Opequon Union Order of Battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Opequon of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other


Army of the Shenandoah

MG Philip Sheridan, Commanding

VI Corps

MG Horatio Wright

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


    BG David Allen Russell (k)
    BG Emory Upton (w)
    Col Oliver Edwards

1st Brigade (First New Jersey Brigade)


   Ltc Edward L. Campbell

2nd Brigade


   BG Emory Upton
   Col Joseph Eldridge Hamblin

3rd Brigade


   Col Oliver Edwards
   Col Isaac C. Bassett

  • 37th Massachusetts: Ltc George L. Montague
  • 49th Pennsylvania: Ltc Baynton J. Hickman
  • 82nd Pennsylvania: Col Isaac C. Bassett
  • 119th Pennsylvania: Ltc Gideon Clark
  • 2nd Rhode Island (Battalion): Cpt Elisha Hunt Rhodes
  • 5th Wisconsin (Battalion): Maj Charles W. Kempf

Second Division


     BG George W. Getty

1st Brigade


   BG Frank Wheaton

2nd Brigade (First Vermont Brigade)


   Col James M. Warner
   Ltc Amasa S. Tracy
     (supervised part of the line)

3rd Brigade


   BG Daniel D. Bidwell

Third Division


     BG James Ricketts

1st Brigade


   Col William Emerson

2nd Brigade


   Col J. Warren Keifer

Artillery Artillery Brigade


   Col Charles H. Tompkins

Army of West Virginia

BG George Crook

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     Col Joseph Thoburn

1st Brigade


   Col George D. Wells

  • 34th Massachusetts: Maj Harrison W. Pratt
  • 5th New York Heavy Artillery, 2nd Battalion: Major Caspar Urban
  • 116th Ohio: Ltc Thomas F. Wildes
  • 123rd Ohio: Cpt John W. Chamberlain
3rd Brigade


   Col Thomas M. Harris

Second Division (Kanawha Division)


     Col Isaac H. Duval (w)
     Col Rutherford B. Hayes

1st Brigade


   Col Rutherford B. Hayes
   Col Hiram F. Devol

2nd Brigade


   Col Daniel D. Johnson (w)
   Ltc Benjamin F. Coates

Artillery Artillery Brigade


   Cpt Henry A. du Pont

XIX Corps

BG William H. Emory

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG William Dwight

1st Brigade


   Col George L. Beal

  • 29th Maine: Maj William Knowlton, Cpt Alfred L. turner
  • 30th Massachusetts: Cpt Samuel D. Shipley
  • 114th New York: Col Samuel R. Perlee (w), Maj Oscar H. Curtis
  • 116th New York: Col George M. Lowe
  • 153rd New York: Col Edwin P. Davis
2nd Brigade


   BG James W. McMillan

Division Artillery

Second Division


     BG Cuvier Grover

1st Brigade


   BG Henry W. Birge

2nd Brigade


   Col Edward L. Molineux

  • 13th Connecticut: Col Charles D. Blinn
  • 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry (dismounted): Ltc Lorenzo D. Sargent
  • 11th Indiana: Col Daniel Macauley
  • 22nd Iowa: Col Harvey Graham
  • 131st New York: Col Nicholas W. Day
  • 159th New York: Ltc William Waltermire
3rd Brigade


   Col Jacob Sharpe (w)
   Ltc Alfred Neafie

  • 38th Massachusetts: Ltc James P. Richardson (w), Maj Charles F. Allen
  • 128th New York: Cpt Charles R. Anderson
  • 156th New York: Ltc Alfred Neafie, Cpt James J. Hoyt
  • 175th New York (3 companies): Cpt Charles McCarthy
  • 176th New York: Maj Charles Lewis
4th Brigade


   Col David Shunk

  • 8th Indiana: Ltc Alexander J. Kenny
  • 18th Indiana: Ltc William S. Charles
  • 24th Iowa: Ltc John Q. Wilds
  • 28th Iowa: Ltc Bartholomew W. Wilson
Division Artillery
Artillery Reserve


   Cpt Elijah D. Taft

Cavalry Corps

BG Alfred T. A. Torbert

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Wesley Merritt

1st Brigade


   BG George Armstrong Custer

2nd Brigade


   BG Thomas C. Devin

  • 4th New York Cavalry: Maj August Haurand (w), Maj Edward Schwartz
  • 6th New York Cavalry: Maj William E. Beardsley
  • 9th New York Cavalry: Ltc George S. Nichols
  • 19th New York Cavalry (1st Dragoons): Col Alfred Gibbs
  • 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Maj Coe Durland
Reserve Brigade


   Col Charles Russell Lowell

Second Division


     BG William W. Averell[1]

1st Brigade


   Col James M. Schoonmaker

  • 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc Andrew J. Greenfield
  • 8th Ohio Cavalry: Col Alpheus S. Moore
  • 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Cpt Ashbell F. Duncan, Cpt William W. Miles
2nd Brigade


   Col William H. Powell

Division Artillery
  • 5th U.S. Artillery, Battery L: Lt Gulian V. Weir

Third Division


     BG James H. Wilson

1st Brigade


   BG John B. McIntosh (w)
   Ltc George A. Purington

  • 1st Connecticut Cavalry: Maj George O. Marcy
  • 3rd New Jersey Cavalry: Maj William P. Robeson, Jr.
  • 2nd New York Cavalry: Cpt Walter C. Hull
  • 5th New York Cavalry: Maj Abram H. Krom
  • 2nd Ohio Cavalry: Ltc George A. Purington, Maj A. Bayard Nettleton
  • 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc William P. Brinton (w), Maj John W. Phillips
2nd Brigade


   BG George H. Chapman

Horse Artillery Horse Artillery


   Cpt La Rhett L. Livingston

  • 1st United States, Batteries K and L: Lt Franck E. Taylor
  • 2nd United States, Batteries B and L: Cpt Charles H. Pierce
  • 2nd United States, Battery D: Lt Edward B. Williston


Notes

  1. Averell’s (later William H. Powell’s) Division was officially the 2nd Cavalry Division of the Department of West Virginia (Eicher, p. 110). The regular 2nd Division of the Cavalry Corps was commanded by David M. Gregg on detached duty along the Petersburg Front.

References

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