Battle of Hatcher's Run order of battle: Union

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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Hatcher's Run (February 5-7, 1865) during the Petersburg campaign of the American Civil War. Order of battle is compiled from the official tabulation of casualties and includes only units which sustained casualties. [1]

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Army of the Potomac


II Corps

MG Andrew A. Humphreys


DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division [not engaged]

4th Brigade

  Col John Ramsey

  • 8th New York Heavy Artillery
  • 64th New York
  • 53rd Pennsylvania
  • 116th Pennsylvania
  • 144th Pennsylvania

Second Division
     BG Thomas A. Smyth

1st Brigade

  Col William A. Olmsted

2nd Brigade

  Col Mathew Murphy (mw) 5 Feb
  Col James Patrick McIvor

3rd Brigade

  Ltc Francis E. Pierce

  • 14th Connecticut
  • 12th New Jersey
  • 10th New York Battalion (Zouaves)
  • 69th Pennsylvania
Unattached
  • 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry Battalion

Third Division
     MG Gershom Mott

1st Brigade

  BG Régis de Trobriand

2nd Brigade

  BG George W. West

3rd Brigade

  BG Robert McAllister

V Corps

MG Gouverneur K. Warren

Escort: 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company C
Provost Guard: 104th New York

DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division
     Bvt MG Charles Griffin

1st Brigade

  Bvt BG Horatio G. Sickel

2nd Brigade

  Col Allen L. Burr

3rd Brigade

  Bvt BG Alfred L. Pearson

  • 20th Maine
  • 32nd Massachusetts
  • 1st Michigan
  • 16th Michigan
  • 83rd Pennsylvania, 6 Companies
  • 91st Pennsylvania
  • 118th Pennsylvania
  • 155th Pennsylvania (Zouaves)

Second Division
     Bvt MG Romeyn B. Ayres

1st Brigade

Zouave Brigade   Bvt BG Frederick Winthrop

  • 5th New York Veterans
  • 15th New York Heavy Artillery
  • 140th New York
  • 146th New York
2nd Brigade

  Col Richard N. Bowerman

3rd Brigade

  Bvt BG James Gwyn

Third Division
     Bvt MG Samuel W. Crawford

1st Brigade

  BG Edward S. Bragg

2nd Brigade

  BG Henry Baxter

3rd Brigade

  Bvt BG Henry A. Morrow (w)
  Col Thomas F. McCoy

VI Corps

DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division
    BG Frank Wheaton

1st Brigade [not engaged]
2nd Brigade

  Col James Hubbard

  • 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery
  • 65th New York
  • 121st New York
  • 95th Pennsylvania (Zouaves)
3rd Brigade

  BG Joseph E. Hamblin

  • 37th Massachusetts
  • 5th Wisconsin

Second Division [not engaged]

Third Division [not engaged]

Cavalry

DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division [not engaged]

Second Division
     BG David McM. Gregg

1st Brigade

  BG Henry E. Davies, Jr.

2nd Brigade

  BG John Irvin Gregg (w)
  Col Michael Kerwin

3rd Brigade

  Col Oliver B. Knowles

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References

  1. "Return of casualties in the Union forces at Hatcher's Run (otherwise known as Dabney's Mill, Armstrong's Mill, Rowanty Creek, and Vaughan Road) and Fort Stedman". The Siege of Petersburg Online. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2012.