1864 June 2nd

June 2 1864 Thursday

Bethesda Church, VA

Atlanta Campaign – Dallas
Virginia Overland Campaign – Cold Harbor
Forrest’s Second Tennessee Raid
Sturgis’ Operation against Forrest
Morgan’s East Kentucky Raid

Arkansas. Union gunboats convoying transports on the western rivers continued to be harassed by Confederate field artillery sited along the banks. USS Louisville, Lieutenant-Commander Owen, sustained severe damage in an exchange at Columbia.

Florida. Incident at Camp Milton.

Georgia. Incidents at Raccoon Bottom, Marietta, and Ackworth.

Georgia. The Confederate raiders of Lieutenant Thomas P Pelot ventured out into Ossabaw Sound and spotted the USS Water Witch, which was lit up by flashes of lightning, and rowed silently toward her in an attempt to capture the ship.

Kentucky. Confederate Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan’s raiders passed through Pound Gap into Kentucky. Unknown to Morgan, the Union force of Brigadier-General Stephen Gano Burbridge had left Prestonburg and was marching rapidly towards Mount Sterling to head off the Confederate raiders.

Louisiana. Incident at Davis Bend.

Mississippi. A landing party from USS Cowslip, Acting Ensign Canfield, captured five sloops and one steam boiler, destroyed six large boats, four salt works, and three flatboats, during a raid up Biloxi Bay.

Mississippi. Confederate Colonel Colton Green engaged the Union steamers USS Adams and USS Monarch on the Mississippi River.

North Carolina. USS Victoria, Acting Master Alfred Everson, chased the blockade-running steamer Georgiana McCaw aground near Wilmington and destroyed her with large a cargo of provisions.

South Carolina. USS Wamsutta, Acting Master Charles W Lee, chased the blockade-running British steamer Rose aground at Pawley’s Island, with a small cargo including liquor, and destroyed her.

Tennessee. Union Brigadier-General Samuel Davis Sturgis’ column left Colliersville in heavy rain, heading for northern Mississippi.

Virginia. Operation at Bermuda Hundred ended.

Virginia. Skirmishes at Haw’s Shop, McClellan’s Bridge, McGee’s Mills, Salem Church, Sumner’s Upper Bridge, Barker’s Mills, Totopotomoy River, and Bermuda Hundred.

Bethesda Church, Virginia, also known as Cold Harbor. Although the attacks of the previous day had been unsuccessful, Union Major-General George Gordon Meade believed that an attack early in the day could succeed if he were able to mass sufficient forces against a weak point in Confederate General Robert Edward Lee’s line. Meade and Lieutenant-General Ulysses Simpson Grant decided to attack the enemy’s right flank around Cold Harbor. They knew that Confederate Lieutenant-General Richard Heron Anderson’s I Corps had been heavily engaged and seemed shaky. It was unlikely that Anderson’s men had found the time to build substantial defences. A successful attack would drive this Confederate right wing southwards into the Chickahominy River.
Meade ordered Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock’s II Corps to shift southeast overnight from Totopotomoy Creek and to assume a position to the left of Major-General Horatio Gouverneur Wright’s VI Corps. Once Hancock was in position, Meade would attack the Confederate right from Old Cold Harbor with three Union corps in line. This provided an attacking force of 31,000 men from Hancock’s II Corps, Major-General Horatio Gouverneur Wright’s VI Corps, and Major-General William Farrar Smith’s XVIII Corps. As he was convinced that Lee was moving troops from his left to fortify his right, Meade ordered Major-General Gouverneur Kemble Warren (V Corps) and Major-General Ambrose Everett Burnside (IX Corps) to attack Lee’s left flank in the morning, providing at least a diversion but perhaps also offering a prospect of success against a moving enemy.
Hancock’s II Corps reached Cold Harbor from Totopotomoy Creek at about 6.30 am but they were exhausted after a long overnight march. Grant agreed to let the men rest and postponed the attack until 5 pm. After Hancock departed from Totopotomoy Creek, Lee was free to shift the division of Major-General John Cabell Breckinridge to his far right flank, where he formed on Anderson’s right. Breckinridge and one of Hill’s divisions successfully drove a small Union force off Turkey Hill, which dominated the southern part of the field down to the Chickahominy. Lee also moved two divisions of Lieutenant-General Ambrose Powell Hill’s corps, under Brigadier-General William Mahone and Brigadier-General Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, beyond Breckinridge to fill the gap between Cold Harbor and the Chickahominy River. Lee also stationed cavalry under Major-General Fitzhugh Lee to guard the army’s right flank. The resulting line of defence now curved along a row of low ridges, five miles in length, with the left flank anchored on the swampy Totopotomoy Creek and the right on the impassable Chickahominy River, making any outflanking moves impossible. The entire Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were now concentrated on a five-mile front that extended from Bethesda Church to the Chickahominy.
On the northern end of the battlefield, Warren’s V Corps linked up with Burnside’s IX Corps near Bethesda Church. Confederate Lieutenant-General Jubal Anderson Early’s II Corps was joined by Major-General Henry Heth’s division (from Hill’s Corps) for a probing attack towards Bethesda Church. Burnside was advised to attack Early’s unprotected flank on Shady Grove Road, but he demurred. In the afternoon, the Confederate divisions of Major-General Robert Edward Rodes and Major-General John Brown Gordon attacked just as Burnside was withdrawing the XI Corps and his covering rear guard was driven back with the loss of many prisoners. The advance also surprised and captured some skirmishers from the exposed right flank of Warren’s V Corps. A counter-attack was launched with Brigadier-General Charles Griffin’s Union division (2/V) which had already assembled at Bethesda Church for its southward march. They forced Rodes back to his starting point. Heth’s Confederate division struck Brigadier-General Thomas Greely Stevenson’s division of IX Corps, but it held out until divisions under Brigadier-General Orlando Bolivar Willcox and Brigadier-General Robert Brown Potter (also from IX Corps) were deployed to block the advance. Confederate Brigadier-General George Pierce Doles was killed by a sharpshooter in the fighting near Bethesda Church. The fighting subsided and Heth’s division and Early’s three attacking divisions entrenched for the night along Shady Grove Church Road.
Grant’s main attack had already been postponed until 5 pm and it was now postponed once again as heavy rain started in the afternoon and continued through the night, ending a day of unbearably hot temperatures. The Union attack was rescheduled for dawn so that the troops could rest and feed well for what promised to be the decisive attack of the campaign. Grant had drawn every available Confederate soldier onto his front, in a position just ten miles from Richmond that they could not dare to yield, and Grant felt confident that a single massive hammer blow would finally shatter its deteriorating morale. Neither Grant nor Meade gave any specific orders for the next morning’s attack, leaving it to the Corps commanders to choose their objectives and to coordinate with each other. The only guidance was that the main blow should fall on the left flank. No senior commander had managed to reconnoitre the Confederate positions in detail. Smith and Wright conferred and each concluded that there was no practical plan of attack available except to go forward in a mass and hope to carry the defence by weight of numbers and momentum.
Certain that a major attack was imminent, Lee took advantage of the delays to strengthen his line by calling forward every available man he could scrape together. His engineers used their time to construct some of the most ingenious temporary defences the war had yet witnessed. Experience throughout the summer accelerated their understanding, techniques, and speed, in producing impregnable earthworks in minimal time. Barricades of earth and logs were erected. Artillery was posted with converging fields of fire on every avenue of approach, and range stakes were driven into the ground to improve accuracy. Lines were built to zigzag intricately, with reserve lines and other lines protecting flanks and offering enfilades. At the same time, every contrivance was used to hide the strength of the defences so that the Union army was not deterred completely from making an assault. Heavy skirmish lines suppressed the Union’s ability to determine the full strength or exact locations of the Confederate entrenchments. Skirmishing continued throughout the night with little consequence for the fighting to come. The Confederates now had 60,000 men in a single connected and fortified line, confident of secure flanks, facing five Union corps numbering 110,000 men.

West Virginia. Skirmish at Covington.

Union Organisation

USA: The District of Northern Alabama was established in the Department of the Cumberland, comprising the vicinity of Decatur, Huntsville and Stevenson, Alabama, and Pulaski in Tennessee.
USA: Brigadier-General Robert Seaman Granger assumed command of the District of Northern Alabama.

USA: Brigadier-General Benjamin Henry Grierson assumed command of the District of West Tennessee, succeeding Brigadier-General Cadwallader Colden Washburn.

USA: Brigadier-General John Porter Hatch assumed command of the District of Hilton Head, succeeding Brigadier-General William Birney.

USA: Brigadier-General William Birney assumed command of the District of Florida, succeeding Brigadier-General George Henry Gordon.

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
- 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

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: Fitz-Henry Warren
- District of Port Hudson: Daniel Ullmann
- District of La Fourche: John McNeil
- District of Morganza: William Hemsley Emory
- 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: Joseph Jones Reynolds
- Army of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
  - XIII Corps Gulf: William Plummer Benton
  - XIX Corps Gulf: William Hemsley Emory
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 the Humboldt: Henry M Black
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

Department of Virginia and North Carolina: Benjamin Franklin Butler

District of St Mary’s: Alonzo Granville Draper
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: James Jourdan
- Sub-District of New Bern: Edward Harland
Army of the James: Benjamin Franklin Butler
- X Corps James: Quincy Adams Gillmore
- XVIII Corps James: William Farrar Smith

Department of Washington: Christopher Columbus Augur

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: Franz Sigel
Army of the Kanawha: George Crook
Army of the Shenandoah: David Hunter

Confederate Organisation

CSA: The First District of the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia was extended to include the area between the James and Roanoke Rivers including the north side of the James River at Richmond.

CSA: William Ruffin Cox confirmed Brigadier-General PACS (Special) 2 June 1864 to rank from 31 May 1864.

CSA: Thomas Fentress Toon confirmed Brigadier-General PACS (Special) 2 June 1864 to rank from 31 May 1864.

CSA: William Gaston Lewis confirmed Brigadier-General PACS (Special) 2 June 1864 to rank from 31 May 1864.

CSA: Zebulon York confirmed Brigadier-General PACS (Special) 2 June 1864 to rank from 31 May 1864.

CSA: Robert Doak Lilley confirmed Brigadier-General PACS (Special) 2 June 1864 to rank from 31 May 1864.

CSA: Brigadier-General George Pierce Doles was killed at Bethesda Church, Virginia.

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: John Henry Winder
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
- II Corps Northern Virginia: Jubal Anderson Early temporary
- III Corps Northern Virginia: Ambrose Powell Hill
- Cavalry Northern Virginia: Wade Hampton
Valley District: Jubal Anderson Early

Department of Richmond: Robert Ransom

Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida: Samuel Jones

District of Georgia: Hugh Weedon Mercer interim Henry Rootes Jackson awaited
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: Thomas Jordan
- 4^th Sub-District of South Carolina: James Heyward Trapier
- 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: 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: Leonidas Polk
- Cavalry Corps Tennessee: Joseph Wheeler

Trans-Allegheny Department: George Bibb Crittenden temporary

Trans-Mississippi Department: Edmund Kirby Smith

District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: John Bankhead Magruder
- Western Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
  - Sub-District of the Rio Grande: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
- Eastern Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: William Steele
- Sub-District of Houston: Xavier Blanchard Debray
- Northern Sub-District Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: Henry Eustace McCullough
District of Arkansas: Sterling Price
District of West Louisiana: Richard Taylor
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 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
John Charles Frémont
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

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
John Joseph Abercrombie
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
Grenville Mellen Dodge
Robert Byington Mitchell
Cuvier Grover
Rufus Saxton
Benjamin Alvord
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
William Sooy Smith
Nathan Kimball
Charles Devens
Samuel Wylie Crawford
Henry Walton Wessells
Milo Smith Hascall
John White Geary
Alfred Howe Terry
James Henry Carleton
Absalom Baird
John Cleveland Robinson
Truman Seymour
Henry Prince
Maximilian Weber
Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan
Alvin Peterson Hovey
James Clifford Veatch
William Plummer Benton
John Curtis Caldwell
Neal Dow
George Sears Greene
Samuel Powhatan Carter
John Gibbon
Erastus Barnard Tyler
Charles Griffin
George Henry Gordon
James Madison Tuttle
Julius White
Peter Joseph Osterhaus
Stephen Gano Burbridge
Washington Lafayette Elliott
Albion Parris Howe
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
Gustavus Adolphus De Russy
Alexander Shaler
Benjamin Henry Grierson
Robert Sanford Foster
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Alexander Stewart Webb
Alfred Napoleon Alexander Duffié
Walter Chiles Whitaker
Wesley Merritt
George Armstrong Custer
William Denison Whipple
John Converse Starkweather
Kenner Garrard
Charles Robert Woods
John Benjamin Sanborn
Giles Alexander Smith
Samuel Allen Rice
Jasper Adalmorn Maltby
Thomas Kilby Smith
Walter Quintin Gresham
Manning Ferguson Force
Robert Alexander Cameron
John Murray Corse
John Aaron Rawlins
Alvan Cullem Gillem
John Wesley Turner
Henry Lawrence Eustis
Henry Eugene Davies
Andrew Jackson Hamilton
Henry Warner Birge
Charles Garrison Harker
James Hewitt Ledlie
James Harrison Wilson
Adin Ballou Underwood
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

Brigadier-General USA (Staff)

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (Quartermaster-General)
Lorenzo Thomas
William Alexander Hammond (Surgeon-General)
Joseph Pannell Taylor (Commissary-General of Subsistence
George Douglas Ramsay (Ordnance)
James Barnet Fry (Provost Marshal)
Richard Delafield (Engineers)

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
Leonidas Polk
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
William Joseph Hardee
Richard Stoddert Ewell
Ambrose Powell Hill
John Bell Hood
Richard Taylor
Jubal Anderson Early
Richard Heron Anderson

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
Alexander Peter Stewart
Jones Mitchell Withers
Stephen Dill Lee
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

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
William Mahone
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
John Calvin Brown
Alfred Holt Colquitt
Abraham Buford
William Steele
Francis Asbury Shoup
Joseph Robert Davis
William Edmondson Jones
John Crawford Vaughn
Evander McIvor Law
Elkanah Brackin Greer
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls
Alfred Cumming
William Stephen Walker
George Pierce Doles KIA
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
Lucius Eugene Polk
Edward Cary Walthall
John Adams
William Hicks Jackson
James Cantey
Henry Lewis Benning
William Tatum Wofford
Samuel McGowan
Marcellus Augustus Stovall
George Blake Cosby
Francis Crawford Armstrong
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