Red River Campaign Union order of battle
The following is the organization of the Union forces engaged in the Red River Campaign, during the American Civil War in 1864. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1][2] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used
Military rank
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Cpt = Captain
- Lt = 1st Lieutenant
Other
- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k = killed
- c = captured
Union forces
Roster for March 31
Army of the Gulf (Department of the Gulf)
MG Nathaniel P. Banks, Commanding
| Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|
| Engineer Brigade
|
|
- Headquarters troops (Companies A and B): Cpt Richard W. Francis
- Escort (Company C): Cpt Frank Sayles
XIII Corps (detachment)
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
3rd Division[3] |
1st Brigade[4]
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| 2nd Brigade
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||
| Artillery |
| |
|
4th Division[5] |
1st Brigade[6]
|
|
| 2nd Brigade[7]
|
| |
| Artillery |
|
XIX Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
1st Division |
1st Brigade[10] |
|
| 2nd Brigade[11] |
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
|
2nd Division[12] |
2nd Brigade[13]
|
|
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
| Cavalry |
| |
| Corps Artillery Reserve
|
| |
| Corps d'Afrique (United States Colored Troops) | 1st Brigade, 1st Division
|
|
| Cavalry Division | 1st Brigade
|
|
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| 4th Brigade
|
| |
| 5th Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery Brigade
|
|
Army of the Tennessee (detachment)
XVI Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
1st Division[16]
|
2nd Brigade |
|
| 3rd Brigade |
| |
| 3rd Division
|
1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
|
XVII Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| Provisional Division | 1st Brigade |
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
|
Roster for April 30
Army of the Gulf (Department of the Gulf)
MG Nathaniel P. Banks, Commanding
| Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|
| Engineer Brigade
|
- Headquarters troops (Companies A and B): Cpt Richard W. Francis
- Escort (Company C): Cpt Frank Sayles
XIII Corps (detachment)
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Division
_ |
2nd Brigade[19] |
|
|
3rd Division |
1st Brigade[20]
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
|
4th Division |
1st Brigade[21]
|
|
| 2nd Brigade[22]
|
| |
| Artillery[23]
|
| |
| Unattached |
|
XIX Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
1st Division |
1st Brigade[26]
|
|
| 2nd Brigade[27] |
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
| 2nd Division[28] | 1st Brigade[29] |
|
| 2nd Brigade[30] |
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
| 3rd Division[31]
|
Artillery Reserve
|
|
| Corps d'Afrique (United States Colored Troops)[33] | 1st Brigade, 1st Division
|
|
| Cavalry Division[34]
|
1st Brigade
|
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| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| 4th Brigade
|
| |
| 5th Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery Brigade
|
| |
| Unattached |
|
Army of the Tennessee (detachment)
XVI Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
1st Division[36]
|
2nd Brigade |
|
| 3rd Brigade |
| |
| 3rd Division | 1st Brigade
|
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| 3rd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
|
XVII Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| Provisional Division | 1st Brigade |
|
| 2nd Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
|
Notes
- ↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 167-176.
- ↑ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
- ↑ At Natchitoches. General Cameron assumed command March 3.
- ↑ The 11th, 24th, and 34th Indiana Regiments absent on veteran furlough.
- ↑ At Natchitoches and on Cane River. Colonel Landram assigned to command March 15, vice Ransom, commanding the detachment.
- ↑ The 60th Indiana on veteran furlough (non-veterans attached to 67th Indiana) and the 1st United States on duty in New Orleans.
- ↑ The 97th Illinois on duty in New Orleans.
- ↑ Captain Patrick H. White, of this battery, was chief of artillery detachment XIII Army Corps.
- ↑ XIX Corps: marched from Franklin March 16; arrived at Alexandria March 25; encamped March 31 at Alexandria and on Cane River; the Third Division in Defenses of New Orleans.
- ↑ The 30th Massachusetts on veteran furlough.
- ↑ The 8th Vermont on veteran furlough.
- ↑ The 1st Brigade at Carrollton. Grover assumed command March 14.
- ↑ The 90th New York (except three companies) in La Fourche District, and 131st New York at Brashear City.
- ↑ Chief of corps artillery.
- ↑ Howitzer battery, under Captain Herbert H. Rottaken, attached.
- ↑ The 1st Brigade at Memphis, Tenn.; the 11th Missouri, of 2nd Brigade, and the 8th and 12th Iowa of 3rd Brigade on veteran furlough; the division artillery reported as at Memphis and Vicksburg. Brigadier General Joseph A. Mower assigned to command of both divisions XVI Army Corps, March 9.
- ↑ Non-veterans of 21st Missouri attached.
- ↑ XIII Corps: Corps headquarters and 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, transferred from Texas to Alexandria, La., April 18 to 26. The remainder of the 1st and all of the 2nd Division remained in Texas during the campaign.
- ↑ The 7th Kentucky, 42nd Ohio, and 120th Ohio at Baton Rouge, La.
- ↑ The 11th, 24th, and 34th Indiana Regiments reported on veteran furlough.
- ↑ The 6th Indiana on veteran furlough and 1st United States on detached service at New Orleans, La.
- ↑ The 97th Illinois on provost duty at New Orleans, La., and the 83rd Ohio attached to 1st Brigade.
- ↑ Batteries G, 1st Michigan Light, and F, 1st Missouri Light, and the 16th Ohio Battery on Matagorda Island, Tex. Battery A, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, and the 17th Ohio Battery at New Orleans. Batteries B and E, 1st Missouri Light, at Brownsville, Tex. Battery E, 2nd Illinois Light, at Baton Rouge, La.
- ↑ Sent to New Orleans after the battle of Sabine Cross-Roads.
- ↑ XIX Corps: marched from Franklin March 16; arrived at Alexandria March 25; encamped March 31 at Alexandria and on Cane River; the Third Division in Defenses of New Orleans.
- ↑ The 30th Massachusetts on veteran furlough.
- ↑ The 8th Vermont on veteran furlough.
- ↑ The 1st Brigade at Carrollton. Grover assumed command March 14.
- ↑ The 9th Connecticut and 12th Maine on veteran furlough. The brigade transferred from Carrollton to Alexandria, La., April 15 to 18.
- ↑ The 90th New York at Donaldsonville and the 131st New York at Brashear City, La.
- ↑ Defenses of New Orleans.
- ↑ Chief of Artillery, XIX Army Corps.
- ↑ As organized and commanded March 31, 1864.
- ↑ The 2nd Brigade at Port Hudson, La.
- ↑ General Arnold relieved Brigadier General Albert L. Lee, April 18, 1864.
- ↑ The 1st Brigade on an expedition from Memphis, Tenn., in pursuit of Forrest; the 11th Missouri, of 2nd Brigade, and the 8th and 12th Iowa, of 3rd Brigade, on veteran furlough; the artillery reported as at Memphis, Tenn.
References
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. XXXIV, Part 1, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
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