1863 October 17th

October 17 1863 Saturday

Siege of Chattanooga
Bristoe Campaign
Shelby’s Raid in Arkansas and Missouri
Second Bayou Teche Expedition

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USA. US President Abraham Lincoln, exploiting the recent electoral successes in the Midwestern states, issued a call for 300,000 more troops.

Tampa Bay, Florida. USS Tahoma, Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Alderman Semmes, and USS Adela, Acting Lieutenant Louis N Stodder, were sent to seize the blockade-runners Scottish Chief and Kate Dale, which were being loaded with cotton on the Hillsboro River.  The warships landed a party of a hundred men old Tampa Bay under cover of night. The raiders marched overland Hillsboro River for fourteen miles to the. At daylight, as the landing party boarded the blockade runners, two crew members escaped and alerted the garrison. A running battle ensued as the raiders attempted to return to their ships. Five members of the landing party were killed, ten were wounded, and five more were taken prisoner.

Georgia. Lieutenant Commander William Gibson, commanding the USS Seneca, reported that the blockaded steamer Herald had escaped the previous night from Darien. He reported that one gunboat could not guard all of the estuaries and creeks of the Altamaha River, now that the port of Charleston has been closed to unlawful commerce.

Kentucky. Union Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant reported to the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was to receive instructions for the coming campaign in Tennessee. He then prepared to depart by train via Indianapolis. As he was ready to depart, the train was stopped and Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton boarded the train in person. Grant was given the news that he was now the effective supreme commander of the western theatre, in command of the new Military Division of the Mississippi.
This move elevated Grant to become the primary commander with plenipotentiary powers in the western theatre. The Military Division of the Mississippi had been constituted the previous day to enable Grant to coordinate the various western departments to pursue a single strategy. Grant took active command of the Military Division on 18 October 1863.
Grant was given the authority to dismiss, if necessary, Major-General William Starke Rosecrans from command of the Department of the Cumberland. Rosecrans had lost the confidence of the government since the defeat at Chickamauga. Major-General Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana had been observing Rosecrans’ behaviour and performance for Stanton and reported that Rosecrans had become erratic, discouraged, and vacillating. Dana suggested that either Grant or Major-General George Henry Thomas might succeed Rosecrans in command of the Army of the Cumberland. After receiving his letter of appointment to command the new Military Division of the Mississippi, Grant decided to relieve Rosecrans and settled on Thomas as his replacement. However, he decided to defer issuing that order until full preparations had been made for the change and the handover of command. President Abraham Lincoln approved the decision to name Thomas to command the Department and Army of the Cumberland.
Grant now controlled all Union troops between the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River, apart from those of Major-General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks in eastern Louisiana, because Banks currently outranked him. Grant’s three Departments were to be allocated as follows: the Department of the Cumberland would soon be transferred to Major-General George Henry Thomas, the Department of the Tennessee would be assigned to Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman, succeeding Grant, and the Department of the Ohio remained with Major-General Ambrose Everett Burnside.

Mississippi. Operation in Northern Mississippi began.

Mississippi. Skirmish at Bogus Chitto Creek.

Mississippi/ Skirmish at Robinson’s Mills near Livingston.

Mississippi. Skirmish near Satartia.

Missouri. Expedition to Marshall and Sedalia ended.

Missouri. Skirmish in Cedar County.

Missouri. Confederate Brigadier-General Joseph Orville Shelby’s raiders reached Carthage.

North Carolina. Expedition from New Bern to Elizabeth City and Edenton.

North Carolina. Skirmish near Camden Court House between Union cavalry and Confederate guerrillas.

South Carolina. Incident at Pingo Landing.

South Carolina. Boat crews from USS T A Ward, Acting Master William L Babcock, went ashore under the command of Acting Ensign Myron W Tillson to reconnoitre and collect water.

Tennessee. Chalmers’ Raid in Western Tennessee ended. Wheeler’s and Roddey’s Tennessee Raid ended.

Tennessee. With the creation of the Union Military Division of the Mississippi, the growing army engaged in the defence and relief of Chattanooga began to be reorganised.

ORDER OF BATTLE: CHATTANOOGA, TN

Union Military Division of the Mississippi: Ulysses Simpson Grant awaited Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant
Department of the Cumberland: Major-General William Starke Rosecrans pending Major-General George Henry Thomas
Army of the Cumberland: Major-General William Starke Rosecrans pending Major-General George Henry Thomas
IV Corps (Cumberland): Major-General Gordon Granger
1st Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Charles Cruft
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Walter Chiles Whitaker
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Colonel William Grose
2^nd Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Major-General Philip Henry Sheridan
1st Brigade, 2^nd Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Colonel S Miller
2nd Brigade, 2^nd Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General George Day Wagner
3rd Brigade, 2^nd Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Colonel Charles Garrison Harker
3rd Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Thomas John Wood
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Johann August Ernst von Willich
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General William Babcock Hazen
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, IV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Samuel Beatty
XI Corps (Cumberland): Major-General Oliver Otis Howard
2nd Division, XI Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XI Corps (Cumberland): Colonel Adolphus Buschbeck
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XI Corps (Cumberland): Colonel Orland Smith
3rd Division, XI Corps (Cumberland): Major-General Carl Schurz
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XI Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Hector Tyndale
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XI Corps (Cumberland): Colonel Wladimir Bonaventura Krzyzanowski
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XI Corps (Cumberland): Colonel F Hecker
XII Corps (Cumberland): Major-General Henry Warner Slocum
2nd Division, XII Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General John White Geary
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XII Corps (Cumberland): Colonel Charles Candy
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XII Corps (Cumberland): Colonel George A Cobham
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XII Corps (Cumberland): Colonel D Ireland
XIV Corps (Cumberland): Major-General George Henry Thomas pending Major-General John McAuley Palmer
1st Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Richard William Johnson
1st Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General William Passmore Carlin
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Colonel M F Moore
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General John Converse Starkweather
2nd Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Jefferson Columbus Davis
1^st Brigade, 2nd Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General James Dada Morgan (Columbia, Tn)
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General James Beatty (Kelly’s Ferry, Tn)
3^rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Colonel Daniel McCook
3rd Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General Absalom Baird
1^st Brigade, 3^rd Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Brigadier-General John Basil Turchin
2^nd Brigade, 3^rd Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Colonel M S Robinson
3^rd Brigade, 3^rd Division, XIV Corps (Cumberland): Colonel E H Phelps
Engineers (Cumberland): Brigadier-General William Farrar Smith
Pioneer Brigade (Cumberland): Colonel George P Buell
Artillery Reserve (Cumberland): Brigadier-General John Milton Brannan
Cavalry Corps (Cumberland): Major-General David Sloan Stanley
2nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Cumberland):
2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Cumberland): Colonel Eli Long
Department of the Tennessee: Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant pending Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman
Army of the Tennessee: Major-General Ulysses Simpson Grant pending Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman
XV Corps (Tennessee): Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman pending Major-General Francis Preston Blair
1st Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Peter Joseph Osterhaus
1st Brigade, 1st Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Charles Robert Woods
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Colonel J A Williamson
2nd Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Morgan Lewis Smith
1^st Brigade, 2nd Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Giles Alexander Smith
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Colonel J A J Spooner
4th Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Hugh Boyle Ewing
1st Brigade, 4th Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Colonel J M Loomis
2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Brigadier-General John Murray Corse
3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XV Corps (Tennessee): Colonel J R Cockerill
XVII Corps (Tennessee): Major-General James Birdseye McPherson
2nd Division, XVII Corps (Tennessee): Brigadier-General John Eugene Smith
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XVII Corps (Tennessee): Colonel J I Alexander
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVII Corps (Tennessee): Colonel F C Deimling
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVII Corps (Tennessee): Brigadier-General Karl Leopold Matthies

Tennessee. After his lengthy visit and unsuccessful attempt to resolve the command crisis of the Army of Tennessee, Confederate President Jefferson Davies left the army to make a tour of Southern cities and then return to Richmond.

Virginia. Skirmish at Groveton.

Virginia. Skirmish at Manassas Junction, and Frying Pan Church near Pohick Church.

Virginia. Skirmish at Berryville.

Virginia. Skirmish at Stuart’s near Chantilly.

Virginia. Skirmish at Accotink.

Virginia. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia retreated southwards from Manassas Junction and began to destroy much of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad as it went. Union Major-General George Gordon Meade did not commence a general pursuit in the heavy rain and sent only cavalry columns to harass the withdrawal.

Union Organisation

USA: Major-General George Henry Thomas was appointed to command the Department of the Cumberland, arriving on 20 October 1863.

USA: Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman was appointed to command the Department of the Tennessee, arriving on 26 October 1863.

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 awaited

• Department of the Cumberland: William Starke Rosecrans interim George Henry Thomas awaited
  • Army of the Cumberland: William Starke Rosecrans
    • IV Corps Cumberland: Gordon Granger
    • XIV Corps Cumberland: George Henry Thomas
    • Cavalry Corps Cumberland: Robert Byington Mitchell temporary
    • 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
  • District of Eastern Kentucky: George W Gallup
  • District of Western Kentucky: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
  • District of Illinois: Jacob Ammen
  • District of Indiana: John Smith Simonson
  • District of Ohio: Jacob Dolson Cox
  • Army of the Ohio: Ambrose Everett Burnside
    • IX Corps Ohio: Ambrose Everett Burnside
    • XXIII Corps Ohio: Mahlon Dickerson Manson
• Department of the Tennessee: Ulysses Simpson Grant interim William Tecumseh Sherman awaited
  • 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: Ulysses Simpson Grant
    • XV Corps Tennessee: William Tecumseh Sherman
    • 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: William Cune Holbrook
• 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: Edward Otho Cresap Ord
  • XIX Corps Gulf: William Buel Franklin

Middle Department: Robert Cumming Schenck

• 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: Josiah Pickett
  • Sub-District of Beaufort NC: James Jourdan
  • Defences of New Bern: Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory
• District of Yorktown: Isaac Jones Wistar
• Army of North Carolina: John James Peck
  • XVIII Corps North Carolina: John Gray Foster

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: Brigadier-General Sterling Alexander Martin Wood resigned to resume law practice.

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
  • Army of Mississippi: William Joseph Hardee

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: Richard Stoddert Ewell
  • 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
• 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
• District of East Florida: Joseph Finegan
• District of Middle Florida: Joseph Finegan interim William Montgomery Gardner awaited
• 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: Robert Brank Vance
• Army of Tennessee: Braxton Bragg
  • I Corps Northern Virginia: Lafayette McLaws temporary
    • Reserve Corps Tennessee: William Henry Talbot Walker
  • I Corps Tennessee: Benjamin Franklin Cheatham temporary
  • II Corps Tennessee: John Cabell Breckinridge temporary
  • III Corps Tennessee: Simon Bolivar Buckner
  • Cavalry Corps Tennessee: Joseph Wheeler

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: Philip Noland Luckett temporary
  • 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*
Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
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)
Robert Anderson
(William Starke Rosecrans)
Philip St George Cooke
(John Pope)
(Joseph Hooker)
(George Gordon Meade)
(William Tecumseh Sherman)
(James Birdseye McPherson)

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
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
William Kerley Strong
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
Thomas Leiper Kane
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
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
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

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

Brigadier-General PACS

Alexander Robert Lawton
Charles Clark
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
Sterling Alexander Martin Wood RES
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
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