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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Jonesborough of the American Civil War on August 31-September 1, 1864.

Abbreviations used[]

Military rank[]

Other[]

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

Military Division of the Mississippi[]

MG William T. Sherman

Headquarters

  • 7th Company, Ohio Sharpshooters: Lt William McCory
  • Chief of Artillery: BG William F. Barry
  • Chief of Staff: Col Joseph D. Webster

Army of the Cumberland[]

MG George Henry Thomas

Headquarters

  • Chief of Staff: BG William D. Whipple

IV Corps[]

MG David S. Stanley

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Nathan Kimball

1st Brigade


   Col Isaac M. Kirby

2nd Brigade


   Col Jacob E. Taylor

3rd Brigade


   BG William Grose

Artillery


   Cpt Theodore Thomasson

Second Division
     BG John Newton

1st Brigade


   Col Emerson Opdyke

2nd Brigade


   BG George D. Wagner

3rd Brigade


   BG Luther P. Bradley

Artillery


   Cpt Wilbur Goodspeed

Third Division
     BG Thomas J. Wood

1st Brigade


   Col Charles T. Hotchkiss

2nd Brigade


   Col Philip Sidney Post

3rd Brigade


   Col Frederick Knefler

Artillery


   Cpt Cullen Bradley

XIV Corps[]

BG Jefferson C. Davis

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
    BG William Passmore Carlin

1st Brigade


   Col Marion Taylor

2nd Brigade (U.S. Regulars)


   Maj John R. Edie

3rd Brigade


   Col Marshall F. Moore

Artillery


   Cpt Lucius Drury

Second Division
     BG James D. Morgan

1st Brigade


   Col Charles M. Lum

2nd Brigade


   Col John G. Mitchell

3rd Brigade


   Col Caleb J. Dilworth (w) Sept 1
   Ltc James W. Langley

Artillery


   Cpt Charles Barnett

Third Division
     BG Absalom Baird[1]

1st Brigade


   Col Moses B. Walker

  • 82nd Indiana: Colonel Morton C. Hunster
  • 23rd Missouri
  • 17th Ohio
  • 31st Ohio
  • 89th Ohio
  • 92nd Ohio: Colonel Benjamin D. Fearing
2nd Brigade


   Col Newell Gleason

  • 7th Indiana
  • 87th Indiana
  • 101st Indiana
  • 2nd Minnesota
  • 105th Ohio
3rd Brigade


   Col George P. Estey

  • 10th Indiana Infantry Regiment
  • 74th Indiana Infantry Regiment
  • 10th Kentucky Infantry Regiment
  • 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment
  • 28th Ohio Infantry Regiment

Cavalry Corps[]

BG Washington Elliott, Chief of Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division
     BG Kenner Garrard

1st Brigade


   Col Robert Minty

2nd Brigade


   Col Beroth Bullard Eggleston

3rd Brigade


   Col Abram O. Miller

Artillery

Third Division
     BG Judson Kilpatrick

1st Brigade


   Ltc Robert Klein

2nd Brigade


   Ltc Fiedler A. Jones

3rd Brigade


   Col Eli Murray

Artillery

Army of the Tennessee[]

MG Oliver O. Howard

Headquarters

  • Chief of Artillery: BG John M. Brannan[2]

XV Corps[]

MG John A. Logan

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Peter J. Osterhaus

1st Brigade


   Col Milo Smith

2nd Brigade


   Col James A. Williamson (w) Sept 1

3rd Brigade


   Col Hugo von Wangelin

  • 3rd Missouri
  • 12th Missouri
  • 17th Missouri
  • 29th Missouri
  • 31st Missouri
  • 32nd Missouri
Artillery


   Maj Clemens Landgraeber

Second Division
     BG William B. Hazen

1st Brigade


   Col Theodore Jones

2nd Brigade


   Col Wells Jones

Artillery


   Cpt Frances DeGress

Fourth Division
     BG William Harrow

1st Brigade


   Col John M. Oliver

  • 48th Illinois
  • 99th Indiana
  • 15th Michigan
  • 70th Ohio
  • 90th Illinois
  • 12th Indiana
2nd Brigade


   BG Charles C. Walcutt

  • 100th Illinois
  • 26th Illinois
  • 40th Illinois
  • 103rd Illinois
  • 97th Indiana
  • 6th Iowa
  • 46th Ohio

XVI Corps[]

BG Thomas E. G. Ransom

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division
     BG John M. Corse

1st Brigade


   BG Elliott W. Rice

2nd Brigade


   Col Robert N. Adams

3rd Brigade


   Col Frederick J. Hurlbut
   Station at Rome GA

Artillery


   Capt Frederick Welker

  • Battery H, 1st Missouri Light Artillery

Fourth Division
     BG John W. Fuller

1st Brigade


   Ltc Henry T. McDowell

2nd Brigade


   BG John W. Sprague

3rd Brigade


   Col John Tillson

Artillery


   Cpt Jerome B. Burrows

XVII Corps[]

MG Francis P. Blair, Jr.

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Third Division
     BG Charles R. Woods

1st Brigade


   Col George E. Bryant

2nd Brigade


   Ltc Greenberry F. Wiles

3rd Brigade


   Col Adam G. Malloy

Artillery


   Cpt William S. Williams

Fourth Division
     BG Giles A. Smith

1st Brigade


   Col Benjamin F. Potts

2nd Brigade


   Col John Logan
   (Guard duty in northern Georgia)

3rd Brigade


   BG William Worth Belknap

Artillery


   Cpt William Clayton

Notes[]

  1. Baird won the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 1, 1864 (Eicher p.113)
  2. Eicher p.142

References[]

All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL.
The original article can be found at Jonesborough Union order of battle and the edit history here.
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