1863 April 7th

April 7 1863 Tuesday

First Battle of Charleston Harbour, SC (CWSAC Formative Battle – Confederate Victory)

Virginia Southside and North Carolina Operations – Siege of Washington
Du Pont’s Operations at Charleston Harbour

Arkansas. Incident at Ferry Landing.

California. Expedition from Fort Wright to Williams Valley began.

Louisiana, Skirmish at Dunbar’s Plantation in Bayou Vidal.

Louisiana. The Union steamer Barataria, Acting Ensign James F Perkins, was travelling on the Amite River on a reconnaissance mission with troops embarked. A group of Confederates attacked the ship and it later struck a snag in Lake Maurepas, where it was either destroyed by the crew to prevent its capture or destroyed by the Confederates.

Mississippi. Reconnaissances to Mount Pleasant and Early Grove ended.

Mississippi. Incident at Deer Creek. Union Major-General Frederick Steele’s Division of XIII Corps approached the Thomas plantation near Greenville. Confederate Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Wragg Ferguson engaged them with Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery and Sengstak’s Alabama Battery. Steele deployed his own artillery and prepared to attack but Ferguson withdrew south for six miles to the Willis plantation. Confederate Brigadier-General Stephen Dill Lee’s brigade had been detected and Steele ordered a withdrawal in order to avoid a battle far from Greenville. During the march back, the Union troops destroyed supplies and took horses, mules, and livestock from the surrounding area. The Confederates pursued them for three days. Large numbers of escaped slaves followed the Union column to gain their freedom. Steele had been ordered to discourage slaves from fleeing to the Union lines. Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant reversed this instruction and suggested that Steele might form regiments of freed slaves. About 500 African Americans volunteered for service.

North Carolina. Expedition to New Bern and Washington began.

First Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, also known as First Charleston or Charleston, or Charleston Harbour or Fort Sumter or Folly Island. Union Major-General David Hunter prepared his land forces on Folly (Island, Cole’s Island, and North Edisto Island to cooperate with a naval bombardment of Fort Sumter. Union Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont led the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron to attack Fort Sumter. His flagship was the colossal USS New Ironsides, a high-sided 3,500-ton frigate with iron armour and twenty heavy guns mounted in broadside. There were eight ironclad monitors including the experimental USS Keokuk, each mounting one or two guns in revolving turrets, giving the fleet 33 naval guns in total against 77 ashore. The fleet got underway soon after midday. Four monitors led the way; first was USS Weehawken, under Captain John Rodgers. The second was USS Passaic, commanded by Charleston native Captain Percival Drayton, third was USS Montauk, led by Commander John L Worden. The fourth ironclad was the USS Patapsco under Commander Daniel Ammen. These were followed by the flagship, USS New Ironsides, commanded by Commodore Thomas Turner with Du Pont and his fleet captain, Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers aboard. Then came three more monitors: USS Catskill, under Commander George W Rodgers, USS Nantucket, under Commander Donald M Fairfax; and USS Nahant, under Commander John Downes. The twin-turreted USS Keokuk, commanded by Commander Alexander C Rhind, was at the end of the line. USS Weehawken was in the van, pushing a raft to clear torpedoes from the path of the line-ahead column, but it fouled the torpedo grapnels on the raft, delaying the movement for an hour. She then could make only three knots and the rest of the column had to follow at her slow pace.
The Confederate defences were commanded overall by Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. The Confederates had heavily obstructed the channels to Charleston and had marked them with accurate range indicators for the gunners in the forts. The Confederate guns on Cummings Point held their fire as the fleet passed Morris Island. The Confederate Charleston Naval Squadron was led by the ironclad CSS Chicora, commanded by John Randolph Tucker, but it did not participate actively.
USS Weehawken opened on Fort Sumter soon after 3 pm, followed by the other ironclad monitors. Captain John Rodgers USN turned the ship to avoid being swept against these obstructions by the strong flood tide and steamed a few hundred feet southward to allow the ships behind to turn in her wake. As USS Weehawken turned, a torpedo exploded nearby but caused little damage. The USS Weehawken had made its turn far short of the intended turning point and this caused confusion in the following ships, which had to manoeuvre to avoid a collision with the ship ahead. Engaged for forty minutes, the USS Weehawken was hit 53 times and was taking water through a hole made in the deck. Next in line, USS Passaic had her 11-inch gun disabled for several hours and the turret was temporarily unable to turn. The upper edge of the turret was broken and the pilot house badly dented from about 35 hits from the forts. The third ship, USS Montauk was manoeuvring with difficulty and was struck 14 times without effect as she turned away from the obstructions. USS Patapsco tried to turn short of USS Montauk’s wake, lost headway, and failed to obey the helm. Now a sitting target for the guns of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie she took 47 hits. Backing up, she was brought back under control and turned seaward. The flagship USS New Ironsides was in the centre of the line and the loss of momentum caused by the unexpectedly early turn left the ship without headway. Dropping anchor to await the momentum of the tide she became unmanageable in the heavy current and was hit glancing blows by two ships as they steamed past from behind. It gained some movement but then had to drop anchor again to avoid running on a shoal about a mile from Fort Sumter. The ship now lay directly over a huge Confederate torpedo containing 2,000 pounds of powder but the operator on the shore near Fort Wagner failed to ignite the bomb’s electric detonator. Every effort to fire the torpedo failed, and it was later discovered that a connecting wire on the shore had been cut by a wagon passing over it. Unable to contribute much to the fight, the commander ordered the other vessels to continue with the attack while his ship received a battering from the Confederate guns and was hit 95 times.
USS Catskill overtook USS New Ironsides first, approaching to within some 600 yards of Fort Sumter where the point-blank fire of her guns blasted a barbette gun from its mount. Caught in the forts’ crossfire like the other ships, USS Catskill received 20 hits, one of which caused enough damage to let in water. The seventh ironclad USS Nantucket followed USS Catskill past the flagship and was badly battered by 51 hits, one of which jammed her turret. USS Nahant was the eighth ironclad to enter the action and approached within half a mile of Fort Sumter. The ship took 36 hits, the turret was disabled, and the results of another wreaked havoc with the steering gear. The helmsman was killed and the pilot injured and the ship retired to avoid further losses. The ninth and last ironclad USS Keokuk was compelled to run ahead of the crippled USS Nahant to avoid her in the narrow channel and strong tide. This brought the final ironclad to within 600 yards of Fort Sumter and its 44 guns, where she remained for half an hour. Now the focus of undivided Confederate attention, the USS Keokuk was riddled by 90 hits, many of which pierced the hull at or below the waterline. She was withdrawn from the action and anchored overnight beyond the range of the forts. During the night, the USS Keokuk keeled over, and the following day sank at anchorage off Morris Island.
With darkness approaching and all of his ironclads severely battered, Du Pont broke off the action at 5 pm. The Union vessels had fired 150 rounds, of which 55 hit their targets, but were unable to inflict serious damage on the Confederate batteries, either in the fort or on Sullivan Island. The Confederate gunners had scored 441 hits from 2,209 shots fired. The Union authorities had hoped that naval gunfire would suffice to achieve the capture of Charleston but this severe repulse forced them to reconsider their tactics and objectives. Du Pont proposed a renewal of the attack but his subordinates dissuaded him from a second futile attack. The biggest fear was that if an ironclad were to be sunk or abandoned in the ring of fire it could be raised and used against the attackers by the Confederates. Union casualties were reported as 22 and Confederate as 14. (CWSAC Formative Battle – Confederate Victory)

ORDER OF BATTLE: CHARLESTON HARBOUR, SC

Union Department of the South: Major-General David Hunter
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron: Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Point USN
USS Weehawken, USS Passaic, USS Montauk, USS Patapsco, USS New Ironsides, USS Catskill, USS Nantucket, USS Nahant, USS Keokuk

Confederate Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida: General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
District of South Carolina: Brigadier-General Roswell Sabine Ripley

Tennessee. Reconnaissance to La Grange ended.

Tennessee. Confederate Raid by Confederate Brigadier-General Joseph Wheeler’s cavalry to the Nashville & Louisville Railroad and the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad began.

Tennessee. Skirmish at Liberty.

Tennessee. Union Colonel Abel Delos Streight set out with his provisional brigade (51^st Indiana Infantry, 73^rd Indiana Infantry, 3^rd Ohio Infantry, 80^th Illinois Infantry, and 1^st Middle Tennessee Cavalry) in preparation for a raid to cut the Western & Atlantic Railroad that supplied General Braxton Bragg’s Confederate army in Middle Tennessee. They left by river transport from Nashville for Palmyra.

Virginia. Incident at Green Spring Run.

Virginia. Union expedition to Gloucester Point and Gloucester Court House began.

Union Organisation

USA: The District of Illinois was established in the Department of the Ohio, comprising the state of Illinois.
USA: Brigadier-General Jacob Ammen assumed command of the District of Illinois.

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: Samuel Phillips Lee
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron: Samuel Francis Du Pont
West Gulf Blockading Squadron: David Glasgow Farragut
East Gulf Blockading Squadron: Theodorus Bailey
Pacific Squadron: Charles H Bell
Mississippi River Squadron: David Dixon Porter
Potomac Flotilla: Andrew Allen Harwood

General–in-Chief: Henry Wager Halleck

Department of the Cumberland: William Starke Rosecrans

Army of the Cumberland: William Starke Rosecrans
- XIV Corps Cumberland: George Henry Thomas
- XX Corps Cumberland: Alexander McDowell McCook
- XXI Corps Cumberland: Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
- Cavalry Corps Cumberland: David Sloane Stanley

Department of the East: John Ellis Wool

Department of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

District of Pensacola: Isaac Dyer
District of La Fourche: Godfrey Weitzel
District of Key West and Tortugas: Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Defences of New Orleans: Thomas West Sherman
Army of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
- XIX Corps Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

Middle Department: Robert Cumming Schenck

District of the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Henry Hayes Lockwood
VIII Corps Middle: Robert Cumming Schenck

Department of the Missouri: John McAllister Schofield

District of St Louis: John Wynn Davidson
District of Southwest Missouri: John McAllister Schofield
District of Northeast Missouri: Thomas Jefferson McKean
District of Northwest Missouri: Willard Preble Hall
District of Central Missouri: Benjamin Franklin Loan
District of Rolla: Thomas Alfred Davies
District of Nebraska Territory: James Craig
Army of the Frontier: Francis Jay Herron

Department of New Mexico: James Henry Carleton

District of Arizona: Joseph Rodman West

Department of North Carolina: Innis Newton Palmer

XVIII Corps North Carolina: John Gray Foster

Department of the Northwest: John Pope

1^st District Northwest: John Cook
District of Minnesota: Henry Hastings Sibley
District of Wisconsin: Thomas Church Haskell Smith

Department of the Ohio: Ambrose Everett Burnside

District of Central Kentucky: Quincy Adams Gillmore
District of Eastern Kentucky: Julius White
District of Western Kentucky: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
District of Illinois: Jacob Ammen
District of Indiana: Henry Beebe Carrington
District of Ohio: John Sanford Mason
IX Corps Ohio: Orlando Bolívar Willcox

Department of the Pacific: George Wright

District of the Humboldt: Francis James Lippitt
District of Oregon: Benjamin Alvord
District of Southern California: Harvey Lee temporary
District of Utah: Patrick Edward Connor

Department of the Potomac: Joseph Hooker

Army of the Potomac: Joseph Hooker
- I Corps Potomac: John Fulton Reynolds
- II Corps Potomac: Darius Nash Couch
- III Corps Potomac: Daniel Edgar Sickles
- V Corps Potomac: George Gordon Meade
- VI Corps Potomac: John Sedgwick
- XI Corps Potomac: Oliver Otis Howard
- XII Corps Potomac: Henry Warner Slocum
- Cavalry Corps Potomac: George Stoneman

Department of the South: David Hunter

X Corps South: David Hunter

Department of the Tennessee: Ulysses Simpson Grant

District of West Tennessee: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
- Sub-District of Memphis: James Clifford Veatch
District of Jackson: Nathan Kimball
District of Eastern Arkansas: Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
Army of the Tennessee: Ulysses Simpson Grant
- XIII Corps Tennessee: John Alexander McClernand
- XV Corps Tennessee: William Tecumseh Sherman
- XVI Corps Tennessee: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
  - Left Wing XVI Corps Tennessee: vacant
- XVII Corps Tennessee: James Birdseye McPherson

Department of Virginia: Erasmus Darwin Keyes

IV Corps Virginia: Erasmus Darwin Keyes
VII Corps Virginia: John Adams Dix

Department of Washington: Samuel Peter Heintzelman

District of Alexandria: John Potts Slough
District of Washington: John Henry Martindale
XXII Corps Washington: Samuel Peter Heintzelman

Confederate Organisation

Commander in Chief: President Jefferson Finis Davis
Vice-President: Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Secretary of War: James Alexander Seddon
Secretary of the Navy: Stephen Russell Mallory

Military Adviser to the President: Vacant

Military Division of the West: Joseph Eggleston Johnston

Department of East Tennessee: Daniel Smith Donelson interim Dabney Herndon Maury awaited
- District of Abingdon: Humphrey Marshall
Western Department: Braxton Bragg
- District of the Tennessee: John King Jackson
- Gulf District: Simon Bolivar Buckner
- Army of Tennessee: Braxton Bragg
  - I Corps Tennessee: Leonidas Polk
  - II Corps Tennessee: William Joseph Hardee
  - Cavalry Corps Tennessee: Earl Van Dorn
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana: John Clifford Pemberton
- District One of Mississippi and East Louisiana: Daniel Ruggles
- District Two of Mississippi and East Louisiana: Carter Littlepage Stevenson
- District Three of Mississippi and East Louisiana: Franklin Gardner
- District Four of Mississippi and East Louisiana: John Adams
- District Five of Mississippi and East Louisiana: James Ronald Chalmers
- Defences of Vicksburg: Martin Luther Smith
- Army of Mississippi: John Clifford Pemberton
  - I Corps Mississippi: William Wing Loring temporary

Department of Henrico: John Henry Winder

Department of North Carolina: James Longstreet

- Sub-District of Cape Fear: William Henry Chase Whiting

Department of Northern Virginia: Robert Edward Lee

Army of Northern Virginia: Robert Edward Lee
- II Corps Northern Virginia: Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Valley District: William Edmondson Jones

Department of Southern Virginia: Samuel Gibbs French

I Corps Southern Virginia: James Longstreet

Department of Richmond: Arnold Elzey

Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

District of Georgia: Hugh Weedon Mercer
District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
- 1^st Sub-District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
- 2^nd Sub-District of South Carolina: James Heyward Trapier
- 3^rd Sub-District of South Carolina: William Stephen Walker
- 4^th Sub-District of South Carolina: James Heyward Trapier
District of East Florida: Joseph Finegan
District of Middle Florida: Thomas Howell Cobb
District of West Florida: John Horace Forney

Trans-Allegheny Department: Samuel Jones

Trans-Mississippi Department: Edmund Kirby Smith

District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: John Bankhead Magruder
- Western Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: Henry Eustace McCullough
  - Sub-District of the Rio Grande: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
- Sub-District of Houston: Xavier Blanchard Debray
- Eastern Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: William Read Scurry
District of Arkansas: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
District of West Louisiana: Richard Taylor
District of Indian Territory: Douglas Hancock Cooper interim William Steele awaited
Defences of Pass Cavallo: John W Glenn
Trans-Mississippi Army: Edmund Kirby Smith

Union Generals

Note: Italics, awaiting confirmation of the commission

Major-General USA

George Brinton McClellan
John Charles Frémont
Henry Wager Halleck
John Ellis Wool

Major-General USV

Asterisk indicates concurrently Brigadier-General USA

John Adams Dix
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
Benjamin Franklin Butler
David Hunter
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
George Henry Thomas
George Cadwalader
William Tecumseh Sherman
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Samuel Peter Heintzelman
Erasmus Darwin Keyes
Joseph Hooker*
Silas Casey
William Buel Franklin
Darius Nash Couch
Henry Warner Slocum
John James Peck
John Sedgwick
Alexander McDowell McCook
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
John Gray Foster
John Grubb Parke
Christopher Columbus Augur
Robert Cumming Schenck
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Gordon Granger
Charles Smith Hamilton
Lovell Harrison Rousseau
James Birdseye McPherson
Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
George Stoneman
John Fulton Reynolds
George Gordon Meade
Oliver Otis Howard
Daniel Edgar Sickles
Robert Huston Milroy
Daniel Butterfield
Winfield Scott Hancock
George Sykes
William Henry French
David Sloane Stanley
James Scott Negley
John McAuley Palmer
Frederick Steele
Abner Doubleday
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana
Hiram Gregory Berry
Richard James Oglesby
John Alexander Logan
James Gilpatrick Blunt
George Lucas Hartsuff
Cadwallader Colden Washburn
Francis Jay Herron
Francis Preston Blair
Joseph Jones Reynolds
Philip Henry Sheridan
Julius Stahel
Carl Schurz
John Newton

Brigadier-General USA

Brackets indicates concurrently Major-General USV

William Selby Harney
(Irvin McDowell)
Robert Anderson
(William Starke Rosecrans)
Philip St George Cooke
(John Pope)
(Joseph Hooker)

Brigadier-General USV

Andrew Porter
Charles Pomeroy Stone
Thomas West Sherman
William Reading Montgomery
Rufus King
Benjamin Franklin Kelley
Jacob Dolson Cox
Alpheus Starkey Williams
James Brewerton Ricketts
Orlando Bolivar Willcox
Michael Corcoran
Henry Hayes Lockwood
James Samuel Wadsworth
George Webb Morell
John Henry Martindale
Samuel Davis Sturgis
Henry Washington Benham
William Farrar Smith
Egbert Ludovicus Vielé
James Shields
William Farquhar Barry
John Joseph Abercrombie
Lawrence Pike Graham
Eleazar Arthur Paine
Willis Arnold Gorman
Horatio Gouverneur Wright
William Thomas Ward
John Gross Barnard
Innis Newton Palmer
Seth Williams
George Wright
William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks
John Milton Brannan
John Porter Hatch
William Kerley Strong
Albin Francisco Schoepf
Thomas John Wood
Richard W Johnson
Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich Von Steinwehr
George Washington Cullum
Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
George Washington Morgan
John McAllister Schofield
Thomas Jefferson McKean
Zealous Bates Tower
Jefferson Columbus Davis
James Henry Lane
James Abram Garfield
Lewis Golding Arnold
William Scott Ketchum
John Wynn Davidson
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
Orris Sanford Ferry
Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Henry Moses Judah
John Cook
John McArthur
Jacob Gartner Lauman
Horatio Phillips Van Cleve
Speed Smith Fry
Alexander Asboth
James Craig
Mahlon Dickerson Manson
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
Grenville Mellen Dodge
Robert Byington Mitchell
Quincy Adams Gillmore
Amiel Weeks Whipple
Cuvier Grover
Rufus Saxton
Benjamin Alvord
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
William Sooy Smith
Nathan Kimball
Charles Devens
James Henry Van Alen
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
Henry Prince
Thomas Turpin Crittenden
Maximilian Weber
Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan
Alvin Peterson Hovey
James Clifford Veatch
William Plummer Benton
John Curtis Caldwell
Neal Dow
George Sears Greene
Samuel Powhatan Carter
John Gibbon
Erastus Barnard Tyler
Charles Griffin
George Henry Gordon
James Madison Tuttle
Julius White
Peter Joseph Osterhaus
Stephen Gano Burbridge
Washington Lafayette Elliott
Albion Parris Howe
Green Clay Smith
Benjamin Stone Roberts
Alfred Pleasonton
Jacob Ammen
Fitz-Henry Warren
Morgan Lewis Smith
Charles Cruft
Frederick Salomon
John Basil Turchin
Henry Shaw Briggs
James Dada Morgan
Johann August Ernst Willich
Henry Dwight Terry
James Blair Steedman
George Foster Shepley
John Buford
John Reese Kenly
John Potts Slough
Godfrey Weitzel
George Crook
Thomas Leiper Kane
Gershom Mott
Henry Jackson Hunt
Francis Channing Barlow
Mason Brayman
Nathaniel James Jackson
George Washington Getty
Alfred Sully
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
William Woods Averell
Alexander Hays
Calvin Edward Pratt
Francis Barretto Spinola
John Henry Hobart Ward
Solomon Meredith
James Bowen
Eliakim Parker Scammon
Robert Seaman Granger
Joseph Rodman West
Joseph Warren Revere
Alfred Washington Ellet
George Leonard Andrews
Clinton Bowen Fisk
William Hays
Israel Vogdes
David Allen Russell
Lewis Cass Hunt
Frank Wheaton
John Sanford Mason
David McMurtrie Gregg
Robert Ogden Tyler
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
William Haines Lytle
Gilman Marston
William Dwight
Sullivan Amory Meredith
Edward Needles Kirk
Nathaniel Collins McLean
William Vandever
Alexander Schimmelfennig
Charles Kinnaird Graham
John Eugene Smith
Joseph Tarr Copeland
Charles Adam Heckman
Stephen Gardner Champlin
Edward Elmer Potter
Thomas Algeo Rowley
Henry Beebee Carrington
John Haskell King
Adam Jacoby Slemmer
Thomas Hewson Neill
Thomas Gamble Pitcher
Thomas William Sweeny
William Passmore Carlin
Romeyn Beck Ayres
William Babcock Hazen
James St Clair Morton
Joseph Anthony Mower
Richard Arnold
Edward Winslow Hinks
George Crockett Strong
Michael Kelly Lawler
George Day Wagner
Lysander Cutler
Joseph Farmer Knipe
John Dunlap Stevenson
James Barnes
Theophilus Toulmin Garrard
Edward Harland
Samuel Kosciuszko Zook
Samuel Beatty
Isaac Jones Wistar
Franklin Stillman Nickerson
Edward Henry Hobson
Ralph Pomeroy Buckland
Joseph Dana Webster
William Ward Orme
William Harrow
William Hopkins Morris
John Beatty
Thomas Howard Ruger
Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom
Elias Smith Dennis
Thomas Church Haskell Smith
Mortimer Dormer Leggett
Davis Tillson
Hector Tyndale
Charles Cleveland Dodge
Albert Lindley Lee
Charles Leopold Matthies
Marcellus Monroe Crocker
Egbert Benson Brown
John McNeil
George Francis McGinnis
George Washington Deitzler
Hugh Boyle Ewing
James Winning McMillan
James Murrell Shackelford
Daniel Ullmann
George Jerrison Stannard
Henry Baxter
James Nagle
Francis Laurens Vinton
John Milton Thayer
Charles Thomas Campbell
Thomas Welsh
Halbert Eleazer Paine
Hugh Thompson Reid
Abner Clark Harding
Robert Brown Potter
Thomas Ewing
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn
Thomas Greely Stevenson
Henry Hastings Sibley
Joseph Bradford Carr
Joseph Jackson Bartlett
Joshua Thomas Owen
Patrick Edward Connor

Brigadier-General USA (Staff)

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (Quartermaster-General)
Henry Knox Craig
Lorenzo Thomas
James Wolfe Ripley (Ordnance)
William Alexander Hammond (Surgeon-General)
Joseph Pannell Taylor (Commissary-General of Subsistence
Joseph Gilbert Totten (Engineers)

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

Lieutenant-General PACS

James Longstreet
Edmund Kirby Smith
Leonidas Polk
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
William Joseph Hardee
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
John Clifford Pemberton

Major-General PACS

Earl Van Dorn
Benjamin Huger
John Bankhead Magruder
Mansfield Lovell
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
Lafayette McLaws
Ambrose Powell Hill
Richard Heron Anderson
James Ewell Brown Stuart
Richard Taylor
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Samuel Gibbs French
George Edward Pickett
Carter Littlepage Stevenson
John Bell Hood
John Horace Forney
Dabney Herndon Maury
Martin Luther Smith
John George Walker
Arnold Elzey
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
Franklin Gardner
Daniel Smith Donelson
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
Jubal Anderson Early
Joseph Wheeler
Edward Johnson
William Henry Chase Whiting

Brigadier-General PACS

Alexander Robert Lawton
Charles Clark
John Buchanan Floyd
Henry Alexander Wise
Henry Hopkins Sibley
John Henry Winder
Gideon Johnson Pillow
Daniel Ruggles
Roswell Sabine Ripley
Paul Octave Hébert
Albert Gallatin Blanchard
Gabriel James Rains
Thomas Fenwick Drayton
Lloyd Tilghman
Nathan George Evans
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Robert Emmett Rodes
James Heyward Trapier
Hugh Weedon Mercer
Alexander Peter Stewart
William Montgomery Gardner
Richard Brooke Garnett
William Mahone
Raleigh Edward Colston
Henry Heth
Sterling Alexander Martin Wood
John King Jackson
Bushrod Rust Johnson
James Patton Anderson
Howell Cobb
George Wythe Randolph
Joseph Brevard Kershaw
James Ronald Chalmers
James Johnston Pettigrew
Daniel Leadbetter
William Whann Mackall
Robert Ransom
Daniel Marsh Frost
Winfield Scott Featherston
Thomas James Churchill
William Booth Taliaferro
Albert Rust
Samuel Bell Maxey
Hamilton Prioleau Bee
James Morrison Hawes
George Hume Steuart
James Edwin Slaughter
Charles William Field
Paul Jones Semmes
Lucius Marshall Walker
Seth Maxwell Barton
Henry Eustace McCullough
John Stevens Bowen
Benjamin Hardin Helm
John Selden Roane
States Rights Gist
William Nelson Pendleton
Lewis Addison Armistead
Joseph Finegan
William Nelson Rector Beall
Thomas Jordan
William Preston
Roger Atkinson Pryor
John Echols
George Earl Maney
Jean Jacques Alfred Alexandre Mouton
John Stuart Williams
James Green Martin
Thomas Lanier Clingman
Wade Hampton
Daniel Weisiger Adams
Louis Hébert
John Creed Moore
Ambrose Ransom Wright
James Lawson Kemper
James Jay Archer
Beverley Holcombe Robertson
St John Richardson Liddell
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Johnson Hagood
William Dorsey Pender
Micah Jenkins
Martin Edwin Green
Fitzhugh Lee
Harry Thompson Hays
Albert Gallatin Jenkins
William Barksdale
Edward Dorr Tracy
Matthew Duncan Ector
Edward Aylesworth Perry
John Gregg
John Calvin Brown
Alfred Holt Colquitt
Junius Daniel
Abraham Buford
William Steele
James Fleming Fagan
William Read Scurry
Francis Asbury Shoup
Joseph Robert Davis
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
William Edmondson Jones
William Edwin Baldwin
John Crawford Vaughn
Evander McIvor Law
William Brimage Bate
Elkanah Brackin Greer
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls
Preston Smith
Alfred Cumming
William Stephen Walker
George Pierce Doles
Carnot Posey
Montgomery Dent Corse
George Thomas Anderson
Alfred Iverson
James Henry Lane
Edward Lloyd Thomas
Stephen Dodson Ramseur
John Rogers Cooke
Jerome Bonaparte Robertson
Elisha Franklin Paxton
Evander McNair
William George Mackey Davis
Archibald Gracie
William Robertson Boggs
James Camp Tappan
Dandridge McRae
Mosby Monroe Parsons
Stephen Dill Lee
John Pegram
John Sappington Marmaduke
John Austin Wharton
William Thompson Martin
John Hunt Morgan
Marcus Joseph Wright
Zachariah Cantey Deas
Lucius Eugene Polk
Edward Cary Walthall
John Adams
William Hicks Jackson
James Cantey
Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac
Robert Frederick Hoke
Henry Lewis Benning
William Tatum Wofford
Samuel McGowan
Marcellus Augustus Stovall
George Blake Cosby
Francis Crawford Armstrong
William Lewis Cabell
John Daniel Imboden
William Smith
William Henry Talbot Walker
Alfred Eugene Jackson
Robert Brank Vance