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

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

  • w = wounded

Grand Army of the West

MG William T. Sherman, commanding

Headquarters Guard

7th Company, Ohio Sharpshooters

Engineers and Mechanics

1st Michigan: Col John B. Yates
1st Missouri (five companies)

Right Wing (Army of the Tennessee)

MG Oliver O. Howard

Escort

15th Illinois Cavalry

Pontoon Train Guard

14th Wisconsin, Company E

XV Corps

MG John A. Logan

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division
     Bvt MG Charles R. Woods

1st Brigade


   Bvt BG William B. Woods

  • 12th Indiana
  • 26th Iowa
  • 27th Missouri
  • 31st/32nd Missouri (6 companies)
  • 76th Ohio
2nd Brigade


   Col Robert F. Catterson

  • 26th Illinois
  • 40th Illinois
  • 103rd Illinois
  • 97th Indiana
  • 100th Indiana: Col Ruel Johnson
  • 6th Iowa
  • 46th Ohio
3rd Brigade


   Col George A. Stone

  • 4th Iowa
  • 9th Iowa
  • 25th Iowa
  • 30th Iowa
  • 31st Iowa

2nd Division
     MG William B. Hazen

1st Brigade

Col Theodore Jones

  • 55th Illinois
  • 116th Illinois
  • 127th Illinois
  • 6th Missouri (Companies A and B, 8th Missouri attached): Ltc Delos von Deusen
  • 30th Ohio
  • 57th Ohio
2nd Brigade


   Col Wells S. Jones

  • 111th Illinois
  • 83rd Indiana
  • 37th Ohio
  • 47th Ohio
  • 53rd Ohio
  • 54th Ohio
3rd Brigade


   BG John M. Oliver

  • 48th Illinois
  • 90th Illinois
  • 99th Indiana
  • 15th Michigan
  • 70th Ohio

3rd Division
     Bvt MG John E. Smith

1st Brigade


   BG William T. Clark

  • 63rd Illinois
  • 93rd Illinois (with detachment non-veterans of 18th Wisconsin)
  • 48th Indiana
  • 59th Indiana
  • 4th Minnesota
2nd Brigade


   Col Clark R. Wever

  • 56th Illinois
  • 10th Iowa
  • 17th Iowa (one company)
  • 26th Missouri (two companies, and detachment, 10th Missouri)
  • 80th Ohio

4th Division
     Bvt MG John M. Corse

1st Brigade


   BG Elliott W. Rice

  • 52nd Illinois
  • 66th Indiana
  • 2nd Iowa
  • 7th Iowa
2nd Brigade


   Col Robert N. Adams

  • 12th Illinois
  • 66th Illinois
  • 81st Ohio
3rd Brigade


   Col Frederick J. Hurlbut

  • 7th Illinois
  • 50th Illinois
  • 57th Illinois
  • 39th Iowa
Unassigned (not engaged)
  • 110th United States Colored Troops
Artillery


   Ltc William H. Ross

  • Battery H, 1st Illinois Light: Cpt Francis DeGress
  • Battery B, 1st Michigan Light: Lt Edward B. Wright
  • Battery H, 1st Missouri Light: Cpt Charles M. Callahan
  • 12th Wisconsin Battery: Cpt William Zickerick
Unassigned
  • 29th Missouri (Mounted)

XVII Corps

MG Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

Escort

11th Illinois Cavalry (Company G)
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division
     MG Joseph A. Mower

1st Brigade


   BG John W. Fuller

  • 64th Illinois: Cpt Joseph S. Reynolds
  • 18th Missouri: Col Charles Sheldon
  • 27th Ohio
  • 39th Ohio
2nd Brigade


   Col Milton Montgomery

  • 35th New Jersey
  • 43rd Ohio
  • 63rd Ohio
  • 25th Wisconsin
3rd Brigade


   Col John Tillson

  • 10th Illinois
  • 25th Indiana
  • 32nd Wisconsin

3rd Division
     BG Manning F. Force

Provost Guard
  • 20th Illinois: Ltc Henry King
1st Brigade


   Col Cassius Fairchild

  • 30th Illinois: Col Warren Shedd
  • 31st Illinois: Col Edwin S. McCook
  • 45th Illinois: Col John O. Duer
  • 12th Wisconsin
  • 16th Wisconsin
2nd Brigade


   Col Greenberry F. Wiles

  • 20th Ohio
  • 68th Ohio
  • 78th Ohio
  • 17th Wisconsin

4th Division
     Bvt MG Giles A. Smith

1st Brigade


   BG Benjamin F. Potts

  • 14th/15th Illinois (battalion)
  • 53rd Illinois
  • 23rd Indiana
  • 53rd Indiana
  • 32nd Ohio
3rd Brigade


   BG William W. Belknap

  • 32nd Illinois
  • 11th Iowa
  • 13th Iowa
  • 15th Iowa
  • 16th Iowa
Artillery


   Maj Allen C. Waterhouse

  • Battery C, 1st Michigan Light: Lt William W. Hyser
  • 1st Minnesota Battery
  • 15th Ohio Battery
Unassigned
  • 9th Illinois (mounted)

Left Wing (Army of Georgia, recently the Army of the Cumberland)

MG Henry W. Slocum

Staff:

  • Chief engineer: Lt William Ludlow

Pontoniers

58th Indiana

XIV Corps

Bvt MG Jefferson C. Davis

Staff:

  • Chief of Staff Ltc Alexander C. McClurg
  • Inspector General: Ltc Henry G. Litchfield
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division
     BG William P. Carlin

1st Brigade


   Bvt BG Harrison C. Hobart

  • 104th Illinois: Maj John Widmer
  • 42nd Indiana
  • 88th Indiana
  • 33rd Ohio: Cpt Joseph Hinson
  • 94th Ohio
  • 21st Wisconsin: Maj Charles H. Walker
2nd Brigade


   Bvt BG George P. Buell

  • 13th Michigan: Maj Willard Eaton (k)
  • 21st Michigan
  • 69th Ohio
3rd Brigade


   Ltc David Miles (w)
   Ltc Arnold McMahon

  • 38th Indiana: Cpt James H. Low (mw)
  • 21st Ohio: Ltc Arnold McMahon
  • 74th Ohio
  • 79th Pennsylvania

2nd Division
     BG James D. Morgan

Provost Guard
  • 110th Illinois (Companies A & B, 24th Illinois attached)
1st Brigade


   BG William Vandever

  • 16th Illinois: Cpt Herman Lund
  • 60th Illinois
  • 10th Michigan: Col Charles Lum
  • 14th Michigan: Ltc George W. Grummond
  • 17th New York: Cpt Alexander S. Marshall
2nd Brigade


   BG John G. Mitchell

  • 34th Illinois: Cpt Peter F. Walker
  • 78th Illinois: Ltc Maris R. Vernon
  • 98th Ohio
  • 108th Ohio
  • 113th Ohio
  • 121st Ohio: Maj Aaron Robinson
3rd Brigade


   Bvt BG Benjamin D. Fearing (w)
   Ltc James W. Langley

  • 86th Illinois: Ltc Allen L. Fahnestock
  • 125th Illinois: Ltc James W. Langley
  • 22nd Indiana: Cpt William h. Snodgrass
  • 37th Indiana (one company)
  • 52nd Ohio: Ltc Charles W. Clancy
  • 85th Illinois

3rd Division
     Bvt MG Absalom Baird

1st Brigade


   Col Morton C. Hunter

  • 82nd Indiana
  • 23rd Missouri (4 companies)
  • 17th Ohio
  • 31st Ohio
  • 89th Ohio
  • 92nd Ohio (11th Ohio attached)
2nd Brigade


   Ltc Thomas Doan

  • 75th Indiana
  • 87th Indiana
  • 101st Indiana
  • 2nd Minnesota
  • 105th Ohio
3rd Brigade


   Col George P. Este

  • 74th Indiana
  • 18th Kentucky
  • 14th Ohio
  • 38th Ohio
Artillery


   Maj Charles Houghtaling

  • Battery C, 1st Illinois Light: Lt Palmer Scovel
  • Battery I, 2nd Illinois Light: Lt Judson Rich
  • 19th Indiana Battery: Lt Samuel D. Webb (k), Lt Clinton Keeler
  • 5th Wisconsin Battery: Cpt Joseph McKnight

XX Corps

Bvt MG Alpheus S. Williams

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division
     BG Nathaniel J. Jackson

1st Brigade


   Col James L. Selfridge

  • 5th Connecticut
  • 123rd New York: Col James C. Rogers
  • 141st New York
  • 46th Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade


   Col William Hawley

  • 2nd Massachusetts
  • 13th New Jersey: Maj Frederick H. Harris
  • 107th New York
  • 150th New York
  • 3rd Wisconsin
3rd Brigade


   BG James S. Robinson

  • 82nd Illinois: Ltc Edward S. Salomon
  • 101st Illinois: Ltc John B. LeSage
  • 143rd New York: Ltc Hezekiah Watkins
  • 82nd Ohio
  • 61st Ohio
  • 31st Wisconsin

2nd Division
     Bvt MG John W. Geary

1st Brigade


   Bvt BG Ario Pardee, Jr.

  • 5th Ohio
  • 29th Ohio
  • 66th Ohio
  • 28th Pennsylvania
  • 147th Pennsylvania
2nd Brigade


   Col George W. Mindil

  • 33rd New Jersey
  • 119th New York
  • 134th New York
  • 154th New York
  • 73rd Pennsylvania
  • 109th Pennsylvania
3rd Brigade


   Bvt BG Henry A. Barnum

  • 60th New York
  • 102nd New York
  • 137th New York
  • 149th New York
  • 29th Pennsylvania
  • 111th Pennsylvania

3rd Division
     Bvt MG William T. Ward

1st Brigade


   Col Henry Case

  • 70th Indiana
  • 79th Ohio
  • 102nd Illinois
  • 105th Illinois
  • 129th Illinois
2nd Brigade


   Col Daniel Dustin

  • 33rd Indiana
  • 85th Indiana
  • 19th Michigan
  • 22nd Wisconsin
3rd Brigade


   Bvt BG William Cogswell

  • 20th Connecticut: Ltc Philo B. Buckingham
  • 33rd Massachusetts
  • 136th New York
  • 55th Ohio: Col Edwin H. Powers
  • 73rd Ohio: Ltc Samuel H. Hurst
  • 26th Wisconsin: Col Frederick C. Winkler
Artillery


   Maj John A. Reynolds

  • Battery I, 1st New York Light: Cpt Charles E. Winegar
  • Battery M, 1st New York Light: Lt Edward P. Newkirk
  • Battery C, 1st Ohio Light: Lt Jerome Stephens
  • Battery E, Pennsylvania Light: Cpt Thomas S. Sloan

Cavalry

Division Brigades Regiments and batteries

3rd Division
     Bvt MG Judson Kilpatrick

1st Brigade


   Col Thomas J. Jordan

  • 3rd Indiana Cavalry (battalion)
  • 8th Indiana Cavalry
  • 2nd Kentucky Cavalry
  • 3rd Kentucky Cavalry
  • 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry
2nd Brigade


   Bvt BG Smith D. Atkins

  • 92nd Illinois (mounted)
  • 9th Ohio Cavalry
  • 10th Ohio Cavalry
  • 9th Michigan Cavalry
  • McLaughlin's (Ohio) Squadron
3rd Brigade


   Col George E. Spencer

  • 1st Alabama Cavalry
  • 5th Kentucky Cavalry
  • 5th Ohio Cavalry
4th Brigade (provisional)


   Ltc William B. Way

  • 1st Regiment
  • 2nd Regiment
  • 3rd Regiment
Artillery
  • 10th Wisconsin Battery
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