Operations on Line of the Totopotomoy River, Virginia

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Operations on Line of the Totopotomoy River, Virginia - Multiple units conduct operations on the line of the Totopotomoy River in Hanover County, Virginia from May 28-31, 1864.

Sub-Operations

Union Troops

(AoP) Overall Command

General Staff:


Division Brigade Regiments and
Smaller Units
General Headquarters Provost Guard


Marsena R. Patrick, Brigadier General

Engineer Troops
Guards and Orderlies
(AoP) 2nd Corps

Escort:

Division Brigade Regiments and
Smaller Units
1st Division

Francis C. Barlow, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

Nelson A. Miles, Colonel
2nd Brigade

Thomas Alfred Smyth, Colonel
3rd Brigade

Clinton D. MacDougall, Colonel
4th Brigade

John R. Brooke, Colonel
2nd Division

John Gibbon, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

H. Boyd McKeen, Colonel
2nd Brigade

Joshua T. Owen, Brigadier General
3rd Brigade

Theodore G. Ellis, Colonel
Provost Guard
3rd Division

David B. Birney, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

Thomas W. Egan, Colonel
2nd Brigade

John S. Crocker, Colonel
3rd Brigade

Gershom Mott, Brigadier General
4th Brigade

William R. Brewster, Colonel
Artillery Brigade
John C. Tidball, Colonel
(AoP) 5th Corps
Division Brigade Regiments and
Smaller Units
1st Division

Charles Griffin, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

Romeyn B. Ayres, Brigadier General
2nd Brigade

Jacob B. Sweitzer, Colonel
3rd Brigade

Joseph J. Bartlett, Brigadier General
3rd Division

Samuel M. Jackson, Colonel
1st Brigade
3rd Brigade

Joseph W. Fisher, Colonel
? Brigade[2]
4th Division

Lysander Cutler, Brigadier General
1st Brigade
William W. Robinson, Colonel
2nd Brigade

James C. Rice, Brigadier General
3rd Brigade

Edward S. Bragg, Colonel
4th(?) Brigade[3]
Peter Lyle, Colonel
Artillery Brigade

Charles S. Wainwright, Colonel
Reporting directly to Corps Commander
(AoP) 6th Corps

Escort:

Division Brigade Regiments and
Smaller Units
1st Division

David A. Russell, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

William H. Penrose, Colonel
2nd Brigade

Emory Upton, Colonel
3rd Brigade

Henry L. Eustis, Brigadier General
4th Brigade

Nelson Cross, Colonel
2nd Division

Thomas H. Neill, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

Frank Wheaton, Brigadier General
2nd Brigade

Lewis A. Grant, Colonel
3rd Brigade

Daniel D. Bidwell, Colonel
4th Brigade

Oliver Edwards, Colonel
3rd Division

James B. Ricketts, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

William S. Truex, Colonel
2nd Brigade

Benjamin F. Smith, Colonel
Artillery Brigade

Charles H. Tompkins, Colonel
(AoP) 9th Corps
Division Brigade Regiments and
Smaller Units
1st Division

Thomas L. Crittenden, Major General
1st Brigade

James Ledlie, Brigadier General
2nd Brigade

Gilbert P. Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel
Artillery
2nd Division

Robert B. Potter, Brigadier General
1st Brigade
Zenas Bliss, Colonel[5]

John I. Curtin, Colonel
2nd Brigade

Simon Goodell Griffin, Colonel
Artillery
3rd Division

Orlando B. Wilcox, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

John F. Hartranft, Colonel
2nd Brigade
William Humphrey, Colonel
Artillery
4th Division[12]

Edward Ferrero, Brigadier General
1st Brigade

Joshua K. Sigfried, Colonel
2nd Brigade

Henry G. Thomas, Colonel
Artillery

Reporting directly

Provost Guard
Cavalry
Artillery Reserve[15]

John Edwards (Jr.), Captain
Provisional Brigade[16]

Elisha G. Marshall, Colonel

Confederate Troops

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Casualties

  • Union loss: 101 killed, 578 wounded, 52 missing = Total 671

Notes

  1. Attached to the 120th New York Infantry
  2. From former 2nd Division
  3. From former 2nd Division
  4. Joined May 14, 1864
  5. Injured May 11, 1864 (see: Gordon C. Rhea, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7 and 12, 1864, The Order of Battle)
  6. Wikipedia - No reference to this unit in Dyer
  7. Wikipedia - No reference to this unit in Dyer
  8. Not originally referenced on Dyer summary but referenced on unit homepage
  9. Left army May 13, 1864
  10. 9th and 10th Companies Ohio Sharpshooters attached, Wikipedia
  11. Not originally referenced on Dyer summary but referenced on unit homepage
  12. In reserve guarding trains
  13. Originally listed on Wikipedia as 30th Connecticut (Colored) Infantry, not listed in Dyer summary
  14. Not present - Escorted ambulance trains to Fredericksburg May 9, and picket duty there until May 28
  15. Not engaged; ordered to Washington May 16, 1864
  16. Discontinued as an unattached command and assigned to the First Division May 12, 1864
  17. Joined army May 15, 1864
  18. Chief of Artillery to the whole Army
  19. 1st Brigade Horse Artillery detached with Cavalry Corps; 2nd Brigade Horse Artillery attached to the Artillery Reserve (see: Hunt's report)
  20. Disbanded and distributed among the infantry corps May 16, 1864
  21. Transferred to 5th Corps on May 13, 1864
  22. No units in this brigade list this operation on its homepage
  23. Left front May 28

Sources