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It was immediately ordered to join the Peninsula Campaign, Hamilton's Division embarking on March 17, and leading the advance of the Army of the Potomac on that memorable campaign. During the siege of Yorktown the corps was at its maximum, the morning reports of April 30 showing an aggregate of 39,710, with 64 pieces of light artillery, and ...
XIII Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War.It was first led by Ulysses S. Grant and later by John A. McClernand and Edward O.C. Ord.It served in the Western Theater of civil war, Trans-Mississippi Theater and along the Gulf of Mexico.
The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine. Routledge. ISBN 1317457102. Williamson Murray; Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh (2018), A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691181097; Charles R. Shrader (1997). United States Army Logistics, 1775-1992: An Anthology, Volume 1. United States Army Center of Military ...
During the American Civil War, a department was a geographical command within the Union's military organization, usually reporting directly to the War Department.Many of the Union's departments were named after rivers or other bodies of water, such as the Department of the Potomac and the Department of the Tennessee.
I Corps (First Corps) was the designation of three different corps-sized units in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Separate formation called the I Corps served in the Army of the Ohio/Army of the Cumberland under Alexander M. McCook from September 29, 1862 to November 5, 1862, in the Army of the Mississippi under George W. Morgan from January 4, 1863 to January 12, 1863 (which was ...
At the Battle of Gaines' Mill in the Seven Days Battles, Slocum's Division was sent to the support of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter and became hotly engaged, losing 2,021 men out of less than 8,000 present. The Vermont brigade of Smith's (2nd) Division took a prominent part in the fight at Savage's Station, the 5th Vermont losing 209 men in that ...
The XI Corps was an amalgamation of two separate commands. These were John Fremont's Army of the Mountain Department and Louis Blenker's division of German immigrants. . Blenker had led a German brigade at First Bull Run, although it was held in reserve and saw no major fighting, and afterward became a division commander in the new Army of the Pot
Couch's division was transferred to join VI Corps during the Antietam Campaign and remained with them for the duration of the war. The corps' peak strength (in early 1862) was 37,000 men. The corps took part in George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862, playing a major role in repulsing Confederate attacks at Seven Pines and Malvern Hill.