Fort Stevens Union order of battle


The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Fort Stevens of the American Civil War on July 11–12, 1864. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

MG Alexander McDowell McCook
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Other

Emergency Division

BG Montgomery C. Meigs		First Brigade
BG Daniel H. Rucker
  • Quartermaster's employees
  • Detachment from Provisional Brigade
Emergency Division

BG Montgomery C. Meigs		Second Brigade
BG Halbert E. Paine
Emergency Division

BG Montgomery C. Meigs		3rd Brigade
Col Richard Butler Price
Col Addison Farnsworth, July 12
  • Quartermaster's employees
  • Convalescents
Emergency Division

BG Montgomery C. Meigs		Cavalry

  • Dismounted cavalry detachment: Maj George G. Briggs
  • 25th New York Cavalry : Maj Charles J. Seymour

VI Corps

MG Horatio G. Wright
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

BG David A. Russell		1st Brigade
Col William H. Penrose
  • 4th New Jersey: Cpt Ebenezer Davis
  • 10th New Jersey: Ltc Charles H. Tay
  • 15th New Jersey: Ltc Edward L. Campbell
First Division

BG David A. Russell		2nd Brigade
BG Emory Upton
  • 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery: Col Ranald S. Mackenzie
  • 65th New York: Col Joseph E. Hamblin
  • 67th New York: Cpt Henry C. Fisk
  • 95th Pennsylvania: Maj Francis Joshua Randall
  • 96th Pennsylvania: Ltc William S. Lessig
  • 121st New York: Maj Henry Galpin
First Division

BG David A. Russell		3rd Brigade
Col Oliver Edwards
  • 2nd Rhode Island: Cpt Elisha Hunt Rhodes
  • 5th Wisconsin Battalion: Cpt Charles W. Kempf
  • 6th Maine Battalion: Maj George Fuller
  • 37th Massachusetts: Ltc George Montague
  • 23rd Pennsylvania: Col John F. Glenn
  • 49th Pennsylvania: Maj Amor W. Wakefield
  • 82nd Pennsylvania: Ltc John M. Wetherill
  • 119th Pennsylvania: Ltc Gideon Clark
Second Division

BG George W. Getty
1st Brigade
BG Frank Wheaton
  • 62nd New York: Cpt Lewis J. Stewart
  • 93rd Pennsylvania: Ltc John S. Long
  • 98th Pennsylvania: Ltc John B. Kohler
  • 102nd Pennsylvania: Maj Thomas McLaughlin
  • 139th Pennsylvania: Maj Robert Munroe
Second Division

BG George W. Getty
2nd Brigade
BG Lewis A. Grant
  • 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery: Maj Aldace F. Walker
  • 2nd Vermont: Ltc Amasa S. Tracy
  • 3rd Vermont: Ltc Samuel E. Pingree
  • 4th Vermont: Col George P. Foster
  • 5th Vermont: Cpt Friend H. Barney
  • 6th Vermont: Ltc Oscar A. Hale
Second Division

BG George W. Getty
3rd Brigade
Col Daniel Bidwell
  • 7th Maine: Cpt John W. Channing
  • 43rd New York: Cpt Volkert V. Van Patten
  • 49th New York : Ltc George W. Johnson, Cpt Erastus D. Holt
  • 77th New York: Ltc Winsor B. French
  • 122nd New York: Maj Jabez M. Brower
  • 61st Pennsylvania : Cpt William H. Rodgers
ArtilleryArtillery BrigadeCol Charles H. Tompkins

XIX Corps (Detachment)

MG Quincy A. Gillmore
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

BG William Dwight		1st Brigade
Col George L. Beal
  • 29th Maine: Ltc Charles S. Emerson
  • 30th Massachusetts: Col Samuel D. Shipley
  • 114th New York: Col Samuel R. Per Lee
  • 116th New York: Col George M. Love
  • 153rd New York: Col Edwin P. Davis
First Division

BG William Dwight		2nd Brigade
BG James W. McMillan
  • 12th Connecticut: Ltc Frank H. Peck
  • 13th Maine: Col Henry Rust II
  • 15th Maine: Col Isaac Dyer
  • 47th Pennsylvania: Col Tilghman H. Good
  • 8th Vermont: Col Stephen Thomas
First Division

BG William Dwight		3rd Brigade
Col Leonard D. H. Currie
  • 30th Maine: Cpt George W. Randall
  • 133rd New York: Cpt Anthony J. Allaire
  • 160th New York: Ltc John B. Van Petten
  • 165th New York: Maj Felix Agnus
  • 173rd New York: Maj George W. Rogers
First Division

BG William Dwight		Division Artillery
Second Division

BG Cuvier Grover		3rd Brigade
Col Jacob Sharpe
  • 38th Massachusetts: Ltc James P. Richardson
  • 128th New York: Ltc James P. Foster
  • 156th New York: Ltc Alfred Neafie
  • 175th New York: Cpt Charles McCarthey
  • 176th New York: Maj Charles Lewis
Second Division

BG Cuvier Grover		4th Brigade
Col David Shunk
  • 8th Indiana: Ltc Alexander J. Kinney
  • 18th Indiana: Ltc William S. Charles
  • 24th Iowa: Ltc John Q. Wilds
  • 28th Iowa: Ltc Bartholomew W. Wilson

XXII Corps">XXII Corps (Union Army)">XXII Corps and [Department of Washington]

MG Christopher C. Augur
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

Defenses North of the Potomac

BG Martin D. Hardin		1st Brigade
Col James M. Warner
  • 151st Ohio: Col John M. C. Marble
  • 13th Michigan Battery: Lt Charles Dupont
  • 14th Michigan Battery: Cpt Charles Heine
  • 9th New York Heavy Artillery
  • 1st Pennsylvania Artillery Battalion: Maj Joseph M. Knap
  • 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery D: Cpt William M. Buckley
  • 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery I
  • 3rd U.S. Artillery, Battery G
  • 4th U.S. Artillery, Battery A: Lt Rufus King, Jr.
Defenses North of the Potomac

BG Martin D. Hardin		2nd Brigade
Ltc Joseph A. Haskin
  • 150th Ohio: Col William H. Hayward
  • 170th Ohio: Col Miles J. Saunders
  • New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, 1st Company: Cpt Charles H. Long
  • 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery L: Cpt Franklin C. Gibbs
  • 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery: Cpt John Norris
  • 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery I: Lt William P. Graves
  • 7th Veteran Reserve Corps
  • 21st Veteran Reserve Corps
Defenses North of the Potomac

BG Martin D. Hardin		3rd Brigade
Ltc John H. Oberteuffer
  • Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
  • 3rd U.S. Artillery, Battery G: Lt Herbert F. Guthrie
  • 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery
Defenses South of the Potomac

BG Gustavus A. DeRussy
1st Brigade
Col Joseph N. G. Whistler
  • 145th Ohio: Col Henry C. Ashwill
  • 147th Ohio: Col Benjamin R. Rosson
  • 164th Ohio: Col John C. Lee, Ltc Augustus S. Bement
  • 1st Maine Artillery, Battery A: Cpt Albert W. Bradbury
  • Maryland Light Artillery, Battery A: Cpt James H. Rigby
  • Maryland Light Artillery, Battery D: Cpt John M. Bruce
  • 6th Massachusetts
  • 18th Massachusetts
  • 1st New York Light Artillery, Battery K: Cpt Solon W. Stocking
  • 5th New York Battery: Cpt Elijah D. Taft
  • 84th New York
  • 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery G: Cpt Beldin Spence
  • 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery H: Cpt Andrew Fagan
  • 1st Rhode Island Artillery, Battery H
  • 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery E
  • 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery G: Lt James E. Wilson
Defenses South of the Potomac

BG Gustavus A. DeRussy
2nd Brigade
Col Thomas Wilhelm
  • Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 15th Company
  • 16th Massachusetts Independent Battery
  • Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery C: Capt James Thompson
  • Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery I: Cpt Robert J. Nevin
  • 1st New York Heavy Artillery, Battery K
  • 17th New York Artillery, Independent Battery
  • 169th Ohio: Col Nathaniel Haynes
  • 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery H: Cpt Crawford Allen
  • 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery E: Lt Frank S. French
Defenses South of the Potomac

BG Gustavus A. DeRussy
3rd Brigade created 10 July
Col William Smith Irwin
  • Maryland Artillery, Battery D
  • 136th Ohio: Col William Smith Irwin
  • 142nd Ohio
  • 166th Ohio: Col Harrison G. Blake
  • 16th Indiana Battery: Cpt Charles R. Deming
  • Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 15th Company: Cpt Joseph M. Parsons
  • 1st New York Heavy Artillery, Battery F: Cpt William R. Wilson
  • 1st Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Independent Battery
  • 72nd Pennsylvania
  • 106th Pennsylvania
Defenses South of the Potomac

BG Gustavus A. DeRussy
4th Brigade created 2 July
Maj. Charles C. Meservey
  • 66th New York
  • 136th Ohio
  • 10th New York Heavy Artillery
  • 1st West Virginia Light Artillery, Battery C: Cpt Wallace Hill
  • 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, Company A
  • 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry
Defenses South of the Potomac

BG Gustavus A. DeRussy
Cavalry
Col Charles Russell Lowell
  • 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry: Ltc Caspar Crowninshield
  • 13th New York Cavalry: Col Henry Gansevoort
  • 16th New York Cavalry: Col Henry M. Lazelle
District of Washington

Col Moses N. Wisewell
1st Veteran Reserve Brigade
Col George W. Gile

  • 1st Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps
  • 9th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps
  • 6th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps
  • 19th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps
  • 20th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps
  • 22nd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps
District of Washington

Col Moses N. Wisewell
Not brigaded

  • 27th Pennsylvania, Company F
  • 150th Pennsylvania, Company K
  • Union Light Guard
  • U.S. Ordnance Detachment
Cavalry Division

Col William Gamble
1st Division
Cpt Benjamin Rockafellow
  • 1st Brigade: Lt Charles Parker '
  • 2nd Brigade: Lt William J. Allen '
  • Reserve Brigade: Lt Marcellus E. Jones '
Cavalry Division

Col William Gamble
2nd Division
Cpt James T. Peale
  • 1st Brigade: Lt George W. Brooks '
  • 2nd Brigade: Cpt Robert A. Robinson '
Cavalry Division

Col William Gamble
3rd Division
Maj Henry W. Sawyer
  • 1st Brigade: Cpt Robert Loudon '
  • 2nd Brigade: Lt George W. Byard
District of Alexandria

BG John P. Slough
2nd Veteran Reserve Brigade
Col William H. Browne
  • 3rd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps: Ltc John Spiedel
  • 12th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps: Col Addison Farnsworth
District of Alexandria

BG John P. Slough
Not brigaded

Front Line Commanders

In addition to their own commands these officers supervised a section of Washington's fortifications during the battle.
CommanderLine
Alexander M. McCookDefenses of the Potomac River & Washington
Quincy A. GillmoreFort Lincoln to Fort Totten
Montgomery C. MeigsFort Totten to Fort DeRussy
Martin D. HardinFort DeRussy to Fort Sumner
Horatio G. WrightFront line pickets and skirmishers