July 9 1864 Saturday
Battle of Monocacy, MD (CWSAC Major Battle – Confederate Victory)
Atlanta Campaign – Chattahoochee River
Siege of Petersburg
Early’s Washington Raid
A J Smith’s Tupelo Expedition
Jackson Expedition
Rousseau’s Alabama Raid
Alabama. Union Brigadier-General Lovell Harrison Rousseau left Decatur with 2,500 cavalrymen to destroy the West Point & Montgomery Railroad between Montgomery and Columbus, Georgia. His command was drawn from the 3rd Cavalry Division of Brigadier-General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, which was based around Chattanooga.
Georgia. Incidents at Nickajack Creek and Vining Station.
Georgia. Two Confederate Congressmen, sent by President Jefferson Finis Davis to impress his strategic views on General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, arrived at Johnston’s headquarters on the north bank of the Chattahoochee River. Johnston explained his circumstances and indicated that he could only hope to defeat his much stronger opponent by cutting the enemy’s communications or by taking the opportunity to attack some large portion of the Union force in isolation. The Congressmen demanded more decisive aggressive action in terms that Johnston found disparaging. Johnston insisted that his only prospect of success would be if he could attack the much larger Union army in detail, and only when such an opportunity were to arise. News that the Union army had crossed the Chattahoochee at Soap Creek seemed to offer such an opportunity, but the delegates were disappointed to hear, after their departure, that Johnston had not launched an attack but ordered yet another retreat to Peachtree Creek. As a further spur to aggressive action, Confederate General Braxton Bragg left Richmond, Virginia, to inspect Johnston’s army again, arriving on 12 July. His more specific mission was to assess Johnston’s suitability to continue in command.
Georgia. Major-General John McAllister’s Union Army of the Ohio completed its pontoon bridge at Soap Creek by dawn and increased the bridgehead over the Chattahoochee River to a strength of two divisions. Union Brigadier-General Kenner Garrard’s cavalry crossed the Chattahoochee further upstream at Roswell with support from the XVI Corps and the 2nd Division of IV Corps. Having captured the damaged pontoon bridge at Pace’s Ferry the Union army had successfully gained three crossings over the Chattahoochee River. Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston was forced to evacuate his lines north of the Chattahoochee to avoid being outflanked from south of the river. The Confederate Army of Tennessee abandoned its powerful defences and crossed to the south bank of the Chattahoochee, destroying six pontoon bridges and a railroad bridge behind them. They occupied the defensive lines prepared previously along Peachtree Creek for this eventuality.
Louisiana. Incident at Cross Bayou.
Maryland. Skirmish at Urbana.
Maryland. Incident at Rockville.
Maryland. Confederate Major John Tyler, Assistant Adjutant General, reported to Lieutenant-General Jubal Anderson Early in a secret despatch that a naval force and undercover agents were plotting to liberate 17,000 Confederate prisoners of war at Point Lookout on the Chesapeake Bay. The plan was for Lieutenant-General Jubal Anderson Early to seize Baltimore first and to hold it with his infantry while his cavalry proceeded to Point Lookout to liberate almost 30,000 prisoners held there. Early gave instructions to Brigadier-General Bradley Tyler Johnson to take his cavalry brigade on the audacious raid into eastern Maryland. Johnson was ordered to cut the telegraph wires and to pass north and south of Baltimore in order to be at Point Lookout by the night of 12 July and to be ready to support the jail break. Ambitious plans for the escape included the acquisition of arms from various Federal armouries and installations en route so that the released prisoners could march under arms to join Early’s army west of Washington. In the meantime, Confederate Naval Captain John Taylor Wood would proceed from Wilmington with five gunboats carrying 10,000 stand of arms to arm the liberated soldiers. Success in tjhis audacious project would lead to the capture of Washington, DC. Rumours of this astonishing plan reached Union Lieutenant Stuyvesant aboard USS Minnesota on 18 July and he warned that Wood was reported to have already left Richmond with 800 volunteers on 7 July. The plan caused concern among the Union authorities, but Confederate President Jefferson Finis Davis had already advised against making the attempt on 10 July. Wood reported that he was ready to run the blockade out of Wilmington on 9 July but Davis objected that the secret plan was so widely known that it must now be abandoned.
Monocacy, Maryland, also known as Monocacy River, Monocacy Junction, or “The Battle that Saved Washington”. A makeshift Union force attempted to arrest the invading divisions of Confederate Lieutenant-General Jubal Anderson Early at the Monocacy River, southeast of Frederick. The combined Union forces of Major-General Lewis Wallace from the Washington defences and Major-General James Brewerton Ricketts (two brigades from 3rd Division of VI Corps), numbered about 5,800 men. They were positioned to guard the bridges and fords of the Monocacy River where the generally higher elevation of the river’s east bank formed a natural defence. Brigadier-General Erastus Barnard Tyler’s brigade occupied two blockhouses and trenches that the soldiers had dug with a few available tools near the bridges. Ricketts’ division occupied the Thomas and Worthington farms on the Union left, using the fences as breastworks.
Early detected the Union defenders in position along the Monocacy River at about 8 am, soon after they had been reinforced by Ricketts’ division. Confederate Major-General Stephen Dodson Ramseur’s division encountered Wallace’s troops on the Georgetown Pike near the Best Farm and Major-General Robert Emmett Rodes’ division clashed with the Union forces on the National Road. Prisoners told the Confederates that the entire VI Corps was present. This warning heightened the Confederates’ caution and they did not initially press their numerical advantage.
At about noon, believing that it would be too costly to attempt a frontal attack across the Monocacy, Early sent Brigadier-General John McCausland’s cavalry brigade down the Buckeystown Road to find a ford and to outflank the Union line. McCausland forded the Monocacy half a mile south of the main Washington road at the McKinney-Worthington Ford and attacked Wallace’s left flank. They believed that they had outflanked the Union positions, and were misled by the rolling terrain which prevented them from seeing Ricketts’ veterans in position at a fence separating the Worthington and Thomas farms. Consequently, the Union line was able to fire a volley that surprised and panicked the Confederates. McCausland was able to rally his brigade and launched another attack but was unable to break the Union defence. When it became apparent that the cavalry alone would not be able to break the Union flank, they were recalled over the river.
Early then sent Major-General John Brown Gordon’s division across the ford to renew the attack while Rodes and Ramseur demonstrated to the front of the Union position. Gordon’s division followed McCausland’s route and launched a three-pronged attack against Ricketts’ centre and both flanks. The attack drove the defenders from two positions and then across fences and fields of grain stacks. Gordon was preparing to assault a third line when Union troops were seen rushing to occupy a fence-line midway between the contenders. The Confederates charged without orders and reached the obstacle first, routing their assailants. Ricketts’ regiments on his right flank were pushed back and allowed the Confederates to enfilade the rest of the Union line. Ramseur’s Confederate division crossed the river by the iron railroad bridge while Rodes’ division crossed two miles further upstream onto the Baltimore Pike. Confederate Major-General John Cabell Breckinridge crossed in support of Ramseur.
Despite being outflanked, and now finding enemy troops crossing the river in their front, the makeshift Union troops put up stiff but brief resistance. Due to growing pressure from Ramseur’s attack, Wallace was unable to reinforce Ricketts. The entire Union line was soon rendered untenable and Wallace ordered a retreat towards Baltimore, with his infantry of Tyler’s brigade and the cavalry acting as a rear guard. By late afternoon, the Union forces were in full retreat toward Baltimore. Wallace’s resistance had bought time for more veteran troops to be sent to bolster the defences of Washington and Monocacy became known as the “Battle that Saved Washington.”
Early did not pursue vigorously as he was already overburdened with prisoners. He turned southeast towards Washington, declining to march towards Point of Rocks where he could re-cross the Potomac into comparative safety in Virginia. He believed that continuing his demonstration towards the US capital would achieve more than a retreat. This was the most northerly Confederate victory of the war.
The Union army lost between 1,294 and 1,880 men out of 6,050 engaged, including 1,188 men missing. The Confederates lost between 700 and 900 of their 14,000 men. (CWSAC Major Battle – Confederate Victory)
UNION ORDER OF BATTLE: MONOCACY, MD
Union Middle Department: Major-General Lewis Wallace
District of Delaware: Brigadier-General John Reese Kenly
District of the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Brigadier-General Henry Hayes Lockwood
VIII Corps (Middle): Major-General Lewis Wallace
1st Separate Brigade, VIII Corps (Middle): Brigadier-General Erastus Barnard Tyler
VI Army Corps (Potomac): Major-General Horatio Gouverneur Wright
3rd Division, VI Army Corps (Potomac): Brigadier-General James Brewerton Ricketts
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, VI Army Corps (Potomac): Colonel William Snyder Truex
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, VI Army Corps (Potomac): Colonel Matthew Robert McClennan
Mississippi. Incident at King’s Creek.
Mississippi. Union Major-General Henry Warner Slocum returned to Vicksburg with the Red River division (1/XVII), after his expedition to Jackson.
Missouri. Union operation against Confederate guerrillas around Wellington began.
South Carolina. Operation at Pringle Battery ended.
South Carolina. Skirmish at Burden’s Causeway on John’s Island.
South Carolina. USS Gettysburg, Acting Master William M Gloin, captured the blockade running steamer Little Ada off Cape Romain with a cargo of pig lead and potash, after a lengthy chase.
Tennessee. Reconnaissance to English Cove ended.
Virginia. CSS Florida, Lieutenant Charles M Morris, captured and burned the bark Greenland, with a cargo of coal, and the schooner Margaret Y Davis, in ballast, off Cape Henry.
Virginia. Hearing of the Confederate incursion into Maryland, Union Lieutenant-General Ulysses Simpson Grant embarked the remainder of the VI Corps (Potomac) on transports at City Point, sending the veteran troops with all dispatch to Washington, DC. The two divisions would join Brigadier-General James Brewerton Ricketts’ 3rd Division which was already engaged against the Confederate invaders at Monocacy, Maryland. Major-General Horatio Gouverneur Wright retained command of VI Corps and continued to report officially to the Army of the Potomac until it joined a new Army of the Shenandoah to be formed on 8 August 1864.
Virginia. Union Lieutenant-General Ulysses Simpson Grant diverted the two divisions of the Union XIX Corps which were ready to arrive in Virginia from the Gulf of Mexico. The transport ships were turned away from landing at Fortress Monroe and they continued north towards Baltimore, Maryland.
Virginia. The “Dictator”, a huge 13-inch seacoast mortar mounted on a reinforced railroad car, was brought into action by the Union forces besieging Petersburg. Under the direction of Lieutenant Henry Larcom Abbot, it was served by Company G, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. It was stationed on a curving section of track on the Petersburg and City Point Railroad, from where it was able to obtain a reasonable lateral adjustment of fire by changing its location along the line. It fired 45 rounds in all, 19 of them during the Battle of the Crater.
West Virginia. Union Lieutenant-General Ulysses Simpson Grant hoped that Major-General David Hunter might move from West Virginia to help in the defence of Washington, DC, but Hunter’s army was delayed by low water on the Ohio River.
Union Organisation
Commander in Chief: President Abraham Lincoln
Vice-President: Hannibal Hamlin
Secretary of War: Edwin McMasters Stanton
Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron: Samuel Phillips Lee
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron: John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren
West Gulf Blockading Squadron: David Glasgow Farragut
East Gulf Blockading Squadron: Theodorus Bailey
Pacific Squadron: John Berrien Montgomery
Mississippi River Squadron: David Dixon Porter
Potomac Flotilla: Andrew Allen Harwood
General–in-Chief: 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: Oliver Otis Howard
- XIV Corps Cumberland: John McAuley Palmer
- XX Corps Cumberland: Joseph Hooker
- 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: James Birdseye McPherson
- District of West Tennessee: Benjamin Henry Grierson
- Sub-District of Memphis: Ralph Pomeroy Buckland
- District of Vicksburg: Henry Warner Slocum
- Army of the Tennessee: James Birdseye McPherson
- 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: Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
- 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: William Plummer Benton
- District of Port Hudson: John McNeil
- 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
- Department of the Missouri: William Starke Rosecrans
- District of St Louis: vacant
- District of Southwest Missouri: John Benjamin Sanborn
- District of North Missouri: Clinton Bowen Fisk
- District of Central Missouri: Egbert Benson Brown
- District of Rolla: Odon Guitar
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 Border: William Russell Judson
- District of Colorado Territory: John Milton Chivington
Middle Department: Lewis Wallace
- District of Delaware: John Reese Kenly
- District of the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Henry Hayes Lockwood
- VIII Corps Middle: Lewis Wallace
Department of New Mexico: James Henry Carleton
- District of Arizona: George Washington Bowie
Northern Department: Samuel Peter Heintzelman
- 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
- VI Corps Potomac: Horatio Gouverneur Wright
- IX Corps Potomac: Ambrose Everett Burnside
- Cavalry Corps Potomac: Philip Henry Sheridan
Department of the South: John Gray Foster
- Northern District (South): Alexander Schimmelfennig
- District of Beaufort (SC): Rufus Saxton
- District of Hilton Head: John Porter Hatch
- District of Florida: William Birney
Department of the Susquehanna: Darius Nash Couch
- Lehigh District: Franz Sigel
- District of the Monongahela: Thomas Algeo Rowley
Department of Virginia and North Carolina: Benjamin Franklin Butler
- 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: William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks temporary
- XVIII Corps James: William Farrar Smith
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: David Hunter
- District of Harper’s Ferry: Albion Parris Howe
- Army of the Kanawha: George Crook
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: Stephen Dill Lee
- District of Mississippi and East Louisiana: John S Scott
- Gulf District: Dabney Herndon Maury
- District of Northern Alabama: Jones Mitchell Withers
- 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: Thomas Jordan
- 4th Sub-District of South Carolina: James Heyward Trapier
- 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: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- District of Western North Carolina: James Green Martin
- Army of Tennessee: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- I Corps Tennessee: William Joseph Hardee
- II Corps Tennessee: John Bell Hood
- III Corps Tennessee: William Wing Loring 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 Bankhead Magruder
- 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: Sterling Price
- District of West Louisiana: John George Walker
- District of Indian Territory: Samuel Bell Maxey
- Trans-Mississippi Army: Edmund Kirby Smith
Reserve Forces of Alabama: Jones Mitchell Withers
Reserve Forces of Florida: John King Jackson
Reserve Forces of Georgia: Thomas Howell Cobb
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
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
William Tecumseh Sherman*
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
James Birdseye McPherson*
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
Brigadier-General USA
Brackets indicates concurrently Major-General USV
(Irvin McDowell)
(William Starke Rosecrans)
Philip St George Cooke
(John Pope)
(Joseph Hooker)
(George Gordon Meade)
(William Tecumseh Sherman)
(James Birdseye McPherson)
(George Henry Thomas)
Brigadier-General USV
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
William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks
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
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
Erastus Barnard Tyler
Charles Griffin
George Henry Gordon
Julius White
Peter Joseph Osterhaus
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
John Henry Hobart Ward
Solomon Meredith
James Bowen
Eliakim Parker Scammon
Robert Seaman Granger
Joseph Rodman West
Alfred Washington Ellet
George Leonard Andrews
Clinton Bowen Fisk
William Hays
Israel Vogdes
David Allen Russell
Lewis Cass Hunt
Frank Wheaton
John Sanford Mason
David McMurtrie Gregg
Robert Ogden Tyler
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
Gilman Marston
William Dwight
Sullivan Amory Meredith
Nathaniel Collins McLean
William Vandever
Alexander Schimmelfennig
Charles Kinnaird Graham
John Eugene Smith
Joseph Tarr Copeland
Charles Adam Heckman
Edward Elmer Potter
Henry Beebee Carrington
John Haskell King
Adam Jacoby Slemmer
Thomas Hewson Neill
Thomas Gamble Pitcher
Thomas William Sweeny
William Passmore Carlin
Romeyn Beck Ayres
William Babcock Hazen
Joseph Anthony Mower
Richard Arnold
Edward Winslow Hinks
Michael Kelly Lawler
George Day Wagner
Lysander Cutler
Joseph Farmer Knipe
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
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
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
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
Lieutenant-General PACS
James Longstreet
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
William Joseph Hardee
Richard Stoddert Ewell
Ambrose Powell Hill
John Bell Hood
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
William Henry Talbot Walker
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
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
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