The following units and commanders of the Union Army fought at the Mobile campaign of the American Civil War involving the battles of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakeley. The units engaged against Spanish Fort involved Veatch's Division, Benton's Division and Henry Bertram's Brigade from the XIII Corps along with McArthur's Division and Carr's Division from the XVI Corps. The units engaged against Fort Blakeley involved Veatch's Division and Andrews' Division (minus Bertram's brigade) from the XIII Corps, Garrard's Division from the XVI Corps and Steele's Pensacola Column.War of the Rebellion: The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 49, part 1, page 102 The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.
This order of battle covers the period of March–April 1865. For the Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Mobile Bay from August 2–23, 1864, see: Mobile Bay order of battle.
Abbreviations used
Military rank MG = Major general BG = Brigadier general Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant colonel Maj = Major Cpt = Captain Lt = 1st lieutenant
Other w = wounded
Army of West Mississippi
MG Edward R. S. Canby, 45,200
General Staff Chief-of-Staff: MG Peter J. Osterhaus Provost Marshal: BG George L. Andrews Aide-de-Camp: Brevet BG Cyrus B. Comstock Chief Engineer: Brevet Col Miles D. McAlester Asst. Adjutant General: Ltc Christian T. Christensen Asst. Inspector General: Ltc John M. Wilson Quartermaster: Ltc Charles G. Sawtelle Commissary of Subsistence: Ltc Chester Bingham Hinsdill
DivisionBrigade Regiments and othersHeadquarters units Engineer Brigade
BG Joseph A. Bailey, 1,500 96th U.S.C.T.: Col John C. Cobb 97th U.S.C.T.: Ltc George A. Harmount, Col George D. Robinson 1st Company of Pontoniers: Cpt John J. Smith Siege Trains
BG James Totten, 1,200 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery (7 companies): Col Benjamin F. Hays 18th Battery, New York Light Artillery: Cpt Albert G. Mack
XIII Corps
MG Gordon Granger, 13,200, excluding 2nd and 3rd Brigades, 2nd Division
DivisionBrigade Regiments and others1st Division
BG James C. Veatch 1st Brigade
BG James R. Slack 99th Illinois Infantry (five companies): Ltc Asa C. Matthews 47th Indiana Infantry: Ltc John A. McLaughlin 21st Iowa Infantry: Ltc Salue G. VanAnda 29th Wisconsin Infantry: Ltc Bradford Hancock 2nd Brigade
BG Elias S. Dennis 8th Illinois Infantry: Col Josiah A. Sheetz 11th Illinois Infantry: Col James Henry Coates 46th Illinois Infantry: Col Benjamin Dornblaser 3rd Brigade
Col William B. Kinsey 29th Illinois Infantry: Ltc John A Callicott 30th Missouri Infantry (4 companies): Ltc William T. Wilkinson 161st New York Infantry: Maj Willis E. Craig 23rd Wisconsin Infantry: Maj Joseph E. Greene Artillery
Cpt George W. Fox 4th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery: Lt George W. Taylor 7th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery: Cpt Newman W. Storer2nd Division2nd and 3rd Brigades were attached to the Pensacola Column at Fort Blakeley, accompanied by General Andrews, while the 1st Brigade was independently involved at Spanish Fort 1st Brigade
Col Henry Bertram 94th Illinois Infantry: Col John McNulta 19th Iowa Infantry: Ltc John Bruce 23rd Iowa Infantry: Col Samuel L. Glasgow 20th Wisconsin Infantry: Ltc Henry A. Starr Battery F, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Joseph Foust3rd Division
BG William P. Benton 1st Brigade
Col David P. Grier 28th Illinois Infantry: Ltc Richard Ritter 77th Illinois Infantry: Ltc John B. Reid 96th Ohio Infantry (5 companies): Ltc Albert H. Brown 35th Wisconsin Infantry: Col Henry Orff 2nd Brigade
Col Henry M. Day 91st Illinois Infantry: Ltc George A. Day 50th Indiana Infantry (5 companies): Ltc Samuel T. Wells 29th Iowa Infantry: Col Thomas H. Benton Jr. 7th Vermont Infantry: Col William C. Holbrook 3rd Brigade
Col Conrad Krez 33rd Iowa Infantry: Col Cyrus H. Mackey 77th Ohio Infantry: Ltc William E. Stevens 27th Wisconsin Infantry: Cpt Charles H. Cunningham 28th Wisconsin Infantry: Ltc Edmund B. Gray Artillery 21st Battery, New York Light Artillery: Cpt James Barnes 26th Battery, New York Light Artillery: Lt Adam Beattie
XVI Corps
MG Andrew Jackson Smith, 16,000
DivisionBrigade Regiments and others1st Division
BG John McArthur 1st Brigade
Col William L. McMillen 33rd Illinois Infantry: Col Charles E. Lippincott 26th Indiana Infantry: Col John G. Clark 93rd Indiana Infantry: Col De Witt C. Thomas 10th Minnesota Infantry: Ltc Samuel P. Jennison 72nd Ohio Infantry: Ltc Charles G. Eaton 95th Ohio Infantry: Col Jefferson Brumback 2nd Brigade
Col Lucius F. Hubbard 47th Illinois Infantry: Maj Edward Bonham 5th Minnesota Infantry: Ltc William B. Gere 9th Minnesota Infantry: Col Josiah F. Marsh 11th Missouri Infantry: Maj Modesta J. Green 8th Wisconsin Infantry: Ltc William B. Britton 3rd Brigade
Col William R. Marshall 12th Iowa Infantry: Maj Samuel G. Knee 35th Iowa Infantry: Ltc William B. Keeler 7th Minnesota Infantry: Ltc George Bradley 33rd Missouri Infantry: Ltc William H. Heath Artillery 3rd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery: Cpt Thomas J. Ginn 2nd Battery, Iowa Light Artillery: Cpt Joseph R. Reed2nd Division
BG Kenner Garrard 1st Brigade
Col John I. Rinaker 119th Illinois Infantry: Col Thomas J. Kinney 122nd Illinois Infantry: Ltc James F. Drish (w, April 9), Maj James F. Chapman 89th Indiana Infantry: Ltc Hervey Craven 21st Missouri Infantry: Cpt Charles W. Tracy 2nd Brigade
BG James I. Gilbert 117th Illinois Infantry: Col Risdon M. Moore 27th Iowa Infantry: Maj George W. Howard 32nd Iowa Infantry: Ltc Gustavus A. Eberhart 10th Kansas Infantry (4 companies): Ltc Charles S. Hills 6th Minnesota Infantry: Ltc Hiram P. Grant 3rd Brigade
Col Charles L. Harris 58th Illinois Infantry (four companies): Cpt John Murphy 52nd Indiana Infantry: Ltc Zalmon S. Main 34th New Jersey Infantry: Col William Hudson Lawrence 178th New York Infantry: Ltc John B. Gandolfo 11th Wisconsin Infantry: Maj Jesse S. Miller3rd Division
BG Eugene A. Carr 1st Brigade
Col Jonathan B. Moore 72nd Illinois Infantry: Ltc Joseph Stockton 95th Illinois Infantry: Col Leander Blanden 44th Missouri Infantry: Cpt Frank G. Hopkins 33rd Wisconsin Infantry: Ltc Horatio H. Virgin 2nd Brigade
Col Lyman M. Ward 40th Missouri Infantry: Col Samuel A. Holmes 49th Missouri Infantry: Col David P. Dyer 14th Wisconsin Infantry: Maj Eddy F. Ferris 3rd Brigade
Col James L. Geddes 81st Illinois Infantry: Ltc Andrew W. Rogers 108th Illinois Infantry: Col Charles Turner 124th Illinois Infantry: Brevet Col John H. Howe 8th Iowa Infantry: Ltc William B. Bell Artillery Brigade
Cpt John W. Lowell Cogswell's Battery Illinois Light Artillery: Lt William R. Elting Battery G, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery: Lt Perry Wilch 1st Battery, Indiana Light Artillery: Cpt Lawrence Jocoby 14th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery: Cpt Francis W. Morse 17th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt Charles S. Rice
Column from Pensacola MG Frederick Steele, 13,200 Asst. Adjutant General: Maj John F. LaceyMajor General Frederick Steele and staff
DivisionBrigade Regiments and others1st Division (Dist. of West Florida)
BG John P. Hawkins, 5,500 1st Brigade
BG William A. Pile 73rd U.S.C.T.: Ltc Henry C. Merriam 82nd U.S.C.T.: Col Ladislas L. Zulavsky 86th U.S.C.T.: Ltc George E. Yarrington 2nd Brigade
Col Hiram Scofield 47th U.S.C.T.: Ltc Ferdinand E. Peebles 50th U.S.C.T.: Col Charles A. Gilchrist 51st U.S.C.T.: Col A. Watson Webber 3rd Brigade
Col Charles W. Drew 48th U.S.C.T.: Col Frederick M. Crandal 68th U.S.C.T.: Col J. Blackburn Jones (w, April 9) 76th U.S.C.T.: Maj William E. Nye2nd Division (from XIII Corps)
BG Christopher C. Andrews, 5,2002nd and 3rd Brigades were attached to the Pensacola Column at Fort Blakeley, accompanied by General Andrews, while the 1st Brigade was independently involved at Spanish Fort 2nd Brigade
Col Thomas Spicely 76th Illinois Infantry: Col Samuel T. Busey (w, April 9), Ltc Charles C. Jones 97th Illinois Infantry: Ltc Victor Vifquain 24th Indiana Infantry: Ltc Francis A. Sears 69th Indiana Infantry (4 companies): Ltc Oran Perry (w, April 9), Cpt Lewis K. Harris 3rd Brigade
Col Frederick W. Moore 37th Illinois Infantry: Col John Charles Black 20th Iowa Infantry: Ltc Joseph B. Leake 34th Iowa Infantry: Col George W. Clark 83rd Ohio Infantry: Ltc William H. Baldwin 114th Ohio Infantry: Col John H. Kelly Artillery 2nd Battery, Connecticut Light Artillery: Cpt Walter S. Hotchkiss 15th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery: Lt Albert RowseCavalry Division (Dist. of West Florida)
BG Thomas J. Lucas, 2,500 1st Brigade
Col Morgan H. Chrysler 1st Louisiana Cavalry: Ltc Algernon S. Badger 31st Massachusetts (mounted infantry): Ltc Edward P. Nettleton 2nd New York Veteran Cavalry: Col Morgan H. Chrysler, Ltc Asa L. Gurney 2nd Brigade
Ltc Andrew B. Spurling 1st Florida Cavalry: Cpt Francis Lyons 2nd Illinois Cavalry: Maj Franklin Moore 2nd Maine Cavalry: Maj Charles A. Miller Artillery 2nd Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery: Cpt William Marland
Cavalry Bvt MG Benjamin Grierson
DivisionBrigade Regiments and others1st Division
BG Joseph F. Knipe 1st Brigade
Col Joseph Kargé 12th Indiana Cavalry: Maj William H. Calkins 2nd New Jersey Cavalry: Ltc P. Jones Yorke 4th Wisconsin Cavalry: Col Webster P. Moore 2nd Brigade
Col Gilbert M. L. Johnson 10th Indiana Cavalry: Maj George R. Swallow 13th Indiana Cavalry: Ltc William T. Pepper 4th Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc Jacob M. Thornburgh Artillery 14th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt William Cary Myers
Notes
Sources War of the Rebellion: The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 49, part 1, page 105 Unit strengths