Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Chattanooga, Tennessee

Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Chattanooga, Tennessee - Multiple Union units advance from Vicksburg in Warren County, Mississippi to Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee from September 26-November 20, 1863.

• Also referred to as Transfer of 15th and 17th Army Corps from Vicksburg to Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Unit profiles list several dates from September 17-November 22, may be different for individual units
  • Some also moved to Helena, Arkansas first
• Not yet known which other counties this expedition passed through
  • Profiles mention through Memphis
• Original order of battle copied from Siege of Vicksburg Wikipedia entry, may need refining - division/brigade compositions may have changed in this time/some units may have been left behind in Vicksburg

Union Troops

15th Corps

• Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
• Chief of Staff: John Henry Hammond (Lieutenant Colonel)
• Chief of Artillery: Ezra Taylor (Major)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Smaller Units
First Division Frederick Steele (Major General)
	1st Brigade Bernard G. Farrar (Colonel)	13th Illinois Infantry - Adam B. Gorgas (Colonel) 27th Missouri Infantry (U) - Thomas Curley (Colonel) 29th Missouri Infantry (U) - James Peckham (Colonel) 31st Missouri Infantry (U) - Thomas Clement Fletcher (Colonel) / Frederick Jaensch (Major) / Samuel P. Simpson (Lieutenant Colonel) 32nd Missouri Infantry (U) - Abraham Jefferson Seay (Major)
	2nd Brigade Charles R. Woods (Colonel)	25th Iowa Infantry - George A. Stone (Colonel) 31st Iowa Infantry - William Smyth (Colonel) / Theodore Stimming (Major) (II) 3rd Missouri Infantry (U) - Theodore Meumann (Lieutenant Colonel) 12th Missouri Infantry (U) - Hugo Wangelin (Colonel) 17th Missouri Infantry (U) - Francis Hassendeubel (Colonel) / John F. Cramer (Lieutenant Colonel) 76th Ohio Infantry - William B. Woods (Lieutenant Colonel)
	3rd Brigade John M. Thayer (Brigadier General)	4th Iowa Infantry - James Alexander Williamson (Colonel) / George Burton (Lieutenant Colonel) 9th Iowa Infantry - Don. A. Carpenter (Major) / Cpt Frederick S. Washburn, Col David Carskaddon 26th Iowa Infantry - Milo Smith (Colonel) 30th Iowa Infantry - Charles H. Abbott (Colonel) / William M.G. Terrence (Colonel)
	Artillery	1st Iowa Light Artillery Battery Henry H. Griffiths (Captain) (I) 2nd Missouri Light Artillery / Battery F - Clemens Landgraeber (Captain) 4th Ohio (Independent) Light Artillery Battery - Louis Hoffmann (Captain)
Second Division Francis Preston Blair (Jr.) (Major General)	1st Brigade Giles A. Smith (Colonel)	113th Illinois Infantry - George B. Hoge (Colonel) / John W. Paddock (Lieutenant Colonel) 116th Illinois Infantry - Nathan W. Tupper (Colonel) 6th Missouri Infantry (U) - Ira Boutell (Lieutenant Colonel) / James H. Blood (Colonel) 8th Missouri Infantry (U) - David C. Coleman (Lieutenant Colonel) 13th United States Infantry / 1st Battalion - Edward C. Washington (Captain) / Charles Ewing (Captain) / Charles C. Smith (Captain)
	2nd Brigade Joseph A. J. Lightburn (Brigadier General)	55th Illinois Infantry - Oscar Malmborg (Colonel) 127th Illinois Infantry - Hamilton N. Eldridge (Colonel) 83rd Indiana Infantry - Benjamin J. Spooner (Colonel) 54th Ohio Infantry - Cyrus W. Fisher (Lieutenant Colonel) 57th Ohio Infantry - Americus V. Rice (Colonel) / Samuel R. Mott (Lieutenant Colonel)
	3rd Brigade Hugh Boyle Ewing (Brigadier General)	30th Ohio Infantry - George H. Hildt (Lieutenant Colonel) / Theodore Jones (Colonel) 37th Ohio Infantry - Louis von Blessing (Lieutenant Colonel) / Charles Hipp (Major) / Edward Siber (Colonel) 47th Ohio Infantry - Augustus C. Parry (Colonel) 4th West Virginia Infantry - James H. Dayton (Colonel)
	Artillery	1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery A - Peter P. Wood (Captain) 1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery B - Samuel Eddy Barrett (Captain) / Israel P. Rumsey (Lieutenant) 1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery H - Levi W. Hart (Captain)
	Cavalry	Thielman's (Independent) Cavalry Battalion / Companies A/B - Milo Thielemann (Captain)

• 11th Missouri Infantry (U) - Andrew J. Weber (Colonel) / William L. Barnum (Lieutenant Colonel)

17th Corps

• James B. McPherson (Major General)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Smaller Units
7th Division John E. Smith (Brigadier General)
	1st Brigade    Col John B. Sanborn	48th Indiana Infantry - Norman Eddy (Colonel) 59th Indiana Infantry - Jesse I. Alexander (Colonel) 4th Minnesota Infantry - John Eaton Tourtellotte (Lieutenant Colonel) 18th Wisconsin Infantry - Gabriel Bouck (Colonel)
	2nd Brigade Green B. Raum (Colonel)	56th Illinois Infantry - Green B. Raum (Colonel), Pinckney J. Welsh (Captain) 17th Iowa Infantry - David B. Hillis (Colonel) / Clark R. Wever (Lieutenant Colonel) / John F. Walden (Major) 10th Missouri Infantry (U) - Francis C. Deimling (Major) 24th Missouri Infantry (U) / Company F 80th Ohio Infantry - Matthias H. Bartilson (Colonel) / Pren Metham (Major)
	3rd Brigade Charles L. Matthies (Brigadier General)	93rd Illinois Infantry - Holden Putnam (Colonel) / Nicholas C. Buswell (Lieutenant Colonel) / Holden Putnam (Colonel) 5th Iowa Infantry - Ezekiel S. Sampson (Lieutenant Colonel) / Jabez Banbury (Colonel) 10th Iowa Infantry - William E. Small (Colonel) 26th Missouri Infantry (U) - Benjamin D. Dean (Captain)
	Artillery Henry Dillon (Captain)	12th Wisconsin (Independent) Light Artillery Battery William Zickerick (Captain)

These units on Dyer summary but not listed on Wikipedia order of battle - perhaps a new Corps formation:

• 1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery I
• 1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery L
• Cogswell's (Independent) Light Artillery Battery
• 26th Illinois Infantry
• 40th Illinois Infantry
• 46th Illinois Infantry
• 48th Illinois Infantry
• 63rd Illinois Infantry
• 90th Illinois Infantry
• 103rd Illinois Infantry
• 116th Illinois Infantry
• (II) 12th Indiana Infantry
• 97th Indiana Infantry
• 99th Indiana Infantry
• 100th Indiana Infantry
• 6th Iowa Infantry
• 15th Michigan Infantry
• 1st Missouri Light Artillery / Battery D (U)
• 5th Ohio Cavalry
• 46th Ohio Infantry
• 6th Wisconsin (Independent) Light Artillery Battery
• 3rd United States Cavalry

Confederate Troops

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Sub-Operations

• November 6, 1863 - Skirmish near Chattanooga, Tennessee

Casualties

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 783)