Siege of Corinth Union order of battle

The following units and commanders of the Union Army fought at the Siege of Corinth (29 Apr-30 May 1862) of the American Civil War. The Union Army had approximately 150,000 present for duty. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the siege.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = Lieutenant

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed

Department of the Mississippi

MG Henry W. Halleck

• Second-in-Command: MG Ulysses S. Grant
• Chief of Staff and Chief Engineer: BG George W. Cullum
• Chief of Cavalry: BG Andrew J. Smith
• Chief Topographical Engineer: Col George Thom
• Aide de Camp: Col Norton Parker Chipman
• Assistant Adjutant General: Cpt John C. Kelton

District of West Tennessee

MG Ulysses S. Grant

• Chief of Staff: Col Joseph D. Webster
• Aide de Camp: Col James B. McPherson
• Provost Marshal General: Col William S. Hillyer after 3 May
• Provost Marshal General: Ltc DeWitt C. Anthony until May'
• Assistant Adjutant General: Cpt John A. Rawlins
• Chief Commissary: Cpt John Parker Hawkins

Right Wing (Army of the Tennessee)

MG George H. Thomas

• Chief of Staff and Asst. Adjutant General: Cpt George E. Flynt

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division (Army of the Ohio)      MG George H. Thomas until 3 May      BG Thomas W. Sherman	1st Brigade    BG Albin F. Schoepf	12th Kentucky: Col William A. Hoskins 17th Ohio: Col John M. Connell 31st Ohio: Col Moses B. Walker 38th Ohio: Col Edwin Bradley
	2nd Brigade    BG Speed Smith Fry	10th Indiana: Col Mahlon D. Manson 4th Kentucky: Col John T. Croxton 10th Kentucky: Col John M. Harlan 14th Ohio: Col James B. Steedman
	3rd Brigade    BG Robert L. McCook	2nd Minnesota: Col James George 9th Ohio: Maj Gustave Kammerling 35th Ohio: Col Ferdinand Van Derveer 18th U.S. Infantry: Ltc Oliver L. Shepherd
	Artillery	Battery D, 1st Michigan Light Artillery 1st Ohio Battery
	Cavalry	1st Ohio Cavalry
Second Division      BG Thomas A. Davies until 2 June      BG Edward Otho Cresap Ord	1st Brigade    Col James Tuttle	2nd Iowa: Cpt R. H. Huston 7th Iowa: Col Elliott Warren Rice "Union Brigade": Ltc John P. Coulter 8th Iowa, Detachment 12th Iowa, Detachment 14th Iowa, Detachment: Cpt R. W. Healy 58th Illinois, Detachment
	2nd Brigade    BG Richard J. Oglesby	9th Illinois: Col August Mersy 12th Illinois: Col Augustus L. Chetlain 81st Ohio: Col Thomas Morton 13th Missouri: Col Crafts J. Wright Birge’s Sharpshooters
	3rd Brigade    Col Silas Baldwin	7th Illinois: Col Andrew J. Babcock 50th Illinois: Cpt John W. Smith 52nd Illinois: Cpt E. A. Bowen 57th Illinois: Ltc Frederick J. Hurlbut
	Artillery	2nd Michigan Battery 1st Missouri Batteries D, H, I, and K: Maj Cavender
	Cavalry	2nd Illinois Cavalry, 1 squadron: Cpt J. R. Hotaling 5th Ohio Cavalry, 3rd Battalion: Maj C. S. Hayes 4th U.S. Cavalry, Company I: Lt J. Powell
Fourth Division      BG Stephen A. Hurlbut	1st Brigade    BG Jacob G. Lauman	52nd Indiana: Cpt W. L. Guard transferred to 2nd Brigade May 1862 28th Illinois: Col Amory K. Johnson 32nd Illinois: Maj William Hunter 41st Illinois: Col Isaac C. Pugh 53rd Illinois: Col W.H.W. Cushman 3rd Iowa: Cpt John B. Smith
	2nd Brigade    BG James C. Veatch	25th Indiana: Cpt John Watson Foster 53rd Indiana: Col Walter Q. Gresham 14th Illinois: Col Cyrus Hall 15th Illinois: Col Thomas J. Turner 46th Illinois: Ltc John J. Jones
	Artillery	2nd Illinois, Batteries B and I: Bolton 1st Missouri, Battery C: Cpt Charles Mann 1st Ohio Battery: Cpt Edward Spear
	Cavalry	5th Ohio Cavalry, 1st and 2nd Battalions: Col William H. H. Taylor
Fifth Division      MG William T. Sherman	1st Brigade    Col John A. McDowell until 12 May    Col Morgan L. Smith	Before 15 May 40th Illinois: Ltc J. W. Booth 6th Iowa: Cpt Madison Miner Walden 46th Ohio: Col Thomas Worthington After 15 May 8th Missouri: Ltc James Peckham 55th Illinois: Col David Stuart 54th Ohio: Col Thomas Kilby Smith 57th Ohio: Ltc Americus V. Rice
	2nd Brigade    Col David Stuart until 15 May    Col John A. McDowell	Before 15 May 55th Illinois: Ltc Oscar Malmborg 5th Ohio: Col Thomas Kilby Smith After 15 May 40th Illinois: Ltc J. W. Booth 6th Iowa: Cpt Madison Miner Walden 46th Ohio: Col Thomas Worthington 77th Ohio: Col Jesse Hildebrand 6th Indiana Battery
	3rd Brigade    Col Jesse Hildebrand until 15 May    Col Ralph P. Buckland until 16 May    BG James W. Denver	Before 15 May 53rd Ohio: Ltc Robert A. Fulton 57th Ohio: Ltc Americus V. Rice 77th Ohio: Ltc Wills De Haas After 15 May 48th Ohio: Capt Samuel G. W. Peterson 53rd Ohio: Col Wells Jones 70th Ohio: Col Joseph R. Cockerill 72nd Ohio: Col Ralph P. Buckland
	4th Brigade    Col Ralph P. Buckland	48th Ohio: Cpt R. S. Robbins 70th Ohio: Col Joseph R. Cockerill 72nd Ohio: Cpt C. G. Eaton Discontinued 15 May
	Artillery    Maj Ezra Taylor	1st Illinois Artillery, Battery B: Cpt S. E. Barrett 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery E: Lt J. A. Fitch 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery H: Cpt Axel Silfverparre 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery I: Cpt Edward Bouton 4th Indiana Battery: Lt William Mussman 7th Ohio Battery
	Cavalry    Col T. Lyle Dickey	4th Illinois Cavalry, 2nd and 3rd Battalions: Col T. Lyle Dickey Thielemann's Illinois Cavalry, 2 companies: Maj Chriistian Thielemann
Sixth Division      BG Thomas J. McKean until 30 Apr      BG Thomas W. Sherman until 3 May      BG Thomas J. McKean	1st Brigade    Col John L. Doran until 23 May    BG John McArthur	21st Missouri: Col David Moore 25th Missouri: Ltc R. T. Van Horn 16th Wisconsin: Maj Thomas Reynolds 17th Wisconsin: Col John L. Doran, Ltc Adam G. Malloy
	2nd Brigade    Col John M. Oliver	15th Michigan: Maj Stephen Walsh 18th Missouri: Ltc McDermott 18th Wisconsin: Cpt Charles H. Jackson Ford’s Company Illinois Cavalry
	3rd Brigade    Col Marcellus M. Crocker	11th Iowa: Ltc William Hall 13th Iowa: Cpt George M. Van Hoesen 15th Iowa: Ltc William Dewey 16th Iowa: Ltc Addison H. Sanders
	Artillery    Capt Andrew Hickenlooper	Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery: Lt C. D. Bliss 1st Battery, Minnesota Light Artillery: Lt William Pfaender 3rd Battery, Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt W. S. Williams 5th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery: Lt L. C. Sawyer 10th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt H. B. White
	Cavalry	11th Illinois Cavalry, 1st and 2nd Battalions: Col Robert G. Ingersoll

Reserves (Army of the Tennessee)

MG John A. McClernand

• Assistant Inspector General: Col Thomas E. G. Ransom

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division      MG John A. McClernand until 2 May      BG John A. Logan until 4 May      BG Henry M. Judah until 2 June      BG Thomas A. Davies	1st Brigade    BG John A. Logan until 2 May    Col Michael K. Lawler until 4 May    BG John A. Logan	8th Illinois: Ltc Frank Rhoads 18th Illinois: Col Michael K. Lawler 30th Illinois: Col Elias Dennis 31st Illinois: Ltc Lyndorf Ozburn 12th Michigan: Col Francis Quinn
	2nd Brigade    Col C. Carroll Marsh until 4 May    Col Andrew J. Babcock	11th Illinois: Ltc Thomas E. G. Ransom 20th Illinois: Cpt Orton Frisbie 45th Illinois: Col John Eugene Smith 48th Illinois: Maj Manning Mayfield
	3rd Brigade    BG Leonard F. Ross	17th Illinois: Maj F. M. Smith 29th Illinois: Col Charles M. Ferrell 43rd Illinois: Col Adolph Englemann 49th Illinois: Maj W. W. Bishop 61st Illinois: Col Jacob Fry
	Artillery	1st Illinois, Battery D: Lt G. S. Wood 2nd Illinois, Battery E: Lt G. L. Nispel 14th Indiana Battery 14th Ohio Battery
	Cavalry	4th Illinois Cavalry, 1st Battalion: Ltc William McCullough Carmichael's Company Dollin's Company O'Hartnett's Company Stewart's Company: Cpt Warren Stewart
Third Division      MG Lewis Wallace	1st Brigade    Col Morgan L. Smith until 12 May    BG Alvin P. Hovey	11th Indiana: Col George Francis McGinnis 24th Indiana: Col Alvin P. Hovey 8th Missouri: Ltc James Peckham regiment transferred 15 May
	2nd Brigade    Col John M. Thayer	23rd Indiana: Col William L. Sanderson 1st Nebraska: Ltc Robert R. Livingston 20th Ohio: Ltc Manning F. Force 58th Ohio: Ltc Ferdinand F. Rempel
	3rd Brigade    Col Charles Whittlesey until May    Col Charles R. Woods	56th Ohio: Col Peter Kinney 68th Ohio: Col Samuel H. Steedman 76th Ohio: Maj Willard Warner 78th Ohio: Col Mortimer D. Leggett
	Artillery	1st Illinois Artillery, Battery A: Lt P. P. Wood 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery F 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery M: Cpt William Cogswell 9th Indiana Battery: Cpt N. S. Thompson 8th Ohio Battery: Lt J. W. Wellshear
	Cavalry    Cpt Otto Funke	11th Illinois, 3rd Battalion

Center (Army of the Ohio)

MG Don Carlos Buell

• Chief of Staff: Col James Barnet Fry
• Assistant Inspector General: Maj Adam J. Slemmer
• Assistant Inspector General: Cpt Charles Champion Gilbert
• Assistant Quartermaster: Cpt Alvan C. Gillem (until May 1862)
• Assistant Quartermaster: Cpt Andrew J. Mackay (May 1862)
• Chief Engineer: Cpt James St. Clair Morton

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Second Division      BG Alexander M. McCook	4th Brigade    BG Lovell H. Rousseau	15th U.S. Infantry, 1st Battalion: Maj. John H. King 16th U.S. Infantry, 1st Battalion: Cpt Edwin F. Townsend 19th U.S. Infantry, 1st Battalion: Stephen D. Carpenter 1st Ohio: Col Benjamin F. Smith 6th Indiana: Col Thomas Turpin Crittenden 5th Kentucky: Col Harvey M. Buckley
	5th Brigade    Col Frederick S. Stumbaugh	77th Pennsylvania: Col Frederick Stumbaugh 29th Indiana: Col John F. Miller 30th Indiana: Ltc Joseph B. Dodge 34th Illinois: Ltc Hiram Bristol
	6th Brigade    BG Richard W. Johnson	15th Ohio: Col Moses R. Dickey 49th Ohio: Col William Harvey Gibson 32nd Indiana: Col August Willich 39th Indiana: Col Thomas J. Harrison
	Artillery    Cpt William R. Terrill	Kentucky Battery Ohio Battery Pennsylvania Battery Battery H, 5th U.S. Artillery
Fourth Division      MG William "Bull" Nelson	10th Brigade    Col Jacob Ammen	36th Indiana: Col William Grose 17th Kentucky: Col John McHenry II 6th Ohio: Ltc Nicholas L. Anderson 24th Ohio: Ltc Frederick C. Jones
	19th Brigade    Col William B. Hazen	27th Kentucky: Col Charles D. Pennebaker 6th Kentucky: Col Walter C. Whitaker 41st Ohio: Ltc George Mygatt
	22nd Brigade    Col Thomas D. Sedgewick until 30 May    BG Mahlon D. Manson	31st Indiana: Ltc John Osborn 1st Kentucky: Col David Enyart 2nd Kentucky: Ltc Warner Spencer; Col Thomas D. Sedgewick 20th Kentucky: Ltc Charles S. Hanson
	Artillery	Battery I, 4th U.S. Artillery: Capt John Mendenhall
	Cavalry    Ltc Edward M. McCook	2nd Indiana Cavalry: Ltc Edward M. McCook 3rd Indiana Cavalry, one company
Fifth Division      BG Thomas L. Crittenden	11th Brigade    BG Jeremiah T. Boyle until 27 May    Col Samuel Beatty	19th Ohio: Col Samuel Beatty 59th Ohio: Col James P. Fyffe 9th Kentucky: Col Benjamin C. Grider 13th Kentucky: Col Edward H. Hobson
	14th Brigade    BG Horatio P. Van Cleve	13th Ohio: Col William Sooy Smith 11th Kentucky: Col Pierce B. Hawkins 26th Kentucky: Col Stephen G. Burbridge
	Cavalry    Col James S. Jackson	3rd Kentucky Cavalry
	Artillery	Battery G, 1st Ohio Light Artillery Battery H, 4th U.S. Artillery Battery M, 4th U.S. Artillery
Sixth Division      BG Thomas J. Wood	15th Brigade    BG Milo Hascall	17th Indiana: Col John T. Wilder 58th Indiana: Col George P. Buell 3rd Kentucky: Col Thomas E. Bramlette 26th Ohio: Col Edward P. Fyffe 8th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
	20th Brigade    BG James A. Garfield	51st Indiana: Col Abel Streight 13th Michigan: Col Michael Shoemaker 64th Ohio: Col John Ferguson 65th Ohio: Col Charles G. Harker
	21st Brigade    Col George D. Wagner	15th Indiana: Col Gustavus A. Wood 57th Indiana: Col Cyrus Hines 24th Kentucky: Col Louis Grisgsby

Left Wing (Army of the Mississippi)

MG John Pope

• Chief of Staff: BG Washington L. Elliott after 12 June
• Assistant Adjutant General: Maj Speed Butler
• Assistant Inspector General: Maj John M. Corse
• Assistant Quartermaster: Cpt Philip H. Sheridan

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cavalry Division      BG Gordon Granger	1st Brigade    Col William P. Kellogg until 1 June    Col John K. Mizner	3rd Michigan Cavalry: Ltc Robert Horatio George Minty 7th Illinois Cavalry: Col William P. Kellogg
	2nd Brigade    Col Washington Lafayette Elliott until 1 June    Col Philip H. Sheridan	2nd Iowa Cavalry: Ltc Edward Hatch 2nd Michigan Cavalry: Col Philip H. Sheridan appointed 25 May
	Artillery	Powell's Battery
Reporting Directly	Artillery Brigade    Ltc Warren L. Lothrop	2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery I: Capt C.M. Barnett 1st Missouir Light Artillery, Battery M: Capt A.M. Powell Wisconsin Light Artillery, 5th Battery: Capt O.F. Pinney
	Unattached Units	Missouri Engineers: Col Josiah W. Bissell 1st U.S. Infantry: Capt G.A. Williams 4th U.S. Cavalry: Capt E.W. Crittenden
	Reserve Brigade    Col William P. Carlin	21st Illinois: Ltc George Peck 38th Illinois: Ltc Daniel H. Gilmer Hotchkiss’ Battery

Right Wing

MG William S. Rosecrans assigned 29 May

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division      BG Eleazar Paine	1st Brigade    BG John M. Palmer	22nd Illinois: Ltc Harrison E. Hart 27th Illinois: Ltc Fazilo Harrington 42nd Illinois: Col George W. Roberts 51st Illinois: Col Gilbert W. Cumming Houghtaling’s Battery
	2nd Brigade    Col James D. Morgan until 1 May    BG Daniel Tyler	10th Illinois: Ltc John Tillson, Col James D. Morgan 16th Illinois: Col Robert F. Smith 10th Michigan: Col Charles M. Lum 14th Michigan: Col Robert P. Sinclair Yates’ Sharpshooters: Ltc Williams
	Artillery	1st Illinois, Battery C 1st Missouri, Battery G
Second Division      BG David S. Stanley	1st Brigade    Col John Groesbeck until 8 July    Col J. L. Kirby Smith	27th Ohio: Col John W. Fuller 39th Ohio: Col John Groesbeck, Ltc Alfred W. Gilbert 43rd Ohio: Col J.L. Kirby Smith 63rd Ohio: Col John W. Sprague
	2nd Brigade    BG Joseph B. Plummer until 29 May    Col Robert C. Murphy	26th Illinois: Col John M. Loomis 47th Illinois: Col William Thrush 5th Minnesota: Col Borgersode (joined 10-24 May 1862) 11th Missouri: Col Joseph A. Mower 8th Wisconsin: Col Robert C. Murphy
	Artillery	2nd Iowa Battery 1st Michigan, Battery C 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery F

Left Wing

BG Schuyler Hamilton assigned 29 May

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Third Division      BG Schuyler Hamilton until 29 May      BG Joseph B. Plummer	1st Brigade    BG Napoleon B. Buford	48th Indiana: Col Norman Eddy 59th Indiana: Col Jesse I. Alexander 5th Iowa: Col William H. Worthington (k) 22 May 1862, Ltc Karl Leopold Matthias 4th Minnesota: Col John B. Sanborn 26th Missouri: Col John Henry Holman
	2nd Brigade    Col Nicholas Perczel	56th Illinois: Ltc W.R. Brown 10th Iowa: Ltc W.E. Small 10th Missouri: Col Samuel Holmes 26th Missouri: Col George Boomer 80th Ohio: Col Ephraim R. Eckley
	Artillery	11th Ohio Battery: Cap Frank C. Sands Battery G, 1st Missouri Light Artillery Buell’s Battery Missouri Light Artillery 6th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery 12th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery 2nd Battery, Iowa Light Artillery
Fourth Division      BG Jefferson C. Davis	1st Brigade    BG Robert B. Mitchell	22nd Indiana: Maj Michael Gooding 59th Illinois: Col Philip Sidney Post
	Asboth's Brigade    BG Alexander Asboth	2nd Missouri: Col Frederick Schaefer 15th Missouri: Col Francis Joliat 36th Illinois: Col Nicholas Greusel 44th Illinois: Col Charles Knoblesdorf
Fifth Division created 1 June      BG Alexander Asboth	1st Brigade    Col Nicholas Greusel	36th Illinois: Col Nicholas Greusel 44th Illinois: Col Charles Knoblesdorf
	2nd Brigade    Ltc Bernard Laiboldt	2nd Missouri: Maj Francis Ehrler 15th Missouri: Maj Joseph Conrad

Sources

• U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
• Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
• Dyer, Frederick H. A compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Volume 1, Des Moines IA: The Dyer Publishing Co.. 1908

• Abstract from returns of the Armies of the Mississippi and of the Tennessee and of the District of the Ohio for May 31 and June 1, 1862
• Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
• Official Records, Series I, Volume X, Part 2, pages 147-154 (April 30, 1862) and pages 185-188 (May 13, 1862)
• Special Field Orders No. 35
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter XXVI Grant was named Second in Command of the whole army group and was also specifically in command of the Right Wing and Reserves. Halleck moved his headquarters with the Right Wing during the operation.
• Grant retained general command of the Dist. of West Tennessee which included all the divisions of Army of the Tennessee now divided between the Right Wing directly under George H. Thomas and Reserves directly under John A. McClernand. Special Field Orders No. 35
• Organization of the Army of the Tennessee April 30, 1862
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter XXVI
• Organization of the Right Wing, Left Wing and Reserve, in front of Corinth MS, May 13, 1862
• The First Division, Army of the Ohio was also known as the 7th Division, Army of the Tennessee Organization of the Right Wing, Left Wing and Reserves, 13 May 1862
• The "Union Brigade" was a regiment size command, led by John P. Coulter of the 12th Iowa, composed of members of 8th, 12th and 14th Iowa and 58th Illinois regiments who escaped capture in the Hornet's Nest at Shiloh.
• Owing to the reduced regimental strength, the 5th Division was reorganized into three brigades instead of four on 15 May 1862. Orders No. 25
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• McClernand's Official Report
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• Logan's Official Report
• page 479
• transferred from 3rd Brigade May 1862
• Organization of the Army of the Ohio, April 30, 1862; Organization of the Army of the Ohio, June 10, 1862
• McCook's Official Records
• Nelson's Official Report
• Sedgewick's Official Report
• Official Records
• Crittenden's Official Report
• Crittenden's Division was originally assigned to the Reserves but was reattached to Buell's command before it could be transferred
• Beatty's Official Report
• Eicher p.315
• Wood's Official Report
• Organization of the Right Wing, Left Wing and Reserve, in front of Corinth, MS, May 13, 1862
• Organization of the Army of the Mississippi April 30, 1862
• Granger's Official Report
• page 479
• Carlin's Reserve Brigade was reassigned as the 2nd Brigade in Jefferson C Davis' 4th Division on 1 June (Eicher p.163)
• General Orders, HQ Army of the Mississippi
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• Dyer p. 477
• Dyer p. 477
• Dyer p. 477
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• Joined 25 May; reorganized as 5th Division on 1 June at which time Carlin's Reserve Brigade became the 2nd Brigade, 4th Division.
• A compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Volume 1 p. 478