Siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee

Siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee - Confederate units besiege Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee on September 24-October 27, 1863.

Sub-Operations

• This operation follows the Union's unsuccessful Chickamauga Campaign from August 16-September 22, 1863

Union Troops

General Staff

NOTE: Copied from Battle of Chickamauga page - likely similar staff, not counting casualties. Only the last officer included at lower levels, may not be accurate as new leaders may have been promoted during this time. Single brackets are not mentioned in Dyer and are not yet verified - seem to be mostly Indiana units

GENERAL STAFF GENERAL HEADQUARTERS PIONEER BRIGADE

14th Corps

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Smaller Units
1st Division Absalom Baird, Brigadier General	1st Brigade Benjamin F. Scribner, Colonel	38th Indiana Infantry Daniel F. Griffin, Lieutenant Colonel (II) 2nd Ohio Infantry James Warnock, Captain 33rd Ohio Infantry Oscar F. Moore, Colonel 94th Ohio Infantry Rue P. Hutchins, Major 10th Wisconsin Infantry Jacob W. Roby, Captain
	2nd Brigade John C. Starkweather, Brigadier General	24th Illinois Infantry August Mauff, Captain 79th Pennsylvania Infantry Henry A. Hambright, Colonel (II) 1st Wisconsin Infantry George B. Bingham, Lieutenant Colonel 21st Wisconsin Infantry Charles H. Walker, Captain
	3rd Brigade John H. King, Brigadier General	15th United States Infantry / 1st Battalion Albert B. Dod, Captain 18th United States Infantry / 1st Battalion George W. Smith, Captain 18th United States Infantry / 2nd Battalion Henry Haymond, Captain 19th United States Infantry / 1st Battalion Samuel K. Dawson, Lieutenant 16th United States Infantry / 1st Battalion Edmund L. Smith, Captain
	Artillery	4th Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Henry J. Willits, Lieutenant 1st Michigan Light Artillery / Battery AAlmerick W. Wilbur, Lieutenant 5th United States Artillery / Battery H Joshua A. Fessenden, Lieutenant
2nd Division James S. Negley, Major General	1st Brigade John Beatty, Brigadier General	104th Illinois Infantry Douglas Hapeman, Lieutenant Colonel 42nd Indiana Infantry William T.B. McIntire, Lieutenant Colonel 88th Indiana Infantry George Humphrey, Colonel 15th Kentucky Infantry (U) Marion C. Taylor, Colonel
	2nd Brigade Timothy Robbins Stanley, Colonel William L. Stoughton, Colonel	19th Illinois Infantry Alexander W. Raffen, Lieutenant Colonel (I) 11th Michigan Infantry Melvin Mudge, Lieutenant Colonel (II) 18th Ohio Infantry Charles H. Grosvenor, Lieutenant Colonel
	3rd Brigade William Sirwell, Colonel	37th Indiana Infantry William D. Ward, Lieutenant Colonel (II) 21st Ohio Infantry Charles H. Vantine, Captain 74th Ohio Infantry Joseph Fisher, Captain 78th Pennsylvania Infantry Archibald Blakeley, Lieutenant Colonel
	Artillery	Bridge's (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Lyman Bridges, Captain 1st Ohio Light Artillery / Battery G Alexander Marshall, Captain 1st Ohio Light Artillery / Battery M Frederick Schultz, Captain
3rd Division John Milton Brannan, Brigadier General	1st Brigade John M. Connell, Colonel	82nd Indiana Infantry Morton C. Hunter, Colonel (II) 17th Ohio Infantry Durbin Ward, Lieutenant Colonel 31st Ohio Infantry Frederick W. Lister, Lieutenant Colonel 38th Ohio Infantry Edward H. Phelps, Colonel
	2nd Brigade John T. Croxton, Colonel William H. Hays, Colonel	(II) 10th Indiana Infantry Marsh B. Taylor, Lieutenant Colonel 74th Indiana Infantry Charles W. Chapman, Colonel 4th Kentucky Infantry (U) Robert M. Kelly, Major 10th Kentucky Infantry (U) Gabriel C. Wharton, Lieutenant Colonel (II) 14th Ohio Infantry Henry D. Kingsbury, Lieutenant Colonel
	3rd Brigade Ferdinand Van Derveer	87th Indiana Infantry Newell Gleason, Colonel 2nd Minnesota Infantry James George, Colonel (II) 9th Ohio Infantry Gustave Kammerling, Colonel 35th Ohio Infantry Henry Van Ness Boynton, Lieutenant Colonel
	Artillery	1st Missouri Light Artillery / Battery G (U) Josiah W. Church, Captain 1st Ohio Light Artillery / Battery C Marco B. Gary, Lieutenant 4th United States Artillery / Battery I Frank G. Smith, Lieutenant
4th Division Joseph J. Reynolds, Major General	1st Brigade	Detached from its division and serving as mounted infantry - likely not present at this siege
	2nd Brigade Milton S. Robinson, Colonel	68th Indiana Infantry Harvey J. Espy, Captain 75th Indiana Infantry William O'Brien, Lieutenant Colonel 101st Indiana Infantry Thomas Doan, Lieutenant Colonel 105th Ohio Infantry George T. Perkins, Major
	3rd Brigade John B. Turchin, Brigadier General	18th Kentucky Infantry (U) Hubbard K. Milward, Lieutenant Colonel John B. Heltemes, Captain (II) 11th Ohio Infantry Philander P. Lane, Colonel 36th Ohio Infantry Hiram F. Devol, Lieutenant Colonel 92nd Ohio Infantry Douglas Putnam (Jr.), Lieutenant Colonel
	Artillery	18th Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Eli Lilly, Captain 19th Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Robert S. Lackey, Lieutenant 21st Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery William W. Andrew, Captain

20th Corps

• Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General

HEADQUARTERS

• PROVOST GUARD: 81st Indiana Infantry / Company H
  William J. Richards, Captain
• ESCORT: 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (U) / Company I
  George W. L. Batman, Lieutenant

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Smaller Units
1st Division Jefferson C. Davis, Brigadier General	1st Brigade P. Sidney Post, Colonel	59th Illinois Infantry Joshua C. Winters, Lieutenant Colonel 74th Illinois Infantry Jason Marsh, Colonel 75th Illinois Infantry John E. Bennett, Colonel 22nd Indiana Infantry Michael Gooding, Colonel 5th Wisconsin (Independent) Light Artillery Battery / Battery K George Q. Gardner, Captain
	2nd Brigade William P. Carlin, Brigadier General	21st Illinois Infantry Chester K. Knight, Captain 38th Illinois Infantry Willis G. Whitehurst, Captain 81st Indiana Infantry James E. Calloway, Major 101st Ohio Infantry Leonard D. Smith, Captain 2nd Minnesota (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Richard L. Dawley, Lieutenant
	3rd Brigade Hans C. Heg, Colonel John A. Martin, Colonel	25th Illinois Infantry Wesford Taggart, Captain 35th Illinois Infantry William P. Chandler, Lieutenant Colonel 8th Kansas Infantry James L. Abernathy, Lieutenant Colonel 15th Wisconsin Infantry Ole C. Johnson, Lieutenant Colonel 8th Wisconsin (Independent) Light Artillery Battery John D. McLean, Lieutenant
2nd Division Richard W. Johnson, Brigadier General	1st Brigade (The Horn Brigade) August Willich, Brigadier General	89th Illinois Infantry William D. Williams, Major 32nd Indiana Infantry Frank Erdelmeyer, Lieutenant Colonel 39th Indiana Infantry Thomas J. Harrison, Colonel (II) 15th Ohio Infantry Frank Askew, Lieutenant Colonel 49th Ohio Infantry Luther M. Strong, Captain 1st Ohio Light Artillery / Battery A Wilbur F. Goodspeed, Captain
	2nd Brigade Joseph B. Dodge, Colonel	79th Illinois Infantry Allen Buckner, Colonel 29th Indiana Infantry David M. Dunn, Lieutenant Colonel 30th Indiana Infantry Orrin D. Hurd, Lieutenant Colonel 77th Pennsylvania Infantry Joseph J. Lawson, Captain 20th Ohio (Independent) Light Artillery Battery John F. Edward Grosskopff, Captain
	3rd Brigade William W. Berry, Colonel	(II) 6th Indiana Infantry Calvin D. Campbell, Major 5th Kentucky Infantry (U) John M. Huston, Captain (II) 1st Ohio Infantry Bassett Langdon, Lieutenant Colonel 93rd Ohio Infantry William H. Martin, Lieutenant Colonel 5th Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Peter Simonson, Captain
3rd Division Philip Sheridan, Major General	1st Brigade Silas Miller, Colonel	36th Illinois Infantry Porter C. Olson, Lieutenant Colonel 88th Illinois Infantry Alexander S. Chadbourne, Lieutenant Colonel 21st Michigan Infantry Seymour Chase, Major 24th Wisconsin Infantry Carl von Baumbach, Major 11th Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Arnold Sutermeister, Captain
	2nd Brigade Bernard Laiboldt, Colonel	44th Illinois Infantry Wallace W. Barrett, Colonel 73rd Illinois Infantry James F. Jaquess, Colonel (II) 2nd Missouri Infantry (U) Arnold Beck, Major 15th Missouri Infantry (U) Joseph Conrad, Colonel 1st Missouri Light Artillery / Battery G (U) Gustavus Schueler, Lieutenant
	3rd Brigade Nathan H. Walworth, Colonel	22nd Illinois Infantry Francis Swanwick, Lieutenant Colonel 27th Illinois Infantry Jonathan R. Miles, Colonel 42nd Illinois Infantry John A. Hottenstein, Lieutenant Colonel 51st Illinois Infantry Samuel B. Raymond, Lieutenant Colonel 1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery C Mark H. Prescott, Captain

21st Corps

• Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General

Headquarters

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Smaller Units
1st Division Thomas J. Wood, Brigadier General	1st Brigade George P. Buell, Colonel	100th Illinois Infantry Charles M. Hammond, Major 58th Indiana Infantry James T. Embree, Lieutenant Colonel 13th Michigan Infantry Willard G. Eaton, Major 26th Ohio Infantry William H. Young, Lieutenant Colonel
	2nd Brigade George D. Wagner, Brigadier General	15th Indiana Infantry Gustavus A. Wood, Colonel 40th Indiana Infantry John W. Blake, Colonel 57th Indiana Infantry George W. Lennard, Lieutenant Colonel 97th Ohio Infantry Milton Barnes, Lieutenant Colonel
	3rd Brigade Charles G. Harker, Colonel	3rd Kentucky Infantry (U) Henry C. Dunlap, Colonel 64th Ohio Infantry Alexander McIlvaine, Colonel 65th Ohio Infantry Thomas Powell, Captain 125th Ohio Infantry Emerson Opdycke, Colonel
	Artillery	8th Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery George Estep, Captain 10th Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery William A. Naylor, Lieutenant 6th Ohio (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Cullen Bradley, Captain
2nd Division John M. Palmer, Major General	1st Brigade Charles Cruft, Brigadier General	31st Indiana Infantry John T. Smith, Colonel 1st Kentucky Infantry (U) Alva R. Hadlock, Lieutenant Colonel 2nd Kentucky Infantry (U) Thomas D. Sedgewick, Colonel 90th Ohio Infantry Charles H. Rippey, Colonel
	2nd Brigade William Babcock Hazen, Brigadier General	(II) 9th Indiana Infantry Isaac C. B. Suman, Colonel 6th Kentucky Infantry (U) Richard T. Whitaker, Major 41st Ohio Infantry Aquila Wiley, Colonel 124th Ohio Infantry James B. Hampson, Major
	3rd Brigade William Grose, Colonel	84th Illinois Infantry Louis H. Waters, Colonel 36th Indiana Infantry Gilbert Trusler, Major 23rd Kentucky Infantry (U) James C. Foy, Lieutenant Colonel (II) 6th Ohio Infantry Samuel C. Erwin, Major 24th Ohio Infantry David J. Higgins, Colonel
	Artillery William E. Standart, Captain	1st Ohio Light Artillery / Battery B Norman A. Baldwin, Lieutenant 1st Ohio Light Artillery / Battery F Giles J. Cockerill, Lieutenant 4th United States Artillery / Battery H Harry C. Cushing, Lieutenant 4th United States Artillery / Battery M Francis L. D. Russell, Lieutenant
	Unattached	110th Illinois Infantry (battalion) Ebenezer Hibbard Topping, Lieutenant Colonel
3rd Division Horatio P. Van Cleve, Brigadier General	1st Brigade Samuel Beatty, Brigadier General	79th Indiana Infantry Frederick Knefler, Colonel 9th Kentucky Infantry (U) George H. Cram, Colonel 17th Kentucky Infantry (U) Alexander M. Stout, Colonel (II) 19th Ohio Infantry Henry G. Stratton, Lieutenant Colonel
	2nd Brigade George F. Dick, Colonel	44th Indiana Infantry Simeon C. Aldrich, Lieutenant Colonel 86th Indiana Infantry Jacob C. Dick, Major (II) 13th Ohio Infantry Horatio G. Cosgrove, Captain 59th Ohio Infantry Granville A. Frambes, Lieutenant Colonel
	3rd Brigade Sidney M. Barnes, Colonel	35th Indiana Infantry John P. Dufficy, Major 8th Kentucky Infantry (U) John S. Clark, Major 21st Kentucky Infantry (U) Samuel Woodson Price, Colonel 51st Ohio Infantry Charles H. Wood, Lieutenant Colonel 99th Ohio Infantry Peter T. Swaine, Colonel
	Artillery	7th Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery George R. Swallow, Captain Pennsylvania (Independent) Light Artillery / Battery B Samuel M. McDowell, Lieutenant 3rd Wisconsin (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Cortland Livingston, Lieutenant

Reserve Corps

• Gordon Granger, Major General

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Smaller Units
1st Division James B. Steedman, Brigadier General	1st Brigade Walter C. Whitaker, Brigadier General	96th Illinois Infantry Thomas E. Champion, Colonel 115th Illinois Infantry Jesse Hale Moore, Colonel 84th Indiana Infantry Nelson Trusler, Colonel 22nd Michigan Infantry Alonzo M. Keeler, Captain 40th Ohio Infantry William Jones, Lieutenant Colonel 89th Ohio Infantry Isaac C. Nelson, Captain 18th Ohio (Independent) Light Artillery Battery Charles C. Aleshire, Captain
	2nd Brigade John G. Mitchell, Colonel	78th Illinois Infantry George Green, Lieutenant 98th Ohio Infantry Armstrong J. Thomas, Captain 113th Ohio Infantry Darius B. Warner, Lieutenant Colonel 121st Ohio Infantry Henry B. Banning, Lieutenant Colonel 1st Illinois Light Artillery / Battery M Thomas Burton, Lieutenant
2nd Division	2nd Brigade Daniel McCook, Jr., Colonel	85th Illinois Infantry Caleb J. Dilworth, Colonel 86th Illinois Infantry David W. Magee, Lieutenant Colonel 125th Illinois Infantry Oscar F. Harmon, Colonel 52nd Ohio Infantry James T. Holmes, Major 69th Ohio Infantry Joseph H. Brigham, Lieutenant Colonel 2nd Illinois Light Artillery / Battery I Charles M. Barnett, Captain

Cavalry Corps

• Only one mentioned here is 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (U) ut this isn't listed on unit homepage either

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Smaller Units
1st Division Edward M. McCook, Colonel	1st Brigade Archibald P. Campbell, Colonel	2nd Michigan Cavalry Leonidas S. Scranton, Major 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Roswell M. Russell, Lieutenant Colonel 1st Tennessee Cavalry (U) James Patton Brownlow, Lieutenant Colonel
	2nd Brigade Daniel M. Ray, Colonel	2nd Indiana Cavalry Joseph B. Presdee, Major 4th Indiana Cavalry John T. Deweese, Lieutenant Colonel 2nd Tennessee Cavalry (U) William R. Cook, Lieutenant Colonel 1st Wisconsin Cavalry Oscar Hugh La Grange, Colonel 1st Ohio Light Artillery / Battery D (1 section) Nathaniel M. Newell, Lieutenant
	3rd Brigade Louis D. Watkins, Colonel	4th Kentucky Cavalry (U) Wickliffe Cooper, Colonel 5th Kentucky Cavalry (U) William T. Hoblitzell, Lieutenant Colonel 6th Kentucky Cavalry (U) Louis A. Gratz, Major
2nd Division George Crook, Brigadier General	1st Brigade Robert H. G. Minty, Colonel	3rd Indiana Cavalry (Left Wing) (detachment) Robert Klein, Lieutenant Colonel 4th Michigan Cavalry Horace Gray, Major 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry James J. Seibert, Lieutenant Colonel 4th United States Cavalry James B. Mcintyre, Captain
	2nd Brigade Eli Long, Colonel	2nd Kentucky Cavalry (U) Thomas P. Nicholas, Colonel 1st Ohio Cavalry Valentine Cupp, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Patten, Major 3rd Ohio Cavalry Charles B. Seidel, Lieutenant Colonel 4th Ohio Cavalry Oliver P. Robie, Lieutenant Colonel
	Artillery	Chicago Board of Trade (Independent) Light Artillery Battery James H. Stokes, Captain

Other

Other troops listed in Dyer but not in order of battle - check against those above

• 60th Illinois Infantry
• 96th Illinois Infantry
• 1st Michigan Light Artillery / Battery D
• 1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics
• 9th Michigan Infantry
• (II) 10th Ohio Infantry
• 1st Battalion Sharpshooters?
• 4th United States Artillery / Battery F

Confederate Troops

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 606, 838, 862)