April 30 1862 Wednesday
Peninsula Campaign – Siege of Yorktown
First Corinth Campaign
Operations at New Orleans
Confederate Evacuation of New Mexico
Georgia. Incident at Wilmington Island.
South Carolina. USS Santiago de Cuba, Commander Daniel Bowly Ridgely, captured the schooner Maria off Port Royal.
Tennessee. Union Major-General Henry Wager Halleck completed the reorganisation of his united armies for the advance to Corinth. He restructured them into a Left Wing, Right Wing, Centre, and Reserve. These designations were a practical arrangement for the conduct of the campaign but the constituent forces retained their identities as parts of the Army of the Mississippi, the Army of the Ohio, and the Army of West Tennessee.
The Right Wing of five divisions was led by Major-General George Henry Thomas (Army of West Tennessee) and comprised 1st Division (Ohio), 2nd Division (Tennessee), 4th Division (Tennessee), 5th Division (Tennessee), and 6th Division (Tennessee). These divisions were led respectively by Brigadier-General Thomas West Sherman (succeeding Thomas), Brigadier-General Thomas Alfred Davies (later succeeded by Brigadier-General Edward Otho Cresap Ord), Brigadier-General Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Brigadier-General William Tecumseh Sherman, and Brigadier-General Thomas Jefferson McKean (replacing Thomas W Sherman).
The Centre of four divisions was commanded by Major-General Don Carlos Buell (Army of the Ohio) and comprised 2nd Division (Ohio), 4th Division (Ohio), 5th Division (Ohio), and 6th Division (Ohio). These divisions were led respectively by Brigadier-General Alexander McDowell McCook, Brigadier-General William Nelson, Brigadier-General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, and Brigadier-General Thomas John Wood.
The Left Wing of four divisions was led by Major-General John Pope (Army of the Mississippi) and comprised the Cavalry Division (Mississippi), 1st Division (Mississippi), 3rd Division (Mississippi), and 4th Division (Mississippi). The cavalry was led by Brigadier-General Gordon Granger, and the three infantry divisions were commanded by Brigadier-General Eleazar Arthur Paine, Brigadier-General Schuyler Hamilton (later succeeded by Brigadier-General Joseph Bennett Plummer), and Brigadier-General Jefferson Columbus Davis.
The Reserve of two divisions was commanded by Major-General John Alexander McClernand and comprised 1st Division (Tennessee) and 3rd Division (Tennessee). These were his own division (commanded successively by Brigadier-General John Alexander Logan, Brigadier-General Henry Moses Judah, and Brigadier-General Thomas Alfred Davies) and that of Major-General Lewis Wallace.
The 7th Division (Ohio) of Brigadier-General George Washington Morgan was detached for operations at Cumberland Gap. The 3rd Division (Ohio) of Brigadier-General Ormsby McKnight Mitchel was detached at Chattanooga. The 2nd Division (Mississippi) of Brigadier-General David Sloan Stanley was defending the gains on the Mississippi River.
On 29 May 1862, after Stanley’s division rejoined, the Army of the Mississippi was further reorganised. The 1st Division (Mississippi) and 2nd Division (Mississippi) were delegated to the recently-arrived Major-General William Starke Rosecrans as the Right Wing of the Army of the Mississippi while the 3rd Division (Mississippi) and 4th Division (Mississippi) were delegated to Brigadier-General Schuyler Hamilton as the Left Wing of the Army of the Mississippi. Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant continued to serve as second-in-command of the entire force.
ORDER OF BATTLE: Union Department (Military Division) of the Mississippi
Union Department (Military Division) of the Mississippi: Major-General Henry Wager Halleck
Department of the Missouri: Major-General Henry Wager Halleck, Second-in-Command Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant, Chief of Staff: Brigadier-General George Washington Cullum, Chief of Cavalry Brigadier-General Andrew Jackson Smith
District of West Tennessee: Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant
District of the Mississippi: Brigadier-General Isaac Ferdinand Quinby
Sub-District of Columbus: Brigadier-General Isaac Ferdinand Quinby
District of the Ohio: Maj0r-General Don Carlos Buell
District of Cairo: Brigadier-General William Kerley Strong
Army of the Mississippi: Major-General John Pope
1st Division (Mississippi): Brigadier-General Eleazar Arthur Paine (assigned to Left Wing)
1st Brigade, 1st Division (Mississippi): Brigadier-General John McAuley Palmer
2nd Brigade, 1st Division (Mississippi): Colonel James Dada Morgan
2nd Division (Mississippi): Brigadier-General David Sloan Stanley
1st Brigade, 2nd Division (Mississippi): Colonel John Groesbeck (1 May Brigadier-General Daniel Tyler)
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division (Mississippi): Brigadier-General Joseph Bennett Plummer (29 May Colonel John Groesbeek, 7 June Colonel John M Loomis)
3rd Division (Mississippi): Brigadier General Schuyler Hamilton (29 May Brigadier-General Joseph Bennett Plummer) (assigned to Left Wing)
1st Brigade, 3rd Division (Mississippi): Brigadier General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division (Mississippi): Colonel Nicholas Perczel
4th Division (Mississippi): Brigadier-General Jefferson Columbus Davis (assigned to Left Wing)
1st Brigade, 4th Division (Mississippi): Brigadier-General Robert Byington Mitchell
2nd Brigade, 4th Division (Mississippi): Brigadier-General Alexander Asboth
Cavalry Division (Mississippi): Brigadier General Gordon Granger (assigned to Left Wing)
1st Brigade, Cavalry Division (Mississippi): Colonel John K Mizner
2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division (Mississippi): Colonel Washington Lafayette Elliott (1 June Colonel Philip Henry Sheridan)
Reserve Brigade (Mississippi) Colonel William Passmore Carlin
Army of the Ohio: Major-General Don Carlos Buell
1st Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General George Henry Thomas (3 May Brigadier-General Thomas West Sherman) (assigned to Right Wing)
1st Brigade, 1st Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Albin Francisco Schoepf
2nd Brigade, 1st Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Speed Smith Fry
3rd Brigade: Brigadier-General Robert Latimer McCook
2nd Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Alexander McDowell McCook (assigned to Centre)
4th Brigade, 2nd Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Lovell Harrison Rousseau
5th Brigade, 2nd Division (Ohio): Colonel Frederick S Stumbaugh
6th Brigade, 2nd Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Richard William Johnson
3rd Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Ormsby McKnight Mitchel
8th Brigade, 3rd Division (Ohio): Colonel John Basil Turchin
9th Brigade, 3rd Division (Ohio): Colonel Joshua Woodrow Sill
17th Brigade, 3rd Division (Ohio): Colonel William Haines Lytle
4th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General William Nelson (assigned to Centre)
10th Brigade, 4th Division (Ohio): Colonel Jacob Ammen
19th Brigade, 4th Division (Ohio): Colonel William Babcock Hazen
22nd Brigade, 4th Division (Ohio): Colonel Thomas D Sedgewick (30 May Brigadier-General Mahlon Dickerson Manson)
5th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (assigned to Centre)
11th Brigade, 5th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (27 May Colonel Samuel Beatty)
14th Brigade, 5th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Horatio Phillips Van Cleve
6th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Thomas John Wood (assigned to Centre)
15th Brigade, 6th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Milo Smith Hascall
20th Brigade, 6th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General James Abram Garfield
21st Brigade, 6th Division (Ohio): Colonel George Day Wagner
7th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General George Washington Morgan
24th Brigade, 7th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Samuel Powhatan Carter
25th Brigade, 7th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General James Gallant Spears
26th Brigade, 7th Division (Ohio): Colonel John Fitzroy De Courcy
27th Brigade, 7th Division (Ohio): Brigadier-General Absalom Baird
Army of West Tennessee: Major-General George Henry Thomas
1st Division (Tennessee): Major-General John Alexander McClernand (2 May Brigadier-General John Alexander Logan, 4 May Brigadier-General Henry Moses Judah. 2 June Brigadier-General Thomas Alfred Davies) (assigned to Reserve)
1st Brigade, 1st Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General John A Logan (2–3 May Colonel Michael Kelly Lawler)
2nd Brigade, 1st Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Leonard Fulton Ross
3rd Brigade, 1st Division (Tennessee): Colonel Charles Carroll Marsh (4 May Colonel Michael Kelly Lawler)
2nd Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Thomas Alfred Davies (2 June Brigadier-General Edward Otho Cresap Ord) (assigned to Right Wing)
1st Brigade, 2nd Division (Tennessee): Colonel James Tuttle
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Richard James Oglesby
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division (Tennessee): Colonel Silas D Baldwin
3rd Division (Tennessee): Major-General Lewis Wallace
1st Brigade, 3rd Division (Tennessee): Colonel Morgan Lewis Smith (12 May Brigadier-General Alvin Peterson Hovey)
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division (Tennessee): Colonel John Milton Thayer
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division (Tennessee): Colonel Charles Robert Woods
4th Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (assigned to Right Wing)
1st Brigade, 4th Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Jacob Gartner Lauman
2nd Brigade, 4th Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General James Clifford Veatch
5th Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General William Tecumseh Sherman (assigned to Right Wing)
1st Brigade, 5th Division (Tennessee): Colonel John A McDowell (12 May Colonel Morgan Lewis Smith)
2nd Brigade, 5th Division (Tennessee): Colonel David Stuart (15 May Colonel John A McDowell)
3rd Brigade, 5th Division (Tennessee): Colonel Jesse Hildebrand (15 May Colonel Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, 16th May Brigadier-General James William Denver)
4th Brigade, 5th Division (Tennessee): Colonel Ralph Pomeroy Buckland
6th Division (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Thomas Jefferson McKean (30 April–3 May Brigadier-General Thomas West Sherman) (assigned to Right Wing)
1st Brigade, 6th Division (Tennessee): Colonel John L Doran (23 May Brigadier-General John McArthur)
2nd Brigade, 6th Division (Tennessee): Colonel John M Oliver
3rd Brigade, 6th Division (Tennessee): Colonel Marcellus Munroe Crocker
South Carolina. Incident at Whitmarsh Island.
Virginia. Confederate Major-General Thomas Jonathan Jackson had occupied positions at Swift Run Gap with his 6,000 men after the defeat and pursuit by Union troops under Major-General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks from Kernstown. Jackson was now given authority over Major-General Richard Stoddert Ewell’s division with a further 8,000 men at Gordonsville and also of 3,000 more men in the Army of the Northwest commanded by Brigadier-General Edward Johnson. Johnson was at West View, seven miles west of Staunton, having been forced back by the advance of Major-General John Charles Frémont’s troops through West Virginia to McDowell. Allowing Frémont’s troops (actually only the division of Brigadier-General Robert Huston Milroy) to combine with Banks would threaten disastrous numerical inferiority on Jackson so he decided to attack his divided opponents in detail.
With orders to draw Union forces away from the main action at Richmond, Jackson decided to strike first at Frémont. Ewell was moved to Elk Run Valley from Gordonsville, aiming to replace Jackson in the flanking position at Swift Run Gap and to prevent Banks from moving to Staunton. To strengthen this deterrent, Colonel Turner Ashby’s cavalry made continual feints against Banks’ force which had halted at Harrisonburg.
During the afternoon, Jackson departed on a long march with his own division, followed later by Ashby, ostensibly to join General Joseph Eggleston Johnson for the defence of Richmond. Keeping his plans secret, even from his senior officers, Jackson took a circuitous route to conceal his objective. He headed up the Shenandoah Valley through Port Republic and then through Brown Gap to Mechum’s River Station. He then moved his force by railroad to Staunton. He eventually made contact with Johnson on 7 May.
Banks was taken in by the deception and reported that Jackson had left the Shenandoah Valley and was on his way to Richmond. He even suggested that his command might now be moved safely to reinforce the forces at Fredericksburg or even to the Peninsula.
ORDER OF BATTLE: Confederate Department of Northern Virginia
Confederate Department of Northern Virginia: General Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Army of Northern Virginia: General Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Right of Position, Yorktown: Major-General John Bankhead Magruder
Centre Northern Virginia: Major-General Daniel Harvey Hill
McLaws’ Division, Centre Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Lafayette McLaws
McLaws’ Brigade, McLaws’ Division, Centre Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Lafayette McLaws
Griffith’s Brigade, McLaws’ Division, Centre Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Richard Griffith
Kershaw’s Brigade, McLaws’ Division, Centre Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Joseph Brevard Kershaw
Cobb’s Brigade, McLaws’ Division, Centre Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Thomas Howell Cobb
Jones’ Division, Centre Northern Virginia: Major-General David Rumph Jones
Toombs’ Brigade, Jones’ Division, Centre Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Robert Augustus Toombs
Semmes’ Brigade, Jones’ Division, Centre Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Paul Jones Semmes
Centre of Position, Yorktown: Major-General James Longstreet
Right Wing Northern Virginia: Major-General James Longstreet
Longstreet’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Major-General James Longstreet
Hill’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Ambrose Powell Hill
Anderson’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Richard Heron Anderson
Colston’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Raleigh Edward Colston
Pickett’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General George Edward Pickett
Wilcox’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Pryor’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Colonel J A Winston
Left of Position, Yorktown: Major-General Daniel Harvey Hill
Hill’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Major-General Daniel Harvey Hill
Early’s Brigade, Hill’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Jubal Anderson Early
Rodes’ Brigade, Hill’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Robert Emmett Rodes
Rains’ Brigade, Hill’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Gabriel James Rains
Featherston’s Brigade, Hill’s Division, Right Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Winfield Scott Featherston
Reserve Position, Yorktown: Major-General Gustavus Woodson Smith
Left Wing: Major-General Gustavus Woodson Smith
Smith’s Division, Left Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General William Henry Chase Whiting
Whiting’s Brigade, Smith’s Division, Left Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General William Henry Chase Whiting
Hood’s Brigade, Smith’s Division, Left Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General John Bell Hood
Hampton’s Brigade, Smith’s Division, Left Wing Northern Virginia: Colonel Wade Hampton
Anderson’s Brigade, Smith’s Division, Left Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General Samuel Read Anderson
Pettigrew’s Brigade, Smith’s Division, Left Wing Northern Virginia: Brigadier-General James Johnston Pettigrew
Reserve Artillery: Brigadier-General William Nelson Pendleton
Union Organisation
USA: James Brewerton Ricketts confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 21 July 1861.
USA: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 19 November 1861.
USA: Jefferson Columbus Davis confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 18 December 1861.
USA: Eugene Asa Carr confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 7 March 1862.
USA: Quincy Adams Gillmore confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 11 April 1862.
USA: Andrew Atkinson Humphreys confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: James Henry Carleton confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Absalom Baird confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: John Cleveland Robinson confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Truman Seymour confirmed Brigadier-General 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: George Dashiell Bayard confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Henry Prince confirmed Brigadier-General 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Abraham Sanders Piatt confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Thomas Turpin Crittenden confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Max Weber confirmed Brigadier-General 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Pleasant Adam Hackleman confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan confirmed Brigadier-General 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Alvin Peterson Hovey confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: James Clifford Veatch confirmed Brigadier-General 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: William Plummer Benton confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: William Henry Charles Bohlen confirmed Brigadier-General 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: John Curtis Caldwell confirmed Brigadier-General 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: Isaac Peace Rodman confirmed Brigadier-General 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
USA: George Sears Greene confirmed Brigadier-General USV 30 April 1862 to rank from 28 April 1862.
Commander in Chief: President Abraham Lincoln
Vice-President: Hannibal Hamlin
Secretary of War: Edwin McMasters Stanton
Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron: Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron: Samuel Francis Du Pont
West Gulf Blockading Squadron: David Glasgow Farragut
East Gulf Blockading Squadron: William McKean
Pacific Squadron: Charles H Bell
Western Gunboat Flotilla: Andrew Hull Foote
Potomac Flotilla: Robert Harris Wyman
Chairman of the War Board: Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Department of the Mississippi: Henry Wager Halleck
- District of West Tennessee: Ulysses Simpson Grant
- Army of West Tennessee: Ulysses Simpson Grant
- District of the Mississippi: Isaac Ferdinand Quinby
- Army of the Mississippi: John Pope
- District of the Ohio: Don Carlos Buell
- Army of the Ohio: Don Carlos Buell
- District of Cairo: William Kerley Strong
- Sub-District of Columbus: Isaac Ferdinand Quinby
Department of the Missouri: Henry Wager Halleck
- District of St Louis: Lewis Merrill
- District of Central Missouri: James Totten
- District of Southeast Missouri: Frederick Steele
- District of Southwest Missouri: Samuel Ryan Curtis
- Army of the Southwest: Samuel Ryan Curtis
- District of Northeast Missouri: John Montgomery Glover
- District of Northwest Missouri: Benjamin Franklin Loan
- District of Kansas: Samuel Davis Sturgis
Department of the Gulf: Benjamin Franklin Butler
- Army of the Gulf: Benjamin Franklin Butler
Middle Department: John Adams Dix
- District of the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Henry Hayes Lockwood
Mountain Department: John Charles Frémont
- Cheat Mountain District: Thomas Maley Harris
- Railroad District: Benjamin Franklin Kelley
- District of the Kanawha: Jacob Dolson Cox
- District of the Gap: Samuel Powhatan Carter
- District of the Valley of the Big Sandy River: James Abram Garfield
Department of New Mexico: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
- Central and Northern District of New Mexico: Benjamin Stone Roberts
Department of New York: Edward Denison Morgan
Department of North Carolina: Ambrose Everett Burnside
Department of the Pacific: George Wright
- District of the Humboldt: Francis James Lippitt
- District of Oregon: Albemarle Cady
- District of Southern California: James Henry Carleton
Department of the Potomac: George Brinton McClellan
- Army of the Potomac: George Brinton McClellan
- II Corps Potomac: Edwin Vose Sumner
- III Corps Potomac: Samuel Peter Heintzelman
- IV Corps Potomac: Erasmus Darwin Keyes
Department of the Rappahannock: Irvin McDowell
- Military District of Washington: James Samuel Wadsworth
Department of the Shenandoah: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
Department of the South: David Hunter
- Northern District of the South: Henry Washington Benham
- Southern District of the South: John Milton Brannan
- Western District of the South: Lewis Golding Arnold
Department of Texas: Vacant
Department of Virginia: John Ellis Wool
Confederate Organisation
Commander in Chief: President Jefferson Finis Davis
Vice-President: Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Secretary of War: George Wythe Randolph
Secretary of the Navy: Stephen Russell Mallory
Military Adviser to the President: Robert Edward Lee
Department No 1: Mansfield Lovell
Department of Alabama and West Florida: John Horace Forney temporary
- Army of Mobile: William L Powell
Department of Middle and Eastern Florida: Joseph Finegan
Department of East Tennessee: Edmund Kirby Smith
- Army of East Tennessee: Edmund Kirby Smith
Department of Henrico: John Henry Winder
Department of the Indian Territory: Douglas Hancock Cooper
Department of North Carolina: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
- District of Cape Fear: Samuel Gibbs French
- District of Pamlico: Robert Ransom temporary
- District of Roanoke Island: Henry Marchmore Shaw
Department of Northern Virginia: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- District of Aquia: Gustavus Woodson Smith
- Army of Northern Virginia: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- Right Wing Northern Virginia: James Longstreet
- Left Wing Northern Virginia: Gustavus Woodson Smith
- Centre Wing Northern Virginia: Daniel Harvey Hill
- Valley District: Thomas Jonathan Jackson
- Army of the Valley: Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Department of South Carolina and Georgia: John Clifford Pemberton
- District of Georgia: Alexander Robert Lawton
- District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
- 1st Sub-District of South Carolina: Arthur Middleton Manigault.
- 2nd Sub-District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
- 3rd Sub-District of South Carolina: Nathan George Evans
- 4th Sub-District of South Carolina: Maxcy Gregg
- 5th Sub-District of South Carolina: Daniel Smith Donelson
- 6th Sub-District of South Carolina: Thomas Fenwick Drayton
Department of Southwestern Virginia: William Wing Loring
- District of Lewisburg: Henry Heth
Department of Texas: Paul Octave Hébert
- Eastern District of Texas: Paul Octave Hébert
- Western District of Texas: Henry Eustace McCullough
- Sub-District of Houston: John C Bowen
- Sub-District of Galveston: Ebenezer B Nichols
- Sub-District of the Rio Grande: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
- Defences of Pass Cavallo: John W Glenn
Western Department: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
- Trans-Mississippi District: Earl Van Dorn
- District of North Alabama: Daniel Ruggles
- Army of Mississippi: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
- I Corps (Mississippi): Leonidas Polk
- II Corps (Mississippi): Braxton Bragg
- III Corps (Mississippi): William Joseph Hardee
- Reserve Corps (Mississippi): John Cabell Breckinridge
- Army of the West: Earl Van Dorn
District of Arizona: Henry Hopkins Sibley
- Army of New Mexico: Henry Hopkins Sibley
Forces in Richmond: Charles Dimmock
Union Generals
Note: Italics, awaiting confirmation of the commission
Major-General USA
George Brinton McClellan
John Charles Frémont
Henry Wager Halleck
Major-General USV
Asterisk indicates concurrently Brigadier-General USA
John Adams Dix
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
Benjamin Franklin Butler
David Hunter
Edwin Denison Morgan
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Irvin McDowell*
Ambrose Everett Burnside
William Starke Rosecrans*
Don Carlos Buell
John Pope
Samuel Ryan Curtis
Franz Sigel
John Alexander McClernand
Lewis Wallace
Ormsby McKnight Mitchel
Cassius Marcellus Clay
George Henry Thomas
George Cadwalader
Brigadier-General USA
Brackets indicates concurrently Major-General USV
John Ellis Wool
William Selby Harney
Edwin Vose Sumner
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield
(Irvin McDowell)
Robert Anderson
(William Starke Rosecrans)
Philip St George Cooke
Brigadier-General USV
Samuel Peter Heintzelman
Erasmus Darwin Keyes
Andrew Porter
Fitz-John Porter
William Buel Franklin
William Tecumseh Sherman
Charles Pomeroy Stone
Thomas West Sherman
George Archibald McCall
William Reading Montgomery
Philip Kearny
Joseph Hooker
John Wolcott Phelps
Charles Smith Hamilton
Darius Nash Couch
Rufus King
Jacob Dolson Cox
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Robert Cumming Schenck
Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
Benjamin Franklin Kelley
Alpheus Starkey Williams
Israel Bush Richardson
James Cooper
James Brewerton Ricketts
Orlando Bolivar Willcox
Michael Corcoran
Henry Hayes Lockwood
Louis Blenker
Henry Warner Slocum
James Samuel Wadsworth
John James Peck
George Webb Morell
John Henry Martindale
Samuel Davis Sturgis
George Stoneman
Henry Washington Benham
William Farrar Smith
James William Denver
Egbert Ludovicus Vielé
James Shields
John Fulton Reynolds
William Farquhar Barry
John Joseph Abercrombie
John Sedgwick
Silas Casey
Lawrence Pike Graham
George Gordon Meade
Abram Duryée
Alexander McDowell McCook
Oliver Otis Howard
Eleazar Arthur Paine
Charles Davis Jameson
Ebenezer Dumont
Robert Huston Milroy
Willis Arnold Gorman
Daniel Butterfield
Horatio Gouverneur Wright
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
William Nelson
William Thomas Ward
John Gross Barnard
Innis Newton Palmer
Seth Williams
John Newton
Winfield Scott Hancock
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
George Wright
Isaac Ingalls Stevens
Thomas Williams
George Sykes
William Henry French
William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks
John Milton Brannan
William Wallace Burns
John Porter Hatch
David Sloane Stanley
William Kerley Strong
Albin Francisco Schoepf
Lovell Harrison Rousseau
James Scott Negley
Thomas John Wood
Richard W Johnson
Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich Von Steinwehr
Joseph Bennett Plummer
John Gray Foster
George Washington Cullum
Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
Christopher Columbus Augur
Schuyler Hamilton
Jesse Lee Reno
George Washington Morgan
Julius Stahel
John McAllister Schofield
Thomas Jefferson McKean
John Grubb Parke
Zealous Bates Tower
Jefferson Columbus Davis
James Henry Lane
John McAuley Palmer
William High Keim
James Abram Garfield
Lewis Golding Arnold
Frederick Steele
William Scott Ketchum
Abner Doubleday
John Wynn Davidson
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana
David Bell Birney
Thomas Francis Meagher
Henry Morris Naglee
Andrew Johnson
James Gallant Spears
Eugene Asa Carr
Thomas Alfred Davies
Daniel Tyler
William Hemsley Emory
Andrew Jackson Smith
Marsena Rudolph Patrick
Isaac Ferdinand Quinby
Hiram Gregory Berry
Orris Sanford Ferry
Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Henry Moses Judah
Richard James Oglesby
John Cook
John McArthur
Robert Latimer McCook
Jacob Gartner Lauman
Horatio Phillips Van Cleve
John Alexander Logan
Speed Smith Fry
Alexander Asboth
James Craig
Mahlon Dickerson Manson
Gordon Granger
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
Grenville Mellen Dodge
Robert Byington Mitchell
James Gilpatrick Blunt
Francis Engle Patterson
Quincy Adams Gillmore
Amiel Weeks Whipple
Cuvier Grover
George Lucas Hartsuff
Rufus Saxton
Benjamin Alvord
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
William Sooy Smith
Nathan Kimball
Charles Devens
James Henry Van Alen
Carl Schurz
Samuel Wylie Crawford
Henry Walton Wessells
Milo Smith Hascall
Leonard Fulton Ross
John White Geary
Alfred Howe Terry
Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
James Henry Carleton
Absalom Baird
John Cleveland Robinson
Truman Seymour
George Dashiell Bayard
Henry Prince
Abram Sanders Piatt
Thomas Turpin Crittenden
Maximilian Weber
Pleasant Adam Hackleman
Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan
Alvin Peterson Hovey
James Clifford Veatch
William Plummer Benton
Henry Bohlen
John Curtis Caldwell
Isaac Peace Rodman
Neal S Dow
George Sears Greene
Brigadier-General USA (Staff)
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (Quartermaster-General)
Henry Knox Craig
Lorenzo Thomas (Adjutant-General)
James Wolfe Ripley (Ordnance)
William Alexander Hammond (Surgeon-General)
Confederate Generals
Note: Italics, awaiting confirmation of the commission
General ACSA/PACS
Samuel Cooper
Robert Edward Lee
Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Braxton Bragg
Major-General PACS
Leonidas Polk
Earl Van Dorn
Gustavus Woodson Smith
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
William Joseph Hardee
Benjamin Huger
James Longstreet
John Bankhead Magruder
Mansfield Lovell
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Edmund Kirby Smith
George Bibb Crittenden
John Clifford Pemberton
Richard Stoddert Ewell
William Wing Loring
Sterling Price
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
Samuel Jones
John Porter McCown
Daniel Harvey Hill
Jones Mitchell Withers
Thomas Carmichael Hindman
John Cabell Breckinridge
Brigadier-General PACS
Alexander Robert Lawton
Charles Clark
John Buchanan Floyd
Henry Alexander Wise
David Rumph Jones
Henry Hopkins Sibley
John Henry Winder
Richard Caswell Gatlin
Daniel Smith Donelson
Samuel Read Anderson
Richard Heron Anderson
Robert Augustus Toombs
Arnold Elzey
William Henry Chase Whiting
Jubal Anderson Early
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
Daniel Ruggles
Roswell Sabine Ripley
Albert Pike
Paul Octave Hébert
Joseph Reid Anderson
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Albert Gallatin Blanchard
Gabriel James Rains
James Ewell Brown Stuart
Lafayette McLaws
Thomas Fenwick Drayton
Lloyd Tilghman
Nathan George Evans
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Robert Emmett Rodes
Richard Taylor
James Heyward Trapier
Samuel Gibbs French
William Henry Carroll
Hugh Weedon Mercer
Humphrey Marshall
Richard Griffith
Alexander Peter Stewart
William Montgomery Gardner
Richard Brooke Garnett
William Mahone
Lawrence O’Bryan Branch
Edward Johnson
Maxcy Gregg
Raleigh Edward Colston
Henry Heth
Johnson Kelly Duncan
Sterling Alexander Martin Wood
John George Walker
John King Jackson
George Edward Pickett
Bushrod Rust Johnson
James Patton Anderson
Howell Cobb
George Wythe Randolph
Joseph Brevard Kershaw
James Ronald Chalmers
Joseph Lewis Hogg
Ambrose Powell Hill
James Johnston Pettigrew
Carter Littlepage Stevenson
Daniel Leadbetter
William Whann Mackall
Charles Sidney Winder
Robert Ransom
John Bell Hood
Daniel Marsh Frost
Winfield Scott Featherston
Thomas James Churchill
William Booth Taliaferro
Albert Rust
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