Battle of Fredericksburg order of battle: Union
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War . Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1] [2] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used
Military ranks
Other
Army of the Potomac
MG Ambrose Burnside , Commanding
General Headquarters units
Escort:
Provost Guard: BG Marsena R. Patrick
Volunteer Engineer Brigade: BG Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Artillery Reserve: Ltc William Hays
5th Battery, New York Light : Cpt Elijah D. Taft
Battery A, 1st Battalion New York Light : Cpt Otto Diederichs
Battery B, 1st Battalion New York Light: Cpt Adolph Voegelee
Battery C, 1st Battalion New York Light: Lt Bernhard Wever
Battery D, 1st Battalion New York Light: Cpt Charles Kusserow
Battery K, 1st United States : Cpt William M. Graham
Battery A, 2nd United States: Cpt John C. Tidball
Battery G, 4th United States : Lt Marcus P. Miller
Battery K, 5th United States : Lt David H. Kinzie
32nd Massachusetts Infantry, Company C: Cpt Josiah C. Fuller
Unattached Artillery: Maj Thomas S. Trumbull
Right Grand Division
MG Edwin Vose Sumner
II Corps
MG Darius N. Couch
IX Corps
BG Orlando B. Willcox
Escort
6th New York Cavalry, Company B: Cpt Hillman A. Hall
6th New York Cavalry, Company C: Cpt William L. Heermance
Cavalry Division
BG Alfred Pleasonton
Center Grand Division
MG Joseph Hooker
III Corps
BG George Stoneman
V Corps
MG Daniel Butterfield
Left Grand Division
MG William B. Franklin
Escort
I Corps
MG John F. Reynolds
Escort
VI Corps
MG William F. Smith
Escort
10th New York Cavalry , Company L: Lt George Vanderbilt
6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company I: Cpt James Starr
6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company K: Cpt Frederick C. Newhall
Reserve Grand Division
Further information :[16]
XI Corps
BG Julius Stahel [17]
XII Corps
MG Henry Warner Slocum
Escort
Division
Brigade
Regiments and Others
First Division
BG Alpheus S. Williams
1st Brigade
Col Joseph F. Knipe
2nd Brigade
BG Thomas L. Kane
3rd Brigade
BG John K. Murphy
Artillery[24]
Cpt Robert H. Fitzugh
1st New York, Battery K: Ltc E. L. Bailey
1st New York, Battery M: Ltc C. E. Winegar
4th United States, Battery F: Ltc E. D. Muhlenberg
Cavalry
Second Division
BG John W. Geary
1st Brigade
BG Charles Candy
2nd Brigade
Col Joseph M. Sudsburg
3rd Brigade
BG George S. Greene
Artillery
Maj L. Kieffer
6th Maine Battery : Lt Edwin B. Dow
Pennsylvania Battery E: Cpt J. M. Knap
Pennsylvania Battery F: Cpt R. B. Hampton
Cavalry
Notes
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXI, Part 1, pages 48-61
^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
^ Temporarily attached to Second Brigade.
^ Disabled.
^ Transferred from Second Brigade, December 13.
^ Chief of the corps artillery.
^ Captain John Edwards,jr.,chief of the corps artillery.
^ Succeeded BG Bayard in command of the Cavalry Brigade, Left Grand Division.
^ Captain La Rhett L. Livingston, chief of the corps artillery.
^ Disabled December 13.
^ Captain Stephen H. Weed,chief of the corps artillery.
^ Chief of artillery, Second Division.
^ Chief of artillery, Third Division.
^ Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, chief of the corps artillery.
^ Captain Romeyn B. Ayres, chief of the corps artillery.
^ Reserve Grand Division not engaged.
^ XI Corps: Headquarters Stafford Court-House, Va.
^ Headquarters Stafford Court-House, Va.
^ December 10-16, marched from Chantilly to Falmouth; December 17, marched to Stafford Court-House.
^ Headquarters at Falmouth, Va., December 10-14, marched from Germantown to Stafford Court-House.
^ One copy of the monthly return reports Col A. Buschbeck as commanding.
^ Headquarters at Stafford Court-House.
^ December 10-14, marched from Centreville to Stafford Court-House.
^ Cpt Clermont L. Best, chief of corps artillery.
References
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.
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: Return of casualties in the Union forces commanded by Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, U. S. Army, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 11-15, 1862.
National Park Service: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (Fredericksburg Union order of battle).
Civil War Home: Fredericksburg Union order of battle