Red River Campaign Union order of battle

The following is the organization of the Union forces engaged in the Red River Campaign, during the American Civil War in 1864. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1][2] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed
• c = captured

Union forces, March 31

Army of the Gulf (Department of the Gulf)

MG Nathaniel P. Banks, Commanding

Brigade	Regiments and Others
Engineer Brigade     Col George D. Robinson	3rd Engineers, Corps d'Afrique (U.S.C.T.): Ltc George A. Harmount 5th Engineers, Corps d'Afrique (U.S.C.T.): Ltc Uri B. Pearsall

• Headquarters troops (Companies A and B): Cpt Richard W. Francis
• Escort (Company C): Cpt Frank Sayles

XIII Corps

BG Thomas E. G. Ransom (until Apr 8)
BG Robert A. Cameron

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
3rd Division[3]       BG Robert A. Cameron       Col William H. Raynor	1st Brigade[4]    Ltc Aaron M. Flory	46th Indiana: Cpt William M. DeHart 29th Wisconsin: Maj Bradford Hancock
	2nd Brigade     Col William H. Raynor	24th Iowa: Maj Edward Wright 28th Iowa, Col John Connell 56th Ohio: Cpt Maschil Manring
	Artillery	1st Missouri Light, Battery A: Lt Elisha Cole Ohio Light, 2nd Battery: Lt William H. Harper
4th Division[5]       Col William J. Landram	1st Brigade[6]    Col Frank Emerson	77th Illinois: Ltc Lysander R. Webb 67th Indiana: Ltc Theodore E. Buehler 19th Kentucky: Ltc John Cowan 23rd Wisconsin: Maj Joseph E. Greene
	2nd Brigade[7]    Col Joseph W. Vance	130th Illinois: Maj John B. Reid 48th Ohio: Ltc Joseph W. Lindsey 83rd Ohio: Ltc William H. Baldwin 96th Ohio: Ltc Albert H. Brown
	Artillery	Indiana Light, 1st Battery: Cpt Martin Klauss Chicago (Illinois) Mercantile Battery:[8] Lt Pinckney S. Cone

XIX Corps

MG William B. Franklin[9]

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division      BG William H. Emory	1st Brigade[10]    BG William Dwight	29th Maine: Col George L. Beal 114th New York: Ltc Henry B. Morse 116th New York: Col George M. Love 153rd New York: Col Edwin P. Davis 161st New York: Ltc William B. Kinsey
	2nd Brigade[11]    BG James W. McMillan	13th Maine: Col Henry Rust, Jr. 15th Maine: Col Isaac Dyer 160th New York: Ltc John B. Van Petten 47th Pennsylvania: Col Tilghman H. Good
	3rd Brigade    Col Lewis Benedict	30th Maine: Col Francis Fessenden 162nd New York: Ltc Justus W. Blanchard 165th New York: Ltc Gouverneur Carr 173rd New York: Col Lewis M. Peck
	Artillery    Cpt George T. Hebard	New York Light, 25th Battery: Lt Irving D. Southworth 1st United States, Battery L: Lt Franck E. Taylor Vermont Light, 1st Battery: Cpt George T. Hebard
2nd Division[12]      BG Cuvier Grover	2nd Brigade[13]    Col Edward L. Molineux	13th Connecticut: Col Charles D. Blinn 1st Louisiana: Col William O. Fiske 90th New York (three companies): Maj John C. Smart 159th New York: Ltc Edward L. Gaul
	3rd Brigade    Col Jacob Sharpe	38th Massachusetts: Ltc James P. Richardson 128th New York: Col James Smith 156th New York: Cpt James J. Hoyt 175th New York (3 companies): Cpt Charles McCarthey
	Artillery    Cpt George W. Fox	Massachusetts Light, 7th Battery (G): Cpt Newman W. Storer New York Light, 26th Battery: Cpt George W. Fox 1st United States, Battery F: Lt Hardman P. Norris 2nd United States, Battery C: Lt John I. Rodgers
	Cavalry	3rd Maryland: Col C. Carroll Tevis
Corps Artillery Reserve      Cpt Henry W. Closson[14]		Delaware Light, 1st Battery: Cpt Benjamin Nields 1st Indiana Heavy (two companies): Cpt William S. Hinkle
Corps d'Afrique (United States Colored Troops)	1st Brigade, 1st Division    Col William H. Dickey	1st Infantry (73rd U.S.C.T.): Maj Hiram E. Perkins 3rd Infantry (75th U.S.C.T.): Col Henry W. Fuller 12th Infantry (84th U.S.C.T.): Cpt James H. Corrin 22nd Infantry (92nd U.S.C.T.): Col Henry N. Frisbie
Cavalry Division      BG Albert L. Lee	1st Brigade    Col Thomas J. Lucas	16th Indiana Infantry (mounted): Ltc James H. Redfield 2nd Louisiana Infantry (mounted): Maj Alfred Hodsdon 6th Missouri:[15] Cpt Sidney A. Breese 14th New York: Maj Abraham Bassford
	3rd Brigade    Col Harai Robinson	87th Illinois Infantry (mounted): Ltc John M. Crebs 1st Louisiana: Maj Algernon S. Badger
	4th Brigade    Col Nathan A. M. Duddley	2nd Illinois: Maj Benjamin F. Marsh, Jr. 3rd Massachusetts: Ltc Lorenzo D. Sargent 31st Massachusetts Infantry (mounted): Cpt Elbert H. Fordham 2nd New Hampshire: Ltc George A. Flanders
	5th Brigade    Col Oliver P. Gooding	2nd New York Veteran: Col Morgan H. Chrysler 18th New York: Col James J. Byrne 3rd Rhode Island (detachment): Maj George R. Davis
	Artillery Brigade	Massachusetts Light, 2nd Battery (B): Cpt Ormand F. Nims 5th United States, Battery G: Lt Jacob B. Rawles

Army of the Tennessee (detachment)

BG Andrew J. Smith

XVI Corps

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division[16]       _	2nd Brigade    Col Lucius F. Hubbard	47th Illinois: Col John D. McClure 5th Minnesota: Maj John C. Becht 8th Wisconsin: Ltc John W. Jefferson
	3rd Brigade    Col Sylvester G. Hill	35th Iowa: Ltc William B. Keeler 33rd Missouri: Ltc William H. Heath
3rd Division       _	1st Brigade    Col William F. Lynch	58th Illinois: Maj Thomas Newlan 119th Illinois: Col Thomas J. Kinney 89th Indiana: Col Charles D. Murray
	2nd Brigade    Col William T. Shaw	14th Iowa: Ltc Joseph H. Newbold 27th Iowa: Col James I. Gilbert 32nd Iowa: Col John Scott 24th Missouri:[17] Maj Robert W. Fyan
	3rd Brigade    Col Risdon M. Moore	49th Illinois: Maj Thomas W. Morgan 117th Illinois: Ltc Jonathan Merriam 178th New York: Col Edward Wehler
Artillery      Cpt James M. Cockefair		Indiana Light, 3rd Battery: Cpt James M. Cockefair Indiana Light, 9th Battery: Cpt George R. Brown

XVII Corps

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Provisional Division           BG T. Kilby Smith	1st Brigade    Col Jonathan B. Moore	41st Illinois: Ltc John H. Nale 3rd Iowa: Ltc James Tullis 33rd Wisconsin: Maj. Horatio H. Virgin
	2nd Brigade    Col Lyman M. Ward	81st Illinois: Ltc Andrew W. Rogers 95th Illinois: Col Thomas W. Humphrey 14th Wisconsin: Cpt Carlos M. G. Mansfield
	Artillery	1st Missouri Light, Battery M: Lt John H. Tiemeyer

Union forces, April 30

Army of the Gulf (Department of the Gulf)

MG Nathaniel P. Banks, Commanding

Brigade	Regiments and Others
Engineer Brigade     Col George D. Robinson	97th U.S.C.T.: Ltc George A. Harmount 99th U.S.C.T.: Ltc Uri B. Pearsall

• Headquarters troops (Companies A and B): Cpt Richard W. Francis
• Escort (Company C): Cpt Frank Sayles

XIII Corps (detachment)

MG John A. McClernand[18]

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division _	2nd Brigade[19]     BG Michael K. Lawler	49th Indiana: Col James Keigwin 69th Indiana: Ltc Oran Perry 34th Iowa: Col George W. Clark 22nd Kentucky: Col George W. Monroe 16th Ohio: Ltc Philip Kershner 114th Ohio: Ltc John H. Kelly
3rd Division       BG Robert A. Cameron	1st Brigade[20]    Col Thomas H. Bringhurst	46th Indiana: Cpt Henry Snyder 29th Wisconsin: Col William A. Green
	2nd Brigade     Col James R. Slack	47th Indiana: Ltc John A. McLaughlin 24th Iowa: Maj Edward Wright 28th Iowa, Ltc Bartholomew W. Wilson 56th Ohio: Col William H. Raynor
4th Division       Col William J. Landram	1st Brigade[21]    Col Frederick W. Moore	77th Illinois: Maj John A. Burdett 19th Kentucky: Cpt William T. Cummins 83rd Ohio: Ltc William H. Baldwin 23rd Wisconsin: Maj Joseph E. Greene
	2nd Brigade[22]    Col John R. Parker	130th Illinois: Cpt John H. Robinson 67th Indiana: Maj Francis A. Sears 48th Ohio: Cpt James R. Lynch 96th Ohio: Ltc Albert H. Brown
	Artillery[23]    Maj Adolph Schwartz	Indiana Light, 1st Battery: Lt Lawrence Jacoby Chicago (Illinois) Mercantile Battery:[24] Lt Henry Roe 1st Missouri Light, Battery A: Lt Elisha Cole Ohio Light, 2nd Battery: Lt William H. Harper Wisconsin Light, 1st Battery: Cpt Jacob T. Foster
Unattached		Independent Company Kentucky Engineers: Cpt William F. Patterson

XIX Corps

MG William B. Franklin (until May 2)[25]
BG William H. Emory

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division      BG William H. Emory      BG James W. McMillan	1st Brigade[26]    Col George L. Beal	29th Maine: Ltc Charles S. Emerson 114th New York: Maj Oscar H. Curtis 116th New York: Col George M. Love 153rd New York: Col Edwin P. Davis 161st New York: Ltc William B. Kinsey
	2nd Brigade[27]    BG James W. McMillan	13th Maine: Col Henry Rust, Jr. 15th Maine: Col Isaac Dyer 160th New York: Ltc John B. Van Petten 47th Pennsylvania: Col Tilghman H. Good
	3rd Brigade    Ltc Justus W. Blanchard	30th Maine: Ltc Thomas H. Hubbard 162nd New York: Ltc Cpt Samuel Cowdrey 165th New York: Cpt Henry C. Inwood 173rd New York: Cpt Howard C. Conrady
	Artillery    Cpt Benjamin Nields	New York Light, 25th Battery: Lt Irving D. Southworth 1st United States, Battery L: Lt Franck E. Taylor Delaware Light, 1st Battery: Lieutenant Thomas A. Porter
2nd Division[28]      BG Cuvier Grover	1st Brigade[29]    BG Frank S. Nickerson	133rd New York: Col Leonard D. H. Currie 176th New York: Maj Charles Lewis
	2nd Brigade[30]    BG Henry W. Birge	13th Connecticut: Col Charles D. Blinn 1st Louisiana: Col William O. Fiske 159th New York: Col Edward L. Molineux
	3rd Brigade    Col Jacob Sharpe	38th Massachusetts: Ltc James P. Richardson 128th New York: Ltc James P. Foster 156th New York: Cpt James J. Hoyt 175th New York (three companies): Cpt Charles McCarthey
	Artillery    Cpt George W. Fox	Massachusetts Light, 7th Battery (G): Cpt Newman W. Storer New York Light, 26th Battery: Cpt George W. Fox 2nd United States, Battery C: Lt John I. Rodgers
3rd Division[31]	Artillery Reserve      Cpt Henry W. Closson[32]	Vermont Light, 1st Battery: Lt Edward Rice 1st Indiana Heavy (two companies): Cpt William S. Hinkle
Corps d'Afrique (United States Colored Troops)[33]	1st Brigade, 1st Division    Col William H. Dickey	1st Infantry (73rd U.S.C.T.): Maj Hiram E. Perkins 3rd Infantry (75th U.S. C.T.): Col Henry W. Fuller 12th Infantry (84th U.S.C.T.): Cpt James H. Corrin 22nd Infantry (92nd U.S.C.T.): Col Henry N. Frisbie
Cavalry Division[34]      BG Richard Arnold[35]	1st Brigade    Col Thomas J. Lucas	12th Illinois: Col Hasbrouck Davis 16th Indiana Infantry (mounted): Cpt James M. Hildreth 2nd Louisiana Infantry (mounted): Col Charles Everett 6th Missouri: Maj Bacon Montgomery
	3rd Brigade    Ltc John M. Crebs	87th Illinois Infantry (mounted): Maj George W. Land 1st Louisiana: Maj Algernon S. Badger
	4th Brigade    Col Edmund J. Davis	2nd Illinois: Maj Benjamin F. Marsh, Jr. 3rd Massachusetts: Ltc Lorenzo D. Sargent 31st Massachusetts Infantry (mounted): Cpt Elbert H. Fordham 2nd New Hampshire: Ltc George A. Flanders
	5th Brigade    Col Oliver P. Gooding	2nd New York Veteran: Col Morgan H. Chrysler 18th New York: Col James J. Byrne 3rd Rhode Island: Ltc Charles H. Parkhurst
	Artillery Brigade	Massachusetts Light, 2nd Battery (B): Cpt Ormand F. Nims 1st United States, Battery F: Lt William L. Haskin 5th United States, Battery G: Lt Jacob B. Rawles
Unattached		4th Indiana Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Andrew P. Gallagher 3rd Maryland Cavalry: Ltc Byron Kirby

Army of the Tennessee (detachment)

BG Andrew J. Smith

XVI Corps

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division[36]      _	2nd Brigade    Col Lucius F. Hubbard	47th Illinois: Col John D. McClure 5th Minnesota: Maj John C. Becht 8th Wisconsin: Ltc John W. Jefferson
	3rd Brigade    Col Sylvester G. Hill	35th Iowa: Ltc William B. Keeler 33rd Missouri: Maj George W. Van Beek
3rd Division       BG Joseph A. Mower	1st Brigade    Col William F. Lynch	58th Illinois: Maj Thomas Newlan 119th Illinois: Col Thomas J. Kinney 89th Indiana: Col Charles D. Murray
	2nd Brigade    Col William T. Shaw	14th Iowa: Cpt Warren C. Jones 27th Iowa: Col James I. Gilbert 32nd Iowa: Col John Scott 24th Missouri: Maj Robert W. Fyan
	3rd Brigade    Col Risdon M. Moore	49th Illinois: Cpt Jacob E. Gauen 117th Illinois: Ltc Jonathan Merriam 178th New York: Col Edward Wehler
Artillery      Cpt James M. Cockefair		Indiana Light, 3rd Battery: Cpt James M. Cockefair Indiana Light, 9th Battery: Cpt George R. Brown

XVII Corps

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Provisional Division           BG T. Kilby Smith	1st Brigade    Col Jonathan B. Moore	41st Illinois: Ltc John H. Nale 3rd Iowa: Ltc James Tullis 33rd Wisconsin: Maj. Horatio H. Virgin
	2nd Brigade    Col Lyman M. Ward	81st Illinois: Ltc Andrew W. Rogers 95th Illinois: Col Thomas W. Humphrey 14th Wisconsin: Cpt Carlos M. G. Mansfield
	Artillery	1st Missouri Light, Battery M: Lt John H. Tiemeyer

Notes

1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 167-176.
2. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
3. At Natchitoches. General Cameron assumed command March 3.
4. The 11th, 24th, and 34th Indiana Regiments absent on veteran furlough.
5. At Natchitoches and on Cane River. Colonel Landram assigned to command March 15, vice Ransom, commanding the detachment.
6. The 60th Indiana on veteran furlough (non-veterans attached to 67th Indiana) and the 1st United States on duty in New Orleans.
7. The 97th Illinois on duty in New Orleans.
8. Captain Patrick H. White, of this battery, was chief of artillery detachment XIII Army Corps.
9. XIX Corps: marched from Franklin March 16; arrived at Alexandria March 25; encamped March 31 at Alexandria and on Cane River; the Third Division in Defenses of New Orleans.
10. The 30th Massachusetts on veteran furlough.
11. The 8th Vermont on veteran furlough.
12. The 1st Brigade at Carrollton. Grover assumed command March 14.
13. The 90th New York (except three companies) in La Fourche District, and 131st New York at Brashear City.
14. Chief of corps artillery.
15. Howitzer battery, under Captain Herbert H. Rottaken, attached.
16. The 1st Brigade at Memphis, Tenn.; the 11th Missouri, of 2nd Brigade, and the 8th and 12th Iowa of 3rd Brigade on veteran furlough; the division artillery reported as at Memphis and Vicksburg. Brigadier General Joseph A. Mower assigned to command of both divisions XVI Army Corps, March 9.
17. Non-veterans of 21st Missouri attached.
18. XIII Corps: Corps headquarters and 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, transferred from Texas to Alexandria, La., April 18 to 26. The remainder of the 1st and all of the 2nd Division remained in Texas during the campaign.
19. The 7th Kentucky, 42nd Ohio, and 120th Ohio at Baton Rouge, La.
20. The 11th, 24th, and 34th Indiana Regiments reported on veteran furlough.
21. The 6th Indiana on veteran furlough and 1st United States on detached service at New Orleans, La.
22. The 97th Illinois on provost duty at New Orleans, La., and the 83rd Ohio attached to 1st Brigade.
23. Batteries G, 1st Michigan Light, and F, 1st Missouri Light, and the 16th Ohio Battery on Matagorda Island, Tex. Battery A, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, and the 17th Ohio Battery at New Orleans. Batteries B and E, 1st Missouri Light, at Brownsville, Tex. Battery E, 2nd Illinois Light, at Baton Rouge, La.
24. Sent to New Orleans after the battle of Sabine Cross-Roads.
25. XIX Corps: marched from Franklin March 16; arrived at Alexandria March 25; encamped March 31 at Alexandria and on Cane River; the Third Division in Defenses of New Orleans.
26. The 30th Massachusetts on veteran furlough.
27. The 8th Vermont on veteran furlough.
28. The 1st Brigade at Carrollton. Grover assumed command March 14.
29. The 9th Connecticut and 12th Maine on veteran furlough. The brigade transferred from Carrollton to Alexandria, La., April 15 to 18.
30. The 90th New York at Donaldsonville and the 131st New York at Brashear City, La.
31. Defenses of New Orleans.
32. Chief of Artillery, XIX Army Corps.
33. As organized and commanded March 31, 1864.
34. The 2nd Brigade at Port Hudson, La.
35. General Arnold relieved Brigadier General Albert L. Lee, April 18, 1864.
36. The 1st Brigade on an expedition from Memphis, Tenn., in pursuit of Forrest; the 11th Missouri, of 2nd Brigade, and the 8th and 12th Iowa, of 3rd Brigade, on veteran furlough; the artillery reported as at Memphis, Tenn.

References

• U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. XXXIV, Part 1, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.