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Commander in Chief
President Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant in 1864, was placed in charge of all the Union armies and
promoted to lieutenant general by President Lincoln. Union armies were usually
named after rivers. Grant refused to command all the Union armies from a desk
in Washington and took up his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac.
Army of the Potomac
General George Gordon Meade,
Commanding
General George G. Meade and his corps
commanders at his headquarters outside Washington, D. C.,
1865. From left to right: Generals Horatio G. Wright, Charles
Griffin, George G. Meade, John G. Parke, and Andrew A.
Humphreys.
(Library of Congress)
NINTH ARMY CORPS
Maj. Gen. John G. Parke
Provost Guard
79th New York, Maj. Andrew D. Baird
First Division
Bvt. Maj. Gen. Orlando B. Willcox
First Brigade
Col. Samuel Harriman
8th Michigan, Maj. Richard N. Doyle
27th Michigan, Col. Charles Waite
109th New York, Lieut. Col. Colwert K. Pier
51st Pennsylvania, Col. William J. Bolton
37th Wisconsin, Lieut. Col. John Green
38th Wisconsin
: Col. James Bintliff
Maj. Robert N. Roberts
Second Brigade
Bvt. Col. Ralph Ely
1st Michigan Sharpshooters: Lieut. Col. Asahel W. Nichols
Maj. Edwin J. Buckbee
2nd Michigan, Capt. John C. Boughton
20th Michigan, Capt. Albert A. Day
46th New York, Lieut. Col. Adolph Becker
60th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Martin P. Avery
50th Pennsylvania, Maj. Samuel K. Schwenk
Third Brigade
Bvt. Col. Gilbert P. Robinson
Col. James Bintliff
3rd Maryland (four companies) : Capt. Joseph P. Carter
Bvt. Col. Gilbert P. Robinson
29th Massachusetts, Capt. John M. Deane
57th Massachusetts, Capt. Albert W. Cook
59th Massachusetts, Maj. Ezra P. Gould
18th New Hampshire, Lieut. Col. Joseph M. Clough
14th New York Heavy Artillery, Maj. George M. Randall
100th Pennsylvania, Maj. Norman J. Maxwell
Acting Engineers
17th Michigan, Lieut. Col. Frederick W. Swift
Second Division
Bvt. Maj. Gen. Robert B. Potter
Brig. Gen. Simon G. Griffin
First Brigade
Bvt. Brig. Gen. John I. Curtin
35th Massachusetts, Col. Sumner Carruth
36th Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Thaddeus L. Barker
58th Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. John C. Whiton
39th New Jersey, Col. Abram C. Wildrick
51st New York, Capt. Thomas B. Marsh
45th Pennsylvania: Capt. Roland C. Cheeseman
Bvt. Col. Theodore Gregg
48th Pennsylvania: Col. George W. Gowan
Lieut. Col. Isaac F. Brannon
7th Rhode Island, Bvt. Col. Percy Daniels
Second Brigade
Brig. Gen. Simon G. Griffin
Col. Walter Harriman
31st Maine: Lieut. Col. Edward Getchell
Capt. Ebenezer S. Kyes
2nd Maryland, Lieut. Col. Benjamin F. Taylor
56th Massachusetts : Maj. Zabdiel B. Adams
Col. Stephen M. Weld, Jr.
6th New Hampshire, Lieut. Col. Phin P. Bixby
9th New Hampshire, Capt. John B. Cooper
11th New Hampshire : Col. Walter Harriman
Capt. Hollis O. Dudley
179th New York : Col. William M. Gregg
Maj. Albert M. Terrill
186th New York : Col. Bradley Winslow
Lieut. Col. E. Jay Marsh
17th Vermont : Maj. Lyman E. Knapp
Col. Francis V. Randall
Third Division
Bvt. Maj. Gen. John F. Hartranft
First Brigade
Lieut. Col. William H. H. McCall
Col. Alfred B. Mc Calmott
200th Pennsylvania : Maj. Jacob Rehrer Lieut. Col. William H. H. McCall
208th Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. Mish T. Heintzelman
209th Pennsylvania, Lieut, Col. George W. Frederick
Second Brigade
Col. Joseph A. Matthews
205th Pennsylvania : Maj. B. Mortimer Morris
Capt. Joseph P. Holmes
207th Pennsylvania, Col. Robert C. Cox
211th Pennsylvania, Col. Levi A. Dodd
Artillery Brigade
Bvt. Brig. Gen. John C. Tidball
Maine Light, 7th Battery (G), Capt. Adelbert B. Twitchell
Massachusetts Light, 11th Battery, Capt. Edward B. Jones
New York Light, 19th Battery, Capt. Edward W. Rogers
New York Light, 27th Battery, Capt. John B. Eaton
New York Light, 34th Battery Bvt. Maj. Jacob Roemer
Pennsylvania Light, Battery D, Capt. Samuel H. Rhoads
Cavalry
2nd Pennsylvania, Col. William W. Saunders
Independent Brigade
Bvt. Brig. Gen. Charles H.T. Collis
1st Massachusetts Cavalry (eight companies), Maj. John Tewksbury
61st Massachusetts, Col. Charles F. Walcott
80th New York (20th Militia), Col. Jacob B. Hardenbergh
68th Pennsylvania : Col. Andrew H. Tippin
Lieut. Col. Robert E. Winslow
114th Pennsylvania : Capt. Henry M. Eddy
Capt. John R. Waterhouse
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