1863 November 24th

November 24 1863 Tuesday

Third Battle of Chattanooga – Battle of Lookout Mountain, TN

Chattanooga Campaign – Battles at Chattanooga
Knoxville Campaign
Second Bayou Teche Campaign

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Arkansas. Skirmish at Clarksville.

Georgia. Raid to the East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad began.

Missouri. Union reconnaissance from Salem to Bushy Creek, Pigeon Creek, Gladen Valley, and Dry Fork began.

Missouri. Raid to Farmington.

Missouri. Reconnaissance to Waynesville.

North Carolina. Union Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee held discussions with Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler about the most suitable plans for further operations in North Carolina. He concluded that there were two practicable plans for the capture of Wilmington. The first involved an overland march from New Bern to capture a suitable fortified inlet north of Fort Fisher, in order to blockade the Cape Fear River and cut off the defenders. A second plan, supported by Commander W A Parker, supported the Admiral’s views and suggested an alternative operation to capture Fort Fisher. A force could land below Fort Caswell to blockade the Cape Fear River from the right bank between Smithville and Brunswick. Either way, a joint Army-Navy operation to capture Fort Fisher was estimated to require 25,000 men and two or three ironclads. The ironclads should divert the attention of the garrison at Fort Fisher during the landing of troops at Masonboro. The main Union naval effort on the Atlantic was currently focused on the capture of Charleston and operations on this scale against Wilmington would have to be postponed. Wilmington continued to be used as a principal haven for blockade runners until its ultimate fall early in 1865.

South Carolina. A skirmish occurred near Cunningham’s Bluff as Union troops liberated 27 slaves at the Heyward plantation.

South Carolina. Under cover of USS Pawnee, Commander George G Balch, and USS Marblehead, Lieutenant-Commander Richard W Meade, Union troops who had landed the previous day began sinking piles as obstructions in the Stono River above Legareville. The gunboats remained in a position to protect the working parties ashore.

Tennessee. Skirmish at Sparta as Union troops captured horses, arms, and ammunition from Confederate guerrillas.

Tennessee. Skirmish at Kingston.

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, also known as Third Chattanooga, or Chattanooga, or The Battle above the Clouds. By daylight, Union Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman was ready to cross the Tennessee northeast of Chattanooga to launch an attack against the northern end of Missionary Ridge. Three of his divisions had managed to cross at Brown’s Ferry before the bridge began to break apart and his fourth division of Brigadier-General Peter Joseph Osterhaus was left stranded in Lookout Valley. Sherman received the approval of Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant to persist with his attack using just three divisions, and Grant reassigned Osterhaus temporarily to strengthen Major-General Joseph Hooker’s operations at Lookout Mountain.
After arriving northeast of Chattanooga, rowing boats carried 1,000 of Sherman’s troops across the Tennessee River and drove away the Confederate pickets. A pre-fabricated pontoon bridge was put into position behind them by noon. By 1 pm, Sherman was moving his men across in force. By 4pm, Sherman had seized what he thought was the northern end of Missionary Ridge, facing opposition only from Confederate outposts. However, he was disappointed to find that he had, in fact, only occupied an eminence separate from Missionary Ridge called Goat Hill. His onward progress was unexpectedly blocked by a wide and deep depression or ravine, previously invisible, which separated his troops on Goat Hill from the actual objective of Tunnel Hill at the end of Missionary Ridge. Further progress was impossible across the unexpected declivity, so Sherman dug in for the night on Goat Hill and prepared for a new advance at dawn.
Confederate General Braxton Bragg had been oblivious to Sherman’s presence until dawn when he was shocked to learn that four Union divisions were crossing the Tennessee north of Chattanooga. Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne’s Confederate division was summoned immediately to return from Chickamauga Station and it occupied Tunnel Hill by 2.30 pm.
While Sherman’s advance from the north had surprised the Confederates, Union Major-General Joseph Hooker began a diversionary manoeuvre seven miles further south with three divisions numbering 10,000 men. Hooker’s wider objective was to enter Chattanooga Valley and to seize Rossville Gap with two divisions of XII Corps as soon as any threat to his communications along Lookout Valley had receded. Meanwhile, his two divisions in Major-General Oliver Otis Howard’s XI Corps moved into Chattanooga as a general reserve. Osterhaus was originally supposed to follow Howard’s route, but the weakening pontoon bridge had made that impossible. They remained blocked by the formidable obstacle of Lookout Mountain looming above and ahead of them. Osterhaus’ unexpected delay meant that he could strengthen Hooker’s advance. When Grant also sent Brigadier-General Charles Cruft’s division from Thomas’ army to strengthen Hooker, he was able to launch his diversionary advance in force against Lookout Mountain. These improvised reassignments of divisions meant that Hooker now had three divisions for his attack (one from his own command, one attached from Thomas’, and one from Sherman’s). Hooker’s attacking divisions were commanded by Brigadier-General John White Geary from XII Corps, Brigadier-General Charles Cruft from XIV Corps, and Osterhaus’ division temporarily attached from XV Corps.
Sherman had four divisions (three of his own and Brigadier-General Jefferson Columbus Davis’ attached from Thomas’ army) and Thomas had four divisions between these two wings. The thirteen Union divisions counted a total of 75,000 men against 43,000 Confederates in seven divisions. Confederate Lieutenant-General William Joseph Hardee’s Corps had fourteen brigades and Breckinridge’s had nine.
Lookout Mountain had a precipitous drop of several hundred feet from a plateau 1,100 feet above the river. The mountain was held by two Confederates brigades to guard against any enemy approach from Trenton, a position that Brigadier-General Hugh Boyle Ewing’s division of Sherman’s command had previously occupied as a diversion until they left for their march north to Missionary Ridge. The Confederate garrison on Lookout Mountain itself comprised a single brigade of 1,100 men but, as the attack developed, a second was sent to strengthen them. Brigadier-General Edward Cary Walthall’s and Brigadier-General John Creed Moore’s brigades of Major-General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham’s division (under Brigadier-General John King Jackson) now held the heights. The former blocked the narrow pass at the northern face of the mountain and the latter was further up the slope. Despite receiving reports overnight that Union forces were apparently gathering for an attack on Lookout Mountain, Bragg refused to reinforce these two brigades further, trusting in the natural impregnability of their lofty position to deter any such attack.
Hooker had too many men to conduct a mere diversion, but not enough for a full-scale assault on the precipitous heights. An attack up the mountainside seemed as foolhardy as Bragg forecast. Nevertheless, Hooker gave Geary the freedom to develop his demonstration into an assault if circumstances seemed favourable. Geary’s division, reinforced by Brigadier-General Walter Chiles Whitaker’s brigade from Cruft’s division, crossed Lookout Creek above Wauhatchie. Osterhaus’ division and the remainder of Cruft’s division followed but were quickly stalled by the difficult terrain. Geary’s division had Lookout Creek crossed unopposed further south and found a narrow defile between the river and the mountain that was undefended. Geary swept northeast along the base of Lookout Mountain and pushed Walthall’s men back. At 10 am, a sharp fight developed just below the northern end of the mountain at Craven’s Farm (the White House), but heavy fog obscured the scene while both sides received reinforcements. At about noon, the Confederates were driven 400 yards back from Craven’s Farm to a new position. The men of Brown’s Confederate brigade on the mountain top found themselves powerless to intervene in the battle raging down the cliffs below them. Moore finally brought his brigade into action around 1 pm and became embroiled in a fight with Geary and Whitaker’s brigade. Moore was pushed back and was soon joined by Brigadier-General Edmund Winston Pettus’ brigade. By about 3 pm, a thick fog had enveloped the mountain. The two sides blazed away blindly in the fog the rest of the afternoon, but few men were hit. Brigadier-General Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Quartermaster-General of the Union Army, was observing from Orchard Knob and immortalised the fog-bound action on Lookout Mountain by naming it the “Battle above the Clouds”.
Geary’s rapid success allowed Osterhaus’ and Cruft’s divisions to cross the creek and they pushed aside the thin Confederate skirmish screen in front of them. The third Confederate brigade (Pettus’) sent across the mountain by Major-General Carter Littlepage Stevenson made a futile effort to strengthen the line. Their resistance was swept aside as three Union divisions overpowered them and pressed onwards with the elation of success. Hooker had to halt his men for a time for them to rest. He predicted correctly to Grant that the enemy would have to evacuate the heights overnight.
Realising that the battle for Lookout Mountain was already lost, Bragg ordered the position to be abandoned shortly after midnight. At midnight, the fog cleared and, by the light of a lunar eclipse, Stevenson’s and Cheatham’s divisions retreated down the hillside, crossed Chattanooga Creek. and then burned the bridges behind them.
The Union plan of attack at Chattanooga had been intended to strike Missionary Ridge only after Sherman’s advance had forced a weakening of the defence, but the Ridge remained strongly held. The Confederate front of two-and-a-half miles was geographically strong and was further strengthened by three lines of partially-completed entrenchments. The first line ran along the base of the ridge, the second had been commenced halfway up the slope, and a third was on the crest. However, numbers were low and the defenders were very thinly stretched. Bragg asked his two corps commanders whether to retreat or to stand and fight at Missionary Ridge. Hardee counselled a retreat but Breckinridge convinced Bragg to fight it out, relying on the strong natural position of Missionary Ridge. Accordingly, the troops withdrawn from Lookout Mountain were ordered to move behind the ridge from the left flank to reinforce the right flank against Sherman.
From his headquarters at Orchard Knob, Grant ordered Sherman to resume his advance to Tunnel Hill and the northern end of Missionary Ridge at dawn. Hooker was ordered to push his fortuitously successful advance past Lookout Mountain and towards the Confederate rear at Rossville Gap. Union casualties over three days at Lookout Mountain amounted to 81 dead, 603 wounded and 8 missing. Hooker claimed up to 200 prisoners.

Texas. Incident at Fort Esperanza.

Virginia. Skirmish near Little Boston. After a Union picket post was captured, a party sent to recover them was attacked and more Union soldiers were captured.

Virginia. Skirmish near Woodville.

Union Organisation

USA: Fort Henry and Fort Donelson were transferred from the Department of the Tennessee to the Department of the Cumberland.

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: John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren
West Gulf Blockading Squadron: David Glasgow Farragut
East Gulf Blockading Squadron: Theodorus Bailey
Pacific Squadron: John Berrien Montgomery
Mississippi River Squadron: David Dixon Porter
Potomac Flotilla: Andrew Allen Harwood

General–in-Chief: Henry Wager Halleck

Military Division of the Mississippi: Ulysses Simpson Grant

Department of the Cumberland: George Henry Thomas
- District of Nashville: Lovell Harrison Rousseau
- Army of the Cumberland: George Henry Thomas
  - IV Corps Cumberland: Gordon Granger
  - XIV Corps Cumberland: John McAuley Palmer
  - Cavalry Corps Cumberland: Washington Lafayette Elliott
  - Hooker’s Command Cumberland: Joseph Hooker
    - XI Corps Cumberland: Oliver Otis Howard
    - XII Corps Cumberland: Henry Warner Slocum
Department of the Ohio: Ambrose Everett Burnside
- District of Kentucky: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
  - Sub-District of Eastern Kentucky: George W Gallup
  - Sub-District of North Central Kentucky: Speed Smith Fr
  - Sub-District of South Central Kentucky: Edward Henry Hobson
  - Sub-District of Somerset: Theophilus Toulmin Garrard
- District of Western Kentucky: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
- District of the Clinch: Orlando Bolivar Willcox
- Army of the Ohio: Ambrose Everett Burnside
  - IX Corps Ohio: Ambrose Everett Burnside
  - XXIII Corps Ohio: Mahlon Dickerson Manson
Department of the Tennessee: William Tecumseh Sherman
- District of West Tennessee: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
  - Sub-District of Memphis: James Clifford Veatch
- District of Eastern Arkansas: Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
- District of Northeast Louisiana: John Parker Hawkins
- Army of the Tennessee: William Tecumseh Sherman
  - XV Corps Tennessee: Francis Preston Blair
  - XVI Corps Tennessee: Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana
    - Left Wing XVI Corps Tennessee: Grenville Mellen Dodge
  - XVII Corps Tennessee: James Birdseye McPherson

Department of the East: John Adams Dix

Department of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

District of Baton Rouge: Philip St George Cooke
District of Port Hudson: George Leonard Andrews
District of Pensacola: Alexander Asboth
District of La Fourche: Henry Warner Birge
District of Key West and Tortugas: Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Defences of New Orleans: Edward Griffin Beckwith
Army of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
- XIII Corps Gulf: Cadwallader Colden Washburn temporary
- XIX Corps Gulf: William Buel Franklin

Middle Department: Robert Cumming Schenck interim Henry Hayes Lockwood awaited

District of Delaware: Daniel Tyler
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: William Kerley Strong
District of Southeast Missouri: Clinton Bowen Fisk
District of Southwest Missouri: John Benjamin Sanborn
District of Northeast Missouri: Thomas Jefferson McKean
District of North Missouri: Odon Guitar
District of Central Missouri: Egbert Benson Brown
District of Rolla: Thomas Alfred Davies
District of Nebraska Territory: Thomas Jefferson McKean
District of the Frontier: James Gilpatrick Blunt
District of the Border: Thomas Ewing
Army of Arkansas: Frederick Steele

Department of the Monongahela: William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks

Department of New Mexico: James Henry Carleton

District of Arizona: Joseph Rodman West

Department of the Northwest: John Pope

District of Minnesota: Henry Hastings Sibley
District of Wisconsin: Thomas Church Haskell Smith
District of Iowa: Benjamin Stone Roberts
District of Dakota: Alfred Sully

Department of the Pacific: George Wright

District of the Humboldt: Stephen Girard Whipple
District of Oregon: Benjamin Alvord
District of Southern California: James Freeman Curtis
District of Utah: Patrick Edward Connor

Department of the Potomac: George Gordon Meade

Army of the Potomac: George Gordon Meade
- I Corps Potomac: John Newton
- II Corps Potomac: Gouverneur Kemble Warren
- III Corps Potomac: William Henry French
- V Corps Potomac: George Sykes
- VI Corps Potomac: John Sedgwick
- Cavalry Corps Potomac: Alfred Pleasonton

Department of the South: Quincy Adams Gillmore

X Corps South: Quincy Adams Gillmore

Department of the Susquehanna: Darius Nash Couch

Lehigh District: Franz Sigel

Department of Virginia and North Carolina: Benjamin Franklin Butler

District of North Carolina: John James Peck
- Sub-District of Albemarle: Henry Walton Wessells
- Sub-District of the Pamlico: Joseph Miller McChesney temporary
- Sub-District of Beaufort NC: James Jourdan
- Defences of New Bern: Innis Newton Palmer
District of Yorktown: Isaac Jones Wistar
Army of North Carolina: John James Peck
- XVIII Corps North Carolina: Benjamin Franklin Butler

Department of Washington: Christopher Columbus Augur

District of Alexandria: John Potts Slough
District of Washington: John Henry Martindale
XXII Corps Washington: Christopher Columbus Augur

Department of Western Virginia: Benjamin Franklin Kelley

Army of the Kanawha: George Crook

District of St Mary’s: Gilman Marston

Confederate Organisation

CSA: Major-General William Thompson Martin assumed temporary command of Cavalry Corps (Tennessee), succeeding Major-General Joseph Wheeler.

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 Mississippi and East Louisiana: William Joseph Hardee
- Gulf District: Dabney Herndon Maury
- District of West Tennessee: Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Army of Mississippi: Leonidas Polk

Department of Henrico: John Henry Winder

Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia: George Edward Pickett

District of the Cape Fear River and the Defences of Wilmington: William Henry Chase Whiting

Department of Northern Virginia: Robert Edward Lee

Army of Northern Virginia: Robert Edward Lee
- II Corps Northern Virginia: Jubal Anderson Early temporary
- III Corps Northern Virginia: Ambrose Powell Hill
- Cavalry Corps Northern Virginia: James Ewell Brown Stuart
Valley District: John Daniel Imboden

Department of Richmond: Arnold Elzey

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

District of Georgia: Hugh Weedon Mercer interim Henry Rootes Jackson awaited
District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
- 1^st Sub-District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
- 2^nd Sub-District of South Carolina: Beverley Holcombe Robertson
- 3^rd Sub-District of South Carolina: William Stephen Walker
- 4^th Sub-District of South Carolina: James Heyward Trapier
- 5^th Sub-District of South Carolina: Alfred Moore Rhett
- 6^th Sub-District of South Carolina: Henry Alexander Wise
- 7^th Sub-District of South Carolina: William Booth Taliaferro
District of East Florida: Joseph Finegan
District of Middle Florida: William Montgomery Gardner
District of West Florida: John Horace Forney
Defences of Savannah: Jeremy Francis Gilmer

Department of Tennessee: Braxton Bragg

District of East Tennessee: Samuel Jones temporary
- District of Abingdon: William Preston
District of Western North Carolina: Joseph Benjamin Palmer
Army of Tennessee: Braxton Bragg
- I Corps Northern Virginia: Lafayette McLaws temporary
- I Corps Tennessee: William Joseph Hardee
- II Corps Tennessee: John Cabell Breckinridge
- Cavalry Corps Tennessee: William Thompson Martin temporary

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: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
  - Sub-District of the Rio Grande: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
- Eastern Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: James Edwin Slaughter
- Sub-District of Houston: Xavier Blanchard Debray
- Northern Sub-District Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: Henry Eustace McCullough
District of Arkansas: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
District of West Louisiana: Richard Taylor
District of Indian Territory: William Steele
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
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Major-General USV

Asterisk indicates concurrently Brigadier-General USA

John Adams Dix
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
Benjamin Franklin Butler
David Hunter
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
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
Lovell Harrison Rousseau
James Birdseye McPherson*
George Stoneman
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 McAllister Schofield
John McAuley Palmer
Frederick Steele
Abner Doubleday
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana
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
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
David Bell Birney
William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks
Alfred Pleasonton
John Buford
Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
Quincy Adams Gillmore

Brigadier-General USA

Brackets indicates concurrently Major-General USV

(Irvin McDowell)
(William Starke Rosecrans)
Philip St George Cooke
(John Pope)
(Joseph Hooker)
(George Gordon Meade)
(William Tecumseh Sherman)
(James Birdseye McPherson)
(George Henry Thomas)

Brigadier-General USV

Andrew Porter
Charles Pomeroy Stone
Thomas West Sherman
William Reading Montgomery
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
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
John Milton Brannan
John Porter Hatch
Albin Francisco Schoepf
Thomas John Wood
Richard W Johnson
Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich Von Steinwehr
George Washington Cullum
Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
Thomas Jefferson McKean
Zealous Bates Tower
Jefferson Columbus Davis
James Henry Lane
James Abram Garfield
Lewis Golding Arnold
William Scott Ketchum
John Wynn Davidson
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
Cuvier Grover
Rufus Saxton
Benjamin Alvord
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
William Sooy Smith
Nathan Kimball
Charles Devens
Samuel Wylie Crawford
Henry Walton Wessells
Milo Smith Hascall
John White Geary
Alfred Howe Terry
James Henry Carleton
Absalom Baird
John Cleveland Robinson
Truman Seymour
Henry Prince
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
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 Reese Kenly
John Potts Slough
Godfrey Weitzel
George Crook
Gershom Mott
Henry Jackson Hunt
Francis Channing Barlow
Mason Brayman
Nathaniel James Jackson
George Washington Getty
Alfred Sully
William Woods Averell
Alexander Hays
Francis Barretto Spinola
John Henry Hobart Ward
Solomon Meredith
James Bowen
Eliakim Parker Scammon
Robert Seaman Granger
Joseph Rodman West
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
Gilman Marston
William Dwight
Sullivan Amory Meredith
Nathaniel Collins McLean
William Vandever
Alexander Schimmelfennig
Charles Kinnaird Graham
John Eugene Smith
Joseph Tarr Copeland
Charles Adam Heckman
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
Joseph Anthony Mower
Richard Arnold
Edward Winslow Hinks
Michael Kelly Lawler
George Day Wagner
Lysander Cutler
Joseph Farmer Knipe
John Dunlap Stevenson
James Barnes
Theophilus Toulmin Garrard
Edward Harland
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
Albert Lindley Lee
Charles Leopold Matthies
Marcellus Monroe Crocker
Egbert Benson Brown
John McNeil
George Francis McGinnis
Hugh Boyle Ewing
James Winning McMillan
James Murrell Shackelford
Daniel Ullmann
George Jerrison Stannard
Henry Baxter
John Milton Thayer
Charles Thomas Campbell
Halbert Eleazer Paine
Hugh Thompson Reid
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
John Parker Hawkins
Gabriel René Paul
Edward Augustus Wild
Edward Ferrero
Adelbert Ames
William Birney
Daniel Henry Rucker
Robert Allen
Rufus Ingalls
Gustavus Adolphus De Russy
Alexander Shaler
Benjamin Henry Grierson
Robert Sanford Foster
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Alexander Stewart Webb
Alfred Napoleon Alexander Duffié
Walter Chiles Whitaker
Wesley Merritt
George Armstrong Custer
William Denison Whipple
John Converse Starkweather
Kenner Garrard
Charles Robert Woods
John Benjamin Sanborn
Giles Alexander Smith
Samuel Allen Rice
Jasper Adalmorn Maltby
Thomas Kilby Smith
Walter Quintin Gresham
Manning Ferguson Force
Robert Alexander Cameron
John Murray Corse
John Aaron Rawlins
Alexander Chambers
Alvan Cullem Gillem
James Clay Rice
John Wesley Turner
Henry Lawrence Eustis
Henry Eugene Davies
Andrew Jackson Hamilton
Henry Warner Birge
Charles Garrison Harker
James Hewitt Ledlie
James Harrison Wilson
Adin Ballou Underwood

Brigadier-General USA (Staff)

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (Quartermaster-General)
Lorenzo Thomas
William Alexander Hammond (Surgeon-General)
Joseph Pannell Taylor (Commissary-General of Subsistence
Joseph Gilbert Totten (Engineers)
George Douglas Ramsay (Ordnance)

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
John Clifford Pemberton
Richard Stoddert Ewell
Ambrose Powell Hill
John Bell Hood

Major-General PACS

Benjamin Huger
John Bankhead Magruder
Mansfield Lovell
William Wing Loring
Sterling Price
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
Samuel Jones
John Porter McCown
Daniel Harvey Hill
Thomas Carmichael Hindman
John Cabell Breckinridge
Lafayette McLaws
Richard Heron Anderson
James Ewell Brown Stuart
Richard Taylor
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Samuel Gibbs French
George Edward Pickett
Carter Littlepage Stevenson
John Horace Forney
Dabney Herndon Maury
Martin Luther Smith
John George Walker
Arnold Elzey
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
Franklin Gardner
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
Jubal Anderson Early
Joseph Wheeler
Edward Johnson
William Henry Chase Whiting
Robert Emmett Rodes
William Henry Talbot Walker
Henry Heth
Robert Ransom
Alexander Peter Stewart
Jones Mitchell Withers
Stephen Dill Lee
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Wade Hampton
Fitzhugh Lee
William Smith
Howell Cobb
John Austin Wharton
William Thompson Martin

Brigadier-General PACS

Alexander Robert Lawton
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
Nathan George Evans
James Heyward Trapier
Hugh Weedon Mercer
William Montgomery Gardner
William Mahone
Raleigh Edward Colston
John King Jackson
Bushrod Rust Johnson
James Patton Anderson
George Wythe Randolph
Joseph Brevard Kershaw
James Ronald Chalmers
Daniel Leadbetter
William Whann Mackall
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
Seth Maxwell Barton
Henry Eustace McCullough
John Selden Roane
States Rights Gist
William Nelson Pendleton
Joseph Finegan
William Nelson Rector Beall
Thomas Jordan
William Preston
John Echols
George Earl Maney
Jean Jacques Alfred Alexandre Mouton
John Stuart Williams
James Green Martin
Thomas Lanier Clingman
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
Micah Jenkins
Harry Thompson Hays
Albert Gallatin Jenkins
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
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