Siege of Corinth order of battle: Union

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.^[1][2] The Confederate order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the siege.^[3]

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^[4]

• Second-in-Command: MG Ulysses S. Grant^[5]
• 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

Main article: Army of the Tennessee

MG Ulysses S. Grant^[6][7]

• 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)

Main article: Army of the Tennessee

MG George H. Thomas^[8][9]

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

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division (Army of the Ohio)[10]      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 Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
	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 Richard H. Huston 7th Iowa: Col Elliott Warren Rice "Union Brigade": Ltc John P. Coulter[11] 8th Iowa, Detachment 12th Iowa, Detachment 14th Iowa, Detachment: Cpt Robert 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 (22nd Ohio): 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 Edwin A. Bowen 57th Illinois: Ltc Frederick J. Hurlbut
	Artillery    Maj John S. Cavender	Battery D, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Henry Richardson Battery H, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Battery I, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt James T. Buel Battery K, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt George H. Stone 2nd Michigan Battery
	Cavalry	2nd Illinois Cavalry, 1 squadron: Cpt John R. Hotaling 5th Ohio Cavalry, 3rd Battalion: Maj Charles S. Hayes 4th U.S. Cavalry, Company I: Lt James 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 William 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 L and B: Cpt William H. Bolton 1st Missouri, Battery C: Cpt Charles Mann 15th Ohio Battery: Cpt Edward Spear
	Cavalry	5th Ohio Cavalry, 1st and 2nd Battalions: Col William H.H. Taylor
Fifth Division      MG William T. Sherman[12]	1st Brigade    Col John A. McDowell until 12 May    Col Morgan L. Smith	Before 15 May 40th Illinois: Ltc James 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 54th Ohio: Col Thomas Kilby Smith After 15 May 40th Illinois: Ltc James W. Booth 6th Iowa: Cpt Madison M. 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[13]	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: Cpt 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 Richard S. Robbins 70th Ohio: Col Joseph R. Cockerill 72nd Ohio: Cpt Charles G. Eaton Discontinued 15 May
	Artillery    Maj Ezra Taylor	1st Illinois Artillery, Battery B: Cpt Samuel E. Barrett 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery E: Lt John A. Fitch 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery H: Cpt Axel Silverparre 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 Christian 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 Robert 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 John 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    Cpt Andrew Hickenlooper	Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery: Lt Christian D. Bliss 1st Minnesota Battery: Lt William Pfaender 3rd Ohio Battery: Cpt William S. Williams 5th Ohio Battery: Lt Lewis C. Sawyer 10th Ohio Battery: Cpt Hamilton B. White
	Cavalry	11th Illinois Cavalry, 1st and 2nd Battalions: Col Robert G. Ingersoll

Reserves (Army of the Tennessee)

MG John A. McClernand^[14][15]

• 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[16]    Col Michael K. Lawler until 4 May    BG John A. Logan	8th Illinois: Ltc Frank L. 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[17]	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 Francis M. Smith 29th Illinois: Col Charles M. Ferrell 43rd Illinois: Col Adolph Englemann 49th Illinois: Maj William W. Bishop 61st Illinois: Col Jacob Fry
	Artillery	1st Illinois, Battery D: Lt G. S. Wood 2nd Illinois, Battery E: Lt George 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[18] 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 Peter P. Wood 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery F Cogswell's Illinois Battery: Cpt William Cogswell 9th Indiana Battery: Cpt Noah S. Thompson 8th Ohio Battery: Lt John W. Wellshear
	Cavalry	11th Illinois Cavalry, 3rd Battalion: Cpt Otto Funke

Center (Army of the Ohio)

Main article: Army of the Ohio

MG Don Carlos Buell^[19]

• 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[20]	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	Battery A, Kentucky Light Artillery Ohio Battery Pennsylvania Battery Battery H, 5th U.S. Artillery
Fourth Division      MG William "Bull" Nelson[21]	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	6th Kentucky: Col Walter C. Whitaker 27th Kentucky: Col Charles D. Pennebaker 41st Ohio: Ltc George Mygatt
	22nd Brigade    Col Thomas D. Sedgewick[22] 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: Cpt John Mendenhall[23]
	Cavalry    Ltc Edward M. McCook	2nd Indiana Cavalry: Ltc Edward M. McCook 3rd Indiana Cavalry, one company
Fifth Division      BG Thomas L. Crittenden[24][25]	11th Brigade    BG Jeremiah T. Boyle until 27 May    Col Samuel Beatty[26]	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	3rd Kentucky Cavalry: Col James S. Jackson[27]
	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[28]	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 Indiana Battery
	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)

Main article: Army of the Mississippi

MG John Pope^[29][30]

• 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[31]	1st Brigade    Col William P. Kellogg until 1 June[32]    Col John K. Mizner	3rd Michigan Cavalry: Ltc Robert H.G. 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	Reserve Brigade[33]    Col William P. Carlin	21st Illinois: Ltc George Peck 38th Illinois: Ltc Daniel H. Gilmer Hotchkiss’ Minnesota Battery
	Artillery Brigade    Ltc Warren L. Lothrop	2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery I: Cpt Charles M. Barnett Battery M, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Albert M. Powell 5th Wisconsin Battery: Cpt Oscar F. Pinney
	Unattached Units	Missouri Engineers: Col Josiah W. Bissell 1st U.S. Infantry: Cpt George A. Williams 4th U.S. Cavalry: Cpt Eugene W. Crittenden

Right Wing

MG William S. Rosecrans^[34] assigned 29 May

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division      BG Eleazar Paine[35]	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
	2nd Brigade    Col James D. Morgan until 1 May    BG Daniel Tyler[36]	10th Illinois: Ltc John Tillson, Col James D. Morgan 16th Illinois: Col Robert F. Smith 60th Illinois: Col Silas C. Toler 10th Michigan: Col Charles M. Lum 14th Michigan: Col Robert P. Sinclair Yates’ Sharpshooters: Ltc David E. Williams
	Artillery	1st Illinois, Battery C 1st Missouri Artillery, Battery G
Second Division      BG David S. Stanley	1st Brigade    Col John Groesbeck until 8 July[37]    Col Joseph 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[38]	26th Illinois: Col John M. Loomis 47th Illinois: Col William Thrush 5th Minnesota: Col Rudolph von 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^[39] 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 H. Holman
	2nd Brigade    Col Nicholas Perczel	56th Illinois: Ltc William R. Brown 10th Iowa: Ltc William E. Small 10th Missouri: Col Samuel Holmes 26th Missouri: Col George B. 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 Wisconsin Battery 12th Wisconsin Battery
Fourth Division      BG Jefferson C. Davis[40]	1st Brigade    BG Robert B. Mitchell	22nd Indiana: Maj Michael Gooding 59th Illinois: Col Philip S. Post
	Asboth's Brigade[41]    BG Alexander Asboth	2nd Missouri: Col Frederick Schaefer 15th Missouri: Col Francis Joliat 36th Illinois: Col Nicholas Greusel 44th Illinois: Col Charles Knobelsdorff
Fifth Division[42] created 1 June      BG Alexander Asboth	1st Brigade    Col Nicholas Greusel	36th Illinois: Col Nicholas Greusel 44th Illinois: Col Charles Knobelsdorff
	2nd Brigade    Ltc Bernard Laiboldt	2nd Missouri: Maj Francis Ehrler 15th Missouri: Maj Joseph Conrad