August 13 1864 Saturday
Siege of Atlanta
Siege of Petersburg – Weldon Railroad and Deep Bottom
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Mobile Bay Operations – Siege of Fort Morgan
Wheeler’s Second Tennessee Raid
Alabama. The captured and repaired ironclad USS Tennessee steamed across Mobile Bay and opened fire on Fort Morgan.
Arkansas. Expedition to Helena ended.
Arkansas. Incident at Kent’s Landing.
Arkansas. Skirmish at Searcy.
Florida. Expedition from Fort Barrancas to capture a local Confederate camp began.
Florida. Skirmish at Palatka.
Georgia. Incident at Frogtown.
Georgia. Expedition to Jasper began.
Georgia. Confederate Major-General Joseph Wheeler’s cavalry reached Resaca during their raid on the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
Illinois. Union operations around Shawneetown were directed by Major-General Samuel Peter Heintzelman against pro-Confederates who had captured three steamers loaded with cattle and crossed the Ohio River with them into Illinois.
Massachusetts. The Confederate commerce raider CSS Tallahassee, Commander John Taylor Wood, took two more prizes off the New England coast.
Mississippi. Incident at Abbeville.
Missouri. Expedition from Independence against Confederate guerrillas in Jackson County, and Lafayette County began.
Mississippi. Operations against Confederate guerrillas in Howard County, Lafayette County, and Saline County began.
Mississippi. Skirmish in Saline County.
Mississippi. Skirmish at Hurricane Creek.
Tennessee. Incident at Clinton.
Virginia. Skirmish at Berryville.
Virginia. Skirmish near Strasburg.
Virginia. Incident at Signal Hill.
Virginia. Skirmishes at Dutch Gap and Four Mile Creek.
CONFEDERATE ORDER OF BATTLE: FORCES IN VIRGINIA
Confederate Department of Northern Virginia: General Robert Edward Lee
District of the Valley: Lieutenant-General Jubal Anderson Early
“Army of the Valley” II Corps (Northern Virginia): Lieutenant-General Jubal Anderson Early
I Corps (“Valley”): Major-General Robert Emmett Rodes
Ramseur’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Brigadier-General John Pegram
Pegram’s Brigade, Ramseur’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Colonel John S Hoffman
Johnston’s Brigade, Ramseur’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Brigadier-General Robert Daniel Johnston
Lewis’ Brigade, Ramseur’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Brigadier-General William Gaston Lewis
Rodes’ Division, I Corps (“Valley”): Brigadier-General Bryan Grimes
Grimes’ Brigade, Rodes’ Division, I Corps (“Valley”): Colonel D G Cowand
Cox’s Brigade, Rodes’ Division, I Corps (“Valley”): Brigadier-General William Ruffin Cox
Cook’s Brigade, Rodes’ Division, I Corps (“Valley”): Colonel W H Peebles
Battle’s Brigade, Rodes’ Division, I Corps (“Valley”): Lieutenant-Colonel E L Hobson
II Corps (“Valley”): Major-General John Cabell Breckinridge
Gordon’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Major-General John Brown Gordon
Evans’ Brigade, Gordon’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Brigadier-General Clement Anselm
Evans
Nicholls’ Brigade, Gordon’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Colonel W R Peck
Terry’s Brigade, Gordon’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Brigadier-General William Terry
Breckinridge’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Brigadier-General Gabriel Colvin Wharton
Echols’ Brigade, Breckinridge’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Lieutenant-Colonel J W McDonald
Wharton’s Brigade, Breckinridge’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Major P J Otey
Smith’s Brigade, Breckinridge’s Division, II Corps (“Valley”): Colonel T Smith
Lomax’s Cavalry Division (“Valley”): Major-General Lunsford Lindsay Lomax
McCausland’s Cavalry Brigade, Lomax’s Cavalry Division (“Valley”): Brigadier-General John McCausland
Imboden’s Cavalry Brigade, Lomax’s Cavalry Division (“Valley”): Brigadier-General John
Daniel Imboden
Jackson’s Cavalry Brigade, Lomax’s Cavalry Division (“Valley”): Colonel William Lowther Jackson
II Corps Artillery Reserve: Colonel T H Carter
Army of Northern Virginia: General Robert Edward Lee
I Corps (Northern Virginia): Lieutenant-General James Longstreet
Kershaw’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General Joseph Brevard Kershaw
Kershaw’s Brigade, Kershaw’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel John D Kennedy
Wofford’s Brigade, Kershaw’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel J C C Sanders
Humphreys’ Brigade, Kershaw’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Major G B Gerald
Bryan’s Brigade, Kershaw’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel James P Simms
Field’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General Charles William Field
Bratton’s Brigade, Field’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General John Bratton
Law’s Brigade, Field’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel William F Perry
Anderson’s Brigade, Field’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General George Thomas Anderson
Gregg’s Brigade, Field’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel F S Bass
Benning’s Brigade, Field’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Henry Lewis Benning
Pickett’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General George Edward Pickett
Terry’s Brigade, Pickett’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General William Richard Terry
Hunton’s Brigade, Pickett’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Eppa Hunton
Steuart’s Brigade, Pickett’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General George Hume Steuart
Corse’s Brigade, Pickett’s Division, I Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Montgomery Dent Corse
I Corps Artillery Reserve: Brigadier-General Edward Porter Alexander
III Corps (Northern Virginia): Lieutenant-General Ambrose Powell Hill
Cavalry (Northern Virginia): Major-General Wade Hampton
III Corps (Northern Virginia): Lieutenant-General Ambrose Powell Hill
Mahone’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General William Mahone
Sanders’ Brigade, Mahone’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel J H King
Harris’ Brigade, Mahone’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Nathaniel Harrison Harris
Weisiger’s Brigade, Mahone’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Davis Addison Weisiger
Sorrel’s Brigade, Mahone’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Gilbert Moxley Sorrel
Finegan’s Brigade, Mahone’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Joseph Finegan
Heth’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General Henry Heth
Davis’ Brigade, Heth’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Joseph Robert Davis
Cooke’s Brigade, Heth’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General John Rogers Cooke
McRae’s Brigade, Heth’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General William McRae
Fry’s Brigade, Heth’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel R M Mayo
Wilcox’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Lane’s Brigade, Wilcox’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel R V Cowan
Scales’ Brigade, Wilcox’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel William L Lowrance
McGowan’s Brigade, Wilcox’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Samuel McGowan
Thomas’ Brigade, Wilcox’s Division, III Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Edward Lloyd Thomas
III Corps Artillery Reserve: Colonel Reuben Lindsay Walker
IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Lieutenant-General Richard Heron Anderson
Johnson’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General Bushrod Rust Johnson
Elliott’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel William Henry Wallace
Gracie’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Archibald Gracie
Ransom’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Matthew Whitaker Ransom
Wise’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel J T Goode
Hoke’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General Robert Frederick Hoke
Kirkland’s Brigade, Hoke’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General William Whedbee Kirkland
Clingman’s Brigade, Hoke’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel C H McKethan
Hagood’s Brigade, Hoke’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Johnson Hagood
Colquitt’s Brigade, Hoke’s Division, IV Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Alfred Holt Colquitt
IV Corps Artillery Reserve: Colonel Hilary P Jones
Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General Wade Hampton
Butler’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Matthew Calbraith Butler
Young’ Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Pierce Manning Butler Young
Dunovant’s Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel H K Aiken
Rosser’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General Thomas Lafayette Rosser
Wickham’s Brigade, Rosser’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel Thomas Taylor Munford
Rosser’s Brigade, Rosser’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel O R Funsten
Payne’s Cavalry Brigade, Rosser’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel William Henry Fitzhugh Payne
W H F Lee’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Major-General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
Barringer’s Brigade, W H F Lee’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General Rufus Clay Barringer
Chambliss’ Cavalry Brigade, W H F Lee’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Colonel Richard Lee Turberville Beale
Dearing’s Cavalry Brigade, W H F Lee’s Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Northern Virginia): Brigadier-General James Dearing
Department of Richmond: Lieutenant-General Richard Stoddert Ewell
Cavalry Brigade (Richmond): Brigadier-General Martin Witherspoon Gary
Johnson’s Brigade (Richmond): Colonel J M Hughs
Local Defence Brigade (Richmond): Major-General George Washington Custis Lee
Barton’s Command (Richmond): Brigadier-General Seth Maxwell Barton
Artillery (Richmond): Lieutenant-Colonel John Clifford Pemberton
Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia: General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
First District (North Carolina and Southern Virginia): Brigadier-General Henry Alexander Wise
Walker’s Brigade, First District (North Carolina and Southern Virginia): Brigadier-General James Alexander Walker
Virginia. During the night, the Union II Corps, X Corps, and Brigadier-General David McMurtrie Gregg’s cavalry division, all under command of Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock, crossed the James River at Deep Bottom. Measures were taken to deceive the Confederates that Hancock’s II Corps was being transferred by sea transport to Washington, DC. His troops feigned boarding ships at City Point as a ruse, while the cavalry and artillery marched overland to the pontoon bridges at Deep Run. Hancock’s objective was to threaten Richmond, coordinating this diversion with a movement being made south of the James River against the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg. This extended demonstration was part of plans arising from the erroneous belief that Confederate defences along Deep Bottom Run and Bailey’s Creek had been weakened to a single division of 8,500 men by the transfer of strong reinforcements to the Shenandoah Valley.
Virginia. Skirmishes occurred at White’s Tavern, Charles City Road, New Market Road, Fussell’s Mill, Gravel Hill, Bailey’s Creek, Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains, and Deep Run (or Deep Creek),
UNION ORDER OF BATTLE: WELDON RAILROAD, VA
Union General-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Ulysses Simpson Grant
Union Department of the Potomac: Major-General George Gordon Meade
Army of the Potomac: Major-General George Gordon Meade
II Corps (Potomac): Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock
1st Division, II Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Francis Channing Barlow
1st Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Nelson Appleton Miles
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps (Potomac): Colonel L Crandell
4th Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps (Potomac): Lieutenant-Colonel K O Broady
2nd Division, II Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Thomas Alfred Smith
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, II Corps (Potomac): Colonel George Nelson Macy
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, II Corps (Potomac): Colonel M Murphy
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, II Corps (Potomac): Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Edwin Pierce
3rd Division, II Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Gershom Mott
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Philippe Régis Dénis de Keredern de Trobriand
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps (Potomac): Colonel C A Craig
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps (Potomac): Colonel Robert McAllister
Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General David McMurtrie Gregg
2nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General David McMurtrie Gregg
1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Colonel William Stedman
2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Colonel John Irvin Gregg
Department of Virginia and North Carolina: Major-General Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Army of the James: Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler
X Corps (James): Major-General David Bell Birney (attached)
1st Division, X Corps (James): Brigadier-General Alfred Howe Terry
1st Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps (James): Colonel F B Pond
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps (James): Colonel Joseph Roswell Hawley
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps (James): Brigadier-General Robert Sanford Foster
2nd Division, X Corps (James): Brigadier-General John Wesley Turner
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, X Corps (James): Lieutenant-Colonel W B Coan
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, X Corps (James): Colonel Francis Augustus Osborn
USCT Brigade, 2nd Division, X Corps (James): Brigadier-General William Birney
Virginia. USS Agawam, Commander Rhind, engaged three different Confederate batteries near Four Mile Creek on the James River. The ship was fired upon early in the afternoon but countered immediately and maintained a heavy fire for over four hours. It was finally forced to withdraw due to a shortage of ammunition.
Virginia. Ships of the Confederate James River Squadron, including CSS Virginia II, Commander John K Mitchell, CSS Fredericksburg, Commander Rootes, CSS Hampton, Lieutenant John W Murdaugh, CSS Nansemond, Lieutenant Charles W Hays, and CSS Drewry, Lieutenant William W Hall, shelled Union Army positions near Dutch Gap. They kept up the fire for over twelve hours to support Confederate troop movements in the area. The Union entrenchments were largely beyond the range of the guns and hidden by hills. Union gunboats emerged and took up a position below the James River barricade, but their guns could not reach the Confederate squadron. Union shore batteries took them under fire and the Confederates returned to their anchorages at nightfall.
Union Organisation
USA: The District of Illinois was established in the Northern Department, comprising the state of Illinois.
USA: Brigadier-General Halbert Eleazer Paine 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: John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren
West Gulf Blockading Squadron: David Glasgow Farragut
East Gulf Blockading Squadron: Theodore Phinney Green
Pacific Squadron: John Berrien Montgomery
Mississippi River Squadron: Alexander Moseley Pennock
Potomac Flotilla: Andrew Allen Harwood
General–in-Chief: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Military Division of the Mississippi: William Tecumseh Sherman
- Department of the Cumberland: George Henry Thomas
- District of Tennessee: Lovell Harrison Rousseau
- District of Western Kentucky: Eleazer Arthur Paine
- District of Northern Alabama: Robert Seaman Granger
- District of Etowah: James Blair Steedman
- Army of the Cumberland: George Henry Thomas
- IV Corps Cumberland: David Sloane Stanley
- XIV Corps Cumberland: Richard William Johnson temporary
- XX Corps Cumberland: Alpheus Starkey Williams interim Henry Warner Slocum awaited
- Cavalry Corps Cumberland: Washington Lafayette Elliott
- Department of the Ohio: John McAllister Schofield
- District of East Tennessee: Jacob Ammen
- District of Kentucky: Stephen Gano Burbridge
- Army of the Ohio: John McAllister Schofield
- XXIII Corps Ohio: John McAllister Schofield
- Department of the Tennessee: Oliver Otis Howard
- District of West Tennessee: Benjamin Henry Grierson
- Sub-District of Memphis: Ralph Pomeroy Buckland
- District of Vicksburg: Henry Warner Slocum
- Army of the Tennessee: Oliver Otis Howard
- XV Corps Tennessee: John Alexander Logan
- XVI Corps Tennessee: vacant
- Right Wing XVI Corps Tennessee: Andrew Jackson Smith
- Left Wing XVI Corps Tennessee: Grenville Mellen Dodge
- XVII Corps Tennessee: Francis Preston Blair
- District of West Tennessee: Benjamin Henry Grierson
Military Division of West Mississippi: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
- Department of Arkansas: Frederick Steele
- District of Eastern Arkansas: William Crooks temporary
- District of Little Rock: Eugene Asa Carr
- District of the Frontier: John Milton Thayer
- Army of Arkansas: Frederick Steele
- VII Corps Arkansas: Frederick Steele
- Department of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
- District of Baton Rouge and Port Hudson: Francis Jay Herron
- Sub-District of Baton Rouge: William Plummer Benton
- Sub-District of Port Hudson: George Leonard Andrews
- District of La Fourche: Robert Alexander Cameron
- District of Morganza: Michael Kelly Lawler
- District of Carrollton: Nelson B Bartram
- District of West Florida: Alexander Asboth
- 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: Joseph Jones Reynolds
- Reserve Corps Gulf: Gordon Granger
- District of Baton Rouge and Port Hudson: Francis Jay Herron
- Department of the Missouri: William Starke Rosecrans
- District of St Louis: Alfred Pleasonton
- District of Southwest Missouri: John Benjamin Sanborn
- District of North Missouri: Clinton Bowen Fisk
- District of Central Missouri: Alfred Pleasonton
- District of Rolla: Odon Guitar
Middle Military Division: Philip Henry Sheridan temporary
- Middle Department: Lewis Wallace
- District of Delaware: Henry Hayes Lockwood
- District of the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Henry Hayes Lockwood
- VIII Corps Middle: Lewis Wallace
- Department of the Susquehanna: Darius Nash Couch
- Lehigh District: Franz Sigel
- District of Brandywine: George Cadwalader
- District of the Monongahela: Thomas Algeo Rowley
- Department of Washington: Christopher Columbus Augur
- District of St Mary’s: James Barnes
- District of Alexandria: John Potts Slough
- District of Washington: Moses N Wisewell
- XXII Corps Washington: Christopher Columbus Augur
- Department of Western Virginia: George Crook temporary
- District of Harper’s Ferry: Max Weber
- Army of Western Virginia: George Crook
- Army of the Shenandoah: Philip Henry Sheridan
- VI Corps Shenandoah: Horatio Gouverneur Wright
- Cavalry Corps Shenandoah: Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
Department of the East: John Adams Dix
Department of Kansas: George Sykes
- District of Nebraska Territory: Robert Byington Mitchell
- District of North Kansas: Thomas Alfred Davies
- District of South Kansas: Thomas Jefferson McKean
- District of the Upper Arkansas: James Gilpatrick Blunt
- District of the Border: William Russell Judson
- District of Colorado Territory: John Milton Chivington
Department of New Mexico: James Henry Carleton
- District of Arizona: George Washington Bowie
Northern Department: Samuel Peter Heintzelman
- District of Illinois: Halbert Eleazer Paine
- District of Indiana: Henry Beebe Carrington
Department of the Northwest: John Pope
- District of Minnesota: Henry Hastings Sibley
- District of Wisconsin: Thomas Church Haskell Smith
- District of Iowa: Alfred Sully
Department of the Pacific: Irvin McDowell
- District of California: 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
- II Corps Potomac: Winfield Scott Hancock
- V Corps Potomac: Gouverneur Kemble Warren
- IX Corps Potomac: Ambrose Everett Burnside
- Cavalry Corps Potomac: David McMurtrie Gregg
Department of the South: John Gray Foster
- Northern District (South): Alexander Schimmelfennig
- District of Beaufort (SC): Rufus Saxton
- District of Hilton Head: Edward Elmer Potter temporary
- District of Florida: John Porter Hatch
Department of Virginia and North Carolina: Edward Otho Cresap Ord temporary
- District of Eastern Virginia: George Foster Shepley
- District of Currituck: Samuel Henry Roberts
- District of North Carolina: Innis Newton Palmer
- Sub-District of Beaufort NC: Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory
- Sub-District of New Bern: Edward Harland
- Army of the James: Benjamin Franklin Butler
- X Corps James: David Bell Birney
- XVIII Corps James: Edward Otho Cresap Ord
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: Braxton Bragg
Department of Alabama and East Mississippi: Dabney Herndon Maury
- District of Mississippi and East Louisiana: St John Richardson Liddell interim George Baird Hodge awaited
- Gulf District: Franklin Gardner temporary
- District of Northern Alabama: Daniel Weisiger Adams
- District of West Tennessee: Nathan Bedford Forrest
Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
- First District of North Carolina and Southern Virginia: Henry Alexander Wise
- Second District of North Carolina and Southern Virginia: Laurence Simmons Baker
- Third District of North Carolina and Southern Virginia: William Henry Chase Whiting
Department of Northern Virginia: Robert Edward Lee
- Army of Northern Virginia: Robert Edward Lee
- I Corps Northern Virginia: Richard Heron Anderson temporary
- III Corps Northern Virginia: Ambrose Powell Hill
- Cavalry Northern Virginia: Wade Hampton
- Valley District: Jubal Anderson Early
- Army of the Valley (II Corps Northern Virginia): Jubal Anderson Early
- I Corps Valley: Robert Emmett Rodes
- II Corps Valley: John Cabell Breckinridge
- Army of the Valley (II Corps Northern Virginia): Jubal Anderson Early
Department of Richmond: Richard Stoddert Ewell
Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida: Samuel Jones
- District of Georgia: Henry Rootes Jackson
- District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
- 1st Sub-District of South Carolina: Nathan George Evans
- 2nd Sub-District of South Carolina: Beverley Holcombe Robertson
- 3rd Sub-District of South Carolina: Lafayette McLaws
- 4th Sub-District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
- 6th Sub-District of South Carolina: Henry Alexander Wise
- 7th Sub-District of South Carolina: William Booth Taliaferro
- District of Florida: James Patton Anderson
- Defences of Savannah: Lafayette McLaws
Department of Tennessee: John Bell Hood
- District of Western North Carolina: James Green Martin
- Army of Tennessee: John Bell Hood
- I Corps Tennessee: William Joseph Hardee
- II Corps Tennessee: Stephen Dill Lee
- III Corps Tennessee: Benjamin Franklin Cheatham temporary
- Cavalry Corps Tennessee: Joseph Wheeler
Trans-Allegheny Department: John Hunt Morgan
Trans-Mississippi Department: Edmund Kirby Smith
- District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: John George Walker
- Western Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: Thomas Fenwick Drayton
- Sub-District of the Rio Grande: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
- Eastern Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: William Steele
- Sub-District of Houston: Xavier Blanchard Debray
- Northern Sub-District Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: Henry Eustace McCullough
- Western Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: Thomas Fenwick Drayton
- District of Arkansas: John Bankhead Magruder
- District of West Louisiana: Simon Bolivar Buckner
- District of Indian Territory: Douglas Hancock Cooper
- Trans-Mississippi Army: Edmund Kirby Smith
- I Corps Trans-Mississippi: Simon Bolivar Buckner
- II Corps Trans-Mississippi: John Bankhead Magruder
- III Corps Trans-Mississippi: John George Walker
- Cavalry Corps Trans-Mississippi: Sterling Price awaited
Reserve Forces of Alabama: Jones Mitchell Withers
Reserve Forces of Florida: John King Jackson
Reserve Forces of Georgia: Thomas Howell Cobb
Reserve Forces of Mississippi: William Lindsay Brandon
Reserve Forces of North Carolina: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
Reserve Forces of South Carolina: James Chesnut
Reserve Forces of Texas: Jerome Bonaparte Robertson
Reserve Forces of Virginia: James Lawson Kemper
Union Generals
Note: Italics, awaiting confirmation of the commission
Lieutenant-General USA
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Major-General USA
George Brinton McClellan
Henry Wager Halleck
William Tecumseh Sherman
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*
John Pope*
Samuel Ryan Curtis
Franz Sigel
John Alexander McClernand
Lewis Wallace
George Henry Thomas*
George Cadwalader
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Samuel Peter Heintzelman
Joseph Hooker*
Silas Casey
William Buel Franklin
Darius Nash Couch
Henry Warner Slocum
John James Peck
Alexander McDowell McCook
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
John Gray Foster
John Grubb Parke
Christopher Columbus Augur
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Gordon Granger
Lovell Harrison Rousseau
George Stoneman
George Gordon Meade*
Oliver Otis Howard
Daniel Edgar Sickles
Robert Huston Milroy
Daniel Butterfield
Winfield Scott Hancock*
George Sykes
David Sloane Stanley
James Scott Negley
John McAllister Schofield
John McAuley Palmer
Frederick Steele
Abner Doubleday
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana
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
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
David Bell Birney
Alfred Pleasonton
Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
Quincy Adams Gillmore
William Farrar Smith
James Blair Steedman
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
Horatio Gouverneur Wright
Andrew Jackson Smith
Grenville Mellen Dodge
John Gibbon
Peter Joseph Osterhaus
Joseph Antony Mower
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)
(George Henry Thomas)
(Winfield Scott Hancock)
Brigadier-General USV
Thomas West Sherman
Benjamin Franklin Kelley
Jacob Dolson Cox
Alpheus Starkey Williams
James Brewerton Ricketts
Orlando Bolivar Willcox
Henry Hayes Lockwood
George Webb Morell
John Henry Martindale
Samuel Davis Sturgis
Henry Washington Benham
William Farquhar Barry
Lawrence Pike Graham
Eleazar Arthur Paine
William Thomas Ward
John Gross Barnard
Innis Newton Palmer
Seth Williams
John Newton
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
Thomas Jefferson McKean
Zealous Bates Tower
Jefferson Columbus Davis
James Henry Lane
William Scott Ketchum
John Wynn Davidson
James Gallant Spears
Eugene Asa Carr
Thomas Alfred Davies
William Hemsley Emory
Marsena Rudolph Patrick
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
Robert Byington Mitchell
Cuvier Grover
Rufus Saxton
Benjamin Alvord
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
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
Erastus Barnard Tyler
Charles Griffin
George Henry Gordon
Julius White
Stephen Gano Burbridge
Washington Lafayette Elliott
Albion Parris Howe
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
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
Francis Barretto Spinola
Solomon Meredith
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
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
Richard Arnold
Edward Winslow Hinks
Michael Kelly Lawler
George Day Wagner
Lysander Cutler
Joseph Farmer Knipe
John Dunlap Stevenson
James Barnes
Edward Harland
Samuel Beatty
Isaac Jones Wistar
Franklin Stillman Nickerson
Edward Henry Hobson
Ralph Pomeroy Buckland
Joseph Dana Webster
William Harrow
William Hopkins Morris
Thomas Howard Ruger
Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom
Elias Smith Dennis
Thomas Church Haskell Smith
Mortimer Dormer Leggett
Davis Tillson
Hector Tyndale
Albert Lindley Lee
Marcellus Monroe Crocker
Egbert Benson Brown
John McNeil
George Francis McGinnis
Hugh Boyle Ewing
James Winning McMillan
Daniel Ullmann
George Jerrison Stannard
Henry Baxter
John Milton Thayer
Charles Thomas Campbell
Halbert Eleazer Paine
Robert Brown Potter
Thomas Ewing
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn
Henry Hastings Sibley
Joseph Bradford Carr
Joseph Jackson Bartlett
Patrick Edward Connor
John Parker Hawkins
Gabriel René Paul
Edward Augustus Wild
Adelbert Ames
William Birney
Daniel Henry Rucker
Robert Allen
Rufus Ingalls
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
Jasper Adalmorn Maltby
Thomas Kilby Smith
Walter Quintin Gresham
Manning Ferguson Force
Robert Alexander Cameron
John Murray Corse
John Aaron Rawlins
Alvan Cullem Gillem
John Wesley Turner
Henry Eugene Davies
Andrew Jackson Hamilton
Henry Warner Birge
James Hewitt Ledlie
James Harrison Wilson
Adin Ballou Underwood
Augustus Louis Chetlain
Thomas Francis Meagher
William Anderson Pile
John Wallace Fuller
John Franklin Miller
Philippe Régis Dénis de Keredern De Trobriand
Cyrus Bussey
Christopher Columbus Andrews
Hiram Burnham
Edward Moody McCook
Lewis Addison Grant
Edward Hatch
August Valentine Kautz
Francis Fessenden
John Rutter Brooke
John Frederick Hartranft
Samuel Sprigg Carroll
Simon Goodell Griffin
Emory Upton
Nelson Appleton Miles
Joseph Hayes
Byron Root Pierce
Selden Connor
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Elliott Warren Rice
William Francis Bartlett
Thomas Algeo Rowley
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg
Martin Davis Hardin
Charles Jackson Paine
Gustavus Adolphus De Russy
John Baillie McIntosh
George Henry Chapman
William Grose
Joseph Alexander Cooper
John Thomas Croxton
John Wilson Sprague
James William Reilly
Luther Prentice Bradley
Charles Carroll Walcutt
William Worth Belknap
Powell Clayton
Joseph Abel Haskin
James Deering Fessenden
Daniel Davidson Bidwell
Brigadier-General USA (Staff)
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (Quartermaster-General)
Lorenzo Thomas
William Alexander Hammond (Surgeon-General)
George Douglas Ramsay (Ordnance)
James Barnet Fry (Provost Marshal)
Richard Delafield (Engineers)
Joseph Holt (Judge Advocate-General)
Amos Beebe Eaton (Commissary-General of Subsistence)
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
Edmund Kirby Smith
John Bell Hood
Lieutenant-General PACS
James Longstreet
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
William Joseph Hardee
Richard Stoddert Ewell
Ambrose Powell Hill
Richard Taylor
Jubal Anderson Early
Richard Heron Anderson
Alexander Peter Stewart
Stephen Dill Lee
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
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
Joseph Wheeler
Edward Johnson
William Henry Chase Whiting
Robert Emmett Rodes
Henry Heth
Robert Ransom
Jones Mitchell Withers
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Wade Hampton
Fitzhugh Lee
Howell Cobb
John Austin Wharton
William Thompson Martin
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Charles William Field
James Patton Anderson
William Brimage Bate
Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac
Robert Frederick Hoke
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
James Fleming Fagan
John Brown Gordon
Joseph Brevard Kershaw
Bushrod Rust Johnson
Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Edward Cary Walthall
Henry Delamar Clayton
William Mahone
John Calvin Brown
Lunsford Lindsay Lomax
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
Raleigh Edward Colston
John King Jackson
George Wythe Randolph
James Ronald Chalmers
Daniel Leadbetter
William Whann Mackall
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
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
John Stuart Williams
James Green Martin
Thomas Lanier Clingman
Daniel Weisiger Adams
Louis Hébert
Ambrose Ransom Wright
James Lawson Kemper
James Jay Archer
Beverley Holcombe Robertson
St John Richardson Liddell
Johnson Hagood
Harry Thompson Hays
Matthew Duncan Ector
Edward Aylesworth Perry
John Gregg
Alfred Holt Colquitt
Abraham Buford
William Steele
Francis Asbury Shoup
Joseph Robert Davis
John Crawford Vaughn
Evander McIvor Law
Elkanah Brackin Greer
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls
Alfred Cumming
William Stephen Walker
Montgomery Dent Corse
George Thomas Anderson
Alfred Iverson
James Henry Lane
Edward Lloyd Thomas
John Rogers Cooke
Jerome Bonaparte Robertson
Evander McNair
Archibald Gracie
William Robertson Boggs
James Camp Tappan
Dandridge McRae
Mosby Monroe Parsons
John Pegram
John Sappington Marmaduke
John Hunt Morgan
Marcus Joseph Wright
Zachariah Cantey Deas
John Adams
William Hicks Jackson
James Cantey
Henry Lewis Benning
William Tatum Wofford
Samuel McGowan
Marcellus Augustus Stovall
George Blake Cosby
Francis Crawford Armstrong
William Lewis Cabell
John Daniel Imboden
Alfred Eugene Jackson
Robert Brank Vance
Arthur Middleton Manigault
Douglas Hancock Cooper
John Wilkins Whitfield
James Alexander Walker
Matthew Whitaker Ransom
Alfred Moore Scales
George Washington Custis Lee
Henry Harrison Walker
Gabriel Colvin Wharton
Francis Marion Cockrell
James Patrick Major
Samuel Wragg Ferguson
Laurence Simmons Baker
Otho French Strahl
Philip Dale Roddey
Eppa Hunton
Thomas Pleasant Dockery
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys
Henry Brevard Davidson
Cullen Andrews Battle
William Andrew Quarles
William Whedbee Kirkland
Goode Bryan
Matthew Calbraith Butler
Williams Carter Wickham
Robert Daniel Johnston
Alexander Welch Reynolds
Thomas Neville Waul
Edmund Winston Pettus
Armistead Lindsay Long
Henry Rootes Jackson
William Wirt Adams
Thomas Lafayette Rosser
Pierce Manning Butler Young
James Argyle Smith
Joseph Horace Lewis
Mark Perrin Lowrey
Edward Higgins
John Tyler Morgan
John Herbert Kelly
William Young Conn Humes
Jesse Johnson Finley
James Holt Clanton
Alfred Jefferson Vaughan
Joseph Orville Shelby
John Randolph Chambliss
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Daniel Chevilette Govan
Randall Lee Gibson
Nathaniel Harrison Harris
Allen Thomas
Alexander Travis Hawthorn
Robert Charles Tyler
Edward Porter Alexander
William Wirt Allen
Hiram Bronson Granbury
Claudius Wistar Sears
William Feimster Tucker
Richard Lucian Page
Alpheus Baker
Daniel Harris Reynolds
James Chesnut
Stand Watie
Samuel Jameson Gholson
John Bratton
Thomas Moore Scott
John McCausland
Clement Anselm Evans
William Terry
Bryan Grimes
Martin Witherspoon Gary
Birkett Davenport Fry
Stephen Elliott
William Ruffin Cox
William Gaston Lewis
Zebulon York
Robert Doak Lilley
John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders
William Richard Terry
James Conner
Rufus Clay Barringer
John Smith Preston
Hylan Benton Lyon
William Lindsay Brandon
Bradley Tyler Johnson
James Thadeus Holtzclaw
John Carpenter Carter
William Felix Brantley
Robert Houston Anderson
Jacob Hunter Sharp
George Doherty Johnston
George Gibbs Dibrell
Thomas Benton Smith
David Addison Weisiger
William Miller
Philip Cook
Richard Waterhouse
American Civil War High Command 