1864 May 28th

May 28 1864 Saturday

Battle of Dallas, GA (CWSAC Formative Battle Union Victory)
Battle of Haw’s Shop, VA (CWSAC Formative Battle Union Victory)

Atlanta Campaign – Dallas
Virginia Overland Campaign – Cold Harbor

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Mexico. Emperor Napoleon III of France had installed the puppet ruler Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico. Maximilian landed at Vera Cruz and joined 35,000 French troops already in the country with the promise of more to come. US President Lincoln decided to defer an active response to this defiance of the Monroe Doctrine, focusing his attention on “one war at a time”.

CSA. Confederate President Jefferson Finis Davis vetoed a proposal by Congress to appoint a permanent General Staff for armies in the field. Davis had objected to the creation of permanent staff assignments, preferring instead to transfer officers from line commands to staff posts on merit and by expediency. He wanted to avoid the creation of an independent staff corps with fixed numbers of officers and grades, including General Officers, so that line officers could transition into and out of staff posts without loss of grade or seniority,

Arkansas. Skirmish at Little Rock.

Arkansas. Skirmish at Washington.

California. Skirmish with Indians at Big Flat (or Big Hat).

Florida. Skirmish near Jacksonville.

Florida. USS Ariel, Acting Master James J Russell, captured the sloop General Finegan north of Chassahowitzka Bay. The blockade runner’s crew attempted to set the ship afire, but USS Ariel saved the cargo of cotton and turpentine before destroying the unseaworthy General Finegan.

Georgia. Incident at Mount Zion Church.

Georgia. Union Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman concluded that his flanking manoeuvre through Dallas and New Hope had failed. His line stretched for five miles from south of Dallas to northeast of Pickett’s Mills, but his supply lines back to the railroad north of Allatoona were now long and vulnerable. He began to move his army eastwards to be closer to the railroad. The destination of the infantry would be the station at Big Shanty, while his cavalry rode to occupy Allatoona Pass, which had been abandoned by the Confederates during their withdrawal to Pumpkin Vine Creek.

Dallas, Georgia, also known as Pumpkin Vine Creek. Following the fighting around Dallas, Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston held a council of war with his three Corps commanders. Confederate Lieutenant-General John Bell Hood proposed to pull his Corps out of the line overnight to deliver a dawn attack on the Union left beyond the division of Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne. The other two Corps would add their weight to the attack in succession, once they heard Hood’s artillery going into action. Johnston approved the plan.
Confederate Lieutenant-General William Joseph Hardee’s Corps probed the defences of the Union Army of the Tennessee around Dallas to find any signs of weakness or evidence of withdrawal. Fighting ensued at two different points but the Confederates of Major-General William Brimage Bates’ division were repulsed, suffering high casualties. The probes established that the Union army was still in force although, in fact, Union Major-General James Birdseye McPherson had already received orders to move out.
Meanwhile, Union Brigadier-General Daniel McCook’s brigade (3/2/XIV) captured a pass in the centre of the Confederate position and held it against night attacks made by Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk’s Corps. The Confederates lost about 400 to 600 men in the engagement and the Union half as many. In all the fighting around Dallas and New Hope Church, the Union reported losses of 2,400 men, of whom 703 were killed and 350 were captured. The Confederates lost about 3,000 men. The entire Georgia camping during May had so far cost 9,299 Union troops and about 8,500 Confederates in total. (CWSAC Formative Battle Union Victory)

Louisiana. Incident at Morganza Bend.

Louisiana. Confederates attacked the Pest House, a hospital facility opposite Port Hudson, where they destroyed medicines and captured the attending physician, and destroyed the telegraph wires and poles to Baton Rouge.

Missouri. Confederate guerrillas attacked and burned Lamar.

Missouri. Skirmish at Pleasant Hill.

Missouri. Skirmish at Warrensburg.

Texas. After a six-hour chase, USS Admiral, Lieutenant William B Eaton, captured the blockade-running steamer Isabel south of Galveston, with a cargo of powder and arms. The steamer did not surrender until two broadsides had been fired at close quarters and Marines cleared the deck with small-arms fire. Isabel was a successful blockade runner, reputed to have made more than twenty trips through the blockade at Mobile and Galveston. The ship was severely damaged and, despite all efforts, sank at Quarantine Station on the Mississippi River on 2 June.

Virginia. Skirmishes at the Totopotomoy River, Hanovertown, Middleburg, Jones’ Farm, and Crump’s Creek.

Virginia. Confederate General Robert Edward Lee and the head of the Army of Northern Virginia arrived at Attlee’s Station, south of Totopotomoy Creek and north of the Chickahominy River. This was a good position from which to cut off a number of routes by which Union advances could approach Richmond. Lee sent his cavalry eastwards to locate the Union army’s positions and its crossing points over the Pamunkey River.
In the early morning, the Union Army of the Potomac threw two pontoon bridges across the Pamunkey River at Dabney’s Ferry. The rest of the army followed behind the two cavalry divisions which had crossed the previous day, leaving Brigadier-General James Harrison Wilson’s third cavalry division as the rear guard now that it had returned from its diversionary raid to the Virginia Central Railroad. Between noon and midnight, the Union V Corps and IX Corps crossed at Hanovertown while the VI Corps and II Corps crossed four miles upstream at Huntley’s. Skirmishes occurred at Salem Church and at Haw’s Shop as the Union cavalry cleared the way ahead.

Haw’s Shop, Virginia, also known as Hawe’s Shop or Enon Church. Union Brigadier-General David McMurtrie Gregg’s cavalry division, supported by Brigadier-General Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert’s cavalry division, advanced to screen the Army of the Potomac’s crossing of the Pamunkey River and its onward movement toward Totopotomoy Creek. After the Union cavalry crossed the pontoon bridge over the Pamunkey, Gregg led his division to probe westwards from Hanovertown, searching for the Confederate army, while Torbert’s division began to set pickets along Crump’s Creek in the direction of Hanover Court House.
Confederate Major-General Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry division, Major-General Wade Hampton’s cavalry division, a battery of horse artillery, and three inexperienced regiments of mounted infantry in Brigadier-General Matthew Calbraith Butler’s cavalry brigade, made a reconnaissance in the same area.
On their way to Totopotomoy Creek at Enon Church, three miles west of Hanovertown, and a mile beyond a large blacksmith shop called Haw’s Shop, Gregg’s cavalry ran into Brigadier-General Williams Carter Wickham’s and Brigadier-General Thomas Lafayette Rosser’s cavalry brigades. They discovered the Confederate cavalrymen dismounted in a wooded area behind a swamp and hurriedly erecting breastworks made of logs and rails. The Confederates were well-supported by horse artillery. Union Brigadier-General Henry Eugene Davies’ brigade of Gregg’s division deployed pickets from the 10^th New York Cavalry along Hampton’s front. It was impossible to turn the position due to a stream to the north and a mill pond to the south. Gregg, despite being outnumbered, launched a frontal assault. The Confederates met the Union charge with rifle fire, killing or wounding 256 men in one attack. The effect of the Union return fire was augmented by the seven-shot Spencer repeating carbines carried by some of the Union cavalrymen. After Gregg’s first attack ground to a halt, his second brigade under Colonel John Irvin Gregg made a second attack but also failed to dislodge the Confederates.
Hampton’s men moved out from their defensive works and started a series of counter-attacks. Gregg sent for reinforcements from Major-General Philip Henry Sheridan, who released two brigades from Torbert’s division. There was Union infantry nearby, but Major-General George Gordon Meade refused Sheridan’s request for two brigades. Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt’s brigade from Torbert’s division extended Gregg’s line to the right, thwarting Hampton’s attempted flanking manoeuvre. Sheridan also committed Brigadier-General George Armstrong Custer’s brigade to the fight. Due to the heavily wooded terrain, Custer dismounted his brigade and deployed in a double-ranked line of battle, as if they were infantrymen. Some of the inexperienced Confederates of Butler’s brigade mistook a Union shift in position for a retreat and charged after them, allowing Custer the chance to capture 80 overconfident men.
Hampton chose to withdraw when intelligence from prisoners revealed the proximity of two Union Corps (V Corps and VI Corps), and that information fulfilled the purpose of his reconnaissance. This information led General Robert Edward Lee to decide to shift the Army of Northern Virginia again to a new blocking position at Cold Harbor.
The action lasted for over seven hours and was the bloodiest cavalry battle in the eastern theatre since Brandy Station in 1863. Union casualties were reported as 297 (or 344) men and were estimated at 400 for the Confederates. Union reports claimed at least 187 Confederate dead, 40 to 50 wounded prisoners, and 80 unwounded prisoners. (CWSAC Formative Battle Union Victory)

Union Organisation

USA: Major-General John McAllister Schofield resumed command of the Army of the Ohio, succeeding Brigadier-General Jacob Dolson Cox.

USA: Major-General John McAllister Schofield resumed command of XXIII Corps (Ohio), succeeding Brigadier-General Jacob Dolson Cox.

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 Nashville: Lovell Harrison Rousseau
  • District of Western Kentucky: Eleazer Arthur Paine
  • 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: Cadwallader Colden Washburn
    • 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 Northern Arkansas: Robert Ramsey Livingston
  • 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: 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: William Birney
• District of Florida: George Henry Gordon

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: Lieutenant-General Theophilus Hunter Holmes arrived to command the Reserve Forces of North Carolina.

CSA: Bryan Grimes confirmed Brigadier-General PACS 28 May 1864 to rank from 19 May 1864.

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: William B Butler interim Henry Alexander Wise awaited
• 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: Richard Stoddert Ewell
  • 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: William Edmondson Jones

Trans-Mississippi Department: Edmund Kirby Smith

• District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: John Bankhead Magruder
  • Western Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
    • Sub-District of the Rio Grande: Hamilton Prioleau Bee
  • Eastern Sub-District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona: 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

Major-General PACS

Benjamin Huger
John Bankhead Magruder
Mansfield Lovell
William Wing Loring
Sterling Price
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
Samuel Jones
John Porter McCown
Daniel Harvey Hill
Thomas Carmichael Hindman
John Cabell Breckinridge
Lafayette McLaws
Richard Heron Anderson
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Samuel Gibbs French
George Edward Pickett
Carter Littlepage Stevenson
John Horace Forney
Dabney Herndon Maury
Martin Luther Smith
John George Walker
Arnold Elzey
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
Franklin Gardner
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
Jubal Anderson Early
Joseph Wheeler
Edward Johnson
William Henry Chase Whiting
Robert Emmett Rodes
William Henry Talbot Walker
Henry Heth
Robert Ransom
Alexander Peter Stewart
Jones Mitchell Withers
Stephen Dill Lee
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Wade Hampton
Fitzhugh Lee
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

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
Montgomery Dent Corse
George Thomas Anderson
Alfred Iverson
James Henry Lane
Edward Lloyd Thomas
Stephen Dodson Ramseur
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
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