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Battle of South Mountain, Union Order of Battle

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Date: 14 Sep 1862 [unknown]
Location: Boonsboro, Washington County, Frederick Countymap
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Contents

Army of the Potomac

Commanding: Major General George B. McClellan

Left Wing

Commanding: Major General Ambrose Burnside


I Corps (Turner's Gap)

Commanding: Major General Joseph Hooker


First Division

Commanding: Brigadier General John Hatch (w)
Commanding: Brigadier General Rufus King
Commanding: Brigadier General Abner Doubleday

1st Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Walter Phelps, Jr.
2nd US Sharpshooters - Colonel Henry A.V. Post
22nd New York - Lt. Colonel John McKie
24th New York - Captain John D. O'Brian
30th New York - Colonel William M. Searing
84th New York/14th Brooklyn - Major William H. DeBevoise

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General Abner Doubleday
Commanding: Colonel William P. Wainwright (w)
Commanding: Lt. Colonel John W. Hofmann
7th Indiana - Major Ira G. Grover
56th Pennsylvania - Lt. Colonel John W. Hofmann
76th New York - Colonel William P. Wainwright
95th New York - Major Edward Pye

3rd Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General Marsena Patrick
21st New York - Colonel William F. Rodgers
23rd New York - Colonel Henry C. Hoffman
35th New York - Colonel Newton B. Lord
80th New York - Lt. Colonel Theodore B. Gates

4th Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General John Gibbon
2nd Wisconsin - Colonel Lucius Fairchild
6th Wisconsin - Lt. Colonel Edward S. Bragg
7th Wisconsin - Captain John Callis
19th Indiana - Colonel Solomon Meredith

First Division Artillery

Commanding: Captain J. Albert Monroe
New Hampshire Light, 1st Battery - Lieutenant Frederick Edgall
1st Rhode Island Light, Battery D - Captain J. Albert Monroe
1st New York Light, Battery L - Captain John A. Reynolds
Battery B, 4th United States Light Artillery - Captain Joseph B. Campbell

Second Division

Commanding: Brigadier General James Ricketts

1st Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General Abram Duryea
97th New York - Major Charles Northrup
104th New York - Major Lewis C. Skinner
105th New York -
107th Pennsylvania - Captain James MacThomson

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Colonel William Henry Christian
26th New York - Colonel Richard H. Richardson
94th New York -
88th Pennsylvania - Lt. Colonel George W. Gile
90th Pennsylvania - Colonel Peter Lyle

3rd Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General George L. Hartsuff
12th Massachusetts - Major Elisha Burbank
13th Massachusetts - Major J. Parker Gould
83rd New York -
11th Pennsylvania - Colonel Richard Coulter

Second Division Artillery

1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery F - Captain Ezra W. Matthews
Pennsylvania Light, Battery C - Captain James Thompson


Third Division

Commanding: Brigadier General George G. Meade

1st Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General Truman Seymour
1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th P.V.I.) - Colonel R. Biddle Roberts
2nd Pennsylvania Reserves (31st P.V.I.) - Captain James Byrnes
5th Pennsylvania Reserves (34th P.V.I.) - Colonel Joseph W. Fisher
6th Pennsylvania Reserves (35th P.V.I.) - Colonel William Sinclair
13th Pennsylvania Reserves (42nd P.V.I.) - Colonel Hugh W. McNeil

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Albert Magilton
3rd Pennsylvania Reserve - Lt. Colonel John C. Clark
4th Pennsylvania Reserve - Major John Nyce
7th Pennsylvania Reserve - Colonel Henry C. Bollinger
8th Pennsylvania Reserve - Major Silas M. Baily

3rd Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Thomas F. Gallagher (w)
Commanding: Lt. Colonel Robert Anderson
9th Pennsylvania Reserves - Lt. Colonel Robert Anderson
10th Pennsylvania Reserves - Lt. Colonel Adoniram J. Warner
11th Pennsylvania Reserves - Lt. Colonel Samuel M. Jackson
12th Pennsylvania Reserves - Captain Richard Gustin

Third Division Artillery

1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery A - Lieutenant John G. Simpson
1st Pennsylvania Light, Battery B - Captain James H. Cooper
5th U.S., Battery C - Captain Dunbar R. Ransom


IX Corps (Fox's Gap)

Commanding: Major General Jesse L. Reno (k)


Kanawha Division

Commanding: Major General Jacob Cox

1st Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Eliakim Scammon
12th Ohio - Colonel Carr B. White
23rd Ohio - Lt. Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes
30th Ohio - Colonel Hugh B. Ewing
Ohio Light Artillery, First Battery - Captain James R. McMullin

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Colonel George Crook
11th Ohio - Lt. Colonel Augustus H. Coleman
28th Ohio - Lt. Colonel Gottfried Becker
36th Ohio - Lt. Colonel Melvin Clarke
Kentucky Light Artillery, Simmond's Battery - Captain Seth J. Simmonds


First Division

Commanding: Brigadier General Orlando B. Willcox

1st Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Benjamin Christ
17th Michigan - Colonel William H. Withington
50th Pennsylvania - Major Edward Overton, Jr.
79th New York - Lt. Colonel David Morrison

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Thomas Welch
8th Michigan - Lt. Colonel Frank Graves
45th Pennsylvania - Lt. Colonel John I. Curtin
46th New York - Lt. Colonel Joseph Gerhardt
100th Pennsylvania - Lt. Colonel David A. Leckey
First Division Artillery - commander unknown
Massachusetts Light Artillery - 8th Battery, Captain Asa Cook


Second Division

Commanding: Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis

1st Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General James Nagle
2nd Maryland - Lt. Colonel J. Eugene Duryea
48th Pennsylvania - Lt. Colonel Joshua K. Sigfried
6th New Hampshire - Colonel Simon G. Griffin
9th New Hampshire - Colonel Enoch Q. Fellows

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General Edward Ferrero
21st Massachusetts - Colonel William S. Clark
35th Massachusetts - Colonel Edward A. Wild
51st New York - Colonel Robert Potter
51st Pennsylvania - Colonel John F. Hartranft

Second Division Artillery

Commanding: commander unknown
4th United States Artillery, Battery E - Captain Joseph Clark, Jr.
Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery D - Captain George Durell


Third Division

Commanding: Brigadier General Issac Rodman

1st Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Harrison Fairchild
9th New York - Lt. Colonel Edgar Kimball
89th New York - Major Edward Jardine
103rd New York - Major Benjamin Ringold

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Edward Harland
4th Rhode Island - Colonel William H. P. Steere
11th Connecticut - Colonel Henry Kingsbury
16th Connecticut - Colonel Francis Beach


XI Corps (Crampton's Gap)

Commanding: Major General William B. Franklin


First Division

Commanding: Major General Henry Slocum

1st Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Alfred Torbert
1st New Jersey - Lt. Colonel Mark W. Collet
2nd New Jersey - Colonel Samuel Buck
3rd New Jersey - Colonel Henry Brown
4th New Jersey - Colonel William B. Hatch

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Colonel Joseph J. Bartlett
5th Maine - Colonel Nathaniel J. Jackson
16th New York - Lt. Colonel Joel Seaver
27th New York - Lt. Colonel Alexander D. Adams
121st New York - Colonel Richard H. Franchot
96th Pennsylvania - Colonel Henry L. Cake

3rd Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General John Newton
18th New York - Lt. Colonel George R. Myers
31st New York - Lt. Colonel Francis E. Pinto
32nd New York - Colonel Roderick N. Matheson
95th Pennsylvania - Lt. Colonel Gustavus W. Town

First Division Artillery

Commanding: Captain Emory Upton
Battery A, Maryland Light Artillery - Captain John W. Wolcott
1st Battery (A), Massachusetts Light Artillery - Captain Josiah Porter
1st Battery (A), New Jersey Light Artillery - Captain William Hexamer
Battery D, 2nd United States Artillery - Lt. Edward B. Williston


Second Division

Commanding: Major General William F. Smith

1st Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General Winfield S. Hancock
5th Wisconsin - Colonel Amasa Cobb
6th Maine - Colonel Hiram Burnham
43rd New York - Major John Wilson
137th Pennsylvania - Colonel Henry M. Bossert

2nd Brigade

Commanding: Brigadier General William T.H. Brooks
2nd Vermont - Major James H. Walbridge
4th Vermont - Lt. Colonel Charles Stoughton
5th Vermont - Colonel Lewis A. Grant
6th Vermont - Major Oscar Tuttle

3rd Brigade

Commanding: Colonel William Howard Irwin
7th Maine - Major Thomas Hyde
20th New York - Colonel Ernest Von Vegesack
33rd New York - Lt. Colonel Joseph W. Corning
49th New York - Lt. Colonel William C. Alberger
77th New York - Captain Nathan S. Babcock

Second Division Artillery

Commanding: Captain Romeyn M. Ayres
Battery B, Maryland Light Artillery - Lt. Theodore J. Vanneman
1st Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery - Captain Andrew Cowan
Battery F, 5th United States Artillery - Lt. Leonard Martin

Sources

  • John David Hoptak, The Battle of South Mountain (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011), 183-93.




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