Battle of Perryville order of battle: Union

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Perryville of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organizationOfficial Records, Series I, Volume XVI, Part 2, pages 591-596.Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign. during the battle and return of casualties.Official Records, Series I, Volume XVI, Part 1, pages 1033-1036. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank MG = Major General BG = Brigadier General Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel Maj = Major Cpt = Captain Lt = 1st Lieutenant 2Lt = 2nd Lieutenant Sgt = Sergeant Bvt = Brevet

Artillery 10-pdr Par = 10-pounder Parrott rifle 12-pdr How = M1841 12-pounder howitzer 12-pdr Mtn = M1841 mountain howitzer 12-pdr Nap = M1857 12-pounder Napoleon 24-pdr How = M1841 24-pounder howitzer 3" R = 3-inch Ordnance rifle 6-pdr SB = M1841 6-pounder field gun Jam R = 14-pounder James rifle How = howitzer pdr = pound (projectile weight) R = rifled gun SB = smoothbore gun

Other w = wounded mw = mortally wounded k = killed c = captured m = missing

Army of the Ohio

55,000 men, 147 guns (k-889, w-2966, m-433 = 4,288)

MG Don Carlos Buell, Commanding MG George Henry Thomas, second in command

Escort: Anderson Troop, Pennsylvania Cavalry: 2Lt Thomas S. Maple 4th US Cavalry (Companies B, C, D, G, I, & K): Ltc James Oakes

Signal detachment: Cpt Jesse Merrill

I Corps

13,000 men, 38 guns (k-695, w-2290, m-346 = 3,331)

MG Alexander McDowell McCook

Chief of Staff: Ltc James Vote Bomford (w)

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersThird Division24 guns, k-494, w-1517, m-148 = 2,159

BG Lovell Harrison Rousseau

Escort: 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics (Companies A, C, & H): Maj Enos Hopkins 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (6 companies): Col Buckner Board 9th Brigadek-142, w-427, m-39 = 608

Col Leonard A. Harris 38th Indiana: Col Benjamin Franklin Scribner (w) 2nd Ohio: Ltc John Kell 33rd Ohio: Ltc Oscar Fitzallen Moore (w) 94th Ohio: Col Joseph Washington Frizell 10th Wisconsin: Col Alfred Rose Chapin 5th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [2 6-pdr M1841 Jam R, 2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr SB]: Cpt Peter Simonson 17th Brigadek-187, w-614, m-35 = 836

Col William Haines Lytle (w/c)   Col Curran Pope (w)Pope died in Danville, Kentucky on November 6, 1862 of symptoms "resembling typhoid fever" 42nd Indiana: Col James Garrard Jones 88th Indiana: Col George Humphrey 15th Kentucky: Col Curran Pope (w), Ltc George Payne Jouett (mw) 3rd Ohio: Col John Beatty 10th Ohio: Ltc Joseph Walter Burke 1st Michigan Light Artillery, Battery "A" [6 10-pdr Par]: Cpt Cyrus Orlando Loomis 28th Brigadek-165, w-458, m-70 = 693

Col John Converse Starkweather 24th Illinois: Cpt August Mauff 79th Pennsylvania: Col Henry Augustus Hambright 1st Wisconsin: Ltc George B. Bingham 21st Wisconsin: Col Benjamin Jeffrey Sweet (w) 4th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [2 6-pdr M1841 Jam R, 2 6-pdr SB, 2 12-pdr How]: Cpt Asahel Kidder Bush 1st Kentucky Light Artillery, Battery "A" [2 6-pdr M1841 Jam R, 2 6-pdr SB, 2 10-pdr Par]: Cpt David C. StoneTenth Division14 guns, k-201, w-773, m-198 = 1,172

BG James Streshly Jackson (k)     Col Albert Sereno Hall 33rd Brigadek-112, w-356, m-59 = 527

BG William Rufus Terrill (mw)

Escort: Terrill's Guards & Scouts: Cpt Louis Christman Garrard's Detachment (7th Kentucky, 1 company; 32nd Kentucky, 1 company; 3rd Tennessee, 1 company): Col Theophilus Toulmin Garrard 80th Illinois: Col Thomas G. Allen (w) 123rd Illinois: Col James Monroe 101st Indiana: Col William Garver [not engaged; supply train guard] 105th Ohio: Col Albert Sereno Hall, Ltc William R. Tolles Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery [1 section, attached to Parsons' Battery]: 2Lt Nathaniel M. Newell Parsons' Independent Battery [5 12-pdr Nap, 2 12-pdr How, 1 10-pdr Par]: Lt Charles Carroll Parsons 34th Brigadek-89, w-417, m-139 = 645

Col George P. Webster (k)

Ltc Silas A. StricklandEicher p.516 80th Indiana: Ltc Lewis Brooks 50th Ohio: Col Jonah R. Taylor,Fled the field at the onset of battle Ltc Silas A. Strickland 98th Ohio: Ltc Christian L. Poorman 121st Ohio: Col William Pitt Reid 19th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [4 12-pdr How, 2 3" R]: Cpt Samuel J. Harris

II Corps

20,000 men, 65 guns (k-2, w-4, m-6 = 12)

MG Thomas Leonidas Crittenden

Escort: 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics (Companies B, E, I, & K): Col William Power Innes 1st Ohio Cavalry (4 companies): Maj James Laughlin 3rd Ohio Cavalry (4 companies): Maj John Howard Foster

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersFourth Division 27 guns, k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0

BG William Sooy Smith

Escort: 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (4 companies): Ltc Thomas Cochran 10th Brigade

Col William Grose 84th Illinois: Col Louis H. Waters 36th Indiana: Ltc Oliver Hazard Perry Cary 23rd Kentucky: Ltc John P. Jackson 6th Ohio: Col Nicholas Longworth Anderson 24th Ohio: Ltc Frederick C. Jones 4th US Light Artillery, Battery "H" [4 12-pdr Nap, 2 10-pdr Par]: Bvt Lt Samuel Canby 4th US Light Artillery, Battery "M" [2 sections; 2 12-pdr Nap, 2 24-pdr How]: Cpt John Mendenhall 19th Brigade

Col William Babcock Hazen 110th Illinois: Col Thomas S. Casey 9th Indiana: Col William H. Blake 6th Kentucky: Col Walter Chiles Whitaker 27th Kentucky: Col Charles D. Pennebaker 41st Ohio: Col George S. Mygatt 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery "F" [6 12-pdr How, 5 6-pdr M1841 Jam R]: Cpt Daniel T. Cockerill 22nd Brigade

BG Charles Cruft 31st Indiana: Col John Osborn 1st Kentucky: Ltc David A. Enyart 2nd Kentucky: Col Thomas D. Sedgewick 20th Kentucky: Ltc Charles S. Hanson 90th Ohio: Col Isaac N. Ross 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery "B" [4 6-pdr M1841 Jam R, 2 6-pdr SB]: Cpt William E. StandartFifth Division 18 guns, k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0

BG Horatio Phillips Van Cleve 11th Brigade

Col Samuel Beatty 79th Indiana: Col Frederick Knefler 9th Kentucky: Ltc George Henry Cram 13th Kentucky: Ltc John B. Carlisle 19th Ohio: Ltc Elliott Woodbridge Hollingsworth 59th Ohio: Col James P. Fyffe 7th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [2 12-pdr How, 4 10-pdr Par]: Cpt George Ransom Swallow 14th Brigade

Col Pierce Butler Hawkins 44th Indiana: Col Hugh B. Reed 86th Indiana: Col Orville S. Hamilton 11th Kentucky: Ltc Smoloff Pallas Love 26th Kentucky: Col Cicero Maxwell 13th Ohio: Col Joseph C. Hawkins Battery B, Pennsylvania Light Artillery [6 6-pdr SB]: Lt Alanson Stevens 23rd Brigade

Col Stanley Matthews 35th Indiana: Col Bernard Francis Mullen 8th Kentucky: Col Sidney M. Barnes 21st Kentucky: Col Samuel Woodson Price 51st Ohio: Ltc Richard W. McClain 99th Ohio: Ltc John E. Cummins 3rd Wisconsin Battery Light Artillery [4 10-pdr Par, 2 12 pdr How]: Cpt Lucius H. DrurySixth Division 18 guns, k-0, w-0, m-2 = 2

BG Thomas John Wood 15th Brigade k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0

BG Milo Smith Hascall 100th Illinois: Col Frederick Bartleson 17th Indiana: Ltc George W. Gorman 58th Indiana: Col George Pearson Buell 3rd Kentucky: Ltc William Scott 26th Ohio: Maj Christopher M. Degenfeld 8th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [2 12-pdr How, 4 10-pdr Par]: Lt George Estep 20th Brigade k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0

Col Charles Garrison Harker 51st Indiana: Col Abel D. Streight 73rd Indiana: Col Gilbert Hathaway 13th Michigan: Ltc Frederick William Wordon 64th Ohio: Col John Ferguson 65th Ohio: Ltc William Young 6th Ohio Light Artillery [2 12-pdr How, 4 10-pdr Par]: Cpt Cullen Bradley 21st Brigade k-0, w-0, m-2 = 2

Col George Day Wagner 15th Indiana: Ltc Gustavus Adolphus Wood 40th Indiana: Col John Wesley Blake 57th Indiana: Col Cyrus Cooke Hines 24th Kentucky: Col Lewis Braxton Grigsby 97th Ohio: Col John Quincy Lane 10th Indiana Battery Light Artillery [2 12-pdr How, 4 10-pdr Par]: Cpt Jerome B. Cox Cavalry McCook's Cavalry Brigade k-2, w-4, m-4 = 10

Col Edward Moody McCook 2nd Indiana Cavalry: Ltc Robert Reed Stewart 1st Kentucky Cavalry: Col Frank Lane Wolford 3rd Kentucky Cavalry: Col Eli Houston Murray 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 1st Battalion: Maj John Estill Wynkoop 4th US Light Artillery, Battery "M" [1 section; 2 12-pdr Nap]: Lt Henry Alonzo Huntington

III Corps

22,000 men, 44 guns (k-192, w-672, m-80 = 944)

MG Charles Champion Gilbert

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersFirst Division 14 guns, k-4, w-14, m-7 = 25

BG Albin Francisco Schoepf

Escort: 1st Ohio Cavalry (6 companies): Col Minor Millikin 1st Brigade k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0

Col Moses B. Walker 82nd Indiana: Col Morton Craig Hunter 12th Kentucky: Col William Hoskins 17th Ohio: Col John M. Connell 31st Ohio: Ltc Frederick William Lister 38th Ohio: Ltc William Alden Choate 1st Michigan Light Artillery, Battery "D" [2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr M1841 R]: Cpt Josiah W. Church2nd Brigade k-4, w-7, m-0 = 11

BG Speed Smith Fry 10th Indiana: Col William Coalbaugh Kise 74th Indiana: Col Charles Warner Chapman 4th Kentucky: Col John Thomas Croxton 10th Kentucky: Ltc William Hercules Hays 14th Ohio: Ltc George P. Este 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery "C" [2 12-pdr How, 4 6-pdr M1841 Jam R]: Cpt Daniel K. Southwick3rd Brigade k-0, w-7, m-7 = 14

BG James Blair Steedman 87th Indiana: Col Kline Godfrey Shryock 2nd Minnesota: Col James George 9th Ohio: Ltc Charles Joseph 35th Ohio: Col Ferdinand Van Derveer 18th US: Maj Frederick Townsend 4th US Light Artillery, Battery "I" [4 12-pdr How]: Lt Frank G. SmithNinth Division 16 guns, k-133, w-356, m-58 = 547

BG Robert Byington Mitchell

Escort: Sherer's Independent Cavalry Company: Cpt Samuel B. Sherer 2nd Kansas Cavalry (detachment, 150 men): Sgt Hugh Quinn 30th Brigade k-133, w-344, m-58 = 535

Col Michael Gooding (w/c) 59th Illinois: Maj Joshua Carroll Winters 74th Illinois: Col James B. Kerr (not engaged; supply train guard) 75th Illinois: Ltc John E. Bennett 22nd Indiana: Ltc Squire Isham Keith (k) 5th Wisconsin Battery Light Artillery [2 10-pdr Par, 2 12-pdr How, 2 12-pdr Mtn]: Cpt Oscar F. Pinney 31st Brigade k-0, w-11, m-0 = 11

Col William Passmore Carlin 21st Illinois: Col John Washington Shields Alexander 38th Illinois: Maj Daniel H. Gilmer 101st Ohio: Col Leander Stem 15th Wisconsin: Col Hans Christian Heg 2nd Minnesota Battery Light Artillery [2 sections; 4 12-pdr How]: Lt Richard L. Dawley 32nd Brigade k-0, w-1, m-0 = 1

Col William Wallace Caldwell 25th Illinois: Ltc James McClelland 35th Illinois: Ltc William P. Chandler 81st Indiana: Ltc John Timberlake 8th Kansas (5 companies): Ltc John Alexander Martin 8th Wisconsin Battery Light Artillery [2 12-pdr Nap, 4 3" R]: Cpt Stephen J. CarpenterEleventh Division 12 guns, k-51, w-288, m-14 = 353

BG Philip Henry Sheridan

Escort: Company L, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry: 35th Brigade k-22, w-102, m-1 = 125

Ltc Bernard Laiboldt 44th Illinois: Cpt Wallace W. Barrett 73rd Illinois: Col James F. Jaquess 2nd Missouri: Cpt Walter Hoppe (k) 15th Missouri: Maj John Weber 36th Brigade k-8, w-62, m-9 = 79

Col Daniel McCook, Jr. 85th Illinois: Col Robert S. Moore 86th Illinois: Col David D. Irons 125th Illinois: Col Oscar Fitzalan Harmon 52nd Ohio: Ltc Daniel D. T. Cowen 37th Brigade k-21, w-118, m-4 = 143

Col Nicholas Greusel 36th Illinois: Cpt Silas Miller 88th Illinois: Col Francis Trowbridge Sherman 21st Michigan: Col Ambrose A. Stevens (w) 24th Wisconsin: Col Charles Hathaway Larrabee Artillery 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery "I" [2 12-pdr Nap, 2 10-pdr Par, 2 6-pdr M1841 Jam R]: Cpt Charles M. Barnett 1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery "G" [4 12-pdr Nap, 2 10-pdr Par]: Cpt Henry Hescock Cavalry Gay's Cavalry Brigade k-4, w-14, m-1 = 19

Cpt Ebenezer Gay 9th Kentucky Cavalry (Companies A, B, D, F, H, I, K, & M): Ltc John Boyle 2nd Michigan Cavalry: Ltc Archibald P. Campbell (w) 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc Thomas Chalkley James 2nd Minnesota Battery Light Artillery [1 section; 2 12-pdr How]: Cpt William A. Hotchkiss

See also

Kentucky in the American Civil War

Notes