Stones River Union order of battle


The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Stones River of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign, the casualty returns and the reports.

Abbreviations

Military rank

MG William S. Rosecrans, Commanding

General Staff and Headquarters

General Staff:
General Headquarters:
Provost Guard:
General Escort:
MG Alexander McD. McCook
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

BG Jefferson C. Davis
1st Brigade

Col P. Sidney Post

  • 59th Illinois: Cpt Hendrick E. Paine
  • 74th Illinois: Col Jason Marsh
  • 75th Illinois: Ltc John E. Bennett
  • 22nd Indiana: Col Michael Gooding
First Division

BG Jefferson C. Davis
2nd Brigade

Col William P. Carlin

  • 21st Illinois: Col John W. S. Alexander, Ltc Warren E. McMackin
  • 38th Illinois: Ltc Daniel H. Gilmer
  • 101st Ohio: Col Leander Stem, Ltc Moses F. Wooster, Maj Isaac M. Kirby, Cpt Bedan B. McDonald
  • 15th Wisconsin: Col Hans C. Heg
First Division

BG Jefferson C. Davis
3rd Brigade

Col William E. Woodruff

  • 25th Illinois: Col Thomas D. Williams, Cpt Wesford Taggart
  • 35th Illinois: Ltc William P. Chandler
  • 81st Indiana: Ltc John Timberlake
First Division

BG Jefferson C. Davis
Artillery
  • 2nd Minnesota Battery: Cpt William A. Hotchkiss
  • 5th Wisconsin Battery: Cpt Oscar F. Pinney, Lt Charles B. Humphrey
  • 8th Wisconsin Battery: Cpt Stephen J. Carpenter, Sgt Obadiah German, Lt Henry E. Stiles
First Division

BG Jefferson C. Davis
Escort
Second Division

BG Richard W. Johnson
1st Brigade

BG August Willich

Col William Wallace

Col William H. Gibson

  • 89th Illinois: Ltc Charles T. Hotchkiss
  • 32nd Indiana: Ltc Frank Erdelmeyer
  • 39th Indiana: Ltc Fielder A. Jones
  • 15th Ohio: Col William Wallace, Cpt A. R. Z. Dawson, Col William Wallace
  • 49th Ohio: Col William H. Gibson, Ltc Levi Drake, Cpt Samuel F. Gray
Second Division

BG Richard W. Johnson
2nd Brigade

BG Edward N. Kirk

Col Joseph B. Dodge

  • 34th Illinois: Ltc Hiram W. Bristol, Maj Alexander P. Dysart
  • 79th Illinois: Col Sheridan P. Read, Maj Allen Buckner
  • 29th Indiana: Ltc David M. Dunn, Maj Joseph P. Collins
  • 30th Indiana: Col Joseph B. Dodge, Ltc Orrin D. Hurd
  • 77th Pennsylvania: Ltc Peter B. Housum, Cpt Thomas E. Rose
Second Division

BG Richard W. Johnson
3rd Brigade

Col Philemon P. Baldwin

  • 6th Indiana: Ltc Hagerman Tripp
  • 5th Kentucky: Ltc William W. Berry
  • 1st Ohio: Maj Joab A. Stafford
  • 93rd Ohio: Col Charles Anderson
Second Division

BG Richard W. Johnson
Artillery
  • 5th Indiana Battery: Cpt Peter Simonson
  • 1st Ohio, Battery A: Lt Edmund B. Belding
  • 1st Ohio, Battery E: Cpt Warren P. Edgarton
Second Division

BG Richard W. Johnson
Cavalry
Third Division

BG Philip Sheridan
1st Brigade

BG Joshua W. Sill

Col Nicholas Greusel

  • 36th Illinois: Col Nicholas Greusel, Maj Silas Miller, Cpt Porter C. Olson
  • 88th Illinois: Col Francis T. Sherman
  • 21st Michigan: Ltc William B. McCreery
  • 24th Wisconsin: Maj Elisha C. Hibbard
Third Division

BG Philip Sheridan
2nd Brigade

Col Frederick Schaefer

Ltc Bernard Laiboldt

  • 44th Illinois: Cpt Wallace W. Barrett
  • 73rd Illinois: Maj William A. Presson
  • 2nd Missouri: Ltc Bernard Laiboldt, Maj Francis Ehrler
  • 15th Missouri: Ltc John Weber
Third Division

BG Philip Sheridan
3rd Brigade

Col George W. Roberts

Col Fazilo A. Harrington

Col Luther P. Bradley

  • 22nd Illinois: Ltc Francis Swanwick, Cpt Samuel Johnson
  • 27th Illinois: Col Fazilo A. Harrington, Maj William A. Schmitt
  • 42nd Illinois: Ltc Nathan H. Walworth
  • 51st Illinois: Col Luther P. Bradley, Cpt Henry F. Wescott
Third Division

BG Philip Sheridan
Artillery

Cpt Henry Hescock

  • 1st Illinois, Battery C: Cpt Charles Houghtaling
  • 4th Indiana Battery: Cpt Asahel K. Bush
  • 1st Missouri, Battery G: Cpt Henry Hescock
Third Division

BG Philip Sheridan
Escort

Center

MG George H. Thomas
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

MG Lovell Rousseau
1st Brigade

Col Benjamin F. Scribner

  • 38th Indiana: Ltc Daniel F. Griffin
  • 2nd Ohio: Ltc John Kell, Maj Anson G. McCook
  • 33rd Ohio: Cpt Ephraim J. Ellis
  • 94th Ohio: Col Joseph W. Frizell, Ltc Stephen A. Bassford
  • 10th Wisconsin: Col Alfred R. Chapin
First Division

MG Lovell Rousseau
2nd Brigade

Col John Beatty

  • 42nd Indiana: Ltc James M. Shanklin
  • 88th Indiana: Col George Humphrey, Ltc Cyrus E. Briant
  • 15th Kentucky: Col James B. Forman, Ltc Joseph R. Snider
  • 3rd Ohio: Ltc Orris A. Lawson
First Division

MG Lovell Rousseau
3rd Brigade

Col John C. Starkweather

  • 24th Illinois: Col Geza Mihalotzy
  • 79th Pennsylvania: Col Henry A. Hambright
  • 1st Wisconsin: Ltc George B. Bingham
  • 21st Wisconsin: Ltc Harrison C. Hobart
First Division

MG Lovell Rousseau
4th Brigade

Ltc Oliver L. Shepherd

First Division

MG Lovell Rousseau
Artillery

Cpt Cyrus O. Loomis

  • Kentucky, Battery A: Cpt David C. Stone
  • 1st Michigan, Battery A: Lt George W. Van Pelt
  • 5th United States, Battery H: Lt Francis L. Guenther
First Division

MG Lovell Rousseau
Cavalry
  • 2nd Kentucky : Maj Thomas P. Nicholas
Second Division

BG James S. Negley
1st Brigade

BG James G. Spears

  • 1st Tennessee: Col Robert K. Byrd
  • 2nd Tennessee: Ltc James M. Melton
  • 14th Michigan: Ltc Milton L. Phillips
  • 85th Illinois: Col Robert S. Moore
  • 10th Wisconsin Battery : Cpt Yates V. Beebe
Second Division

BG James S. Negley
2nd Brigade

Col Timothy R. Stanley

  • 19th Illinois: Col Joseph R. Scott, Ltc Alexander W. Raffen
  • 11th Michigan: Col William L. Stoughton
  • 18th Ohio: Ltc Josiah Given
  • 69th Ohio: Col William B. Cassilly, Maj Eli J. Hickcox, Cpt David Putnam, Ltc George F. Elliott
Second Division

BG James S. Negley
3rd Brigade

Col John F. Miller

  • 37th Indiana: Col James S. Hull, Ltc William D. Ward
  • 21st Ohio: Ltc James M. Neibling
  • 74th Ohio: Col Granville Moody
  • 78th Pennsylvania: Col William Sirwell
Second Division

BG James S. Negley
Artillery
  • Kentucky, Battery B: Lt Alban A. Ellsworth
  • 1st Ohio, Battery G: Lt Alexander Marshall
  • 1st Ohio, Battery M: Cpt Frederick Schultz
Third Division

BG Speed S. Fry
1st Brigade

Col Moses B. Walker

  • 82nd Indiana: Col Morton C. Hunter
  • 17th Ohio: Col John M. Connell
  • 31st Ohio: Ltc Frederick W. Lister
  • 38th Ohio: Col Edward H. Phelps
Third Division

BG Speed S. Fry
Artillery
  • 1st Michigan, Battery D: Cpt Josiah W. Church

Left Wing

MG Thomas L. Crittenden
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

BG Thomas J. Wood

BG Milo S. Hascall
1st Brigade

BG Milo S. Hascall

Col George P. Buell

  • 100th Illinois: Col Frederick A. Bartleson
  • 58th Indiana: Col George P. Buell, Ltc James T. Embree
  • 3rd Kentucky: Col Samuel McKee, Maj Daniel R. Collier
  • 26th Ohio: Cpt William H. Squires
First Division

BG Thomas J. Wood

BG Milo S. Hascall
2nd Brigade

Col George D. Wagner

  • 15th Indiana: Ltc Gustavus A. Wood
  • 40th Indiana: Col John W. Blake, Ltc Elias Neff, Maj Henry Leaming
  • 57th Indiana: Col Cyrus C. Hines, Ltc George W. Lennard, Cpt John S. McGraw
  • 97th Ohio: Col John Q. Lane
First Division

BG Thomas J. Wood

BG Milo S. Hascall
3rd Brigade

Col Charles G. Harker

  • 51st Indiana: Col Abel D. Streight
  • 73rd Indiana: Col Gilbert Hathaway
  • 13th Michigan: Col Michael Shoemaker
  • 64th Ohio: Ltc Alexander McIlvaine
  • 65th Ohio: Ltc Alexander Cassil, Maj Horatio N. Whitbeck
First Division

BG Thomas J. Wood

BG Milo S. Hascall
Artillery

Maj Seymour Race

  • 8th Indiana Battery: Lt George Estep
  • 10th Indiana Battery: Cpt Jerome B. Cox
  • 6th Ohio Battery: Cpt Cullen Bradley
Second Division

BG John M. Palmer
1st Brigade

BG Charles Cruft

  • 31st Indiana: Col John Osborn
  • 1st Kentucky: Col David A. Enyart
  • 2nd Kentucky: Col Thomas D. Sedgewick
  • 90th Ohio: Col Isaac N. Ross
Second Division

BG John M. Palmer
2nd Brigade

Col William B. Hazen

  • 110th Illinois: Col Thomas S. Casey
  • 9th Indiana: Col William H. Blake
  • 6th Kentucky: Col Walter C. Whitaker
  • 41st Ohio: Ltc Aquila Wiley
Second Division

BG John M. Palmer
3rd Brigade

Col William Grose

  • 84th Illinois: Col Louis H. Waters
  • 36th Indiana: Maj Isaac Kinley, Cpt Pyrrhus Woodward
  • 23rd Kentucky: Maj Thomas H. Hamrick
  • 6th Ohio: Col Nicholas L. Anderson
  • 24th Ohio: Col Frederick C. Jones, Maj Henry Terry, Cpt Enoch Weller, Cpt A. T. M. Cockerill
Second Division

BG John M. Palmer
Artillery

Cpt William E. Standart

  • 1st Ohio, Battery B: Cpt William E Standart
  • 1st Ohio, Battery F: Cpt Daniel T. Cockerill, Lt Norval Osburn
  • 4th United States, Batteries H and M: Lt Charles C. Parsons
Third Division

BG Horatio P. Van Cleve

Col Samuel Beatty
1st Brigade

Col Samuel Beatty

Col Benjamin C. Grider

  • 79th Indiana: Col Frederick Knefler
  • 9th Kentucky: Col Benjamin C. Grider, Ltc George H. Cram
  • 11th Kentucky: Maj Erasmus L. Mottley
  • 19th Ohio: Col Charles F. Manderson
Third Division

BG Horatio P. Van Cleve

Col Samuel Beatty
2nd Brigade

Col James P. Fyffe

  • 44th Indiana: Col William C. Williams, Ltc Simeon C. Aldrich
  • 86th Indiana: Ltc George F. Dick
  • 13th Ohio: Col Joseph C. Hawkins, Maj Dwight Jarvis, Jr.
  • 59th Ohio: Ltc William Howard
Third Division

BG Horatio P. Van Cleve

Col Samuel Beatty
3rd Brigade

Col Samuel W. Price

  • 35th Indiana: Col Bernard F. Mullen
  • 8th Kentucky: Ltc Reuben May, Maj Green B. Broaddus
  • 21st Kentucky: Ltc James C. Evans
  • 51st Ohio: Ltc Richard W. McClain
  • 99th Ohio: Col Peter T. Swaine, Ltc John E. Cummins
Third Division

BG Horatio P. Van Cleve

Col Samuel Beatty
Artillery

Cpt George R. Swallow

  • 7th Indiana Battery: Cpt George R. Swallow
  • Pennsylvania, Battery B: Lt Alanson J. Stevens
  • 3d Wisconsin Battery: Lt Cortland Livingston

Cavalry

BG David S. Stanley
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

Cavalry Division

Col John Kennett
1st Brigade

Col Robert H.G. Minty

  • 2nd Indiana, Company M: Cpt J.A.S. Mitchell
  • 3rd Kentucky: Col Eli H. Murray
  • 4th Michigan: Ltc William H. Dickinson
  • 7th Pennsylvania: Maj John E. Wynkoop
Cavalry Division

Col John Kennett
2nd Brigade

Col Lewis Zahm

  • 1st Ohio: Col Minor Millikin, Maj James Laughlin
  • 3rd Ohio: Ltc Douglas A. Murray
  • 4th Ohio: Maj John L. Pugh
Cavalry Division

Col John Kennett
Artillery
Reporting directlyReserve Cavalry
  • 15th Pennsylvania: Maj Adolph G. Rosengarten, Maj Frank B. Ward, Cpt Alfred Vezin
  • 1st Middle Tennessee: Col William B. Stokes
  • 2nd Tennessee: Col Daniel M. Ray
Reporting directlyUnattached
  • 4th United States: Cpt Elmer Otis

Engineers