First Deep Bottom Union order of battle
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the First Battle of Deep Bottom (July 27–29, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed 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
- c = captured
Union Forces
General in Chief
LTG Ulysses S. Grant
Army of the Potomac
MG George Meade
II Corps
Escort:
- 1st Vermont Cavalry, Company M: Cpt John H. Hazelton
Engineers:
- 1st Battalion, New York Infantry: Maj Wesley Brainerd
Chief of Artillery: Col John C. Tidball
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
---|---|---|
First Division
|
1st Brigade
BG Nelson A. Miles until July 29
|
|
Consolidated Brigade[5] |
| |
4th Brigade |
| |
Second Division
|
1st Brigade
Ltc Francis E. Pierce |
|
2nd Brigade
Col Mathew Murphy |
| |
3rd Brigade
Col Thomas A. Smyth |
| |
Third Division
|
1st Brigade |
|
2nd Brigade
Col Daniel Chaplin (until July 28)[13] |
| |
3rd Brigade
Col Robert McAllister |
| |
4th Brigade |
| |
Artillery Brigade
Maj John G. Hazard |
| |
Cavalry Corps
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
---|---|---|
First Division
|
1st Brigade (Wolverine Brigade) k-0, w-0, m-0 = 0 |
|
2nd Brigade k-3, w-12, m-0 = 15
|
| |
Reserve Brigade k-7, w-48, m-5 = 60 |
| |
Second Cavalry Division
|
1st Brigade |
|
2nd Brigade
Col John Irvin Gregg |
||
Army of the James
X Corps
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
---|---|---|
First Division |
3rd Brigade |
|
XIX Corps
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
---|---|---|
Second Division |
1st Brigade | |
Cavalry
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
---|---|---|
Cavalry Division
|
1st Brigade
Col Robert M. West |
|
2nd Brigade
Col Samuel P. Spear |
| |
Unassigned |
| |
Artillery |
| |
Naval forces
- USS Mendota: Commander Edward T. Nichols
References
- Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- Eicher p.116
- Eicher p.389
- Eicher p.357
- On picket duty; not engaged.
- 2nd and 3rd Brigades consolidated on June 27 Civil War in the East: Second Army Corps (June 1864)
- Eicher p.358
- Not engaged.
- Not engaged.
- Not engaged.
- Not engaged.
- Not engaged.
- Not engaged.
- Eicher p.170
- Official Records Chap LII, p.244