1864 August 18th

August 18 1864 Thursday

Battle of Globe Tavern, VA
Fussell’s Mill, VA

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
Kilpatrick’s Georgia Raid

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Canada. The Confederate commerce raider CSS Tallahassee, Commander John Taylor Wood, put into Halifax, Nova Scotia, to refuel with coal. US Consul Mortimer M Jackson protested to Lieutenant Governor Richard G MacDonnell but was informed that it was not possible under international law to detain CSS Tallahassee. USS Pontoosuc, Lieutenant-Commander George A Stevens, which had put into Eastport, Maine, the preceding day, was ordered to steam to Nova Scotia without delay to impose a blockade. Meanwhile, Consul Jackson protested the sale of coal for the cruiser. In accordance with international law, the British authorities allowed the ship twenty-four hours to re-supply and then gave an extension of a further twelve hours to fix a broken mast. The ship was only permitted to load enough coal to take her to the nearest Confederate port. Wood believed two Union warships, the USS Nansemond and USS Huron, were waiting for the CSS Tallahassee off the harbour entrance. Being unable to procure enough coal to continue his raiding cruise, Wood decided to return to Wilmington, North Carolina. Wood hired a legendary Halifax pilot John “Jock” Flemming, to guide the warship through the narrow and shallow Eastern Passage between Dartmouth and Lawlor Island, a route suitable only for small fishing vessels. CSS Tallahassee succeeded in negotiating the passage out of the Halifax harbour, and found that no Union warships were, in fact, waiting out at sea. The first Union warship, the gunboat USS Pontoosuc, only arrived at the harbour entrance several hours after the Confederate cruiser had departed. CSS Tallahassee arrived safely at Wilmington on 26 August 1864.

USA. Union Major-General George Gordon Meade was promoted to Major-General in the US Regular Army. This permitted him to obtain the necessary seniority to retain command of the Army of the Potomac and to outrank Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler of the Army of the James. He became the fifth-ranking officer in the US Regular Army.

Alabama. Skirmish near Antioch Church.

Arkansas. Skirmish at Benton

Arkansas. Skirmish at Pine Bluff

Arkansas. Incidents at Fayetteville and Richland Creek.

Georgia. Skirmish at Camp Creek.

Georgia. Incident at Fairmount.

Georgia. Undeterred by the activities of Confederate Major-General Joseph Wheeler, who was raiding Union supply lines from northern Georgia to eastern Tennessee, Union Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman ordered Brigadier-General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick to lead his cavalry division on a raid on the Confederate supply lines south of Atlanta. Sherman reinforced Kilpatrick with two brigades from Brigadier-General Kenner Garrard’s cavalry division. Kilpatrick left Sandtown and aimed for Lovejoy’s Station on the Atlanta & West Point Railroad near Jonesboro.

Kansas. Incident at Smoky Hill Crossing.

Kentucky. Skirmish at Geiger’s Lake.

Louisiana. Confederate Lieutenant-General Richard Taylor confirmed the impossibility of crossing the Mississippi River with large bodies of troops. Observations of the enemy’s gunboats and patrols between the Red River and Vicksburg revealed no gaps in the vigilant guard.

Mississippi. Incident at Hurricane Creek.

Mississippi. Union Major-General Andrew Jackson Smith resumed his march along the Mississippi Central Railroad southwards from the Tallahatchie River. Confederate Major-General Nathan Bedford Forrest was ahead of him, looking for an opportunity to strike. Forrest had consolidated his command and selected the best and fittest men from two brigades to provide a powerful striking force of 2,000 troopers and two guns. These headed west towards Panola through heavy rain. Forrest’s remaining 3,000 men were left at Oxford with Confederate Brigadier-General James Ronald Chalmers, with orders to resist and delay the Union advance, despite being outnumbered by six to one.

Missouri. Expedition to Independence, Jackson County, and Lafayette County ended.

Missouri. Incident at Columbia.

Tennessee. Skirmish at Charleston.

Tennessee. Confederate Major-General Joseph Wheeler’s raiders had destroyed the railroad track leading from Dalton, Georgia, towards Loudon. He was blocked by high water on the Tennessee River near Loudon and made a wide detour past Knoxville to cross the river above the town. Two brigades were detached to wreck the bridges over the Holston River at Strawberry Plains. Wheeler’s other brigades were led west to destroy the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad west of McMinnville. On the way, more railroad tracks were torn up along the Nashville & Decatur Railroad around Franklin.

Texas. Incident at Clarksville.

Virginia. Incidents at Bailey’s Creek, Berryville, Charles City Cross Roads, Deep Bottom, Deep Run or Deep Creek, Dutch Gap, Front Royal, Guard Hill, Malvern Hill, Massanutten Mountain, New Market Road, Strasburg, White Oak Swamp, White’s Tavern, and Strawberry Plains.

Virginia. Skirmish at Opequon Creek.

Fussell’s Mill, Virginia. The Confederates attacked around Fussell’s Mill at about 5 pm. Union Brigadier-General Nelson Appleton Miles’ 1^st Division of II Corps counter-attacked the Confederates’ northern flank and drove them back with heavy losses.

Globe Tavern, Virginia, also known as the Second Battle of Weldon, Weldon Railroad, Yellow Tavern, Yellow House, Six Mile House or Blick’s Station. One of the critical supply lines for the Confederate forces at Petersburg and Richmond was the Weldon Railroad, known more properly as the Petersburg & Weldon Railroad. It led south to Weldon, North Carolina, from where it connected to the Confederacy’s only open port of Wilmington. Union Lieutenant-General Ulysses Simpson Grant proposed to send a strong force to destroy the railroad and sever the line of communications. The operation was also intended to prevent the transfer of further Confederate troops to the Shenandoah Valley. This advance was supported by diversionary operations conducted north of the James River by Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock with parts of II Corps and X Corps.
The advance to the Weldon Railroad was carried out by V Corps, supported by a part of IX Corps. Brigadier-General Gershom Mott’s division (3/II) was extracted from the diversionary operation north of the James River and marched overnight to extend the main Union line at the Weldon Railroad. A small cavalry division commanded by Brigadier-General August Valentine Kautz scouted ahead and screened the march. The overall command of the operation was given to Major-General Gouverneur Kemble Warren of V Corps.
The Confederate commander, General Robert Edward Lee, was observing the battle north of the James River at Deep Bottom while General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was the senior local commander on the Petersburg front. Confederate Lieutenant-General Ambrose Powell Hill commanded Beauregard’s primary infantry force, in the form of his III Corps. Lee echoed the movement of Mott’s Union vision by transferring Major-General William Mahone’s division from north of the Potomac towards the threatened area.
Warren’s V Corps advanced towards the Weldon Railroad at Globe Tavern at around 4 am, where he planned to destroy the tracks as far south as possible. Union Colonel Samuel Perkins Spear’s cavalry brigade made a reconnaissance in force to discover any enemy weak spots. Opposed only by Confederate Brigadier-General James Dearing’s small cavalry brigade, Warren marched in rain along muddy roads and drove back the enemy pickets to reach the railroad at Globe Tavern at about 9 am. Union Brigadier-General Charles Griffin’s division (1/V) was deployed west of the tracks and started to dismantle it. Brigadier-General Romeyn Beck Ayres’ division (2/V) moved a mile further north along the railroad, and Brigadier-General Samuel Wylie Crawford’s division (3/V) formed on the east side of the tracks. One of Ayres’ brigades deployed in line of battle to oppose any Confederate advance from the north. Brigadier-General Lysander Cutler’s division (4/V) was held in reserve.
The weather was oppressively hot and humid, the terrain was densely wooded, and visibility was very restricted. Between 1 pm and 2 pm, Confederate Major-General Henry Heth’s division attacked, driving back Colonel N T Dushane’s brigade of Ayres’ division (2/2/V). Ayres pulled in his flank to avoid envelopment, and then fought back as Crawford’s division advanced in an outflanking move around Ayres’ right. Two Confederates brigades from Heth’s division and a brigade from Major-General Robert Frederick Hoke’s division moved to oppose the advancing Union divisions. At about 2 pm, they launched a strong attack and drove the Union troops back again to within less than a mile of Globe Tavern. Warren counterattacked in turn and regained some of his lost ground and then entrenched for the night. Union reinforcements arrived during the night. These came from the Union IX Corps under Major-General John Grubb Parke, which was released from the trenches around Petersburg as parts of II Corps returned from their diversion at Deep Bottom. On the Confederate side, Major-General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry division and three infantry brigades from Mahone’s division also arrived overnight. Union losses were about 936 in this action and Confederate losses are unknown.

UNION ORDER OF BATTLE: GLOBE TAVERN, VA

Union Department of the Potomac: Major-General George Gordon Meade
Army of the Potomac: Major-General George Gordon Meade
V Corps (Potomac): Major-General Gouverneur Kemble Warren
1st Division, V Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Charles Griffin
1st Brigade, 1st Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel William Stowell Tilton
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel Edgar M Gregory
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel James Gwyn
2nd Division, V Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Romeyn Beck Ayres
1st Brigade, 2^nd Division, V Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Joseph Hayes, Colonel F Winthrope
2nd Brigade, 2^nd Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel N T Dushane
3rd Brigade, 2^nd Division, V Corps (Potomac): Lieutenant-Colonel M Wiedrich
3rd Division, V Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Samuel Wylie Crawford
1st Brigade, 3^rd Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel Peter Lyle
2nd Brigade, 3^rd Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel R Coulter
3rd Brigade, 3^rd Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel William Ross Hartshorne
4th Division, V Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Lysander Cutler
1st Brigade, 4^th Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel Edward Stuyvesant Bragg
2nd Brigade, 4^th Division, V Corps (Potomac): Colonel John William Hofmann
IX Corps (Potomac): Major-General John Grubb Parke
1st Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Julius White
1st Brigade, 1^st Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Colonel J H Barnes
2nd Brigade, 1^st Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Lieutenant-Colonel G P Robinson
2nd Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Robert Brown Potter
1st Brigade, 2^nd Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Colonel Z R Bliss
2nd Brigade, 2^nd Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Colonel Simon Goodell Griffin
3rd Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General Orlando Bolivar Willcox
1st Brigade, 3^rd Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General John Frederick Hartranft
2nd Brigade, 3^rd Division, IX Corps (Potomac): Colonel William Humphrey
Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General David McMurtrie Gregg
2^nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General David McMurtrie
Gregg
1st Brigade, 2^nd Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Colonel William Stedman
Kautz’s Division, Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General August Valentin Kautz
2nd Brigade, Kautz’s Division, Cavalry Corps (Potomac): Colonel Samuel Perkins Spear

Union Organisation

USA: The southern border of the District of Southwest Missouri was redefined as the Missouri-Arkansas state line.

USA: The District of Brandywine was discontinued.

USA: Brigadier-General USA William Alexander Hammond, Surgeon-General, was dismissed after a court-martial. He was reinstated after a review of the case in 1879.

USA: Colonel Joseph K Barnes was appointed Surgeon-General, succeeding Brigadier-General William Alexander Hammond.

USA: George Gordon Meade promoted Major-General USA 26 November 1864 to rank from 18 August 1864.

USA: Eli Long promoted Brigadier-General USV 18 August 1864.

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

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: vacant
  • 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
• 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 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: John Dunlap Stevenson
  • 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: John Grubb Parke temporary
  • 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, Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana: Dabney Herndon Maury interim Richard Taylor awaited

• District of Mississippi and East Louisiana: St John Richardson Liddell interim George Baird Hodge awaited
• Gulf District: Dabney Herndon Maury
• 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

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
  • 1^st Sub-District of South Carolina: Nathan George Evans
  • 2^nd Sub-District of South Carolina: Beverley Holcombe Robertson
  • 3^rd Sub-District of South Carolina: Lafayette McLaws
  • 4^th Sub-District of South Carolina: Roswell Sabine Ripley
  • 6^th Sub-District of South Carolina: Henry Alexander Wise
  • 7^th Sub-District of South Carolina: William Booth Taliaferro
• District of Florida: James Patton Anderson
• Defences of Savannah: Lafayette McLaws

Department of Tennessee and Georgia: 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: Alexander Peter Stewart 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
• 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
George Gordon Meade

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
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 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
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
Eli Long

Brigadier-General USA (Staff)

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (Quartermaster-General)
Lorenzo Thomas
William Alexander Hammond (Surgeon-General) DIS
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
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
William Hugh Young
George Washington Gordon
Richard Waterhouse