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Gettysburg Union order of battle

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The Union order of battle during the Battle of Gettysburg includes the American Civil War officers and men of the Army of the Potomac (multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the three-day battle (July 1–3, 1863). Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle, the casualty returns and the reports.

Contents

Military rank

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

  • w = wounded
  • mw = mortally wounded
  • k = killed
  • c = captured
  • m = missing
  • Army of the Potomac

    MG George G. Meade, Commanding

    General Staff and Headquarters


    General Staff:

  • Chief of Staff: MG Daniel Butterfield (w)
  • Assistant Adjutant General: BG Seth Williams
  • Assistant Inspector General: Col Edmund Schriver
  • Chief Quartermaster: BG Rufus Ingalls
  • Commissaries and subsistence: Col Henry F. Clarke
  • Chief of Artillery: BG Henry J. Hunt (w)
  • Chief Ordnance Officer: Cpt Daniel W. Flagler
  • Chief Signal Officer: Cpt Lemuel B. Norton
  • Medical Director: Maj Jonathan Letterman
  • Chief of Engineers: BG Gouverneur K. Warren (w)
  • Bureau of Military Information: Col George H. Sharpe

  • General Headquarters:


    Command of the Provost Marshal General: BG Marsena R. Patrick

  • 93rd New York: Col John S. Crocker
  • 8th United States (8 companies): Cpt Edwin W. H. Read
  • 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col Richard Butler Price
  • 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Companies E & I): Cpt James Starr
  • Regular cavalry

  • Guards and Orderlies:

  • Oneida (New York) Cavalry: Cpt Daniel P. Mann

  • Engineer Brigade: BG Henry W. Benham

  • 15th New York (3 companies): Maj Walter L. Cassin
  • 50th New York: Col William H. Pettes
  • U.S. Battalion: Cpt George H. Mendell
  • I Corps

    MG John F. Reynolds (k)
    MG Abner Doubleday
    MG John Newton
    General Headquarters:

  • 1st Maine Cavalry, Company L: Cpt Constantine Taylor
  • II Corps

    MG Winfield S. Hancock (w)
    BG John Gibbon
    BG William Hays
    General Headquarters:

  • 6th New York Cavalry, Companies D and K: Cpt Riley Johnson (Escort)
  • 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry , Companies A, B and K: Maj Octavus Bull (Provost Marshal 2nd Corps)
  • III Corps

    MG Daniel E. Sickles (w)
    MG David B. Birney (w)

    V Corps

    MG George Sykes

    General Headquarters:

  • 12th New York Infantry (Companies D and E): Cpt Henry W. Ryder
  • 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Companies D and H: Cpt William Thompson
  • VI Corps

    MG John Sedgwick

    General Headquarters:

  • 1st New Jersey Cavalry, Company L and 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company H: Cpt William S. Craft
  • XI Corps

    MG Oliver O. Howard
    MG Carl Schurz

    General Headquarters:

  • 1st Indiana Cavalry, Companies I and K: Cpt Abram Sharra
  • 8th New York Infantry (1 company): Lt Hermann Foerster
  • XII Corps

    MG Henry W. Slocum
    BG Alpheus S. Williams

    Provost Guard:

  • 10th Maine Battalion (3 companies): Cpt John D. Beardsley
  • Cavalry Corps

    MG Alfred Pleasonton

    Headquarter Guards:

  • 1st Ohio, Company A: Cpt Noah Jones (Second Division)
  • 1st Ohio, Company C: Cpt Samuel N. Stanford (Third Division)
  • Artillery Reserve

    BG Robert O. Tyler
    Cpt James M. Robertson

    Headquarter Guard:

  • 32nd Massachusetts Infantry, Company C: Cpt Josiah C. Fuller
  • References

    Gettysburg Union order of battle Wikipedia