Stones River Union Order Of Battle
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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Stones River of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign, the casualty returns and the reports.


Abbreviations


Military rank

* MG = Major General * BG = Brigadier General * Col = Colonel * Ltc =
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* Maj =
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* Cpt =
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* Lt = Lieutenant * Sgt =
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Other

* w = wounded * mw = mortally wounded * k = killed * c = captured


XIV Corps 14 Corps, 14th Corps, Fourteenth Corps, or XIV Corps may refer to: * XIV Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * XIV Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army prior to and during World ...
( Army of the Cumberland)

MG William S. Rosecrans, Commanding


General Staff and Headquarters

General Staff: * Chief of Artillery and Ordnance: Col James Barnett * Chief of Staff: Ltc Julius P. Garesché (k) * Chief Quartermaster: Ltc John W. Taylor * Chief Commissary: Ltc Samuel Simmons * Judge-Advocate-General: Maj Ralston Skinner * Inspector of Artillery: Cpt Jeremiah H. Gilman * Assistant Inspector General: Cpt James Curtis * Provost Marshal General: Cpt William M. Wiles * Chief of Topographical Engineers: Cpt Nathaniel Michler * Signal Corps: Cpt Jesse Merill General Headquarters: Provost Guard: * 10th Ohio: Ltc Joseph W. Burke General Escort: *
Anderson Troop Anderson Troop was an independent cavalry company that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It had an authorized strength of 110 officers and men, and served for 18 months at the headquarters of Generals Don Carlos Buell and ...
, Pennsylvania Cavalry: Lt Thomas S. Maple


Right Wing

MG Alexander McD. McCook


Center

MG George H. Thomas * Provost Guard: 9th Michigan: Col John G. Parkhurst


Left Wing

MG
Thomas L. Crittenden Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (May 15, 1819 – October 23, 1893) was a lawyer, politician, and Union general during the American Civil War. Early life Crittenden was born in Russellville, Kentucky, the son of U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden, who l ...
* Chief of Artillery: Cpt John MendenhallCullum's Register
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Cavalry

BG
David S. Stanley David Sloane Stanley (June 1, 1828 – March 13, 1902) was a Union Army general during the American Civil War. Stanley took part in the Second Battle of Corinth and the Battle of Stones River as a division commander. He was later made a corps co ...


Engineers


Notes


References

* Cozzens, Peter. ''No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River''. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. {{ISBN, 978-0-252-06229-2.
The Battle of Murfreesboro
* U.S. War Department

''a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies'', U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. American Civil War orders of battle