August 24 1865 Thursday
Union Organisation
USA: The District of Eastern Virginia was discontinued.
USA: Command of the District of Northern Alabama became vacant on the mustering out of Brigadier-General Robert Seamen Granger.
USA: Major-General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Major-General Daniel Butterfield mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Colonel USA 5th US Infantry.
USA: Major-General Silas Casey mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Colonel USA 4th US Cavalry.
USA: Major-General Abner Doubleday mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Lieutenant-Colonel USA 17th US Infantry.
USA: Major-General George Lucas Hartsuff mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Lieutenant-Colonel USA Assistant Adjutant-General.
USA: Major-General Samuel Peter Heintzelman mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Colonel USA 17th US Infantry.
USA: Major-General John James Peck mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General George Leonard Andrews mustered out US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Richard Arnold mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Captain USA 5th US Artillery.
USA: Brigadier-General Alexander Asboth mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Henry Baxter mustered out of US Volunteers
USA: Brigadier-General William Worth Belknap mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General William Birney mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Mason Brayman mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Cyrus Bussey mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General William Passmore Carlin mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Major USA 16th US Infantry.
USA: Brigadier-General Joseph Bradford Carr mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Henry Beebee Carrington mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Colonel USA 18th US Infantry.
USA: Brigadier-General John Cook mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Charles Cruft mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Thomas Alfred Davies mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Edmund Jackson Davis mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Elias Smith Dennis mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Alfred Napoleon Alexander Duffié mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Speed Smith Fry mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Kenner Garrard mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Major USA 3rd US Cavalry 2 November 1863.
USA: Brigadier-General James Isham Gilbert mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General George Henry Gordon mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Charles Kinnaird Graham mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Lawrence Pike Graham mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Colonel USA 4th US Cavalry 9 May 1864.
USA: Brigadier-General Robert Seaman Granger mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Lieutenant-Colonel USA 11th US Infantry.
USA: Brigadier-General Lewis Addison Grant mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Simon Goodell Griffin mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Cuvier Grover mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Lieutenant-Colonel USA 38th US Infantry.
USA: Brigadier-General Joseph Hayes mustered out of US Volunteers,
USA: Brigadier-General Edward Henry Hobson mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Nathaniel James Jackson mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Henry Moses Judah mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Major USA 4th US Infantry.
USA: Brigadier-General John Reese Kenly mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Nathan Kimball mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Joseph Farmer Knipe mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Jacob Gartner Lauman mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Henry Hayes Lockwood mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General John McArthur mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General George Francis McGinnis mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Thomas Jefferson McKean mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as 2nd Lieutenant USA Paymaster.
USA: Brigadier-General Sullivan Armory Meredith mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General James Dada Morgan mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General William Hopkins Morris mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Thomas Hewson Neill mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Major USA 11th US Infantry.
USA: Brigadier-General John Morrison Oliver mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Byron Root Pierce mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General William Anderson Pile mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Elliott Warren Rice mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Frederick Saloman mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Eliakim Parker Scammon mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Truman Seymour mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Captain USA 5th US Artillery.
USA: Brigadier-General Alexander Shaler mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Adam Jacoby Slemmer mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Lieutenant-Colonel USA 4th US Infantry.
USA: Brigadier-General John Potts Slough mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General James Hughes Stokes mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Samuel Davis Sturgis mustered out of US Volunteers and continued as Lieutenant-Colonel USA 6th US Cavalry.
USA: Brigadier-General Thomas William Sweeny mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Stephen Thomas mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Erastus Barnard Tyler mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Daniel Ullmann mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Adin Ballou Underwood mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Horatio Phillips Van Cleve mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General William Vandever mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General James Clifford Veatch mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General George Day Wagner mustered out. of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General William Thomas Ward mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Fitz-Henry Warren mustered out. of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Walter Chiles Whitaker mustered out of US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General James Alexander Williamson mustered out of US Volunteers.
Commander in Chief: President Andrew Johnson
Vice-President: Vacant
Secretary of War: Edwin McMasters Stanton
Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles
Atlantic Squadron: William Radford
Gulf Squadron: Henry Knox Thatcher
Pacific Squadron: George Frederick Pearson
West Indies Squadron: James Shedden Palmer
European Squadron: Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough
East Indian (Asiatic) Squadron: Henry H Bell
Brazil Squadron: Sylvanus W Godon
General–in-Chief: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Military Division of the Atlantic: George Gordon Meade
- Department of the East: Joseph Hooker
- Department of Washington: Christopher Columbus Augur
- Department of Virginia: Alfred Howe Terry
- District of Southwestern Virginia: Newton Martin Curtis
- District of Northeastern Virginia: Charles Devens
- District of Virginia: Edward Otho Cresap Ord
- District of Henrico: John Wesley Turner
- District of Fort Monroe: Nelson Appleton Miles
- Sub-District of the Peninsula: Benjamin Chambers Ludlow
- Sub-District of Blackwater: Gilbert Hunt McKibbin
- Sub-District of the South Anna: Alvin Coe Voris
- Department of North Carolina: Thomas Howard Ruger
- District of Wilmington: John Worthington Ames
- District of New Bern: Charles Jackson Paine
- District of Greensboro: Samuel Powhatan Carter
- District of Raleigh: Adelbert Ames
- District of West North Carolina: Thomas Tinsley Heath
- Middle Department: Andrew Atkinson Humphreys temporary
- Department of South Carolina: Quincy Adams Gillmore
Military Division of the Mississippi: William Tecumseh Sherman
- Department of the Ohio: Edward Otho Cresap Ord
- Department of the Missouri: John Pope
- District of Minnesota: Henry Hastings Sibley
- Army of Arkansas: Joseph Jones Reynolds
Military Division of the Gulf: Philip Henry Sheridan
- Department of Texas: Horatio Gouverneur Wright
- Department of Louisiana: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
- Department of Mississippi: Henry Warner Slocum
- Northern District of Mississippi: Peter Joseph Osterhaus
- Southern District of Mississippi: John Wynn Davidson
- Western District of Mississippi: Jasper Adalmorn Maltby
- Department of Florida: John Gray Foster
Military Division of the Pacific: Henry Wager Halleck awaited
- Department of California: Irvin McDowell
- Department of the Columbia: George Byron Currey temporary
Military Division of the Tennessee: George Henry Thomas
- Department of Tennessee: George Stoneman
- Department of Kentucky: John McAuley Palmer
- Department of Georgia: James Blair Steedman
- Department of Alabama: Charles Robert Woods
- District of Northern Alabama: vacant
Confederate Organisation
CSA: Brigadier-General James Morrison Hawes paroled at San Antonio, Texas.
Union Generals
Note: Italics, awaiting confirmation of the commission
Lieutenant-General USA
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Major-General USA
Asterisk indicates concurrently Major-General USV
Henry Wager Halleck
William Tecumseh Sherman
George Gordon Meade
Philp Henry Sheridan
George Henry Thomas
Major-General USV
Asterisk indicates concurrently Brigadier-General USA
John Adams Dix
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks MOV
Benjamin Franklin Butler
David Hunter
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Irvin McDowell*
William Starke Rosecrans*
John Pope*
Samuel Ryan Curtis
Lewis Wallace
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Samuel Peter Heintzelman MOV
Joseph Hooker*
Silas Casey MOV
William Buel Franklin
Henry Warner Slocum
John James Peck MOV
Alexander McDowell McCook
John Gray Foster
John Grubb Parke
Christopher Columbus Augur
Gordon Granger
Lovell Harrison Rousseau
George Stoneman
Oliver Otis Howard*
Daniel Edgar Sickles
Daniel Butterfield MOV
Winfield Scott Hancock*
George Sykes
David Sloane Stanley
John McAllister Schofield*
John McAuley Palmer
Frederick Steele
Abner Doubleday MOV
George Lucas Hartsuff MOV
Francis Preston Blair
Joseph Jones Reynolds
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
George Crook
Godfrey Weitzel
Jacob Dolson Cox
William Babcock Hazen
John White Geary
Alfred Howe Terry*
Thomas John Wood
Charles Griffin
George Armstrong Custer
Henry Eugene Davies
James Harrison Wilson
Francis Channing Barlow
Gershom Mott
Benjamin Henry Grierson
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Wager Swayne
Mortimer Dormer Leggett
Brigadier-General USA
Brackets indicates concurrently Major-General USV
(Irvin McDowell)
(William Starke Rosecrans)
Philip St George Cooke
(John Pope)
(Joseph Hooker)
(Winfield Scott Hancock)
(John McAllister Schofield)
(Oliver Otis Howard)
(Alfred Howe Terry)
Brigadier-General USV
Thomas West Sherman
Alpheus Starkey Williams
James Brewerton Ricketts
Orlando Bolivar Willcox
Henry Hayes Lockwood MOV
Samuel Davis Sturgis MOV
Henry Washington Benham
William Farquhar Barry
Lawrence Pike Graham MOV
William Thomas Ward MOV
John Gross Barnard
Innis Newton Palmer
Seth Williams
John Newton
John Milton Brannan
John Porter Hatch
Albin Francisco Schoepf
Richard W Johnson
George Washington Cullum
Thomas Jefferson McKean MOV
Zealous Bates Tower
Jefferson Columbus Davis
James Henry Lane
William Scott Ketchum
John Wynn Davidson
Eugene Asa Carr
Thomas Alfred Davies MOV
William Hemsley Emory
Henry Moses Judah MOV
John Cook MOV
John McArthur MOV
Jacob Gartner Lauman MOV
Horatio Phillips Van Cleve MOV
Speed Smith Fry MOV
Alexander Asboth MOV
Robert Byington Mitchell
Cuvier Grover MOV
Rufus Saxton
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford MOV
Nathan Kimball MOV
Charles Devens
Samuel Wylie Crawford
Henry Walton Wessells
James Henry Carleton
Absalom Baird
John Cleveland Robinson
Truman Seymour MOV
Henry Prince
Alvin Peterson Hovey
James Clifford Veatch MOV
John Curtis Caldwell
George Sears Greene
Samuel Powhatan Carter
Erastus Barnard Tyler MOV
George Henry Gordon MOV
Stephen Gano Burbridge
Washington Lafayette Elliott
Albion Parris Howe
Benjamin Stone Roberts
Fitz-Henry Warren MOV
Charles Cruft MOV
Frederick Salomon MOV
Henry Shaw Briggs
James Dada Morgan MOV
Johann August Ernst Willich
John Reese Kenly MOV
John Potts Slough MOV
Henry Jackson Hunt
Mason Brayman MOV
Nathaniel James Jackson MOV
George Washington Getty
Alfred Sully
Eliakim Parker Scammon MOV
Robert Seaman Granger MOV
Joseph Rodman West
George Leonard Andrews MOV
William Hays
Israel Vogdes
Lewis Cass Hunt
Frank Wheaton
John Sanford Mason
Robert Ogden Tyler
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
William Dwight
Sullivan Amory Meredith MOV
William Vandever MOV
Alexander Schimmelfennig
Charles Kinnaird Graham MOV
John Eugene Smith
Joseph Tarr Copeland
Henry Beebee Carrington MOV
John Haskell King
Adam Jacoby Slemmer MOV
Thomas Hewson Neill MOV
Thomas Gamble Pitcher
Thomas William Sweeny MOV
William Passmore Carlin MOV
Romeyn Beck Ayres
Richard Arnold MOV
Michael Kelly Lawler
George Day Wagner MOV
Joseph Farmer Knipe MOV
John Dunlap Stevenson
James Barnes
Samuel Beatty
Edward Henry Hobson MOV
Joseph Dana Webster
William Hopkins Morris MOV
Thomas Howard Ruger
Elias Smith Dennis MOV
Thomas Church Haskell Smith
Davis Tillson
Marcellus Monroe Crocker
Egbert Benson Brown
George Francis McGinnis MOV
Hugh Boyle Ewing
Daniel Ullmann MOV
George Jerrison Stannard
Henry Baxter MOV
Charles Thomas Campbell
Robert Brown Potter
Henry Hastings Sibley
Joseph Bradford Carr MOV
Joseph Jackson Bartlett
Patrick Edward Connor
John Parker Hawkins
Gabriel René Paul
Edward Augustus Wild
Adelbert Ames
William Birney MOV
Daniel Henry Rucker
Robert Allen
Rufus Ingalls
Alexander Shaler MOV
Robert Sanford Foster
Alexander Stewart Webb
Alfred Napoleon Alexander Duffié MOV
Walter Chiles Whitaker MOV
Wesley Merritt
William Denison Whipple
Kenner Garrard MOV
Charles Robert Woods
John Benjamin Sanborn
Giles Alexander Smith
Jasper Adalmorn Maltby
Thomas Kilby Smith
Walter Quintin Gresham
Manning Ferguson Force
John Murray Corse
John Aaron Rawlins
Alvan Cullem Gillem
John Wesley Turner
Henry Warner Birge
Adin Ballou Underwood MOV
Augustus Louis Chetlain
William Anderson Pile MOV
John Franklin Miller
Philippe Régis Dénis de Keredern De Trobriand
Cyrus Bussey MOV
Christopher Columbus Andrews
Edward Moody McCook
Lewis Addison Grant MOV
Edward Hatch
August Valentine Kautz
Francis Fessenden
John Rutter Brooke
John Frederick Hartranft
Samuel Sprigg Carroll
Simon Goodell Griffin MOV
Emory Upton
Nelson Appleton Miles
Joseph Hayes MOV
Byron Root Pierce MOV
Selden Connor
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Elliott Warren Rice MOV
William Francis Bartlett
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
Charles Carroll Walcutt
William Worth Belknap MOV
Joseph Abel Haskin
James Deering Fessenden
Eli Long
Thomas Wilberforce Egan
Joseph Roswell Hawley
Isaac Hardin Duval
John Edwards
Thomas Casimer Devin
Alfred Gibbs
Ranald Slidell Mackenzie
James Richard Slack
Thomas John Lucas
Edmund Jackson Davis MOV
George Lafayette Beal
Henry Goddard Thomas
Cyrus Hamlin
John Morrison Oliver MOV
Robert Kingston Scott
James Sidney Robinson
Benjamin Franklin Potts
James Alexander Williamson MOV
Newton Martin Curtis
Charles Camp Doolittle
Stephen Thomas MOV
James Isham Gilbert MOV
Galusha Pennypacker
Charles John Stolbrand
Charles Ewing
Stewart Van Vliet
Thomas Maley Harris
Frederick Tracy Dent
Thomas Ogden Osborn
Joseph Haydn Potter
James Sanks Brisbin
James Meech Warner
Lewis Baldwin Parsons
Oliver Edwards
Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
William Wells
Richard Henry Jackson
James William Forsyth
Charles Hale Morgan
Henry Alanson Barnum
Americus Vespucius Rice
William Burnham Woods
William Thomas Clark
Robert Francis Catterson
George Peabody Este
William Henry Penrose
Francis Trowbridge Sherman
James Hughes Stokes MOV
Samuel Emerson Opdycke
Brigadier-General USA (Staff)
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (Quartermaster-General)
Lorenzo Thomas
George Douglas Ramsay
James Barnet Fry (Provost Marshal)
Richard Delafield (Engineers)
Joseph Holt (Judge Advocate-General)
Amos Beebe Eaton (Commissary-General of Subsistence)
Joseph K Barnes (Surgeon-General)
Alexander Brydie Dyer (Ordnance)
American Civil War High Command 