May 20 1865 Saturday
Dakota Territory. Reconnaissance to Whiskey Gap ended.
Dakota Territory. Reconnaissance from Camp Plumb to the Red Buttes on Deer Creek began. The expedition continued eastwards to Box Elder Canon, then north to the North Platte River. A party of 100 Indians was observed crossing the river but was not attacked due to the absence of fords in a time of high water.
Dakota Territory. Operation at Three Crossings Station began. A band of Native Americans had attacked the station and tore down the telegraph lines, before retreating across the Sweetwater River towards Wind River. Federal troops launched a pursuit of the band.
Dakota Territory. Skirmish at Deer Creek as Federal troops were attacked by a war band of 50 Indians.
Dakota Territory. Skirmish at Deer Creek Station. Bill Comstock, formerly of Fort Laramie, is reported to have led the Indian band which attacked the station.
Georgia. Former Confederate Secretary of War Stephen Russell Mallory was captured at La Grange and transferred to Fort Lafayette, New York, where he would remain in custody until his release in March 1866.
Kansas. Skirmish near Pawnee Rock as Indians attacked two men travelling from Fort Larned, killing one of them while the second escaped.
Missouri. Reconnaissance to Lebanon and Warsaw ended.
Missouri. Skirmish with guerrillas on the Blackwater Creek near Longwood.
Nebraska Territory. Reconnaissance to Midway Station and Plum Creek ended
Virginia. Former Confederate President Jefferson Finis Davis and former Vice-President Alexander Hamilton Stephens were transferred from the steamer William P Clyde to the ironclad warship USS Tuscarora, to be taken to Fort Warren in Boston harbour, Massachusetts.
Union Organisation
Commander in Chief: President Andrew Johnson
Vice-President: Vacant
Secretary of War: Edwin McMasters Stanton
Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron: William Radford
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron: John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren
West Gulf Blockading Squadron: Henry Knox Thatcher
East Gulf Blockading Squadron: Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling
Pacific Squadron: George Frederick Pearson
Mississippi River Squadron: Samuel Phillips Lee
Potomac Flotilla: Foxhall Alexander Parker
General–in-Chief: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Military Division of the James: Henry Wager Halleck
- Department of the Potomac: George Gordon Meade
- Army of the Potomac: George Gordon Meade
- II Corps Potomac: Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
- V Corps Potomac: Charles Griffin
- VI Corps Potomac: Horatio Gouverneur Wright
- Cavalry Corps Potomac: Wesley Merritt
- Department of Virginia: Alfred Howe Terry interim
- District of Eastern Virginia: George Henry Gordon
- Sub-District of the Peninsula: Benjamin Chambers Ludlow
- District of Virginia: Edward Otho Cresap Ord
- District of Lynchburg: John Irvin Gregg
- Army of the James: Edward Otho Cresap Ord
- XXIV Corps James: John Gibbon
- XXV Corps James: Godfrey Weitzel
- District of Eastern Virginia: George Henry Gordon
- Army of the Potomac: George Gordon Meade
Military Division of the Mississippi: William Tecumseh Sherman
- Department of the Cumberland: George Henry Thomas
- District of Middle Tennessee: Lovell Harrison Rousseau
- District of West Tennessee: Cadwallader Colder Washburn
- District of Etowah: James Blair Steedman
- District of Northern Alabama: Robert Seaman Granger
- Army of the Cumberland: George Henry Thomas
- Department of the Mississippi: Gouverneur Kemble Warren
- District of Vicksburg: Morgan Lewis Smith
- District of Natchez: John Wynn Davidson
- Department of Kentucky: Edward Henry Hobson temporary
- District of Western Kentucky: Solomon Meredith
- Department of North Carolina: Jacob Dolson Cox
- District of Beaufort (NC): Innis Newton Palmer
- District of Wilmington: Joseph Roswell Hawley
- X Corps North Carolina: Adelbert Ames
- XXIII Corps Ohio: Jacob Dolson Cox
- Army of the Tennessee: John Alexander Logan
- XV Corps Tennessee: John Alexander Logan
- XVII Corps Tennessee: Francis Preston Blair
- Army of Georgia: Henry Warner Slocum
- XIV Corps Georgia: Jefferson Columbus Davis
- XX Corps Georgia: Joseph Anthony Mower
Military Division of West Mississippi: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
- Army of West Mississippi: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
- Army of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
- XIII Corps Gulf: Gordon Granger
- XVI Corps Gulf: Andrew Jackson Smith
- Army of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
Military Division of the Missouri: John Pope
- Department of the Missouri: Grenville Mellen Dodge
- District of St Louis: George Day Wagner
- District of Southwest Missouri: John Benjamin Sanborn
- District of North Missouri: Clinton Bowen Fisk
- District of Central Missouri: Chester Harding
- District of Rolla: John Morrill
- District of the Upper Arkansas: James Hobart Ford
- District of North Kansas: Robert Byington Mitchell
- District of the Plains: Patrick Edward Connor
- Department of the Northwest: Samuel Ryan Curtis
- District of Minnesota: Henry Hastings Sibley
- District of Wisconsin: Thomas Alfred Davies
Middle Military Division: Winfield Scott Hancock
- Middle Department: Lewis Wallace
- District of Annapolis: Frederic Dummer Sewall
- District of Delaware and the Eastern Shore: John Reese Kenly
- Department of Pennsylvania: George Cadwalader
- District of Philadelphia: Orris Sanford Ferry
- District of the Monongahela: Greenlief P Davis
- Juniata District: Charles Hale Morgan
- Department of Washington: Christopher Columbus Augur
- District of Alexandria: John Grubb Parke
- District of Washington: Orlando Bolivar Willcox
- IX Corps Potomac: John Grubb Parke
- XXII Corps Washington: John Grubb Parke
- Department of Western Virginia: William Hemsley Emory temporary
- Army of the Shenandoah: Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
- VIII Corps Middle: Lewis Wallace
Military Division of the Southwest: Philip Henry Sheridan awaited
- Department of Arkansas: Joseph Jones Reynolds
- District of Eastern Arkansas: John Milton Thayer
- District of South Kansas: James Gilpatrick Blunt
- Army of Arkansas: Joseph Jones Reynolds
- VII Corps Arkansas: Joseph Jones Reynolds
Department of the East: John Adams Dix
- District of Northern New York: John Cleveland Robinson
Department of New Mexico: James Henry Carleton
Northern Department: Joseph Hooker
- District of Illinois: John Cook
- District of Indiana: Alvin Peterson Hovey
- District of Michigan: Bennett Hoskin Hill
Department of the Pacific: Irvin McDowell
- District of Arizona: John Sanford Mason
- District of California: George Wright
- District of the Humboldt: Stephen Girard Whipple
- District of Oregon: Reuben F Maury temporary
- District of Southern California: James Freeman Curtis
Department of the South: Quincy Adams Gillmore
- North District (South): John Porter Hatch
- District of Port Royal: Edward Elmer Potter
- District of Savannah: Henry Warner Birge
- District of Florida: Israel Vogdes
Department of the Gulf: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks interim Edward Richard Sprigg Canby awaited
- North District of Louisiana: Francis Jay Herron
- District of Morganza: William Henry Dickey
- District of Baton Rouge: Michael Kelly Lawler
- District of Port Hudson: Cyrus Hamlin
- Southern District of Louisiana: Thomas West Sherman
- District of Carrollton: William S Mudgett
- District of La Fourche: Robert Alexander Cameron
- District of Bonnet Carré: James J Byrne
- District of Alabama: Andrew Jackson Smith
- District of Mississippi: Peter Joseph Osterhaus
- District of West Florida: Alexander Asboth
Confederate Organisation
CSA: Brigadier-General Joseph Finegan paroled at Madison, Florida.
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: James Edwin Slaughter
- 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: James Edwin Slaughter
- District of Arkansas and West Louisiana: Simon Bolivar Buckner
- District of Indian Territory: Douglas Hancock Cooper
- Trans-Mississippi Army: Edmund Kirby Smith
- Reserve Corps Trans-Mississippi: Elkanah Brackin Greer
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
Benjamin Franklin Butler
David Hunter
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Irvin McDowell*
William Starke Rosecrans*
John Pope*
Samuel Ryan Curtis
Lewis Wallace
George Cadwalader
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Samuel Peter Heintzelman
Joseph Hooker*
Silas Casey
William Buel Franklin
Darius Nash Couch
Henry Warner Slocum
John James Peck
Alexander McDowell McCook
John Gray Foster
John Grubb Parke
Christopher Columbus Augur
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Gordon Granger
Lovell Harrison Rousseau
George Stoneman
Oliver Otis Howard*
Daniel Edgar Sickles
Robert Huston Milroy
Daniel Butterfield
Winfield Scott Hancock*
George Sykes
David Sloane Stanley
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
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
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
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
Benjamin Franklin Kelley
Alpheus Starkey Williams
James Brewerton Ricketts
Orlando Bolivar Willcox
Henry Hayes Lockwood
Samuel Davis Sturgis
Henry Washington Benham
William Farquhar Barry
Lawrence Pike Graham
William Thomas Ward
John Gross Barnard
Innis Newton Palmer
Seth Williams
John Newton
George Wright
John Milton Brannan
John Porter Hatch
Albin Francisco Schoepf
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
Eugene Asa Carr
Thomas Alfred Davies
William Hemsley Emory
Marsena Rudolph Patrick
Orris Sanford Ferry
Henry Moses Judah
John Cook
John McArthur
Jacob Gartner Lauman
Horatio Phillips Van Cleve
Speed Smith Fry
Alexander Asboth
Robert Byington Mitchell
Cuvier Grover
Rufus Saxton
Benjamin Alvord
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
Nathan Kimball
Charles Devens
Samuel Wylie Crawford
Henry Walton Wessells
James Henry Carleton
Absalom Baird
John Cleveland Robinson
Truman Seymour
Henry Prince
Alvin Peterson Hovey
James Clifford Veatch
William Plummer Benton
John Curtis Caldwell
George Sears Greene
Samuel Powhatan Carter
Erastus Barnard Tyler
George Henry Gordon
Stephen Gano Burbridge
Washington Lafayette Elliott
Albion Parris Howe
Benjamin Stone Roberts
Fitz-Henry Warren
Morgan Lewis Smith
Charles Cruft
Frederick Salomon
Henry Shaw Briggs
James Dada Morgan
Johann August Ernst Willich
George Foster Shepley
John Reese Kenly
John Potts Slough
Gershom Mott
Henry Jackson Hunt
Francis Channing Barlow
Mason Brayman
Nathaniel James Jackson
George Washington Getty
Alfred Sully
Francis Barretto Spinola
Solomon Meredith
Eliakim Parker Scammon
Robert Seaman Granger
Joseph Rodman West
George Leonard Andrews
William Hays
Israel Vogdes
Lewis Cass Hunt
Frank Wheaton
John Sanford Mason
Robert Ogden Tyler
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
William Dwight
Sullivan Amory Meredith
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
Richard Arnold
Edward Winslow Hinks
Michael Kelly Lawler
George Day Wagner
Lysander Cutler
Joseph Farmer Knipe
John Dunlap Stevenson
James Barnes
Edward Harland
Samuel Beatty
Edward Henry Hobson
Joseph Dana Webster
William Hopkins Morris
Thomas Howard Ruger
Elias Smith Dennis
Thomas Church Haskell Smith
Mortimer Dormer Leggett
Davis Tillson
Marcellus Monroe Crocker
Egbert Benson Brown
George Francis McGinnis
Hugh Boyle Ewing
Daniel Ullmann
George Jerrison Stannard
Henry Baxter
John Milton Thayer
Charles Thomas Campbell
Robert Brown Potter
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn
Henry Hastings Sibley
Joseph Bradford Carr
Joseph Jackson Bartlett
Patrick Edward Connor
John Parker Hawkins
Gabriel René Paul
Edward Augustus Wild
Adelbert Ames
William Birney
Daniel Henry Rucker
Robert Allen
Rufus Ingalls
Alexander Shaler
Benjamin Henry Grierson
Robert Sanford Foster
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Alexander Stewart Webb
Alfred Napoleon Alexander Duffié
Walter Chiles Whitaker
Wesley Merritt
William Denison Whipple
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
Andrew Jackson Hamilton
Henry Warner Birge
Adin Ballou Underwood
Augustus Louis Chetlain
William Anderson Pile
John Wallace Fuller
John Franklin Miller
Philippe Régis Dénis de Keredern De Trobriand
Cyrus Bussey
Christopher Columbus Andrews
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
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
Luther Prentice Bradley
Charles Carroll Walcutt
William Worth Belknap
Joseph Abel Haskin
James Deering Fessenden
Eli Long
Thomas Wilberforce Egan
Joseph Roswell Hawley
William Henry Seward
Isaac Hardin Duval
John Edwards
Ferdinand Van Derveer
Thomas Casimer Devin
Alfred Gibbs
Ranald Slidell Mackenzie
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
James Richard Slack
Thomas John Lucas
Edmund Jackson Davis
Joseph Bailey
George Lafayette Beal
Henry Goddard Thomas
Cyrus Hamlin
Patrick Henry Jones
John Morrison Oliver
Robert Kingston Scott
James Sidney Robinson
Benjamin Franklin Potts
John Grant Mitchell
James Alexander Williamson
Newton Martin Curtis
Charles Camp Doolittle
Stephen Thomas
James Isham Gilbert
Galusha Pennypacker
Charles John Stolbrand
Wager Swayne
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
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)
Confederate Generals
Note: Italics, awaiting confirmation of the commission
General ACSA/PACS
Edmund Kirby Smith
Lieutenant-General PACS
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
Richard Stoddert Ewell
John Bell Hood
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Wade Hampton
Major-General PACS
Benjamin Huger
John Bankhead Magruder
Mansfield Lovell
Sterling Price
Thomas Carmichael Hindman
John Cabell Breckinridge
Lafayette McLaws
John Horace Forney
John George Walker
Joseph Wheeler
Edward Johnson
James Fleming Fagan
Joseph Brevard Kershaw
Ambrose Ransom Wright
Pierce Manning Butler Young
Thomas James Churchill
John Sappington Marmaduke
Harry Thompson Hays
Brigadier-General PACS
Henry Hopkins Sibley
Paul Octave Hébert
Gabriel James Rains
Thomas Fenwick Drayton
Nathan George Evans
James Heyward Trapier
William Montgomery Gardner
Raleigh Edward Colston
Daniel Leadbetter
William Whann Mackall
Albert Rust
Samuel Bell Maxey
Hamilton Prioleau Bee
James Morrison Hawes
James Edwin Slaughter
Seth Maxwell Barton
Henry Eustace McCullough
John Selden Roane
Joseph Finegan PAR
William Nelson Rector Beall
William Preston
St John Richardson Liddell
Johnson Hagood
Edward Aylesworth Perry
William Steele
Elkanah Brackin Greer
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls
Alfred Cumming
Montgomery Dent Corse
Jerome Bonaparte Robertson
Evander McNair
William Robertson Boggs
James Camp Tappan
Mosby Monroe Parsons
James Cantey
George Blake Cosby
William Lewis Cabell
Alfred Eugene Jackson
Arthur Middleton Manigault
Douglas Hancock Cooper
John Wilkins Whitfield
Alfred Moore Scales
Gabriel Colvin Wharton
James Patrick Major
Eppa Hunton
Thomas Pleasant Dockery
William Andrew Quarles
Thomas Neville Waul
Henry Rootes Jackson
Edward Higgins
William Young Conn Humes
Jesse Johnson Finley
James Holt Clanton
Joseph Orville Shelby
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Allen Thomas
Alexander Travis Hawthorn
Claudius Wistar Sears
Richard Lucian Page
Alpheus Baker
Daniel Harris Reynolds
James Chesnut
Stand Watie
Thomas Moore Scott
John McCausland
William Terry
Martin Witherspoon Gary
Birkett Davenport Fry
Stephen Elliott
Robert Doak Lilley
William Richard Terry
James Conner
Rufus Clay Barringer
John Smith Preston
Hylan Benton Lyon
Jacob Hunter Sharp
George Doherty Johnston
Thomas Benton Smith
William Miller
Philip Cook
William Hugh Young
George Washington Gordon
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel
William Henry Fitzhugh Payne
Samuel Read Anderson
Dudley McIver Dubose
Robert Bullock
James Phillip Simms
William Lowther Jackson
James Edward Harrison
Thomas Harrison
Milledge Luke Bonham
Isaac Munroe St John
William Raine Peck
Ellison Capers
Richard Montgomery Gano
Walter Paye Lane
William Polk Hardeman
Henry Gray
Richard Waterhouse
American Civil War High Command 