Battle of Jonesborough order of battle: Union

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

Other

Military Division of the Mississippi

MG William T. Sherman

Headquarters

Chief of Artillery: BG William F. Barry
Chief of Staff: Col Joseph D. Webster

Escort

7th Company, Ohio Sharpshooters: Lt William McCory

Army of the Cumberland

MG George Henry Thomas

Headquarters

Chief of Staff: BG William D. Whipple
Chief of Artillery: BG John M. Brannan

IV Corps

MG David S. Stanley

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division BG Nathan Kimball	1st Brigade Col Isaac M. Kirby	21st Illinois 38th Illinois 31st Indiana: Col John Thomas Smith 81st Indiana 90th Ohio 101st Ohio
	2nd Brigade Col Jacob E. Taylor	96th Illinois 115th Illinois: Col Jesse Hale Moore 35th Indiana 21st Kentucky 51st Ohio
	3rd Brigade BG William Grose	75th Illinois 84th Illinois 9th Indiana 30th Indiana 36th Indiana 84th Indiana 77th Pennsylvania
	Artillery Cpt Theodore Thomasson	5th Indiana Light Battery Battery B, Pennsylvania Light
Second Division BG John Newton	1st Brigade Col Emerson Opdyke	36th Illinois 73rd Illinois 88th Illinois 44th Indiana 24th Wisconsin
	2nd Brigade BG George D. Wagner	100th Illinois 40th Indiana 51st Indiana 57th Indiana 28th Kentucky 26th Ohio 97th Ohio
	3rd Brigade BG Luther P. Bradley	42nd Illinois 51st Illinois 79th Illinois 3rd Kentucky 64th Ohio 65th Ohio 125th Ohio
	Artillery Cpt Wilbur Goodspeed	Battery M, 1st Illinois Light Battery A, 1st Ohio Light
Third Division BG Thomas J. Wood	1st Brigade Col Charles T. Hotchkiss	89th Illinois 8th Kansas 15th Ohio 49th Ohio 15th Wisconsin
	2nd Brigade Col Philip S. Post	59th Illinois 41st Ohio 71st Ohio 93rd Ohio 124th Ohio
	3rd Brigade Col Frederick Knefler	79th Indiana 86th Indiana 9th Kentucky 17th Kentucky 13th Ohio 19th Ohio 59th Ohio
	Artillery Cpt Cullen Bradley	Bridges' Illinois Light Battery 6th Ohio Light Battery

XIV Corps

BG Jefferson C. Davis

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division BG William Passmore Carlin	1st Brigade Col Marion Taylor	104th Illinois 42nd Indiana 88th Indiana 15th Kentucky 33rd Ohio 21st Wisconsin: Maj Michael H. Fitch
	2nd Brigade Maj John R. Edie	15th U.S. Infantry (6 companies): Cpt Horace Jewett 15th U.S. Infantry (9 companies): Cpt William S. McManus 16th U.S. Infantry (4 companies): Cpt R. Peabody Barry 18th U.S. Infantry (8 companies): Cpt Lymann M. Kellogg (w), Cpt Robert Hull 19th U.S. Infantry (5 companies): Cpt James Mooney
	3rd Brigade Col Marshall F. Moore	37th Indiana 38th Indiana 21st Ohio 69th Ohio 74th Ohio 78th Pennsylvania 79th Pennsylvania 1st Wisconsin
	Artillery Cpt Lucius Drury	1st Illinois Light Battery Battery I, 1st Ohio
Second Division BG James D. Morgan	1st Brigade Col Charles M. Lum	16th Illinois 60th Illinois 10th Michigan 14th Michigan: Col Henry R. Mizner 17th New York
	2nd Brigade Col John G. Mitchell	34th Illinois 78th Illinois 98th Ohio 109th Ohio^[1] 113th Ohio 121st Ohio
	3rd Brigade Col Caleb J. Dilworth (w) Sept 1 Ltc James W. Langley	85th Illinois 86th Illinois 110th Illinois 125th Illinois: Ltc James W. Langley 22nd Indiana 52nd Ohio
	Artillery Cpt Charles Barnett	Battery I, 2nd Illinois Light 2nd Minnesota Battery (detachment) 5th Wisconsin Light Battery
Third Division BG Absalom Baird^[2]	1st Brigade Col Moses B. Walker	82nd Indiana: Col Morton C. Hunter 23rd Missouri 17th Ohio 31st Ohio 89th Ohio 92nd Ohio: Col Benjamin D. Fearing
	2nd Brigade Col Newell Gleason	75th Indiana 87th Indiana 101st Indiana 2nd Minnesota 105th Ohio
	3rd Brigade Col George P. Este (w)	10th Indiana 74th Indiana 10th Kentucky 14th Ohio 38th Ohio

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	4th Michigan Cavalry 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry 4th U.S. Cavalry
	2nd Brigade Col Beroth Bullard Eggleston	1st Ohio Cavalry 3rd Ohio Cavalry 4th Ohio Cavalry
	3rd Brigade Col Abram O. Miller	98th Illinois Mounted Infantry 123rd Illinois Mounted Infantry 17th Indiana Mounted Infantry 72nd Indiana Mounted Infantry
	Artillery	Chicago Board of Trade Battery
Third Division BG Judson Kilpatrick	1st Brigade Ltc Robert Klein	3rd Indiana Cavalry 5th Iowa Cavalry
	2nd Brigade Ltc Fiedler A. Jones	8th Indiana Cavalry 2nd Kentucky Cavalry 10th Ohio Cavalry
	3rd Brigade Col Eli Murray	92nd Illinois Mounted Infantry 3rd Kentucky Cavalry 5th Kentucky Cavalry
	Artillery	10th Wisconsin Battery

Army of the Tennessee

MG Oliver O. Howard

XV Corps

MG John A. Logan

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division BG Peter J. Osterhaus	1st Brigade Col Milo Smith	26th Iowa 30th Iowa 27th Missouri 76th Ohio
	2nd Brigade Col James A. Williamson (w) Sept 1	4th Iowa 9th Iowa 25th Iowa 31st Iowa
	3rd Brigade Col Hugo von Wangelin	3rd Missouri 12th Missouri 17th Missouri 29th Missouri 31st Missouri 32nd Missouri
	Artillery Maj Clemens Landgraeber	Battery F, 2nd Missouri Light 4th Ohio Light Battery
Second Division BG William B. Hazen	1st Brigade Col Theodore Jones	55th Illinois 116th Illinois 6th Missouri 8th Missouri 30th Ohio 57th Ohio
	2nd Brigade Col Wells S. Jones	83rd Indiana 11th Illinois 30th Ohio 37th Ohio 47th Ohio 53rd Ohio 54th Ohio
	Artillery Cpt Francis DeGress	Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Battery H, 1st Illinois Light
Fourth Division BG William Harrow	1st Brigade Col John M. Oliver	12th Indiana 48th Illinois 90th Illinois 99th Indiana 15th Michigan 70th Ohio
Fourth Division BG William Harrow	2nd Brigade BG Charles C. Walcutt	26th Illinois 40th Illinois 100th Indiana 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	52nd Illinois 66th Indiana 2nd Iowa 7th Iowa
	2nd Brigade Col Robert N. Adams	9th Illinois Mounted Infantry 12th Illinois 66th Illinois (Western Sharpshooters) 81st Ohio
	3rd Brigade^[3] Col Frederick J. Hurlbut	7th Illinois 50th Illinois 57th Illinois 39th Iowa
	Artillery Capt Frederick Welker	Battery H, 1st Missouri Light Artillery
Fourth Division BG John W. Fuller	1st Brigade Ltc Henry T. McDowell	64th Illinois 18th Missouri 27th Ohio 39th Ohio
	2nd Brigade BG John W. Sprague	35th New Jersey 43rd Ohio 63rd Ohio 25th Wisconsin
	3rd Brigade Col John Tillson	10th Illinois 25th Indiana 17th New York 32nd Wisconsin
	Artillery Cpt Jerome B. Burrows	Battery C, 1st Michigan Light 14th Ohio Light Battery Battery F, 2nd U.S. Artillery

XVII Corps

MG Francis P. Blair Jr.

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Third Division BG Charles R. Woods	1st Brigade Col George E. Bryant	20th Illinois 30th Illinois 31st Illinois 45th Illinois 12th Wisconsin 16th Wisconsin
	2nd Brigade Ltc Greenberry F. Wiles	20th Ohio 68th Ohio 78th Ohio
	3rd Brigade Col Adam G. Malloy	17th Wisconsin Worden's Battalion Detachment, 14th Wisconsin Detachment, 81st Illinois Detachment, 95th Illinois
	Artillery Cpt William S. Williams	Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Battery H, 1st Michigan Light 3rd Ohio Battery
Fourth Division BG Giles A. Smith	1st Brigade Col Benjamin F. Potts	32nd Illinois 23rd Indiana 53rd Indiana 3rd Iowa (3 companies) 32nd Ohio
	2nd Brigade^[4] Col John Logan	14th Illinois 15th Illinois 32nd Illinois 41st Illinois
	3rd Brigade BG William Worth Belknap	11th Iowa 13th Iowa 15th Iowa 16th Iowa
	Artillery Cpt William Clayton	Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light 1st Minnesota Battery Battery C, 1st Missouri Light 10th Ohio Light Battery 15th Ohio Light Battery

Notes

^ This is an error. The 109th Ohio Infantry did not complete organization. Further research is necessary to determine which Ohio unit this should be.
^ Baird won the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 1, 1864 (Eicher p.113)
^ Stationed at Rome, Georgia
^ Detached on guard duty in northern Georgia

References

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.

[1] This is an error. The 109th Ohio Infantry did not complete organization. Further research is necessary to determine which Ohio unit this should be.

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

[3] Stationed at Rome, Georgia

[4] Detached on guard duty in northern Georgia

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