Suffolk Union Order Of Battle
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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Siege of Suffolk of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. The casualties are derived from the Official Records.


Abbreviations used


Military rank

* MG = Major General * BG = Brigadier General * Col = Colonel * Ltc =
Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colone ...
* Maj =
Major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...
* Cpt =
Captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...
* Lt = Lieutenant


Other

* w = wounded * mw = mortally wounded * k = killed * c = captured * m =
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Department of Virginia &

VII Corps 7th Corps, Seventh Corps, or VII Corps may refer to: * VII Corps (Grande Armée), a corps of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars * VII Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army prior to and during World War I * VII R ...

MG
Erasmus D. Keyes Erasmus Darwin Keyes (May 29, 1810 – October 14, 1895) was a businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War. Early life and career Keyes ...
(6–14 April)
MG John A. Dix (14 April-15 July)


Suffolk Garrison

MG
John J. Peck John James Peck (January 4, 1821 – April 21, 1878) was a United States soldier who fought in the Mexican–American War and American Civil War. Early life Peck was born on January 4, 1821, in Manlius, New York. His father, John W. Peck, who had ...

*Assistant Adjutant General: Maj Benjamin B. Foster *Quartermaster General: Cpt George S. Dodge


North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Acting Rear Admiral
Samuel P. Lee Samuel Phillips Lee (February 13, 1812 – June 5, 1897) was an officer of the United States Navy. In the American Civil War, he took part in the New Orleans campaign, before commanding the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, covering the ...

   9k, 16w, 4m = 29


Notes


References

* Cormier, Steven A. ''The Siege of Suffolk: The Forgotten Campaign, April 11-May 4, 1863''
Official Records Series I, Volume XVIII, Chapter XXX, Pg 286
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