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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 ...
Size: Corps: Part of: Army of the Potomac: ... (or Third Army Corps) during the American Civil War. ... Hooker's Division numbered fully 10,000 men at Yorktown, and ...
At the start of the war, the entire United States Army consisted of 16,367 men of all branches, with infantry representing the vast majority of this total. [2] Some of these infantrymen had seen considerable combat experience in the Mexican–American War, as well as in the West in various encounters, including the Utah War and several campaigns against Indians.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).