List of the Brigades of the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg

The list of the brigades of the Union army at the Battle of Gettysburg is a listing of those 51 Infantry - Brigade that the pages on Potomac Army at the Battle of Gettysburg took part from July 1-July 3. 1863

The list contains the assignment of the brigades to divisions and corps , their structure, crew strengths before and after the battle, information about the losses that have occurred and the approximate arrival of the respective unit on the battlefield. This information does not include military units at division and corps level, such as divisional artillery.

From the table it can be seen that the greatest losses occurred in the brigades of the 1st Corps, which first reached the battlefield of Gettysburg in the morning or around noon on July 1, 1863 and tried to advance in the western apron of the city the Northern Virginia Army .

Structure of the Union Army

The Potomac Army , originally led by Major General Joseph Hooker , who was replaced by Major General George Meade on June 28, 1863 , consisted of the following units:

• I. Corps (commanded by Major General John F. Reynolds ) with the divisions:
  • 1st Division ( Brigadier General James S. Wadsworth ): 2 brigades with 11 regiments
  • 2nd Division (Brigadier General John C. Robinson ): 2 brigades with 12 regiments
  • 3rd Division (Brigadier General Abner Doubleday ): 3 brigades with 10 regiments
• II Corps (Major General Winfield Scott Hancock ):
  • 1st Division (Brigadier General John C. Caldwell ): 4 brigades with 18 regiments
  • 2nd Division (Brigadier General John Gibbon ): 3 brigades with 13 regiments
  • 3rd Division (Brigadier General Alexander Hays ): 3 brigades with 13 regiments
• III. Corps (Major General Daniel Sickles ):
  • 1st Division (Major General David B. Birney ): 3 brigades with 19 regiments
  • 2nd Division (Major General Andrew A. Humphreys ): 3 brigades with 18 regiments
• V Corps (Major General George Sykes ):
  • 1st Division (Brigadier General James Barnes ): 3 brigades with 12 regiments
  • 2nd Division (Brigadier General Romeyn B. Ayres ): 3 brigades with 14 regiments
  • 3rd Division (Brigadier General Samuel W. Crawford ): 2 brigades with 9 regiments
• VI. Corps (Major General John Sedgwick ):
  • 1st Division (Brigadier General Horatio G. Wright ): 3 brigades with 12 regiments
  • 2nd Division (Brigadier General Albion P. Howe ): 2 brigades with 11 regiments
  • 3rd Division (Major General John Newton ): 3 brigades with 14 regiments
• XI. Corps (Major General Oliver Otis Howard ):
  • 1st Division (Brigadier General Francis C. Barlow ): 2 brigades with 8 regiments
  • 2nd Division (Brigadier General Adolph von Steinwehr ): 2 brigades with 8 regiments
  • 3rd Division (Major General Carl Schurz ): 2 brigades with 10 regiments
• XII. Corps (Major General Henry W. Slocum ):
  • 1st Division (Brigadier General Alpheus S. Williams ): 2 brigades with 14 regiments
  • 2nd Division (Brigadier General John W. Geary ): 3 brigades with 14 regiments
• Cavalry Corps (Major General Alfred Pleasonton ):
  • 1st Division (Brigadier General John Buford ): 3 brigades with 12 regiments
  • 2nd Division (Brigadier General David McM. Gregg ): 2 brigades with 10 regiments
  • 3rd Division (Brigadier General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick ): 2 brigades with 8 regiments

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  Major General George Gordon Meade, Commander in Chief of the Potomac Army

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  Major General John Fulton Reynolds, commanding general of I Corps

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  Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, II Corps

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  Major General Daniel E. Sickles, III. corps

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  Major General George Sykes, V Corps

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  Major General John Sedgwick, VI. corps

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  Major General Oliver Otis Howard, XI. corps

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  Maj. General Henry Warner Slocum, XII. corps

Legend

The list of Union Brigades consists of the following columns:

• AK : Army Corps number
• DIV : number of the division within an army corps
• Brigade : Number of the brigade within a division or the proper name of the brigade
• Commander : surname of the commander on July 1, 1863 (often used on battle maps)
• Structure : regimental number in combination with the state (e.g. 144NY = 144th New York Infantry Regiment)
• Arrival:: Arrival of the brigade on the battlefield
• ST1 : Brigade strength on June 30, 1863
• Casualties : Fallen / Wounded / Prisoners of War
• V% : percentage losses
• ST2 : strength of the brigade on July 4, 1863

The ISO 3166-2 coding was used for the abbreviations for the states . The following states provided brigades for the Potomac Army:

• CT ... Connecticut
• DE ... Delaware
• IL ... Illinois
• IN ... Indiana
• ME ... Maine
• MD ... Maryland
• MA ... Massachusetts
• MI ... Michigan
• MN ... Minnesota
• NH ... New Hampshire
• NJ ... New Jersey
• NY ... New York
• OH ... Ohio
• PA ... Pennsylvania
• RI ... Rhode Island
• TN ... Tennessee
• VT ... Vermont
• WV ... West Virginia
• WI ... Wisconsin

Some regiments of the V Corps were infantry regiments of the regular army, these are marked with the abbreviation US in the table. Regiments that were not present at the battle are shown in brackets. Units that were half the strength of a regiment were referred to as battalion , with a "B" placed after them in the table.

List of Union Brigades

AK	DIV	brigade	commander	structure	Arrivals	ST1	losses	V%	ST2
I.	1.	Iron Brigade	Meredith	19IN, 24MI, 2WI, 6WI, 7WI	1.7./10:00	1829	171/720/262	63.0%	676
I.	1.	2.	Cutler	7IN, 76NY, 84NY, 95NY, 147NY, 56PA	1.7./09:30	2017	128/509/365	49.7%	1015
I.	2.	1.	Paul	16ME, 13MA, 94NY, 104NY, 107PA, 153PA	1.7./11:00	1537	50/343/633	66.8%	511
I.	2.	2.	Baxter	12MA, 83NY, 97NY, 11PA, 88PA, 90PA	1.7./11:30	1585	41/258/350	40.9%	936
I.	3.	1.	Rowley	80NY, 121PA, 142PA, 151PA	1.7./12:00	1361	111/557/230	66.0%	463
I.	3.	2.	Stone	143PA, 149PA, 150PA	1.7./11:30	1371	109/465/279	62.2%	518
I.	3.	3.	Stannard	(12VT), 13VT, 14VT, (15VT), 16VT	1.7./17:00	1950	45/274/32	18.0%	1599
II.	1.	1.	Cross	5NH, 61NY, 81PA, 148PA	2.7./04:30	853	57/260/13	38.7%	523
II.	1.	Irish Brigade	Kelly	28MA, 63NY, 69NY, 88NY, 116PA	2.7./07:00	532	27/109/62	37.2%	334
II.	1.	3.	Zook	52NY, 57NY, 66NY, 140PA	2.7./08:00	975	49/227/82	36.7%	617
II.	1.	4th	Brooke	27CT, 2DE, 64NY, 53PA, 145PA	2.7./07:00	851	54/284/51	45.7%	462
II.	2.	1.	Harrow	19ME, 15MA, 1 MN, 82NY	1.7./21:00	1366	147/573/48	56.2%	598
II.	2.	2.	Webb	69PA, 71PA, 72PA, 106PA	1.7./21:00	1224	114/338/39	40.1%	733
II.	2.	3.	Hall	19MA, 20MA, 7MI, 42NY, 59NY	1.7./21:00	922	71/282/14	39.8%	555
II.	3.	1.	Carroll	14IN, 4OH, 8OH, 7WV	1.7./21:00	977	38/166/7	21.6%	766
II.	3.	2.	Smyth	14CT, 1DE, 12NJ, 108NY, 10BNY	1.7./21:00	1069	59/275/26	33.7%	709
II.	3.	3.	Willard	39NY, 111NY, 125NY, 126NY	1.7./21:00	1508	139/542/33	47.3%	794
III.	1.	1.	Graham	57PA, 63PA, 68PA, 105PA, 114PA, 141PA	1.7./22:00	1516	67/508/165	48.8%	776
III.	1.	2.	Ward	20IN, 3ME, 4ME, 86NY, 124NY, 99PA	1.7./22:00	2188	129/484/170	35.8%	1405
III.	1.	3.	de Trobriand	17ME, 3MI, 5MI, 40NY, 110PA	2.7./10:00	1387	75/394/21	35.3%	897
III.	2.	1.	Carr	1MA, 11MA, 16MA, 12NH, 11NJ, 26PA, (84PA)	1.7./24:00	1718	121/604/65	46.0%	928
III.	2.	2.	Brewster	70NY, 71NY, 72NY, 73NY, 74NY, 120NY	2.7./02:00	1837	132/573/73	42.4%	1059
III.	2.	3.	Burling	2NH, 5NJ, 6NJ, 7NJ, 8NJ, 115PA	2.7./02:00	1365	59/376/78	37.6%	852
V.	1.	1.	Tilton	18MA, 22MA, 1MI, 118PA	2.7./11:00	655	12/102/11	19.1%	530
V.	1.	2.	Sweitzer	9MA, 32MA, 4MI, 62PA	2.7./09:00	1423	67/239/121	30.0%	996
V.	1.	3.	Vincent	20ME, 16MI, 44NY, 83PA	2.7./07:00	1336	88/253/11	26.3%	984
V.	2.	1.	Ayres	3US, 4US, 6US, 12US, 14US	2.7./06:00	1553	46/318/18	24.6%	1171
V.	2.	2.	Burbank	2US, 7US, 10US, 11US, 17US	2.7./07:00	954	78/342/27	46.9%	507
V.	2.	3.	Weed	140NY, 146NY, 91PA, 115PA	2.7./07:00	1491	40/142/18	13.4%	1291
V.	3.	1.	McCandless	30PA, 31PA, 35PA, 42PA	2.7./07:00	1248	20/132/3	12.4%	1093
V.	3.	3.	Fisher	34PA, 38PA, 39PA, 40PA, 41PA	2.7./09:00	1609	6/49/0	3.4%	1554
VI.	1.	1.	Torbert	1NJ, 2NJ, 3NJ, 15NJ	2.7./15:00	1320	0/11/0	0.8%	1309
VI.	1.	2.	Bartlett	5ME, 121NY, 95PA, 96PA	2.7./15:00	1325	1/4/0	0.4%	1320
VI.	1.	3.	Russell	6ME, 49PA, 119PA, 5WI	2.7./15:00	1832	0/2/0	0.1%	1830
VI.	2.	1.	Grant	2VT, 3VT, 4VT, 5VT, 6VT	2.7./17:00	1832	0/1/0	0.1%	1831
VI.	2.	2.	Neill	7ME, 33NY, 43NY, 49NY, 77NY, 61PA	2.7./17:00	1775	2/11/2	0.8%	1760
VI.	3.	1.	Shaler	65NY, 67NY, 122NY, 23PA, 82PA	2.7./16:00	1770	15/56/3	4.2%	1696
VI.	3.	2.	Eustis	7MA, 10MA, 37MA, 2RI	2.7./16:00	1595	3/41/25	4.3%	1526
VI.	3.	3.	Nevin	62NY, 93NY, 98PA, 102PA, 139PA	2.7./15:00	1369	2/51/0	3.9%	1316
XI.	1.	1.	v.Gilsa	41NY, 54NY, 68NY, 153PA	1.7./13:00	1136	54/311/163	46.5%	608
XI.	1.	2.	Ames	17CT, 25OH, 75OH, 107OH	1.7./13:00	1337	68/366/344	58.2%	559
XI.	2.	1.	Coster	134NY, 154NY, 27PA, 73PA	1.7./14:00	1423	56/228/313	42.0%	826
XI.	2.	2.	Smith	33MA, 136NY, 55OH, 73OH	1.7./14:00	1639	51/278/19	21.2%	1291
XI.	3.	1.	Schimmelfennig	82IL, 45NY, 157NY, 61OH, 74PA	1.7./12:15	1683	58/296/453	48.0%	876
XI.	3.	2.	Krzyzanowski	58NY, 119NY, 82OH, 75PA, 26WI	1.7./12:15	1420	75/388/206	47.1%	751
XII.	1.	1.	McDougall	5CT, 20CT, 3MD, 123NY, 145NY, 46PA	1.7./20:00	1835	12/60/8	4.4%	1755
XII.	1.	2.	Lockwood	1MD, 1MD, 150NY	1.7./20:00	1818	35/121/18	9.6%	1644
XII.	1.	3.	Colgrove	27IN, 2MA, 13NJ, 107NY, 3WI	1.7./20:00	1598	49/225/5	17.5%	1319
XII.	2.	1.	Candy	5OH, 7OH, 29OH, 66OH, 28PA, 147PA	1.7./20:00	1798	18/119/2	7.7%	1659
XII.	2.	2.	Kane	29PA, 109PA, 111PA	1.7./20:00	700	23/66/9	14.0%	602
XII.	2.	3.	Greene	60NY, 78NY, 102NY, 137NY, 149NY	1.7./20:00	1424	67/212/24	21.3%	1121

literature

• Gottfried M. Bradley: Brigades of Gettysburg - The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg . Skyhorse Publishing, New York 2002, ISBN 978-1-61608-401-1 .

See also

• List of brigades of the Confederation Army at the Battle of Gettysburg

Web links

Commons : Battle of Gettysburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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