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Union Army : Battle of Cold Harbor
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ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
General Ulysses S. Grant.
 

Brig. Gen. MARSENA R. PATRICK.

1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies C and D,
        Capt. Edward A. Flint
80th New York Infantry (20th Militia),
        Col. Theodore B. Gates.
3d Pennsylvania Cavalry,
        Maj. James W. Walsh.
68th Pennsylvania Infantry, Lieut.
        Col. Robert E. Winslow.
114th Pennsylvania Infantry,
        Col. Charles H. T. Collis.

VOLUNTEER ENGINEER BRIGADE.
Brig. Gen. HENRY W. BENHAM.

15th New York Engineers,
        Maj. William A. Ketchum.
50th New York Engineers,
        Lieut. Col. Ira Spaulding.

BATTALION U. S. ENGINEERS.
Capt. GEORGE H. MENDELL.

GUARDS AND ORDERLIES.

Independent Company Oneida (New York) Cavalry,
        Capt. Daniel P. Mann. 

SECOND ARMY CORPS.
Maj. Gen. WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.

ESCORT.

1st Vermont Cavalry, Company M,
        Capt. John H. Hazelton.

FIRST DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. FRANCIS C. BARLOW.

First Brigade.
Col. NELSON A. MILES.

26th Michigan,
        Maj. Lemuel Saviers.
61st New York,
        Lieut. Col. K. Oscar Broady.
81st Pennsylvania,
        Col. H. Boyd McKeen.
140th Pennsylvania,
        Col. John Fraser.
183d Pennsylvania,
        Col. George P. McLean.

Second Brigade.
Col. THOMAS A. SMYTH.

28th Massachusetts,
        Lieut. Col. George W. Cartwright.
63d New York,
        Maj. Thomas Touhy.
69th New York,
        Capt. Richard Moroney.
88th New York,
        Capt. Denis F. Burke.
116th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Richard C. Dale.

Third Brigade.
Col. PAUL FRANK.

39th New York,
        Col. Augustus Funk.
52d New York,
        Maj. Henry M. Karples.
57th New York,
        Lieut. Col. Alford B. Chapman.
111th New York,
        Capt. Aaron P. Seeley.
125th New York, Lieut.
        Col. Aaron B. Myer.
126th New York,
        Capt. Winfield Scott.

Fourth Brigade.
Col. JOHN R. BROOKE.

2d Delaware,
        Col. William P. Baily.
64th New York,
        Maj. Leman W. Bradley.
66th New York,
        Lieut. Col. John S. Haremell.
53d Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Richards McMichael.
145th Pennsylvania,
        Col. Hiram L. Brown.
148th Pennsylvania,
        Col. James A. Beaver.

SECOND DIVISION.
Brig. Gen JOHN GIBBON. Provost Guard.

2d Company Minnesota Sharpshooters,
        Capt. Mahlon Black.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. ALEXANDER S. WEBB.

19th Maine,
        Col. Selden Connor.
1st Company Andrew (Massachusetts) Sharpshooters,
        Lieut. Samuel G. Gilbreth
15th Massachusetts,
        Maj. I. Harris Hooper.
19th Massachusetts,
        Maj. Edmund Rice.
20th Massachusetts,
        Maj. Henry L. Abbott.
7th Michigan,
        Maj. Sylvanus W. Curtis.
42d New York,
        Maj. Patrick J. Downing.
59th New York,
        Cap. William McFadden.
82d New York (2d Militia),
        Col. Henry W. Hudson. 

Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JOSHUA T. OWEN.

152d New York,
        Lieut. Col. George W. Thompson.
69th Pennsylvania,
        Maj. William Davis.
71st Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Charles Kochersperger.
72d Pennsylvania,
        Col. De Witt C. Baxter.
106th Pennsylvania,
        Capt. Robert H. Ford.

Third Brigade.
Col. SAMUEL S. CARROLL.

14th Connecticut,
        Col. Theodore G. Ellis.
1st Delaware,
        Lieut. Col. Daniel Woodall.
14th Indiana,
        Col. John Coons.
12th New Jersey,
        Lieut. Col. Thomas H. Davis.
10th New York Battalion,
        Capt. George M. Dewey.
108th New York,
        Col. Charles J. Powers.
4th Ohio, Lieut.
        Col. Leonard W. Carpenter.
8th Ohio,
        Lieut. Col. Franklin Sawyer.
7th West Virginia, Lieut.
        Col. Jonathan H. Lockwood.

THIRD DIVISION.
Maj. Gen. DAVID B. BIRNEY.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. J. H. HOBART WARD.

20th Indiana,
        Col. William C. L. Taylor.
3d Maine,
        Col. Moses B. Lakeman.
40th New York,
        Col. Thomas W. Egan.
86th New York,
        Lieut. Col. Jacob H. Lansing.
124th New York,
        Col. Francis M. Cummins.
99th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Edwin R. Biles.
110th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Isaac Rogers.
141st Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Guy H. Watkins.
2d U.S. Sharpshooters,
        Lieut. Col. Homer R. Stoughton.

Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. ALEXANDER HAYS.

4th Maine,
        Col. Elijah Walker.
17th Maine,
        Col. George W. West.
3d Michigan,
        Col. Byron R. Pierce.
5th Michigan,
        Lieut. Col. John Pulford.
93d New York,
        Maj. Samuel McConihe.
57th Pennsylvania,
        Col. Peter Sides.
63d Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. John A. Danks.
105th Pennsylvania,
        Col. Calvin A. Craig.
1st U.S. Sharpshooters,
        Maj. Charles P. Mattocks.

FOURTH DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. GERSHOM MOTT.

First Brigade.
Col. ROBERT MCALLISTER.

1st Massachusetts,
        Col. Napoleon B. McLaughlen.
16th Massachusetts,
        Lieut. Col. Waldo Merriam.
5th New Jersey,
        Col. William J. Sewell.
6th New Jersey,
        Lieut. Col. Stephen R. Gilkyson.
7th New Jersey,
        Maj. Frederick Cooper.
8th New Jersey,
        Col. John Ramsey.
11th New Jersey,
        Lieut. Col. John Schoonover.
26th Pennsylvania,
        Maj. Samuel G. Moffett.
115th Pennsylvania,
        Maj. William A. Reilly.

Second Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM R. BREWSTER.

11th Massachusetts,
        Col. William Blaisdell.
70th New York,
        Capt. William H. Hugo.
71st New York,
        Lieut. Col. Thomas Rafferty.
72d New York,
        Lieut. Col. John Leonard.
73d New York,
        Lieut. Col. Michael W. Burns.
74th New York,
        Col. Thomas Holt.
120th New York,
        Capt. Abram L. Lockwood.
84th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Milton Opp.

ARTILLERY BRIGADE.
Col. JOHN C. TIDBALL.

Maine Light, 6th Battery (F),
        Capt. Edwin B. Dow.
Massachusetts Light, 10th Battery,
        Capt. J. Henry Sleeper.
New Hampshire Light, 1st Battery,
        Capt. Frederick M. Edgell.
1st New York Light, Battery G,
        Capt. Nelson Ames.
4th New York Heavy, 3d Battalion,
        Lieut. Col. Thomas Allcock.
1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery F,
        Capt. R. Bruce Ricketts.
1st Rhode Island Light, Battery A,
        Capt. William A. Arnold.
1st Rhode Island Light, Battery B,
        Capt. T. Frederick Brown.
4th United States, Battery K,
        Lieut. John W. Roder.
5th United States, Batteries C and I,
        Lieut. James Gilliss.

FIFTH ARMY CORPS.
Maj. Gen. GOUVERNEUR K. WARREN.

PROVOST GUARD.

l2th New York Battalion,
        Maj. Henry W. Rider.

FIRST DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES GRIFFIN.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. ROMEYN B. AYRES.

140th New York,
        Col. George Ryan.
146th New York,
        Col. David T. Jenkins.
91st Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Joseph H. Sinex.
155th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Alfred L. Pearson.
2d United States, Companies B, C, F, H, I, and K,
        Capt. James W. Long
11th United States, Companies B, C, D, E, F, and G, First Battalion,
        Capt. Francis M. Cooley.
12th United States, Companies A, B, C, D, and G, 1st Battalion, } Maj. Luther B.
12th United States, Companies A, C, D, F, and H, 2d Battalion, } Bruen.
14th United States, 1st Battalion,
        Capt. Edward McK. Hudson.
17th United States, Companies A, C, D, G, and H, 1st Battalion, } Capt. James F.
17th United States, Companies A, B, and C, 2d Battalion } Grimes.

Second Brigade.
COl. JACOB B. SWEITZER.

9th Massachusetts,
        Col. Patrick R. Guiney.
22d Massachusetts,
        Col. William S. Tilton.
32d Massachusetts,
        Col. George L. Prescott.
4th Michigan,
        Lieut. Col. George W. Lurebard.
62d Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. James C. Hull.

Third Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH J. BARTLETT.

20th Maine,
        Maj. Ellis Spear.
18th Massachusetts,
        Col. Joseph Hayes.
1st Michigan,
        Lieut. Col. William A. Throop.
16th Michigan,
        Maj. Robert T. Elliott.
44th New York,
        Lieut. Col. Freeman Conner.
83d Pennsylvania,
        Col. Orpheus S. Woodward.
118th Pennsylvania.
        Col. James Gwyn. 

SECOND DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. JOHN C. ROBINSON.

First Brigade.
Col. SAMUEL H. LEONARD.

16th Maine,
        Col. Charles W. Tilden.
13th Massachusetts,
        Capt. Charles H. Hovey.
89th Massachusetts,
        Col. Phineas S. Davis.
104th New York,
        Col. Gilbert G. Prey.

Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. HENRY BAXTER.

12th Massachusetts,
        Col. James L. Bates.
83d New York (9th Militia),
        Col. Joseph A. Moesch.
97th New York,
        Col. Charles Wheelock.
11th Pennsylvania,
        Col. Richard Coulter.
88th Pennsylvania,
        Capt. George B. Rhoads.
90th Pennsylvania,
        Col. Peter Lyle.

Third Brigade.
Col. ANDREW W. DENISON.

1st Maryland,
        Maj. Benjamin H. Schley.
4th Maryland,
        Col. Richard N. Bowerman.
7th Maryland,
        Col. Charles E. Phelps.
8th Maryland,
        Lieut. Col. John G. Johannes.

THIRD DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. SAMUEL W. CRAWFORD.

First Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM MCCANDLESS.

1st Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Col. William C. Talley.
2d Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Lieut. Col. Patrick McDonough.
6th Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Col. Wellington H. Ent.
7th Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Maj. LeGrand B. Speece.
11th Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Col. Samuel M. Jackson.
13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles),
        Maj. William R. Hartshorne.

Third Brigade.
Col. JOSEPH W. FISHER

5th Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Lieut. Col, George Dare.
8th Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Col. Silas M. Baily.
10th Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Lieut. Col. Ira Ayer, jr.
12th Pennsylvania Reserves,
        Lieut. Col. Richard Gustin.

FOURTH DIVISION,
Brig. Gen. JAMES S. WADSWORTH.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. LYSANDER CUTLER.

7th Indiana,
        Col. Ira G. Grover.
19th Indiana,
        Col. Samuel J. Williams.
24th Michigan,
        Col. Henry A. Morrow.
1st New York Battalion Sharpshooters,
        Capt. Volney J. Shipman.
2d Wisconsin,
        Lieut. Col. John Mansfield.
6th Wisconsin,
        Col. Edward S. Bragg.
7th Wisconsin,
        Col. William W. Robinson.

Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JAMES C. RICE.

76th New York,
        Lieut. Col. John E. Cook.
84th New York (14th Militia),
        Col. Edward B. Fowler.
95th New York,
        Col. Edward Pye.
147th New York,
        Col. Francis C. Miller.
56th Pennsylvania,
        Col. J.William Holmann.

Third Brigade.
Col. ROY STONE.

121st Pennsylvania,
        Capt. Samuel T. Lloyd.
142d Pennsy1vania,
        Maj. Horatio N. Warren.
143d Pennsylvania,
        Col. Edmund L. Dana.
149th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. John Irvin.
150th Pennsylvania,
        Capt. George W. Jones.

ARTILLERY BRIGADE.
Col. CHARLES S. WAINWRIGHT.

Massachusetts Light, Battery C,
        Capt. Augustus P. Martin.
Massachusetts Light, Battery E,
        Capt. Charles A. Phillips.
1st New York Light, Battery D,
        Capt. George B. Winslow.
1st New York Light, Batteries E and L,
        Lieut. George Breck.
1st New York Light, Battery H,
        Capt. Charles E. Mink.
4th New York Heavy., 2d Battalion,
        Maj. William Arthur.
1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery B,
        Capt. James H. Cooper.
4th United States, Battery B,
        Lieut. James Stewart.
5th United States, Battery D,
        Lieut. Benjamin F. Rittenhouse.

SIXTH ARMY CORPS.
Maj. Gen. JOHN SEDGWICK.

ESCORT.

8th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company A,
        Capt. Charles E. Fellows.

FIRST DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. HORATIO G. WRIGHT.

First Brigade.
Col. HENRY W. BROWN.

1St New Jersey,
        Lieut. Col. William Henry, jr.
2d New Jersey,
        Lieut. Col. Charles Wiebecke.
3d New Jersey,
        Capt. Samuel T. DuBois.
4th New Jersey,
        Lieut. Col. Charles Ewing.
10th New Jersey,
        Col. Henry O. Ryerson.
15th New Jersey,
        Col. William H. Penrose.

Second Brigade.
Col. EMORY UPTON.

5th Maine,
        Col. Clark S. Edwards.
121st New York,
        Lieut. Col. Egbert Olcott.
95th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Edward Carroll.
96th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. William H. Lessig.

Third Brigade.
Brig. Gen. DAVID A. RUSSELL.

6th Maine,
        Maj. George Fuller.
49th Pennsylvania,
        Col. Thomas Hulings.
119th Pennsylvania,
        Maj. Henry P. Truefitt, jr.
5th Wisconsin,
        Lieut. Col. Theodore B. Catlin.

Fourth Brigade.
Brig. Gen. ALEXANDER SHALER.

65th New York,
        Col. Joseph E. Hamblin.
67th New York,
        Col. Nelson Cross.
122d New York, Lieut.
        Col. Augustus W. Dwight.
82d Pennsylvania (detachment).

SECOND DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. GEORGE W. GETTY.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. FRANK WHEATON.

62d New York,
        Col. David J. Nevin.
93d Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. John S. Long.
98th Pennsylvania,
        Col. John F. Ballier.
102d Pennsylvania,
        Col. John W. Patterson.
139th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. William H. Moody.

Second Brigade.
Col. LEWIS A. GRANT.

2d Vermont,
        Col. Newton Stone.
3d Vermont,
        Col. Thomas O. Seaver.
4th Vermont,
        Col. George P. Foster.
5th Vermont,
        Lieut. Col. John R. Lewis.
6th Vermont,
        Col. Elisha L. Barney.

Third Brigade.
Brig. Gen. THOMAS H. NEILL.


7th Maine,
        Col. Edwin C. Mason.
43d New York,
        Lieut. Col. John Wilson.
49th New York,
        Col. Daniel D. Bidwell.
77th New York,
        Maj. Nathan S. Babcock.
61st Pennsylvania,
        Col. George F. Smith.

Fourth Brigade.
Brig. Gen. HENRY L. EUSTIS.

7th Massachusetts,
        Col. Thomas D. Johns.
10th Massachusetts,
        Lieut. Col. Joseph B. Parsons.
37th Massachusetts,
        Col. Oliver Edwards.
2d Rhode Island,
        Lieut. Col. Samuel B. M. Read.

THIRD DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. JAMES B. RICKETTS.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM H. MORRIS.

14th New Jersey,
        Lieut. Col. Caldwell K. Hall.
106th New York,
        Lieut. Col. Charles Townsend.
151st New York,
        Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Fay.
87th Pennsylvania,
        Col. John W. Schall.
10th Vermont, Lieut.
        Col. William W. Henry.

Second Brigade
Brig. Gen. TRUMAN SEYMOUR.

6th Maryland,
        Col. John W. Horn.
110th Ohio,
        Col. J. Warren Keifer.
122d Ohio,
        Col. William H. Ball.
126th Ohio,
        Col. Benjamin F. Smith.
67th Pennsylvania (detachment),
        Capt. George W. Guss.
138th Pennsylvania,
        Col. Matthew R, McClennan.

ARTILLERY BRIGADE.
Col. CHARLES H. TOMPKINS.

Maine Light, 4th Battery (D),
        Lieut. Melville C. Kimball.
Massachusetts Light, 1st Battery (A),
        Capt. William H. McCartney.
New York Light, 1st Battery,
        Capt. Andrew Cowan.
New York Light, 3d Battery,
        Capt. William A. Harn.
4th New York Heavy, 1st Battalion,
        Maj. Thomas D. Sears.
1st Rhode Island Light. Battery C,
        Capt. Richard Waterman.
1st Rhode Island Light, Battery E,
        Capt. William B. Rhodes.
1st Rhode Island Light, Battery G,
        Capt. George W. Adams.
5th United States, Battery M,
        Capt. James McKnight. 

NINTH ARMY CORPS.
Maj. Gen. AMBROSE E. BURNSIDE.

PROVOST GUARD.

8th U.S. Infantry,
        Capt. Milton Cogswell.

FIRST DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. THOMAS G. STEVENSON.

First Brigade.
Col. SUMNER CARRUTH.

35th Massachusetts,
        Maj. Nathaniel Wales.
56th Massachusetts,
        Col. Charles E. Griswold.
57th Massachusetts,
        Col. William F. Bartlett.
59th Massachusetts,
        Col. J. Parker Gould.
4th United States,
        Capt. Charles H. Brightly.
10th United States,
        Maj. Samuel B. Hayman.

Second Brigade.
Col. DANIEL LEASURE.

3d Maryland,
        Col. Joseph M, Sudsburg.
21st Massachusetts,
        Lieut. Col. George P. Hawkes.
100th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Matthew M. Dawson.

Artillery.

Maine Light, 2d Battery (B),
        Capt. Albert F. Thomas.
Massachusetts Light, 14th Battery,
        Capt. Joseph W. B. Wright.

SECOND DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. ROBERT B. POTTER.

First Brigade.
Col. ZENAS R. BLISS.

36th Massachusetts,
        Maj. William F. Draper.
58th Massachusetts,
        Lieut. Col. John C. Whiton.
51st New York,
        Col. Charles W. LeGendre.
45th Pennsylvania,
        Col. John I. Curtin.
48thPennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Henry Pleasants.
7th Rhode Island,
        Capt. Theodore Winn.

Second Brigade.
Col. SIMON G. GRIFFIN.

31st Maine,
        Lieut. Col. Thomas Hight.
82d Maine,
        Maj. Arthur Deering.
6th New Hampshire,
        Lieut. Col. Henry H. Pearson.
9th New Hampshire,
        Lieut. Col. John W. Babbitt.
11th New Hampshire,
        Col. Walter Harriman.
17th Vermont,
        Lieut. Col. Charles Cummings.

Artillery.

Massachusetts Light, 11th Battery,
        Capt. Edward J. Jones.
New York Light, 19th Battery.
        Capt. Edward W. Rogers.

THIRD DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. ORLANDO B. WILLCOX.

First Brigade.
Col. JOHN F. HARTRANFT.

2d Michigan,
        Col. William Humphrey.
8th Michigan,
        Col. Frank Graves.
17th Michigan,
        Col. Constant Luce.
27th Michigan,
        Maj. Samuel Moody.
109th New York,
        Co1. Benjamin F. Tracy.
51st Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col Edwin Schall.

Second Brigade.
Col. BENJAMIN C. CHRIST.

1st Michigan Sharpshooters,
        Col. Charles V. De Land.
20th Michigan,
        Lieut. Col. Byron M. Cutcheon.
70th New York,
        Col. David Morrison.
60th Ohio,
        Lieut. Col. James N. McElroy.
50th Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Edward Overton, jr.

Artillery.

Maine Light, 7th Battery (G),
        Capt. Adelbert B. Twitchell.
New York Light. 34th Battery,
        Capt. Jacob Roemer.

FOURTH DIVISION.
Brig Gen. EDWARD FERRERO.

First Brigade
Col. JOSHUA K. SIGFRIED.

27th U. S. Colored Troops,
        Lieut. Col. Charles J. Wright.
30th U.S. Colored Troops,
        Col. Delayan Bates.
39th U.S. Colored Troops.
        Col. Ozora P. Stearns.
43d U.S. Colored Troops,
        Lieut. Col. H. Seymour Hall.

Second Brigade.
Col. HENRY G. THOMAS.

30th Connecticut (colored), detachment,
        Capt Charles Robinson.
19th U.S. Colored Troops,
        Lieut. CoI. Joseph G. Perkins.
23d U.S. Colored Troops,
        Lieut. Col Cleaveland J. Campbell.

Artillery.

Pennsylvania Light, Battery D,
        Capt. George W. Durell.
Vermont Light, 3d Battery,
        Capt. Romeo H. Start.

CAVALRY.

3d New Jersey,
        Col. Andrew J. Morrison.
22d New York,
        Col. Samuel J. Crooks.
2d Ohio, Lieut.
        Col. George A. Purington.
13th Pennsylvania.
        Maj, Michael Kerwin.

RESERVE ARTILLERY.
Capt. JOHN EDWARDS, Jr.

New York Light, 27th Battery,
        Capt. John B. Eaton.
1st Rhode Island Light, Battery D,
        Capt. William W. Buckley,
1st Rhode Island Light, Battery H,
        Capt. Crawford Allen, jr.
2d United States, Battery E,
        Lieut. James S. Dudley.
3d United States. Battery G,
        Lieut. Edmund Pendleton.
3d United States, Batteries L and M,
        Lieut. Erskine Gittings.

PROVISIONAL BRIGADE.
Col. ELISHA G. MARSHALL.

24th New York Cavalry (dismounted),
        Col. William C. Raulston.
14th New York Heavy Artillery,
        Lieut. Col. Clarence H. Corning.
2d Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery,
        Col. Thomas Wilhelm.

CAVALRY CORPS.
Maj Gen. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN.

ESCORT.

6th United States,
        Capt. Ira W. Claflin.

FIRST DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. ALFRED T. A. TORBERT.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. GEORGE A. CUSTER.

1st Michigan,
        Lieut. Col. Peter Stagg.
5th Michigan,
        Col. Russell A. Alger.
6th Michigan,
        Maj. James H. Kidd.
7th Michigan,
        Maj. Henry W. Granger.

Second Brigade.
Col. THOMAS C. DEVIN.

4th New York,
        Lieut. Col. William R. Parnell.
6th New York,
        Lieut. Col. William H. Crocker.
9th New York,
        Col. William Sackett.
17th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. James Q. Anderson.

Reserve Brigade.
Brig. Gen. WESLEY MERRITT.

19th New York (1st Dragoons),
        Col. Alfred Gibbs.
6th Pennsylvania,
        Maj. James Starr.
1st United States,
        Capt. Nelson B. Sweitzer.
2d United States,
        Capt. Theophilus F. Rodenbough.
5th United States,
        Capt. Abraham K. Arnold.

SECOND DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. DAVID McM. GREGG.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. HENRY E. DAVIES, Jr.

1st Massachusetts,
        Maj. Lucius M. Sargent.
1st New Jersey,
        Lieut. Col. John W. Kester.
6th Ohio,
        Col. William Stedman.
1st Pennsylvania,
        Col. John P. Taylor.

Second Brigade.
Col. J. IRVIN GREGG.

1st Maine.
        Col. Charles H. Smith.
10th New York,
        Maj. M. Henry Avery.
2d Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Joseph P. Brinton.
4th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. George H. Covode.
8th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Samuel Wilson.
16th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. John K. Robison.

THIRD DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. JAMES H. WILSON.

Escort.

8th Illinois (detachment),
        Lieut. William W. Long.

First Brigade.
Col. TIMOTHY M. BRYAN, Jr.

Col. JOHN B. MCINTOSH.

1st Connecticut,
        Maj. Erastus Blakeslee.
2d New York,
        Col. Otto Harhaus.
5th New York,
        Lieut. Col. John Hammond.
18th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. William P. Brinton.

Second Brigade.
Col. GEORGE H. CHAPMAN.

3d Indiana,
        Maj. William Patton.
8th New York,
        Lieut. Col. William H. Benjamin.
1st Vermont,
        Lieut. Col. Addison W. Preston.

ARTILLERY.
Brig. Gen. HENRY J. HUNT.

ARTILLERY RESERVE.
Col. HENRY S. BURTON.

First Brigade.
Col. J. HOWARD KITCHING.

6th New York Heavy,
        Lieut. Col. Edmund R. Travis
15th New York Heavy,
        Col. Louis Schirmer.

Second Brigade.
Maj. JOHN A. TOMPKINS.

Maine Light, 5th Battery (E),
        Capt. Greenleaf T. Stevens.
1st New Jersey Light, Battery A,
        Capt. William Hexamer.
1st New Jersey Light, Battery B,
        Capt. A. Judson Clark.
New York Light, 5th Battery,
        Capt. Elijah D. Taft.
New York Light, 12th Battery,
        Capt. George F. McKnight.
1st New York Light, Battery B,
        Capt. Albert S. Sheldon. 

Third Brigade
Maj. ROBERT H. FITZHUGH.

Massachusetts Light, 9th Battery,
        Capt. John Bigelow.
New York Light, 15th Battery,
        Capt. Patrick Hart.
1st New York Light, Battery C,
        Lieut. William H. Phillips
New York Light, 11th Battery,
        Capt. John E. Burton.
1st Ohio Light, Battery H,
        Lieut. William A. Ewing.
5th United States, Battery E,
        Lieut. John R. Brinckle.

HORSE ARTILLERY.

First Brigade.
Capt. JAMES M. ROBERTSON.

New York Light, 6th Battery,
        Capt. Joseph W. Martin.
2d United States, Batteries B and L,
        Lieut. Edward Heaton.
2d United States, Battery D,
        Lieut. Edward B. Williston.
2d United States, Battery M,
        Lieut. Alexander C. M. Pennington, jr.
4thUnited States, Battery A,
        Lieut. Rufus King, jr.
4th United States, Batteries C and E,
        Lieut. Charles L. Fitzhugh.

Second Brigade.
Capt. DUNBAR R. RANSOM.

1st United States, Batteries E and G,
        Lieut. Frank S. French.
1st United States, Batteries H and I,
        Capt. Alanson M. Randol.
1st United States, Battery K,
        Lieut. John Egan.
2d United States, Battery A,
        Lieut. Robert Clarke.
2d United States, Battery G.
        Lieut. William N. Dennison.
3d United States, Batteries C, F, and K,
        Lieut. James R. Kelly.

ARMY OF THE JAMES (IN THE FIELD).
Maj. Gen. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.

TENTH ARMY CORPS.
Maj. Gen. QUINCY A. GILLMORE.

FIRST DIVlSION.
Brig. Gen. ALFRED H. TERRY.

First Brigade.
Col. JOSHUA B. HOWELL.

89th Illinois,
        Col. Thomas O. Osborn.
62d Ohio,
        Col. Francis B. Pond.
67th Ohio,
        Col. Alvin C. Voris.
85th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Edward Campbell.

Second Brigade.
Col. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY.

6th Connecticut,
        Lieut. Col. Lorenzo Meeker.
7th Connecticut,
        Lieut. Col. Daniel C. Rodman.
3d New Hampshire,
        Lieut. Col. Josiah I. Plimpton.
7th New Hampshire,
        Col. Joseph C. Abbott.

Third Brigade.
Col. HARRIS M. PLAISTED.

10th Connecticut,
        Col. John L. Otis.
11th Maine,
        Lieut. Col. Winslow P. Spofford.
24th Massachusetts,
        Col. Francis A. Osborn.
100th New York,
        Col. George B. Dandy.

Artillery.

Connecticut Light, 1st Battery,
        Capt. Alfred P. Rockwell.

New Jersey Light, 5th Battery,
        Capt. Zenas C. Warren.
1st United States, Battery M,
        Capt. Loomis L. Langdon. 

SECOND DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. JOHN W. TURNER.

First Brigade.
Col. SAMUEL M. ALFORD.

40th Massachusetts,
        Col. Guy V. Henry.
3d New York,
        Lieut. Col. Eldridge O. Floyd.
89th New York,
        Lieut. Col. Theophilus L. England.
117th New York,
        Col. Alvin White.
142d New York,
        Col. N. Martin Curtis.

Second Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM B. BARTON.

47th New York,
        Lieut. Col. Christopher R. Mac Donald.
48th New York,
        Lieut. Col. Dudley W. Strickland.
115th New York,
        Maj. Ezra L. Walrath.
76th Pennsylvania,
        Col. John C. Campbell.

Artillery.

New Jersey Light, 4th Battery,
        Capt. George T. Woodbury.
1st United States, Battery B,
        Capt. Samuel S. Elder.
1st United States, Battery D,
        Lieut. John S. Gibbs.

THIRD DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. ADELBERT AMES.

First Brigade.
Col. RICHARD WHITE.

8th Maine,
        Lieut. Col. Henry Boynton.
4th New Hampshire,
        Col. Louis Bell.
55th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Frank T. Bennett.
97th Pennsylvania,
        Col. Henry R. Guss.

Second Brigade.
Col. JEREMIAH C. DRAKE

13th Indiana,
        Col. Cyrus J. Dobbs.
9th Maine,
        Col. Sabine Emery.
112th New York,
        Lieut. Col. Elial F. Carpenter.
169th New York,
        Col. John McConihe.

Artillery.

New York Light, 33d Battery,
        Capt. Alger M. Wheeler.
3d Rhode Island, Battery C,
        Capt. Martin S. James.
3d United States, Battery E,
        Lieut. Joseph P. Sanger.

UNATTACHED TROOPS.

1st New York Engineers (eight companies),
        Col. Edward W. Serrell.
4th Massachusetts Cavalry (1st Battalion),
        Capt. Lucius Richmond.

EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS.
Maj. Gen. WILLIAM F. SMITH.

FIRST DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM T. H. BROOKS.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. GILMAN MARSTON.

81st New York,
        Col. Jacob J. De Forest.
96th New York,
        Col. Edgar M. Cullen.
98th New York,
        Col. Frederick F. Wead.
139th New York,
        Col. Samuel H. Roberts.

Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. HIRAM BURNHAM.

8th Connecticut,
        Col. John E. Ward.
10th New Hampshire,
        Lieut. Col. John Coughlin.
13th New Hampshire,
        Col. Aaron F. Stevens.
118th New York,
        Col. Oliver Keese, jr. 

Third Brigade.
Col. HORACE T. SANDERS.

92d New York,
        Lieut. Col. Hiram Anderson, jr.
58th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Montgomery Martin.
188th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. George K. Bowen.
19th Wisconsin,
        Lieut. Col. Rollin M. Strong.

Artillery Brigade.
Maj. THEODORE H. SCHENCK.

Wisconsin Light, 4th Battery,
        Capt. George B. Easterly.
4th United States, Battery L,
        Lieut. John S. Hunt.
5th United States, Battery A,
        Lieut. Charles P. Muhlenberg,

SECOND DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. GODFREY WEITZEL.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES A. HECKMAN.

23d Massachusetts,
        Col. Andrew Elwell.
25th Massachusetts,
        Maj. Cornelius G. Atwood.
27th Massachusetts,
        Col. Horace C. Lee.
9th New Jersey,
        Col. Abram Zabriskie.

Second Brigade.
Col. GRIFFIN A. STEDMAN, Jr.

11th Connecticut,
        Lieut. Col. William C. Moegling.
2d New Hampshire,
        Col. Edward L. Bailey.
12th New Hampshire,
        Maj. John F. Langley.
148th New York,
        Col. George M. Guion.

Artillery Brigade.
Capt. FREDERICK M. FOLLETT.

New York Light, 7th Battery,
        Capt. Peter C. Regan.
3d New York Light, Battery E,
        Capt. George E. Ashby.
1st Rhode Island Light, Battery F,
        Capt. James Belger.
4th United States, Battery D,
        Lieut. James Thompson.

THIRD DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. EDWARD W. HINKS.

First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. EDWARD A. WILD.

1st U.S. Colored,
        Col. John H. Holman.
10th U.S. Colored,
        Lieut. Col. Edward H. Powell.
22d U.S. Colored,
        Col. Joseph B. Kiddoo.
37th U.S. Colored,
        Lieut. Col. Abial G. Chamberlain.

Second Brigade.
Col. SAMUEL A. DUNCAN.

4th U.S. Colored,
        Lieut. Col. George Rogers.
5th U.S. Colored,
        Col. James W. Conine.
6th U.S. Colored,
        Col. John W. Ames.

Artillery.

3d New York Light, Battery K,
        Capt. James R. Angel.
3d New York Light, Battery M,
        Capt. John H. Howell.
2d U.S. Colored Light, Battery B,
        Capt. Francis C. Choate. 

CAVALRY DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. AUGUST V. KAUTZ.

First Brigade.
Col. SIMON H. MIX.

1st District of Columbia,
        Lieut. Col. Everton J. Conger.
3d, New York,
        Lieut. Col. George W. Lewis.

Second Brigade.
Col. SAMUEL P. SPEAR.

5th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. Christopher Kleinz.
11th Pennsylvania,
        Lieut. Col. George Stetzel.

Artillery.

New York Light, 8th Battery (section),
        Lieut. Peter Morton.

UNATTACHED TROOPS.

1st New York Mounted Rifles,
        Col. Benjamin F. Onderdonk.
1st U.S. Colored Cavalry,
        Maj. Harvey W. Brown.
2d U.S. Colored Cavalry,
        Col. George W. Cole.
13th Company Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (pontoniers),
        Capt. John Pickering, jr.

Source: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Recommended Reading: Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864. Library Journal: On June 3, 1864, the Union Second, Sixth, and Eighteenth Corps assaulted Confederate breastworks at Cold Harbor outside Richmond, VA. The resulting bloodbath amounted to U.S. Grant's worst defeat and "Bobby" Lee's final great victory. In his latest book, native Virginian and Baltimore Sun correspondent Furgurson (Chancellorsville, 1863) vividly retells the well-known story of how the friction between Grant and his insecure direct subordinate, George Meade, poisoned the Army of the Potomac's whole chain of command. Continued below…

By contrast, he depicts Lee as a commander beset by poor health and impossible logistical problems who brilliantly deployed his meager forces and soundly thrashed his overconfident adversary, thereby saving the rebel capital and extending an unwinnable war by nearly a year. The book is rich in word pictures and engaging anecdotes. Furgurson considers the wounded that were left to suffer with the dead between the lines while Lee and Grant quibble over protocols of recovery; the disastrous affect of poor maps and impassable terrain on the Federal assault; and Grant's immediate need to bring Lincoln a battlefield victory before the 1864 presidential election. Furgurson's contribution is his evocative retelling of a great American military tragedy.

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Recommended Reading: Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864, by Gordon C. Rhea (Hardcover). Description: In his gripping volume on the spring 1864 Overland campaign--which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War--Gordon Rhea vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the North Anna stalemate through the Cold Harbor offensive. Rhea's tenacious research elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians. The Cold Harbor of these pages differs sharply from the Cold Harbor of popular lore. We see Grant, in one of his most brilliant moves, pull his army across the North Anna River and steal a march on Lee. In response, Lee sets up a strong defensive line along Totopotomoy Creek, and the battles spark across woods and fields northeast of Richmond. Continued below…

Their back to the Chickahominy River and on their last legs, the rebel troops defiantly face an army-wide assault ordered by Grant that extends over three hellish days. Rhea gives a surprising new interpretation of the famous battle that left seven thousand Union casualties and only fifteen hundred Confederate dead or wounded. Here, Grant is not a callous butcher, and Lee does not wage a perfect fight. Every imaginable primary source has been exhausted to unravel the strategies, mistakes, gambles, and problems with subordinates that preoccupied two exquisitely matched minds. In COLD HARBOR, Rhea separates fact from fiction in a charged, evocative narrative. He leaves readers under a moonless sky, Grant pondering the eastward course of the James River fifteen miles south of the encamped armies. About the Author: Gordon Rhea is the author of three previous books, a winner of the Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, a frequent lecturer throughout the country on military history, and a practicing attorney.

 

Recommended Reading: Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864, by Noah Andre Trudeau. Description: "Nobody has brought together in one volume so many eyewitness accounts from both sides."-Civil War History Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award. In this authoritative chronicle of the great 1864 Overland Campaign in Virginia, Noah Andre Trudeau vividly re-creates the brutal forty days that marked the beginning of the end of the Civil War. In riveting detail Trudeau traces the carnage from the initial battles in Virginia's Wilderness to the gruesome hand-to-hand combat at Spotsylvania's "Bloody Angle," to the ingenious trap laid by Lee at the North Anna River, to the killing ground of Cold Harbor. Through fascinating eyewitness accounts, he relates the human stories behind this epic saga. Continued below…

Common soldiers struggle to find the words to describe the agony of their comrades, incredible tales of individual valor, their own mortality. Also recounting their experiences are the women who nursed these soldiers and black troops who were getting their first taste of battle. The raw vitality of battle sketches by Edwin Forbes and Alfred R. Waud complement the words of the participants. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "Bloody Roads South is a powerful and eloquent narrative of the costliest, most violent campaign of the Civil War. Grant vs. Lee in the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania, and at Cold Harbor has never been told better."-Stephen W. Sears, author of The Landscape Turned Red. About the Author: Noah Andre Trudeau is an executive producer for cultural programs at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Out of the Storm: The End of the Civil War, April-June 1865 and The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865.

 

Recommended Reading: Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign (Civil War America) (Hardcover) (The University of North Carolina Press) (September 5, 2007). Description: In the study of field fortifications in the Civil War that began with Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War, Hess turns to the 1864 Overland campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. 

Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of trench remnants at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and Bermuda Hundred, Hess describes Union and Confederate earthworks and how Grant and Lee used them in this new era of field entrenchments.

 

Recommended Reading: Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864 (Civil War America) (Hardcover). Description: The eastern campaigns of the Civil War involved the widespread use of field fortifications, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula to Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Charleston, and Mine Run. While many of these fortifications were meant to last only as long as the battle, Earl J. Hess argues that their history is deeply significant. The Civil War saw more use of fieldworks than did any previous conflict in Western history. Hess studies the use of fortifications by tracing the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia from April 1861 to April 1864. Continued below... 

He considers the role of field fortifications in the defense of cities, river crossings, and railroads and in numerous battles. Blending technical aspects of construction with operational history, Hess demonstrates the crucial role these earthworks played in the success or failure of field armies. He also argues that the development of trench warfare in 1864 resulted from the shock of battle and the continued presence of the enemy within striking distance, not simply from the use of the rifle-musket, as historians have previously asserted.Based on fieldwork at 300 battle sites and extensive research in official reports, letters, diaries, and archaeological studies, this book should become an indispensable reference for Civil War historians.

 

Recommended Reading: The Battlefield of Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia, 1864 (Map). Review: The site of Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia's last Civil War Victory is one of astonishment, battlefield courage, and horrific carnage… This work includes the most complete, accurate and detailed maps of the battle of Cold Harbor ever published. Watercolor and colored pencil map showing farms, mills, entrenchments, watercourses, woods, fields and residences are all meticulously detailed and scaled to perfection.Continued below...

The reverse side includes an account of Union mapping at Cold Harbor; full color reproduction of the Army of the Potomac’s Overland Campaign theater map; and photographs of two prominent Union topographical engineers, W. H. Paine and W.A. Roebling. A welcome addition to every Civil War buff’s library as well as the individual that appreciates detailed topographical maps. FIVE STARS.

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