1863 November 29th

November 29 1863 Sunday

Battle of Fort Sanders, TN (CWSAC Major Battle Union Victory)

Knoxville Campaign
Mine Run Campaign
Second Bayou Teche Campaign

Go to November 30 1863

Alabama. USS Kanawha, Lieutenant-Commander William K Mayo, captured the schooner Albert (also known as Wenona) attempting to run the blockade out of Mobile with a cargo of cotton, rosin, turpentine, and tobacco.

Kentucky. Union troops pursued a Confederate guerrilla force along the Cumberland River, capturing 15 Confederates and killing a notorious thief named Captain Belbo.

Missouri. Reconnaissance to Houston ended. Incident at Bloomfield.

Tennessee. Incident at Knoxville.

Fort Sanders, Tennessee, also known as Knoxville or Fort Loudon. Lacking the equipment, the numbers, or the time to establish a regular siege, Confederate Lieutenant-General James Longstreet decided that Knoxville could only be taken by direct assault. Strong defences enclosed the city entirely and the partial siege had already lasted already a week without any sign of progress.
The Confederates saw Fort Sanders as the only vulnerable point where they could penetrate the Union fortifications and successfully conclude the campaign. Fort Sanders was a bastioned earthwork surmounting an eminence just outside and northwest of Knoxville and northwest of the fortifications where the land dropped off abruptly. It had a ditch 12 feet wide and an average of 8 feet deep. An almost vertical slope rose to the top of the parapet, about fifteen feet above the top of the ditch. The fort was manned by 440 men and 12 guns at the time of the main attack, with small detachments from the 29th Massachusetts Infantry, 2nd Michigan Infantry, 20th Michigan Infantry, 79th New York Infantry, Benjamin’s Battery, and W W Buckley’s battery. A small detachment of 40 men from the 2nd Michigan Infantry under Captain C H Hodskin held a forward position in the counterscarp salient to delay any attack but they took no part in the final defence.
Longstreet believed he could assemble undetected during the night a storming party below the fortifications. Longstreet intended to make a coup de main before dawn to overwhelm Fort Sanders. He assigned 3,000 men to the assault from Major-General Lafayette McLaws’ division: Brigadier-General Benjamin Grubb Humphreys’ brigade and Brigadier-General Goode Bryan’s brigade. Brigadier-General William Tatum Wofford’s brigade commanded by Colonel Solon Z Ruff was held in immediate support to exploit the penetration. Brigadier-General George Thomas Anderson’s brigade from Brigadier-General Micah Jenkins’ (previously Hood’s and Law’s) division was placed in reserve. Artillery would not be used to prepare the attack in order to maximise the prospects of achieving surprise. However, Longstreet had already lost the element of surprise by deploying skirmishers some hours before the assault. Although their movement placed them in good positions for sharpshooting, they also revealed Longstreet’s plans to the enemy.
The assault troops moved forward on a bitterly cold night until they were within 150 yards of the fort. They were massed in columns of assault in order to make a rapid, powerful, and relentless charge, but the defenders were aware of their presence. When the Confederate brigades charged forward, they encountered telegraph wires stretched from one tree stump to another and this entanglement slowed the pace of the attack and disrupted their formation. Then, the near vertical slope fort’s outer ditch brought the Confederates to a complete halt. The difficulty of the attack was aggravated by frozen ground and sleet. Rather than being five feet deep, the ascent to the parapet was found to be actually nine feet up a slippery slope that was difficult to climb without ladders or other assistance. The Confederate commanders had underestimated the obstacles through their binoculars and believed that the men could ascend by making hand-holds. In the absence of scaling ladders, the men were forced to ascend the frozen and slippery slope by climbing on one another’s shoulders. Three regimental colours (16th Georgia Infantry, 13th Mississippi Infantry, and 17th Mississippi Infantry) were planted on the parapet but only a small number of men entered the fort through embrasures. These men were all wounded, killed, or captured. Union artillery fire raked the ditch from the flanks, riflemen lined the parapet densely in three ranks, and improvised grenades made from fused shells were lobbed down among the attackers. The attack lasted for only a short time –  no more than twenty minutes – and Longstreet called it off despite pleas from Jenkins and Brigadier-General Bushrod Rust Johnson to allow their divisions to reinforce the attack. Despite the obvious failure, Anderson’s brigade was not notified of the failure and advanced as ordered from reserve, only to be driven back with the loss of 200 men. About two hundred unwounded Confederates were captured in the ditch, unable to advance and reluctant to retreat through heavy fire. Ruff was killed, as were two regimental commanders (Colonel H P Thomas of the 16th Georgia and Colonel Kennon McElroy of the 17th Mississippi).
The Union reported about 20 men killed and 80 wounded, of whom just thirteen were part of the fort’s garrison of 440 men. The Confederates reported 813 casualties, of whom 129 were killed, 458 wounded, and 226 captured. The entire course of the failed siege of Knoxville had cost 693 Union casualties and 1,142 Confederates. (CWSAC Major Battle Union Victory)

ORDER OF BATTLE: KNOXVILLE, TN

Union Army of the Ohio: Major-General Ambrose Everett Burnside Chief Of Staff: Major-General John Grubb Parke
IX Corps (Ohio): Brigadier-General Robert Brown Potter
1st Division, IX Corps (Ohio): Brigadier-General Edward Ferrero
1st Brigade, 1st Division, IX Corps (Ohio): Colonel David Morrison
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, IX Corps (Ohio): Colonel Benjamin C Christ
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, IX Corps (Ohio): Colonel William Humphrey
2nd Division, IX Corps (Ohio): Colonel John F Hartranft
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XI Corps (Ohio): Colonel Joshua K Sigfried
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XI Corps (Ohio): Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Schall
XXIII Corps (Ohio): Brigadier-General Mahlon Dickerson Manson
2nd Division, XXIII Corps (Ohio): Brigadier-General Julius White
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps (Ohio): Colonel Samuel R Mott
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps (Ohio): Colonel Marshall W Chapin
3rd Division, XXIII Corps (Ohio): Brigadier-General Milo Smith Hascall
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps (Ohio): Colonel James W Reilly
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps (Ohio): Colonel Daniel Cameron
Provisional Brigade (Ohio): Colonel William A Haskins
Cavalry Corps (Ohio): Brigadier-General James Murrell Shackelford
1st Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Ohio): Brigadier-General William Price Sanders
1st Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Ohio): Colonel Frank Wolford
2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Ohio): Lieutenant-Colonel Emery S Bond
3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Ohio): Colonel Charles D Pennebaker
2nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Ohio): Colonel John W Foster
1st Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Ohio): Colonel Israel Garrard
2nd Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Ohio): Colonel Felix W Graham Colonel Horace Capron

Confederate Department of Eastern Tennessee: Lieutenant-General James Longstreet
I Corps (Northern Virginia) attached: Lieutenant-General James Longstreet
McLaws’ Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Joseph Brevard Kershaw
Wofford’s Brigade, McLaws’ Division, (East Tennessee): Lieutenant-Colonel N L Hutchins
Humphreys’ Brigade, McLaws’ Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Benjamin Grubb Humphreys
Bryan’s Brigade, McLaws’ Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Goode Bryan
Hood’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Micah Jenkins
Jenkins’ Brigade, Hood’s Division, (East Tennessee): Colonel John Bratton
Robertson’s Brigade, Hood’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Jerome Bonaparte Robertson
Law’s Brigade, Hood’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Evander McIver Law
Anderson’s Brigade, Hood’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General George Thomas Anderson
Benning’s Brigade, Hood’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Henry Lewis Benning
Buckner’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Bushrod Rust Johnson
Gracie’s Brigade, Buckner’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Archibald Gracie
Johnson’s Brigade, Buckner’s Division, (East Tennessee): Colonel John S Fulton
Cavalry Corps (Tennessee): Major-General Joseph Wheeler Major-General Joseph Wheeler
Martin’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Major-General William Thompson Martin
J T Morgan’s Cavalry Brigade, Martin’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Colonel William Wirt Allen
Morrison’s Cavalry Brigade, Martin’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Colonel J J Morrison
Armstrong’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Brigadier-General Frank Crawford Armstrong
Humes’ Cavalry Brigade, Armstrong’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Brigadier-General William Young Conn Humes
Tyler’s Cavalry Brigade, Armstrong’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Colonel Tyler
Dibrell’s Cavalry Brigade, Armstrong’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Colonel George G Dibrell
Davidson’s Cavalry Brigade, Armstrong’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Brigadier-General Hiram Brevard Davidson
Morgan’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Brigadier-General John Tyler Morgan
Russell’s Cavalry Brigade, Morgan’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Colonel A A Russell
Crews’ Cavalry Brigade, Morgan’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Colonel Charles C Crews
Wharton’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Major-General John Archibald Wharton
Harrison’s Cavalry Brigade, Wharton’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps: Colonel Thomas A Harrison
Ransom’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Robert Ransom
Corse’s Brigade, Ransom’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier General Montgomery Dent Corse
Wharton’s Brigade, Ransom’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier-General Gabriel Colvin Wharton
Jackson’s Brigade, Ransom’s Division, (East Tennessee): Colonel Alfred Eugene Jackson
Jones’ Cavalry Brigade, Ransom’s Division, (East Tennessee): Brigadier General William Edmondson Jones
Williams’ Cavalry Brigade, Ransom’s Division, (East Tennessee): Colonel Henry L Giltner
Jenkins’ Cavalry Brigade, Ransom’s Division, (East Tennessee): Colonel M J Ferguson

Fort Esperanza, Texas. A gun crew from USS Monongahela, Commander James Hooker Strong, went ashore to man howitzers in support of the Union troops at Fort Esperanza, guarding Pass Cavallo. Union Brigadier-General Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom’s brigade was now in place and two batteries opened the attack. Union infantry then drove the 8th Texas Infantry from their exterior rifle pits. The artillery continued to fire with great accuracy. Confederate Colonel William R Bradfute held a council of war during the evening and decided to abandon the three-gun fort overnight.

Virginia. Skirmish at Brentsville.

Virginia. Skirmish at Jonesville.

Virginia. Skirmish at Parker’s Store.

Virginia. The Union Army of the Potomac continued to probe the Confederate line at Mine Run while the Confederates continued to improve their already impregnable defences. Union Major-General George Gordon Meade asked his corps commanders to recommend a weak spot where he might be able to attack. Suitable points were identified on either flank, one in front of Major-General John Sedgwick’s VI Corps, and the other in front of Major-General Gouverneur Kemble Warren’s II Corps. Meade ordered them both to attack at dawn. Sedgwick would open with his artillery at 7 am on the right. After Sedgwick had drawn the enemy’s attention, Warren’s Corps would attack an hour later on the left. Major-General William Henry French’s III Corps would pin the Confederate centre by a feint. Once Warren had achieved a breakthrough, Major-General John Newton’s I Corps would advance to exploit the breach. Likewise, Major-General George Sykes’ V Corps was poised to support Sedgwick and would join the advance once the attack was underway.

Union Organisation

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

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
    • 1st Sub-District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
    • 2nd Sub-District of South Carolina: Beverley Holcombe Robertson
    • 3rd Sub-District of South Carolina: William Stephen Walker
    • 4th Sub-District of South Carolina: James Heyward Trapier
    • 5th Sub-District of South Carolina: Alfred Moore Rhett
    • 6th Sub-District of South Carolina: Henry Alexander Wise
    • 7th 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
  • 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
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