Anderson awaited
Department of the East: Vacant
Department of Florida: Harvey Brown
Department of the Ohio: William Starke Rosecrans
- Cheat Mountain District: Joseph Jones Reynolds
- Cheat River District: Charles J Biddle
- District of Grafton: Benjamin Franklin Kelley
- Army of Occupation: William Starke Rosecrans
Department of the Pacific: Edwin Vose Sumner
- District of Oregon: George Wright
Department of the Potomac: George Brinton McClellan awaited
- Army of the Potomac: Irvin McDowell
Department of Texas: Vacant
Department of Virginia: John Ellis Wool
Western Department: John Charles Frémont
- District of Ironton: Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
- District of North Missouri: John Pope
- Southern District of New Mexico: Benjamin Stone Roberts

Confederate Organisation

CSA: Paul Octave Hébert promoted Brigadier-General PACS 18 August 1861 to rank from 17 August 1861.

Hébert, Paul Octave | Louisiana | Born 12 December 1818 Iberville, Louisiana | USMA 1840 1/42 Engineers | 2^nd Lieutenant USA Engineers 1 July 1840 Resigned 31 March 1845 Lieutenant-Colonel USA 14^th US Infantry 9 April 1847 Honourably Discharged USA 25 July 1848 Colonel 1^st Louisiana Artillery 1861 Brigadier-General Louisiana Militia 1 April 1861 Brigadier-General PACS August 18 1861 to rank from 17 August 1861 | Died 29 August 1880 | 16 April 1861 – 17 April 1861 Department of Louisiana, 14 August 1861 – 3 September 1861 Department of Texas, 10 February 1862 – 28 May 1862 Eastern District of Texas, 26 May 1862 – 29 July 1862 Trans-Mississippi Department, 28 May 1862 – 20 August 1862 District of Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana, 20 August 1862 – 19 October 1862 District of Texas, 15 October 1862 – 29 November 1862 First Sub-District of Texas

Commander in Chief: President Jefferson Finis Davis

Vice-President: Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Secretary of War: Leroy Pope Walker

Secretary of the Navy: Stephen Russell Mallory

Military Adviser to the President: Robert Edward Lee

Department No 1: David Emanuel Twiggs
Department of Fredericksburg: Daniel Harvey Hill
- District of Aquia: Daniel Ruggles
Department of Norfolk: Benjamin Huger
Department of North Carolina: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
- Defences of North Carolina: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
Department of the Peninsula: John Bankhead Magruder
- Army of the Peninsula: John Bankhead Magruder
Department of the Potomac: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- Army of the Potomac: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Department of South Carolina: Daniel Harvey Hill
Department of Southwestern Virginia: William Wing Loring
Department of Texas: Earl Van Dorn interim Paul Octave Hébert awaited
- Defences of Galveston: John Creed Moore
Department of West Florida: Braxton Bragg
- “Forces in Pensacola”: Braxton Bragg
Western Department: Leonidas Polk
- District of Upper Arkansas: William Joseph Hardee
- Western Army: Benjamin McCulloch
District of East Tennessee: Felix Kirk Zollicoffer
Defences of Savannah: Alexander Robert Lawton
Indian Territory: Benjamin McCulloch
Forces in Richmond: Thomas Turner Fauntleroy
Army of the Kanawha: John Buchanan Floyd
Army of Liberation: Gideon Johnson Pillow
Army of the Northwest: William Wing Loring

Union Generals

Major-General USA Winfield Scott 5 July 1841 to rank from 25 June 1841 General-in-Chief
Major-General USA George Brinton McClellan 14 May 1861 Department of the Potomac awaited
Major-General USA John Charles Frémont 3 July 1861 to rank from 14 May 1861 Western Department
Brigadier-General USA John Ellis Wool 25 June 1841 Department of Virginia
Brigadier-General USA William Selby Harney 14 June 1858
Brigadier-General USA Edwin Vose Sumner 16 March 1861 Department of the Pacific
Brigadier-General USA Irvin McDowell 14 May 1861 Army of the Potomac
Brigadier-General USA Joseph Fenno King Mansfield 17 May 1861 to rank from May 14 1861
Brigadier-General USA Montgomery Cunningham Meigs 15 May 1861 Quartermaster-General
Brigadier-General USA Robert Anderson 17 June 1861 to rank from 15 May 1861 Department of the Cumberland awaited
Brigadier-General USA William Starke Rosecrans 16 June 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861 Department of the Ohio & Army of Occupation
Brigadier-General USA Henry Knox Craig August 3 1861
Brigadier-General USA Lorenzo Thomas 5 August 1861 to rank from 3 August 1861 Adjutant General
Brigadier-General USA James Wolfe Ripley 10 September 1861 to rank from 3 August 1861 Chief of Ordnance
Major-General USV John Adams Dix 16 May 1861
Major-General USV Benjamin Franklin Butler 16 May 1861
Major-General USV Nathaniel Prentiss Banks 3 June 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861
Major-General USV David Hunter 13 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV Nathaniel Lyon 17 May 1861 KIA 10 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV Jacob Dolson Cox 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Samuel Peter Heintzelman 27 May 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Robert Cumming Schenck 5 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV John Pope 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 District of North Missouri
Brigadier-General USV Joseph Jones Reynolds 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 Cheat Mountain District
Brigadier-General USV Stephen Augustus Hurlbut 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV William Tecumseh Sherman 3 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Andrew Porter 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV William Buel Franklin 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Charles Pomeroy Stone 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Thomas West Sherman 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Benjamin Franklin Kelley 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 District of Grafton
Brigadier-General USV Joseph Hooker 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV John Alexander McClernand 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Frederick West Lander 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Erasmus Darwin Keyes 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Don Carlos Buell 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Fitz-John Porter 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV George Archibald McCall 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Rufus King 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Franz Sigel 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Charles Smith Hamilton 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Samuel Ryan Curtis 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Philip Kearny 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Alpheus Starkey Williams 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV William Reading Montgomery 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Israel Bush Richardson 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 District of Ironton
Brigadier-General USV Darius Nash Couch 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Ulysses Simpson Grant 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV James Cooper 12 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV Julius Stahel 12 November 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV John Wolcott Phelps 9 August 1861 to rank from 27 May 1861
Brigadier-General USV James Brewerton Ricketts April 30 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
Brigadier-General USV Michael Corcoran August 15 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
Brigadier-General USV Orlando Bolivar Willcox August 19 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
Brigadier-General USV George Henry Thomas 17 August 1861 to rank from 3 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV Ambrose Everett Burnside 9 August 1861 to rank from August 6 1861
Brigadier-General USV Henry Hayes Lockwood August 8 1861
Brigadier-General USV Louis Blenker 9 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV George Webb Morell 9 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV Henry Warner Slocum 9 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV James Samuel Wadsworth 9 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV John James Peck 9 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV Ormsby McKnight Mitchel 9 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV John Henry Martindale 9 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV Samuel Davis Sturgis March 7 1862 to rank from August 10 1861
Brigadier-General USV William Farrar Smith 13 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV George Stoneman 13 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV Henry Washington Benham 13 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV James William Denver 14 August 1861
Brigadier-General USV Egbert Ludovicus Viele 17 August 1861
Colonel Harvey Brown 14 May 1861 Department of Florida
Colonel George Wright 3 March 1855 District of Oregon
Colonel Benjamin Gratz Brown 22 April 1861 District of Ironton
Colonel Charles J Biddle 21 June 1861 Cheat River District
Major Benjamin Stone Roberts 13 May 1861 Southern District of New Mexico

Confederate Generals

General ACSA Samuel Cooper 31 August 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861 Adjutant-General and Inspector General
General ACSA Albert Sidney Johnston 31 August 1861 to rank from 30 May 1861
General ACSA Robert Edward Lee 31 August 1861 to rank from 14 June 1861 Military Adviser to the President
General ACSA Joseph Eggleston Johnston 31 August 1861 to rank from 4 July 1861 Department of the Potomac & Army of the Potomac
General ACSA Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard 31 August 1861 to rank from 21 July 1861
Major-General PACS David Emanuel Twiggs March 22 1861 Department No 1
Major-General Leonidas Polk PACS 25 June 1861 Western Department
Brigadier-General ACSA Braxton Bragg March 7 1861 Department of West Florida & Forces in Pensacola
Brigadier-General PACS Alexander Robert Lawton 13 April 1861 Defences of Savannah
Brigadier-General PACS Milledge Luke Bonham 23 April 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin McCulloch 11 May 1861 Indian Territory & Western Army
Brigadier-General PACS William Wing Loring 20 May 1861 Department of Southwestern Virginia & Army of the Northwest
Brigadier-General PACS Charles Clark 22 May 1861.
Brigadier-General PACS John Buchanan Floyd 23 May 1861 Army of the Kanawha
Brigadier-General PACS William Henry Talbot Walker 25 May 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Henry Rootes Jackson 4 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Earl Van Dorn 5 June 1861 Department of Texas interim
Brigadier-General PACS Theophilus Hunter Holmes 5 June 1861 Department of North Carolina & Defences of North Carolina
Brigadier-General PACS Henry Alexander Wise 5 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Robert Selden Garnett 6 June 1861 KIA 13 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS William Joseph Hardee 17 June 1861 District of Upper Arkansas
Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin Huger 17 June 1861 Department of Norfolk
Brigadier-General PACS Thomas Jonathan Jackson 17 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Richard Stoddert Ewell 17 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Henry Hopkins Sibley 17 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Edmund Kirby Smith 17 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Barnard Elliott Bee 17 June 1861 DOW 22 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS John Clifford Pemberton 17 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS John Bankhead Magruder 17 June 1861 Department of the Peninsula & Army of the Peninsula
Brigadier-General PACS James Longstreet 17 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS David Rumph Jones 17 June 1861
Brigadier-General PACS John Henry Winder 21 June 1861 Provost Marshal General
Brigadier-General PACS Richard Caswell Gatlin 13 August 1861 to rank from 8 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Gideon Johnson Pillow 9 July 1861 Army of Liberation
Brigadier-General PACS Samuel Read Anderson 9 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin Franklin Cheatham 9 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Daniel Smith Donelson 9 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Felix Kirk Zollicoffer 9 July 1861 District of East Tennessee
Brigadier-General PACS Jones Mitchell Withers 10 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Daniel Harvey Hill 10 July 1861 Department of South Carolina & Department of Fredericksburg
Brigadier-General PACS Richard Heron Anderson 19 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Robert Augustus Toombs 19 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Arnold Elzey 21 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Samuel Jones 21 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Jubal Anderson Early July 21 1861
Brigadier-General PACS William Henry Chase Whiting 28 August 1861 to rank from 21 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Francis Stebbins Bartow 21 July 1861 DOW 22 July 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Daniel Ruggles August 6 1861 to rank from 9 August 1861 District of Aquia
Brigadier-General PACS Isaac Ridgeway Trimble 6 August 1861 to rank from 9 August 1861
Brigadier-General PACS George Bibb Crittenden 13 August 1861 to rank from August 15 1861
Brigadier-General PACS John Breckinridge Grayson 13 August 1861 to rank from 15 August 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Roswell Sabine Ripley 13 August 1861 to rank from 15 August 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Albert Pike 13 August 1861 to rank from 15 August 1861
Brigadier-General PACS Paul Octave Hébert August 18 1861 to rank from August 17 1861 Department of Texas awaited
Colonel Thomas Turner Fauntleroy Forces in Richmond
Colonel John Creed Moore Defences of Galveston