Battle of Champion Hill order of battle: Union

The following Union Army unitsMultiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign. and commanders fought in the Battle of Champion Hill of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization, returns of casualtiesOfficial Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 7-11 and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Order of Battle) and reports.Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 725-726

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 mw = mortally wounded k = killed

Army of the Tennessee

MG Ulysses S. Grant

XIII Corps

MG John A. McClernand Escort: 3rd Illinois Cavalry (Company L): Cpt David R. Sparks

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersNinth Division

BG Peter J. Osterhaus 1st Brigade

BG Theophilus T. Garrard 118th Illinois: Col John G. Fonda 49th Indiana: Col James Keigwin 69th Indiana: Col Thomas W. Bennett 7th Kentucky: Ltc John Lucas 17th Brigade

Col Daniel W. Lindsey 22nd Kentucky: Ltc George W. Monroe 16th Ohio: Cpt Eli W. Botsford 42nd Ohio: Maj Frederick A. Williams 114th Ohio: Col John Cradlebaugh Artillery Battery G, 1st Michigan Light Artillery: Cpt Charles H. Lamphere 1st Wisconsin Light Artillery: Lt Charles B. Kimball Cavalry 3rd Illinois Cavalry (Companies A, E, & K): Cpt John L. CampbellTenth Division

BG Andrew J. Smith 1st Brigade

BG Stephen G. Burbridge 16th Indiana: Col Thomas J. Lucas 67th Indiana: Ltc Theodore E. Buehler 83rd Ohio: Col Frederick W. Moore 23rd Wisconsin: Col Joshua J. Guppey 2nd Brigade

Col William J. Landram 77th Illinois: Col David P. Grier 97th Illinois: Col Friend S. Rutherford 108th Illinois: Ltc Charles Turner 130th Illinois: Col Nathaniel Niles 19th Kentucky: Ltc John Cowan 48th Ohio: Ltc Job R. Parker Artillery Chicago Mercantile Battery, Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Patrick H. White 17th Ohio Light Artillery: Cpt Ambrose A. Blount Cavalry 4th Indiana Cavalry (Company C): Cpt Andrew P. GallagherTwelfth Division

BG Alvin P. Hovey 1st Brigade

BG George F. McGinnis 11th Indiana: Col Daniel Macauley (w), Ltc William W. Darnell 24th Indiana: Col William T. Spicely 34th Indiana: Maj Robert B. Jones 46th Indiana: Col Thomas H. Bringhurst 29th Wisconsin: Col Charles R. Gill 2nd Brigade

Col James R. Slack 47th Indiana: Ltc John A. McLaughlin 24th Iowa: Col Eber C. Byam 28th Iowa: Col John Connell 56th Ohio: Ltc William H. Raynor Artillery 2nd Ohio Battery: Lt Augustus Beach 16th Ohio Battery: Cpt James A. Mitchell (mw), Lt Russell P. Twist Battery A, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt George W. Schofield Cavalry 1st Indiana Cavalry (Company C): Lt James L. CareyFourteenth Division

BG Eugene A. Carr 1st Brigade

BG William P. Benton 33rd Illinois: Col Charles E. Lippincott 99th Illinois: Col George W. K. Bailey 8th Indiana: Col David Shunk 18th Indiana: Col Henry D. Washburn 2nd Brigade

BG Michael K. Lawler 21st Iowa: Col Samuel Merrill 22nd Iowa: Col William M. Stone 23rd Iowa: Col William H. Kinsman 11th Wisconsin: Col Charles L. Harris Artillery Battery A, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery (4 guns): Lt Frank B. Fenton 1st Indiana Light Artillery: Cpt Martin Klauss Unattached units 2nd Illinois Cavalry (7 companies): Ltc Daniel B. Bush Jr. 6th Missouri Cavalry (7 companies): Col Clark Wright Kentucky Engineers & Mechanics: Cpt William F. Patterson

XV Corps

MG William T. Sherman

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersSecond Division [attached to XIII Corps]

MG Francis Preston Blair Jr. 1st Brigade

Col Giles A. Smith 113th Illinois: Col George B. Hoge 116th Illinois: Col Nathan W. Tupper 6th Missouri: Ltc Ira Boutell 8th Missouri: Ltc David C. Coleman 13th U.S. Infantry, 1st Battalion: Cpt E. Washington 2nd Brigade

Col Thomas Kilby Smith 55th Illinois: Col Oscar Malmborg 127th Illinois: Col Hamilton N. Eldridge 83rd Indiana: Col Benjamin J. Spooner 54th Ohio: Ltc Cyrus W. Fisher 57th Ohio: Col Americus V. Rice Artillery Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Peter P. Wood Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: Cpt Samuel E. Barrett

XVII Corps

MG James B. McPherson

Provisional Cavalry Battalion: Cpt John S. Foster 2nd Illinois Cavalry (Companies A & B): Lt W. B. Cummins 4th Missouri Cavalry (Company F): Lt A. Mueller 4th Independent Company Ohio Cavalry: Cpt John S. Foster

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersThird Division

MG John A. Logan 1st Brigade

BG John E. Smith 20th Illinois: Maj Daniel Bradley 31st Illinois: Ltc John D. Reese 45th Illinois: Col Jasper A. Maltby 124th Illinois: Col Thomas J. Sloan 23rd Indiana: Ltc William P. Davis2nd Brigade

BG Mortimer D. Leggett 30th Illinois: Ltc Warren Shedd 20th Ohio: Col Manning F. Force 68th Ohio: Ltc John S. Snook (k) 78th Ohio: Ltc Greenbury F. Wiles3rd Brigade

BG John Dunlap Stevenson 8th Illinois: Ltc Robert H. Sturgess 81st Illinois: Col James J. Dollins 7th Missouri: Cpt Robert Buchanan 32nd Ohio: Col Benjamin F. Potts Artillery Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt Henry A. Rogers Battery L, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt William H. Bolton Battery H, 1st Michigan Light Artillery: Cpt Samuel De Golyer 3rd Ohio Battery: Cpt William S. WilliamsSeventh Division

BG Marcellus M. CrockerQuinby returned to the field on the morning of May 16. However, Crocker was left in command as he was already deploying the division for battle. Quinby stayed with the army until the battle was decided, then assumed command. Quinby’s Official Report     BG Isaac F. Quinby 1st Brigade

Col John B. Sanborn 48th Indiana: Col Norman Eddy 59th Indiana: Col Jesse I. Alexander 4th Minnesota: Ltc John E. Tourtellotte 18th Wisconsin: Col Gabriel Bouck 2nd Brigade

Col Samuel A. Holmes 17th Iowa: Col David B. Hillis 10th Missouri: Ltc Leonidas Horney (k), Maj Francis C. Deimling 24th Missouri (Company E): Lt Vincent Chalefoux 3rd Brigade

Col George B. Boomer 93rd Illinois: Col. Holden Putnam 5th Iowa: Ltc Ezekiel S. Sampson 10th Iowa: Col William E. Small 26th Missouri: Maj Charles F. Brown Artillery

Cpt Frank C. Sands Company M, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Lt Junius G. W. McMurray 11th Ohio Battery: Lt Fletcher E. Armstrong 6th Wisconsin Light Artillery: Cpt Henry Dillon 12th Wisconsin Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt William Zickerick

See also

Mississippi in the American Civil War

Notes

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. The Battle of Champion Hill website