Appomattox campaign order of battle: Union

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Appomattox campaign of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• LTG = Lieutenant General
• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = Lieutenant

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed in action

Union forces

LTG Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding

Staff:

• Assistant adjutant general: BG Seth Williams

Escort:

• 5th U.S. Cavalry, Companies B, F, and K: Cpt Julius W. Mason

Headquarters Guard:

• 4th U.S. Infantry: Cpt Joseph B. Collins

Army of the Potomac

MG George G.Meade

II Corps

MG Andrew A. Humphreys

V Corps

MG Gouverneur K. Warren <br /> Bvt MG Charles Griffin

Escort

• 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Napoleon J. Horrell

Provost Guard

• 104th New York: Cpt William W. Graham

VI Corps

MG Horatio G. Wright

Escort

• 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company E: Cpt William H. Royd, jr.

IX Corps

MG John G. Parke

Provost Guard

• 79th New York: Maj Andrew D. Baird

Cavalry

Army of the James

MG Edward O. C. Ord

Chief of Staff: Bvt BG Theodore Read (mw, April 6)

Defenses of Bermuda Hundred

MG George L. Hartsuff

XXIV Corps

MG John Gibbon

Headquarters Guard <br /> Cpt Charles E. Thomas

• 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Company F: Cpt Joseph J. Baker
• 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Company K: Cpt Charles E. Thomas

XXV Corps

MG Godfrey Weitzel

Provost Guard

• 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies E & H: Maj Atherton H. Stevens, Jr.

Cavalry

Army of the Shenandoah

MG Philip H. Sheridan

Chief of staff: Col James Forsyth

Cavalry Corps

MG Wesley Merritt

Notes

References

• U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880&ndash;1901.
• National Park Service: Appomattox Court House (Union order of battle).
• Calkins, Chris. The Appomattox Campaign: March 29 &ndash; April 9, 1865. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 1997. .