The Union Army of the Cumberland at Chickamauga

This is an organizational table of the Union Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Chickamauga.

THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND -- Major General William Starke Rosecrans

1st Battalion Ohio Sharpshooters - Captain Gershom M. Barber

10th Ohio Infantry (Provost Guard) - Lieutenant Colonel William M. Ward

15th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Escort) - Colonel William Jackson Palmer

FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS -- Major General George Henry Thomas

9th Michigan Infantry (Provost Guard) - Colonel John Gibson Parkhurst

1st Ohio Cavalry, Company L (Escort) - Captain John D. Barker

FIRST DIVISION -- Brigadier General Absalom Baird

First Brigade -- Colonel Benjamin F. Scribner

38th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Daniel F. Griffin

94th Ohio -- Major Rue P. Hutchins

2nd Ohio -- Lieutenant Colonel Obadiah Maxwell (w), Major William T. Beatty (w&c), Captain James Warnock

33rd Ohio - Colonel Oscar F. Moore

10th Wisconsin - Lieutenant Colonel John H. Ely (mw&c), Captain Jacob W. Roby

Second Brigade -- Brigadier General John C. Starkweather (w)

1st Wisconsin - Lieutenant Colonel George W. Bingham

21st Wisconsin - Lieutenant Colonel Harrison C. Hobart (w), Captain Charles H. Walker

24th Illinois - Colonel Geza Mihalotzy (w), Captain August Mauff

79th Pennsylvania - Colonel Henry A Hambright

  
Third Brigade -- Brigadier General John H. King

15th United States, 1st Battalion - Captain Alfred B. Dod

16th United States, 1st Battalion - Major Sidney Coolidge (k), Captain Robert E. A. Crofton

18th United States, 1st Battalion -- Captain George W. Smith

18th United States, 2nd Battalion - Captain Henry Haymond

19th United States, 1st Battalion - Captain Edmund L. Smith

Artillery:

1st Michigan Light Artillery, Battery A - Lieutenant George W. Van Pelt (k), Lieutenant Almerick W. Wilbur

4th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery - Lieutenant David Flansburg (w&c), Lieutenant Henry J. Willits

5th United States, Battery H - Lieutenant Howard Mather Burnham (mw), Lieutenant Joshua A. Fessenden

SECOND DIVISION -- Major General James S. Negley

First Brigade -- Brigadier General John Beatty

42nd Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel William T. B. McIntire

88th Indiana - Colonel George Humphrey

104th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Hapeman

15th Kentucky - Colonel Marion C. Taylor

3rd Ohio (not in battle)

  
Second Brigade -- Colonel Timothy R. Stanley (w), Colonel William L. Stoughton

18th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Grosvenor

19th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Alexander W. Raffen

11th Michigan - Colonel William L. Stoughton, Lieutenant Colonel Melvin Mudge (w)

69th Ohio (temporarily assigned to Daniel McCook's brigade) -- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Brigham

  
Third Brigade -- Colonel William Sirwell

78th Pennsylvania -- Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Blakely

21st Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Dwella M. Stoughton (mw), Major Arnold McMahan (w), Captain Charles H. Vantine

74th Ohio - Captain Joseph Fisher

37th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel William D. Ward

Artillery:

Illinois Light Artillery, Bridges's Battery - Captain Lyman Bridges

1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery M - Captain Frederick Shultz

1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery G - Captain Alexander Marshall

THIRD DIVISION -- Brigadier General John Milton Brannan

First Brigade -- Colonel John M. Connell

17th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Durbin Ward (w)

31st Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick W. Lister

82nd Indiana - Colonel Morton C. Hunter

38th Ohio (not in battle)

  
Second Brigade -- Colonel John T. Croxton (w), Colonel William H. Hays

4th Kentucky - Lieutenant Colonel P. Burgess Hunt (w), Major Robert M. Kelly

10th Kentucky - Colonel William H. Hays, Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel C. Wharton

10th Indiana -- Colonel William B. Carroll (mw), Lieutenant Colonel Marsh B. Taylor 

74th Indiana -- Colonel Charles W. Chapman

14th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Henry D. Kingsbury

  

Third Brigade -- Colonel Ferdinand Van Derveer

9th Ohio - Colonel Gustave Kammerling

35th Ohio -- Lieutenant Colonel Henry Van Ness Boynton

2nd Minnesota - Colonel James George

87th Indiana - Colonel Newell Gleason

Artillery:

1st Michigan Light Artillery, Battery D - Captain Josiah W. Church

1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery C - Lieutenant Marco B. Gary

4th United States, Battery I -- Lieutenant Frank G. Smith

FOURTH DIVISION -- Major General Joseph J. Reynolds

First Brigade -- Colonel John T. Wilder (mounted brigade, detached)

17th Indiana - Major William T. Jones

72nd Indiana -- Colonel Abram O. Miller

92nd Illinois -- Colonel Smith D. Atkins

98th Illinois - Colonel John J. Funkhouser (w), Lieutenant Colonel Edward Kitchell

123rd Illinois - Colonel James Monroe

 Second Brigade -- Colonel Edward A. King (k), Colonel Milton S. Robinson

68th Indiana - Captain Harvey J. Espy (w)

75th Indiana - Colonel Milton S. Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel William O'Brien

101st Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Doan

80th Illinois (in Nashville)

105th Ohio - Major George T. Perkins (w)

Third Brigade -- Brigadier General John B. Turchin

11th Ohio - Colonel Philander P. Lane

36th Ohio - Colonel William G. Jones (k), Lieutenant Colonel Hiram F. Devol

92nd Ohio - Colonel Benjamin D. Fearing (w), Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Putnam, Jr. (w)

18th Kentucky - Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard K. Milward (w), Captain John B. Heltemes

89th Ohio (detached, with Steedman's Division, Reserve Corps)  

Artillery:

Indiana Light Artillery, 18th Battery -- Captain Eli Lilly

Indiana Light Artillery, 19th Battery - Captain Samuel J. Harris (w), Lieutenant Robert S. Lackey

Indiana Light Artillery, 21st Battery - Captain William W. Andrew



TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS -- Major General Alexander McDowell McCook

2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Company I (Escort) - Lieutenant George W. L. Batman

81st Indiana Infantry, Company H (Provost Guard) - Captain William J. Richards

FIRST DIVISION -- Brigadier General Jefferson Columbus Davis

First Brigade -- Colonel P. Sidney Post (at Steven's Gap, guarding trains)

22nd Indiana - Colonel Michael Gooding

59th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Joshua C. Winters

74th Illinois - Colonel Jason Marsh

75th Illinois - Colonel John E. Bennett

Second Brigade -- Brigadier General William P. Carlin

21st Illinois - Colonel John W. S. Alexander (k), Captain Chester K. Knight

38th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Daniel H. Gilmer (k), Captain Willis G. Whitehurst

81st Indiana - Captain Nevil B. Boone, Major James E. Calloway

101st Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel John Messer (k), Major Bedan B. McDonald (w), Captain Leonard D. Smith

  
Third Brigade -- Colonel Hans C. Heg (mw), Colonel John A. Martin

15th Wisconsin - Lieutenant Colonel Ole C. Johnson (c)

25th Illinois - Major Samuel D. Wall (w), Captain Wesford Taggart

35th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel William P. Chandler

8th Kansas - Colonel John Alexander Martin, Lieutenant Colonel James L. Abernathy

Artillery:

Wisconsin Light Artillery, 5th Battery - Captain George Q, Gardner

Minnesota Light Artillery, 2nd Battery - Lieutenant Albert Woodbury (mw), Lieutenant Richard L. Dawley

Wisconsin Light Artillery, 8th Battery - Lieutenant John D. McLean  

SECOND DIVISION -- Brigadier General Richard W. Johnson

First Brigade -- Brigadier General August Willich

49th Ohio - Major Samuel F. Gray (w), Captain Luther M. Strong

32nd Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Erdelmeyer

15th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Askew

39th Indiana (mounted, detached from brigade) - Colonel Thomas J. Harrison

89th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Duncan J. Hall (k), Major William D. Williams

  
Second Brigade -- Colonel Joseph B. Dodge

77th Pennsylvania - Colonel Thomas E. Rose (c), Captain Joseph J. Lawson

29th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel David M. Dunn

30th Indiana = Lieutenant Colonel Orrin D. Hurd

79th Illinois - Colonel Allen Buckner 

  
Third Brigade -- Colonel Philemon P. Baldwin (k), Colonel William W. Berry

6th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Hagerman Tripp (w), Major Calvin D. Campbell

1st Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Bassett Langdon

93rd Ohio - Colonel Hiram Strong (mw), Lieutenant Colonel William H. Martin

5th Kentucky - Colonel William W. Berry, Captain John M. Huston

Artillery:

1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery A - Captain Wilbur F. Goodspeed

Ohio Light Artillery, 20th Battery - Captain John F. Edward Grosskopff

Indiana Light Artillery, 5th Battery - Captain Peter Simonson  

Third Division -- Major General Philip H. Sheridan

First Brigade - Brigadier General William Haines Lytle (k), Colonel Silas Miller

88th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Alexander S. Chadbourne

36th Illinois - Colonel Silas Miller, Lieutenant Colonel Porter C. Olson

24th Wisconsin - Lieutenant Colonel Theodore S. West (w&c), Major Carl von Baumbach

21st Michigan - Colonel William B. McCreery (w&c), Major Seymour Chase

  
Second Brigade -- Colonel Bernard Laiboldt

2nd Missouri - Major Arnold Beck

15th Missouri - Colonel Joseph Conrad

44th Illinois - Colonel Wallace W. Barrett (w)

73rd Illinois - Colonel James F. Jaquess

  
Third Brigade -- Colonel Luther Prentice Baldwin (w), Colonel Nathan H. Walworth

22nd Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Francis Swanwick

27th Illinois - Colonel Jonathan R. Miles

42nd Illinois - Colonel Nathan H. Walworth, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hottenstein

51st Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Samuel B. Raymond

Artillery: 

Indiana Light Artillery, 11th Battery - Captain Arnold Sutermeister

1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery G - Lieutenant Gustave Shueler

1st Illinois Light Artillery, Battery C - Captain Mark H. Prescott



TWENTY-FIRST ARMY CORPS -- Major General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden

15th Illinois Cavalry, Company K (Escort) - Captain Samuel B. Sherer

FIRST DIVISION -- Brigadier General Thomas John Wood

First Brigade -- Colonel George P. Buell

26th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel William H. Young

58th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel James T. Embree

13th Michigan - Colonel Joshua B. Culver (w), Major Willard G. Eaton

100th Illinois - Colonel Frederick A. Bartleson (w&c), Major Charles M. Hammond

Second Brigade - Brigadier General George D. Wagner (not in battle, stationed at Chattanooga)

15th Indiana - Colonel Gustavus A. Wood

40th Indiana - Colonel John W. Blake

51st Indiana (in Nashville)

57th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel George W. Lennard

97th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Milton Barnes

Third Brigade -- Colonel Charles G. Harker

3rd Kentucky - Colonel Henry C. Dunlap

64th Ohio - Colonel Alexander McIlvaine

65th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Horatio N. Whitbeck (w), Major Samuel C. Brown (mw), Captain Thomas Powell

125th Ohio - Colonel Emerson Opdycke

73rd Indiana (in Nashville)

Artillery:

Indiana Light Artillery, 8th Battery - Captain George Estep (w)

Indiana Light Artillery, 10th Battery (stationed at Chattanooga) - Lieutenant William A. Naylor

Ohio Light Artillery, 6th Battery - Captain Cullen Bradley

SECOND DIVISION -- Major General John M. Palmer

First Brigade -- Brigadier General Charles Cruft

1st Kentucky (five companies detached as wagon guard) - Lieutenant Colonel Alva R. Hadlock

2nd Kentucky - Colonel Thomas D. Sedgewick

31st Indiana - Colonel John T. Smith

90th Ohio - Colonel Charles H. Rippey

  

Second Brigade -- Brigadier General William Badcock Hazen

41st Ohio - Colonel Aquila Wiley

124th Ohio - Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne (w), Major James B. Hampson

6th Kentucky - Colonel George T. Shackelford (w), Lieutenant Colonel Richard Rockingham (k), Major Richard T. Whitaker

9th Indiana - Colonel Isaac C. B. Suman

  
Third Brigade -- Colonel William Grose

36th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver H. P. Carey (w), Major Gilbert Trusler

24th Ohio - Colonel David J. Higgins

6th Ohio - Colonel Nicholas Longworth Anderson (w), Major Samuel C. Erwin

23rd Kentucky - Lieutenant Colonel James C. Foy

84th Illinois - Colonel Louis H. Waters

Artillery:

1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery B - Lieutenant Norman A. Baldwin

1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery F - Lieutenant Giles J. Cockerill

4th United States Artillery, Battery H - Lieutenant Harry C. Cushing

4th United States Artillery, Battery M - Lieutenant Francis L. D. Russell

THIRD DIVISION -- Brigadier General Horatio P. Van Cleve

First Brigade -- Brigadier General Samuel Beatty

9th Kentucky - Colonel George H. Cram

17th Kentucky - Colonel Alexander M. Stout

19th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Henry G. Stratton

79th Indiana - Colonel Frederick Knefler

  
Second Brigade -- Colonel George F. Dick

44th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Simeon C. Aldrich

86th Indiana - Major Jacob C. Dick

13th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Elhannon M. Mast (k), Captain Horatio G. Cosgrove

59th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Granville A. Frambes

  
Third Brigade -- Colonel Sidney M. Barnes

51st Ohio - Colonel Richard W. McClain (c), Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Wood

99th Ohio - Colonel Peter T. Swaine

35th Indiana - Major John P. Dufficy

8th Kentucky - Lieutenant Colonel James D. Mayhew (c), Major John S. Clark

21st Kentucky (stationed at Whiteside's) - Colonel Samuel Woodson Price

Artillery:

Indiana Light Artillery, 7th Battery - Captain George R. Swallow

Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery B - Captain Alanson J. Stevens (k), Lieutenant Samuel M. McDowell
Wisconsin Light Artillery, 3rd Battery - Lieutenant Cortland Livingston

RESERVE CORPS -- Major General Gordon Granger 

(corps had three divisions, but only three brigades in battle)

1st Missouri Cavalry, Co. F (Escort)

FIRST DIVISION -- Brigadier General James B. Steedman

First Brigade -- Brigadier General Walter C. Whitaker

40th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel William Jones

89th Ohio (temporarily attached) - Colonel Caleb H. Carlton (c), Captain Isaac C. Nelson

84th Indiana - Colonel Nelson Trusler

96th Illinois - Colonel Thomas E. Champion

115th Illinois - Colonel Jesse Hale Moore

22nd Michigan (temporarily attached) - Colonel Heber Le Favour (c), Lieutenant Colonel William Sanborn (w), Captain Alonzo M. Keeler

Ohio Light Artillery, 18th Battery - Captain Charles C. Aleshire

  
Second Brigade -- Colonel John G. Mitchell

98th Ohio - Captain Moses J. Urquhart (w). Captain Armstrong J. Thomas

113th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Darius B. Warner

121st Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Henry B. Banning

78th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel Carter Van Vleck (w), Lieutenant George Green

1st Illinois Light Artillery, Battery M - Lieutenant Thomas Burton

SECOND DIVISION --

Second Brigade -- Colonel Daniel McCook, Jr.

85th Illinois - Colonel Caleb J. Dilworth

86th Illinois - Lieutenant Colonel David W. Magee

125th Illinois - Colonel Oscar F. Harmon

52nd Ohio - Major James T. Holmes

69th Ohio (temporarily attached) - Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Brigham

2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery I - Captain Charles M. Barnett



CAVALRY CORPS -- Major General David S. Stanley (ill), Brigadier General Robert B. Mitchell

FIRST DIVISION -- Colonel Edward M. McCook

First Brigade -- Colonel Archibald P. Campbell

2nd Michigan - Major Leonidas S. Scranton

9th Pennsylvania - Lieutenant Colonel Roswell M. Russell

1st Tennessee - Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow

  
Second Brigade -- Colonel Daniel M. Ray

2nd Indiana - Major Joseph B. Presdee

4th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel John T. Deweese

2nd Tennessee - Lieutenant Colonel William R. Cook

1st Wisconsin - Colonel Oscar H. LaGrange

1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery D (one section) - Lieutenant Nathaniel M. Newell

  
Third Brigade -- Colonel Louis D. Watkins

4th Kentucky - Colonel Wickliffe Cooper

5th Kentucky - Lieutenant Colonel William T. Hoblitzell

6th Kentucky - Major Louis A. Gratz

SECOND DIVISION -- Brigadier General George Crook

First Brigade -- Colonel Robert H. G. Minty

3rd Indiana (battalion) - Lieutenant Colonel Robert Klein

4th Michigan - Major Horace Gray

7th Pennsylvania -- Lieutenant Colonel James J. Seibert

4th United States - Captain James B. Mcintyre

  
Second Brigade -- Colonel Eli Long

2nd Kentucky - Colonel Thomas P. Nicholas

1st Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Valentine Cupp (mw), Major Thomas J. Patten

3rd Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Seidel

4th Ohio - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver P. Robie

Artillery:

Chicago Board of Trade Battery - Captain James H. Stokes  


The Army of the Cumberland had an estimated 56,965 men at the Battle of Chickamauga. Thomas's 14th Corps had an estimated 20,000; McCook's 20th Corps, 11,000. Crittenden reported 12,052 men in his 21st Corps; Granger, 3913 in his Reserve Corps. The organizational chart shows officers killed (k), mortally wounded (mw), wounded (w), and captured (c) during the battle. Union losses in the battle numbered 16,179 men. 1656 killed, 9749 wounded, 4774 missing.