A Brigade usually consisted of 2 to 5 Regiments and 2 to 4 brigades usually make up a Division. They were usually commanded by a Brigadier General.

Much of the list below is taken from Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., 1888.

Brigade Commanders Killed In Action

The general officers never hesitated in time of battle to share the danger with the men whenever it became necessary. The gallantry with which they were wont to expose themselves is fully evidenced by the long list of those who were killed.

Major-General George C. Strong^[1]: Killed at Fort Wagner.

Brevet Major-General Alexander Hays^[2]: Killed at Wilderness.

Brevet Major-General S. K. Zook: Killed at Gettysburg.

Brevet Major-General Frederick Winthrop: Killed at Five Forks.

Brevet Major-General Thomas A. Smyth^[3]: Killed at Farmville.

Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon: Killed at Wilson's Creek.

Brigadier-General Robert L. McCook^[4]: Killed at Decherd, Tenn.

Brigadier-General Henry Bohlen: Killed at Freeman's Ford.

Brigadier-General George W. Taylor: Killed at Manassas.

Brigadier-General William R. Terrill: Killed at Chaplin Hills.

Brigadier-General Pleasant A. Hackleman: Killed at Corinth.

Brigadier-General George D. Bayard^[5]: Killed at Fredericksburg.

Brigadier-General Conrad F. Jackson: Killed at Fredericksburg.

Brigadier-General Joshua W. Sill: Killed at Stone's River.

Brigadier-General Edward P. Chapin: Killed at Port Hudson.

Brigadier-General Stephen W. Weed: Killed at Gettysburg.

Brigadier-General Elon J. Farnsworth: Killed at Gettysburg.

Brigadier-General Strong Vincent: Killed at Gettysburg.

Brigadier-General William H. Lytle: Killed at Chickamauga.

Brigadier-General William P. Sanders: Killed at Knoxville.

Brigadier-General Samuel A. Rice^[6]: Killed at Jenkins' Ferry.

Brigadier-General James C. Rice: Killed at Spotsylvania.

Brigadier-General Charles G. Harker: Killed at Kenesaw Mountain.

Brigadier-General Daniel McCook^[7]: Killed at Kenesaw Mountain.

Brigadier-General Hiram Burnham: Killed at Fort Harrison.

Brigadier-General Daniel D. Bidwell: Killed at Cedar Creek.

Brigadier-General Charles R. Lowell^[8]: Killed at Cedar Creek.

Brevet Brigadier-General Arthur H. Dutton^[9]: Killed at Bermuda Hundred.

Brevet Brigadier-General Griffin A. Stedman, Jr: Killed at Petersburg.

Brevet Brigadier-General George D. Wells: Killed at Cedar Creek.

Brevet Brigadier-General J. H. Kitching^[10]: Killed at Cedar Creek.

Brevet Brigadier-General Sylvester G. Hill: Killed at Nashville.

Brigadier-General Theodore Read: Killed at High Bridge.

Brigade Commanders Killed in action with rank of Colonel

A large number of brigades were commanded by Colonels, some of whom held a brigade command for a long time, during which they displayed marked ability, but without any recognition of their services on the part of the Government.^[11]

The following list is composed of Colonels who had been entrusted with brigades, and were exercising such commands at the time of their death. They were men of noble spirits, intrepid soldiers, whose gallantry and ability had won the admiration and respect of all.

Colonel Edward D. Baker, 71st Pennsylvania, Ball's Bluff.

Colonel Julius Raith,^[12] 43d Illinois, Shiloh.

Colonel Everett Peabody, 25th Missouri, Shiloh.

Colonel George Webster, 98th Ohio, Chaplin Hills.

Colonel John A. Koltes, 73d Pennsylvania, Manassas.

Colonel William B. Goodrich, 60th New York, Antietam.

Colonel George W. Roberts, 42d Illinois, Stone's River.

Colonel Frederick Schaefer, 2d Missouri, Stone's River.

Colonel George C. Spear, 61st Pennsylvania, Marye's Heights.

Colonel David S. Cowles, 128th New York, Port Hudson.

Colonel George B. Boomer, 26th Missouri, Vicksburg.

Colonel Edward E. Cross, 5th New Hampshire, Gettysburg.

Colonel George L. Willard, 125th New York, Gettysburg.

Colonel Eliakim Sherrill, 126th New York, Gettysburg.

Colonel Haldinand S. Putnam, 7th New Hampshire, Fort Wagner.

Colonel James E. Mallon, 42d New York, Bristoe Station.

Colonel Edward A. King, 68th Indiana, Chickamauga.

Colonel Hans C. Heg, 15th Wisconsin, Chickamauga.

Colonel Philemon P. Baldwin, 6th Indiana, Chickamauga.

Colonel Edward H. Phelps, 38th Ohio, Missionary Ridge.

Colonel William R. Creighton, 7th Ohio, Ringgold.

Colonel Lewis Benedict, 162d New York, Pleasant Hill.

Colonel Patrick E. Burke,^[13] 66th Illinois, Rome Cross Roads.

Colonel Orlando H. Morris, 66th New York, Cold Harbor.

Colonel Lewis O. Morris, 7th New York (H. A.), Cold Harbor.

Colonel Henry Boyd McKeen, 81st Pennsylvania, Cold Harbor.

Colonel Frank A. Haskell, 36th Wisconsin, Cold Harbor.

Colonel Jeremiah C. Drake, 112th New York, Cold Harbor.

Colonel Richard Byrnes,^[14] 28th Massachusetts,^[15] Cold Harbor.

Colonel Patrick Kelly, 88th New York,^[16] Petersburg.

Colonel William Blaisdell, 11th Massachusetts, Petersburg.

Colonel Simon H. Mix, 3d New York Cavalry, Petersburg.

Colonel Calvin A. Craig, 105th Pennsylvania, Deep Bottom.

Colonel Nathan T. Dushane, 1st Maryland, Weldon Railroad.

Colonel Joseph Thoburn,^[17] 1st West Virginia, Cedar Creek.

Colonel Louis Bell, 4th New Hampshire, Fort Fisher.

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Sources and Footnotes

1. ↑ Mortally wounded.
2. ↑ Hays commanded a division on the Gettysburg campaign.
3. ↑ Mortally wounded.
4. ↑ Shot by guerrillas, while lying sick in an ambulance.
5. ↑ Mortally wounded.
6. ↑ Mortally wounded.
7. ↑ Mortally wounded.
8. ↑ Mortally wounded.
9. ↑ Mortally wounded.
10. ↑ Mortally wounded.
11. ↑ In the Confederate Army, each brigade commandant was commissioned as a Brigadier-General, except where the appointment was a temporary one.
12. ↑ Mortally wounded.
13. ↑ Mortally wounded.
14. ↑ Mortally wounded.
15. ↑ Irish Brigade
16. ↑ Irish Brigade
17. ↑ Thoburn commanded a division during the entire Shenandoah campaign, and was in command of it at the time of his death.