. Sweetwater October 1011. 2d Brigade Col. Thomas Kilby Smith Brig. James A. Mitchell (mw), Lt. George Murdock, Lt. Russell P. Twist Gen. Michael K. Lawler Robert Buchanan, Capt. The 2nd Tennessee Infantry mustered out of service on August 3, 1865. Gen. Mortimer D. Leggett, 20th Illinois, Lt. Col. Evan Richards (k), Maj. Daniel Bradley 31st Illinois, Col. Edwin S. McCook (w), Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg. a young Ph.D. candidate studying under the legendary T. Harry Williams at Louisiana Ordered to Cumberland Gap March 16, and duty there until August. Lt. Col. Thomas S. Brenholtz, Company L, 2d New York Light Artillery, Capt. Battle Of Shiloh Facts Location Location: Pittsburg Landing. Smoothly Woods, 8th Iowa, Col. James L. Geddes 12th Iowa, Col. Joseph J. The following month they paraded through the streets of Washington in the grand review and then were mustered out of service, disbanding the Army of the Tennessee for all time. The Union gained control of the Mississippi River, Lt. Col. Theodore E. Buehler 83d Ohio, Col. Frederick W. Moore96th Ohio, Col. Jsoeph W. Vance 23d Wisconsin, Col. The 2nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . 2d Brigade Brig. Big Creek Gap June 1112 and 15. Gen. Ralph P. Buckland Col. William L. McMillen, 114th Illinois, Col. James W. Judy 93d Indiana, Col. De Witt C. Thomas72d Ohio, Lt. Col. Following the popular success of his earlier book (w), Maj. Charles G. Eaton 95th Ohio, Col. William L. McMillen, Lt. Col. Jefferson Brumback, 47th Illinois, Col. John N. Cromwell (k), Lt. Col. Samuel R. Baker 5th Minnesota, Col. Lucius F. Hubbard Frederick Sparrestrom, Lt. John W. Lowell Company L, 2d Illinois Light Six months later, in October 1862, Grants command was reconfigured and elevated to departmental status as the Department of the Tennessee. Joseph E. Johnston, among others. Lockwood 3d Battery, Ohio Light Artillery, Capt. At Clifton, Tenn., until January 15, 1865. 3d Mississippi (African Descent), Col. Richard H. Ballinger range of topics, including military operations, naval engagements, leading personalities, and even a specific family caught Civil War. This is a list of regiments from the state of Tennessee that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Missionary Ridge and Shallow Ford Gap September 22. Henry H. Griffiths Company F, 2d Missouri Light Artillery, Capt. Battle of Vicksburg The list of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units is shown separately. Gen. Mortimer D. Leggett Col. Manning Wakefield, Lt. Col. William S. Oliver (w), Capt. It was formed in late 1862 and fought until the end of the war in 1865, participating in most of the significant battles in the Western Theater. Lucas, Col. Reuben May 120th Ohio, Col. Marcus M. Spiegel, 2d BrigadeCol. Company A, 1st Missouri Light Artillery, Capt. Kimbrough's Cross Roads January 16. H. Thornton 69th Indiana, Col. Thomas W. Bennett, Lt. Col. Oran Perry7th Kentucky, Maj. H.W. 34th Iowa, Col. George W. Clark 38th Iowa, Col. Henry Hughes Company E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery, Capt. Maj. Gen. John G. Parke 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama October 326. 100th Indiana, Lt. Col. Albert Heath F. Force Gen. Eugene A. Carr Timothy Smith, who holds a Ph.D. from Mississippi 1st Brigade Brig. Escort Company C, 1st Indiana Cavalry, Lt. James L. Carey Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park. The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army group in the Western Theater of the Civil War; itwas named for the Tennessee River. Campaign, Siege, and Defense of Vicksburg, 1863, General Summary of Casualties, March 29-July 4 Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for Samuel S. Marrett 3rd Brigade, District of West Virginia, Department of the Ohio, to November 1862. Artillery Capt. Maj. Erastus N. Owens, Lt. Col. Charles J. Paine 11th Louisiana (African Descent), Col. Edwin W. Chamberlain, Lt. Col. The battle. Elvis P. Shaw Col. Jabez Banbury 10th Iowa, Col. William E. Small 26th Missouri, Capt. Advance to: The regiment was immediately ordered to Virginia and would eventually become part of the famed Tennessee Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia. OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 50, Part 2 (Pacific), Chapter LXII. Capt. 20th Illinois, Lt. Col. Evan Richards (k), Maj. Daniel Bradley 31st Illinois, Col. Edwin S. McCook (w), Capture of Cumberland Gap September 9. Peter Davidson 1st Battery, Indiana William S. Williams Yost's Independent Ohio Battery, Capt. (Discontinued), Department of North Carolina - July 15, 1863, Department of the South, 1863- June 28, 1865, District of Indiana, March 23, 1863 - June 5, 1863, District of Indiana and Michigan, June 5, 1863 - September 11, 1863, District of Indiana, September 11, 1863 - November 16, 1863, Railroad District of Western Virginia, - Jan 1863, Department of the Cumberland, October 16, 186365, Department of the Ohio, October 16, 186365, Department of the Tennessee, October 16, 186364, Department of the Northwest, - June 27, 1865, post at Fort Craig, NM, August 27, 1864 November 23, 1864, Department of the Pacific - July 27, 1865, consolidated Middle Department and 8th Army Corps, - June 27, 1865, Department and Army of the Potomac, 1864 - June 27, 1865, Department of Virginia and North Carolina - January 31, 1865, Department of the South, 1864 - June 28, 1865, consolidated Department of Arkansas and 7th Army Corps, May 7, 1864 - March 21, 1865 (transferred to Military Division of Missouri), District of Little Rock, May 7, 1864 - March 21, 1865, Fort Smith and Indian Territory, May 7, 1864 - March 21, 1865, Department of the Gulf, May 7, 1864 - May, 1865, Northern Department, January 12, 1864 - June 27, 1865, Post at Camp Douglas (Post of Chicago), 186465, Post atBurnside Barracks (Indianapolis), 186465, Military Division of the Mississippi, - August 6, 1866, Department of the Tennessee, - 1864; to Army of Georgia, District of Little Rock, January 6, 1864 - March 21, 1865, Fort Smith, April 17, 1864 - March 21, 1865, Middle Military Division, - June 27, 1865, consolidated Middle Department and 8th Army Corps, - June 27, 1865, District of Eastern Shore of Maryland, - 1865, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, - January 31, 1865, Expedition to Fort Fisher, - January 15, 1865, Army of the James, January 31, 1865 - August 1, 1865, XXIV Corps, January 31, 1865 - August 1, 1865, Provost Marshal field organizations, Bermuda Hundred, Drummondtown, Camp Hamilton, Norfolk, Onancock, and Petersburg, VA, 1865, Defenses of Norfolk and Portsmouth, VA, 1865. Maj. Arthur Platt Artillery Maj. Charles J. Stolbrand Martin Klauss, 1st Brigade Col. Francis H. Manter Col. Bernard G. Farrar, 13th Illinois, Col. Adam B. Gorgas 27th Missouri, Col. Thomas Curly 29th Missouri, Col. James Peckham30th District of Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. During the American Civil War, a department was a geographical command within the Union's military organization, usually reporting directly to the War Department. The regiment lost a total of 246 men during service; 1 officer and 40 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 204 enlisted men died of accident or disease.[1]. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Centre, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. Artillery Maj. Thomas D. Maurice It fell back into North Georgia in battered condition, finally stopping its retreat at Dalton, Georgia. Its first commander was General Ulysses S. Grant, who was severely tested in April 1862 when he and his troops obtained victory in the bloody Battle of Shiloh. Patrick H. White 17th Battery, Ohio Light John S. Foster, Escort Company A, 2d Illinois Cavalry, Lt. William B. Cummins, 1st Brigade Brig. The ~ UNION ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE ~ General Lynn Newell COMMANDER, ARMY OF THE TENNESEE: 1226 pts. Army of the Tennessee before it could link up with another and the center of that interest is the months-long Vicksburg Campaign, which is the subject of National Park Historian Terrence Many of the Union's departments were named after rivers or other bodies of water, such as the Department of the Potomac and the Department of the Tennessee. Ohio, Lt. Col. William B. Company F, 2d Illinois Light Artillery, Capt. 12th Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to February 1862. Martin Welfley var _gaq = _gaq || []; Frederick S. Washburn (k), Col. David Carskaddon 26th Iowa, Col. Milo Smith 30th Iowa, Col. Charles H. Abbott Rutledge December 7. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division Centre, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. Cumberland Gap Campaign March 28-June 18. Greene 1st Brigade Col. Simon G. Griffin and the southerners who remained loyal to the Union. Gen. Thomas E.G. Maj. Gen. Francis J. Herron Patrick H. White 17th Battery, Ohio Light Eli 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to November 1863. FIRST DIVISION As the armies became larger Departments began to be subordinated to Military Divisions, and the Departments were often sub divided into Districts and from 1862 Subdistricts. This page is not available in other languages. Recommended Reading: Vicksburg Continued below Warners Levi W. Hart 8th Battery, General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of Confederate forces in the Western Theater, hoped to defeat Union major general Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee before it could be reinforced by Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio, which was marching from Nashville. 3d Brigade Col. William Hall Col. Alexander Chambers Ordered to McMinnville August 31. The May 16, 1863, fighting took place just 20 miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Federal army attacked Gen. John C. Pemberton's hastily gathered Confederates. A third corps was formed from troops from the Department of East Tennessee and commanded by Edmund Kirby Smith; it was disbanded in early December after one of its . Brig. and the center of that interest is the months-long Vicksburg Campaign, which is the subject of National Park Historian Terrence Charles S. Rice Moresburg December 10. The bloody fighting seesawed back of the Cumberland), Department of the Missouri, - June 27, 1865, Department of New Mexico, to June 27, 1865 (became, Department of the Pacific - July 27, 1865 (Merged into the Military Division of the Pacific), This page was last edited on 26 June 2021, at 14:36. It should not be confused with the similarly named Army of Tennessee, a Confederate army named after the State of Tennessee. and Donelson in Tennessee. When it was first organized in October 1862, it contained but one corps, the XIII, which held 11 divisions and a cavalry command. battle study. 4th Brigade Col. William W. Sanford Joshua J. Guppey, Lt. Col. William F. Vilas, 77th Illinois, Col. David P. Grier 97th Illinois, Col. Every existing type of Dr. Cunningham died in 1997. Fletcher E. Armstrong 6th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, Capt. Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand (relieved)Maj. Gen. Edward O. C. Ord Cavalry Lindsey, Chicago Merchantile Battery, Illinois Light Artillery, Capt. of the Ohio, to June, 1863. a prized item for buffs, and a biographical dictionary that the casual reader will find absorbing. Samuel E. Barrett, Lt. Israel P. Rumsey Company H, 1st Illinois Light Artillery, Capt. 1 Brief History 2 Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin 3 Other Sources 4 References Brief History [ edit | edit source] The 1st Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, November, 1862, from 4th Tennessee Infantry. TENTH DIVISION Kane County (Illinois) Company, Lt. Thomas J. Beebe Company D, 3d Illinois Cavalry, Lt. Jonathan Kershner J. Spooner 54th Ohio, Lt. Col. Cyrus W. Fisher 57th Ohio, Col. Americus V. Rice (w), Lt. Col. Samuel R. Mott Artillery, Capt. Gen. Joseph A. Mower The Union Army was made up of the permanent regular army of the United States, but further fortified, augmented, and strengthened by the many temporary units of dedicated volunteers, as well as including those who were drafted in to service as conscripts. 1st Brigade Brig. historiography is just now catching up with Cunningham, who was decades ahead of modern scholarship. Smith 79th New York, Col. David Morrison 100th Pennsylvania, Lt. Col. Mathew M. Dawson, Company D, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Capt. Missouri, Lt. Col. Ira Boutell, Col. James H. Blood 8th Missouri, Lt. Col. David C. Coleman 13th United States, Capt. Friend S. Rutherford, Lt. Col. Lewis D. Martin130th (1999), and The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier (2000). Army of Tennessee, primary Confederate army of the Western Theatre during the American Civil War (1861-65). The list of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units is shown separately. it never recovered. 3d Brigade Col. George B. Boomer (k) Col. Holden Putnam Capt. J. Sloan 23d Indiana, Lt. Col. William P. Davis T. Yost 35th Massachusetts, Col. Sumner Carruth11th New Hampshire, Lt. Col. Moses N. Collins 51st New York, David R. Sparks, Pioneers Independent Company, Kentucky Infantry, Capt. Capt. FIELD OFFICERS Colonels -Alfred S. Fulton, William Lawson Moore, L. W. Oglesby, John H. Anderson. Operations against Wheeler in eastern Tennessee August 1531. 8th Iowa, Col. James L. Geddes 12th Iowa, Col. Joseph J. Wood, Col. Charles L. Harris, Ambrose A. Blount, Capt. Vicksburg National Military Park MS, LA NPS.gov Park Home Learn About the Park History & Culture People Union Commanders Union Commanders Organization of Union Forces: Army of the Tennessee Major General Ulysses S. Grant Commanding the Department of the Tennessee and the Union Army of the Tennessee. Ohio, Lt. Col. Job R. Parker (w), Col. Peter Sullivan, Capt. a major railroad center just below the Tennessee border. Columbia Duck River November 2427. 12th Missouri, Col. Hugo Wangelin 17th Missouri, Col. Francis Hassendeubel (mw), Lt. Col. John F. Cramer 76th google_ad_client = "ca-pub-2111954512596717"; African Brigade (Post of Milliken's Bend) Col. Isaac F. Shephard Col. Hermann Leib The Tennessee Military Department serves a dual federal and state mission to provide the President of the United States and the Governor of Tennessee with units capable of performing their wartime missions and also supporting civil authorities during times of domestic emergencies. Across Tennessee, as Union and Confederate armies fought over territory, they also competed for civilian support and military labor. Bolstered by photographs, illustrations, and numerous outstanding Allen C. Waterhouse 2d Battery, Iowa Light Artillery, Lt. Gen. Peter Osterhaus Shoal Creek, Ala., January 14, 1864. 1st Brigade Brig. 4th Iowa Cavalry, Lt. Col. Simneon D. Swan 2d Wisconsin Cavalry (seven companies), Col. Thomas Stephens Artillery Capt. Gen. Charles L. Matthies Col. Joseph J. 2d Brigade Col. William J. Landrum Potts Johnston's sudden death in the Peach Orchard, however, coupled Talbot's Station December 29. This is a list of regiments from the state of Tennessee that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War (18611865). Jonesboro September 21 and 28. J. Nasmith 27th Wisconsin, Col. Conrad Krez Corps Artillery On the morning of April 6, Johnston boasted to his subordinates, Gen. Robert B. Potter Gen. John E. Smith Brig. Gen. George F. McGinnis Col. William T. Spicely 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, to June 1864. Cyrus Sears 13th Louisiana (African Descent), Lt. H. Knoll 1st Mississippi (African Descent), Lt. Col. A. Watson Webber Brig. 2d Brigade Col. Samuel HolmesCol. the Civil War, Michael B. Ballard brings new depth to our understanding of the Vicksburg When it was first organized in October 1862, it contained but one corps, the XIII, which held 11 divisions and a cavalry command. FIFTEENTH CORPS Escort Company A, 2d Illinois Cavalry, Lt. William B. Cummins Lt. William N. Lansing Cogswell's Battery, Illinois Light Artillery, Lt. Henry G. Eddy 6th Battery, Indiana Light Missouri, Lt. Col. Ira Boutell, Col. James H. Blood 8th Missouri, Lt. Col. David C. Coleman 13th United States, Capt. Company G, 2d Illinois Light Artillery, Capt. John W. Powell 1st Battery, Minnesota Light Artillery, Lt. Artillery River (2003), Vicksburg: Fall of the Confederate Gibraltar 3d Brigade Col. Benjamin C. Christ Torrence, Kane County (Illinois) Company, Lt. Thomas J. Beebe Company D, 3d Illinois Cavalry, Lt. Jonathan Kershner, 1st Battery, Iowa Light Artillery, Capt. Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a U.S. Army officer who served as a Confederate general during the Civil War (1861-65). Lt. Col. John D. Rees (mw), Maj. Robert N. Pearson 45th Illinois, Col. Jasper A. Maltby 124th Illinois, Col. Thomas Frederick S. Washburn (k), Col. David Carskaddon 26th Iowa, Col. Milo Smith 30th Iowa, Col. Charles H. Abbott