Battle of Antietam order of battle: Union

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

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = Lieutenant

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed in action
• c = captured

Army of the Potomac

MG George McClellan

General Staff and Headquarters

General Staff

• Chief of Staff: BG Randolph B. Marcy
• Assistant Adjutant General: BG Seth Williams
• Inspector General: BG Delos B. Sackett
• Chief of Artillery: BG Henry J. Hunt
• Chief Quartermaster: Ltc Rufus Ingalls

General Headquarters

Escort: Cpt James B. McIntyre

• Independent Company Oneida (New York) Cavalry: Cpt Daniel P. Mann
• 4th United States Cavalry, Company A: Lt Thomas H. McCormick
• 4th United States Cavalry, Company E: Cpt James B. McIntyre

U.S. Engineer Battalion: Cpt James C. Duane

Provost Guard: Maj William H. Wood

• 2nd United States Cavalry, Companies E, F, H, and K: Cpt George A. Gordon
• 8th United States, Companies A, D, F, and G: Cpt Royal T. Frank
• 19th United States, Company G: Cpt Edmund L. Smith
• 19th United States, Company H: Cpt Henry S. Welton

Headquarters Guard: Maj Granville O. Haller

• 93rd New York: Ltc Benjamin C. Butler

Quartermaster's Guard:

• 1st United States Cavalry, Companies B, C, H, and I: Cpt Marcus A. Reno

I Corps

MG Joseph Hooker (w)
BG George G. Meade

Escort:

• 2nd New York Cavalry, Companies A, B, I and K: Cpt John E. Naylor

II Corps

MG Edwin V. Sumner

Escort:

• 6th New York Cavalry, Company D: Cpt Henry W. Lyon
• 6th New York Cavalry, Company K: Cpt Riley Johnson

IV Corps

V Corps

MG Fitz John Porter

Escort:

• 1st Maine Cavalry (detachment): Cpt George J. Summat

VI Corps

MG William B. Franklin

Escort:

• 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Companies B and G: Cpt Henry P. Muirheid

IX Corps

MG Ambrose Burnside
BG Jacob D. Cox

Escort:

• 1st Maine Cavalry, Company G: Cpt Zebulon B. Blethen

XII Corps

MG Joseph K. Mansfield (mw)
BG Alpheus S. Williams

Escort:

• 1st Michigan Cavalry, Company L: Cpt Melvin Brewer

Cavalry

Notes

References

• Antietam National Battlefield
• Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
• Johnson, Curt; Anderson, Richard C. Jr. (1995). Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-623-0.
• U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.

1. Battle of Antietam
2. Battle of Antietam order of battle: Confederate
3. Battle of Antietam order of battle
4. Battle of Shepherdstown
5. Battle of South Mountain
6. Battle of Gettysburg
7. Battle of Harpers Ferry
8. Maryland campaign
9. List of American Civil War battles
10. Battle of Nashville
11. Battle of Chantilly
12. Special Order 191
13. Battle of the Wilderness
14. List of orders of battle
15. Knoxville campaign order of battle: Confederate
16. Battle of Crampton's Gap
17. Battle of Perryville
18. Battle of Seven Pines
19. Irish Brigade (Union Army)
20. Battle of Chancellorsville