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The Federal Army of of the Potomac at Cold Harbor

Commanded by Major General George Gordon Meade

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, General in Chief of United States Armies, accompanied Meade’s Headquarters

* Note: k=killed, mw = mortally wounded, w=wounded, c = captured, r = relieved, ^ moved up to higher command
Regiments and batteries link to unit histories on the companion site, Civil War in the East.com

Headquarters Troops

Headquarters escort

Oneida (New York) Cavalry Company – Captain Daniel P. Mann
4th United States Infantry Regiment

Provost Guard – Brigadier General Marsena L. Patrick

1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Cos. C&D
80th New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel Jacob Hardenberg
3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment
68th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
114th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

Engineer Brigade – Brigadier General Daniel Woodbury

15th New York Engineer Regiment – Major Walter N. Cassin
50th New York Engineer Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William H. Pettes
Regular Engineer Battalion – Captain George Henry Mendell

Second Corps – Major General Winfield Scott Hancock

First Division – Brigadier General Francis Barlow

First Brigade – Colonel Nelson A. Miles

5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment – Colonel Charles E. Hapgood (w 6/16)
26th Michigan Infantry Regiment
2nd New York Heavy Artillery
61st New York Infantry Regiment
81st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
140th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel John Fraser
183rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

Second (Irish) Brigade/ Consolidated Brigade – Colonel R. Byrnes (mw 6/3), Colonel Patrick Kelly (k 6/14)

Third Brigade/ Consolidated Brigade – Colonel L. Crandall

Fourth Brigade – Colonel John R. Brooke (w 6/3), Colonel Lewis O. Morris (k 6/4), Colonel J. A. Beaver

Second Division – Major General John Gibbon

First Brigade – Colonel H. B. McKeen (k 6/3), Colonel Frederick Haskell (k 6/3), Brigadier General B. R. Pierce 

19th Maine Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Henry W. Cunningham
19th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Ansel D. Wass
20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Captain Henry L. Abbott
7th Michigan Infantry Regiment – Major Sylvanua W. Curtis
15th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Major I. Harris Hooper
1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment – Major Mark W. Downie
42nd New York Infantry Regiment – Captain Robert C. Wright
59th New York Infantry Regiment – Captain Horace P. Rugg
2nd New York State Militia – Major Thomas W. Baird
184th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
36th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

Second Brigade – Brigadier General Joshua T. Owen (to 6/12), Colonel John Fraser 

152nd New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel Alonzo Ferguson
69th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Major James Duffie
71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel Richard P. Smith
72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Heiser
106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William L. Curry

Third Brigade – Colonel Thomas A. Smythe

14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment – Colonel Theodore G. Ellis
1st Delaware Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Edward P. Harris
2nd Delaware Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel David L. Stricker
14th Indiana Infantry Regiment – Colonel John Coons (left front 6/6 to muster out)
12th New Jersey Infantry Regiment – Colonel J. Howard Willets
10th New York Infantry Regiment – Major George F Hopper
108th New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel Charles J. Powers
4th Ohio Infantry Regiment – Major Gordon A. Stewart
8th Ohio Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Sawyer
7th West Virginia Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan H. Lockwood

Fourth Brigade – Brigadier General Robert O. Tyler (to 6/7), Colonel J. P. McIvor .

155th New York Infantry Regiment
164th New York Infantry Regiment
170th New York Infantry Regiment
182nd New York Infantry Regiment
8th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment – Colonel Peter Porter

Third Division – Major General David B. Birney

First Brigade – Colonel Thomas W. Egan

Second Brigade – Colonel Thomas R. Tannatt 

Third Brigade – Brigadier General Gershom Mott 

Fourth Brigade – Colonel William R. Brewster

12th New York Infantry, Cos. D&F – Major Henry W. Ryder

First Division – Brigadier General Charles Griffin

First Brigade – Brigadier General Romeyn Ayers (discontinued 6/5)

Sixth Corps – Brigadier General Horatio G. Wright

Escort

8th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Co. A – Captain Charles E. Fellows

First Division – Brigadier General David A. Russell

First Brigade – Colonel William H. Penrose

1st Delaware Cavalry (Dismounted)
1st New Jersey Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William Henry (w 6/1) (Non-Veterans relieved for muster out. Veterans & Recruits attached to 15 New Jersey)
2nd New Jersey Infantry Regiment – (Non-Veterans relieved for muster out. Veterans & Recruits attached to 15 New Jersey)
3rd New Jersey Infantry Regiment – (Non-Veterans relieved for muster out. Veterans & Recruits attached to 15 New Jersey
4th New Jersey Infantry Regiment – Major Charles Ewing
10th New Jersey Infantry Regiment – Colonel Henry O. Ryerson
15th New Jersey Infantry Regiment – Colonel Wiliam H. Penrose

Second Brigade – Colonel Emory Upton

2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery – Colonel Elisha S. Kellogg (k 6/1), Colonel Ranald Mackenzie
5th Maine Infantry Regiment – Colonel Clark S. Edwards
121st New York Infantry Regiment
95th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Captain E. Carroll
96th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel William H. Lessig

Third Brigade – Brigadier General Henry L. Eustis (to 6/12), Lieutenant Colonel Gideon Clark

37th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Colonel Oliver Edwards (from 2 Div. 4 Brig.)
6th Maine Infantry Regiment
49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regimen – tLieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Hulings
119th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel Peter Ellmaker
2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment (from 2 Div. 4 Brig.)
5th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment – Colonel Thomas S. Allen

Fourth Brigade – Colonel Nelson Cross 

65th New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel Joseph E. Hamblin
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Higginbotham
67th New York Infantry Regiment
122nd New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel Silas Titus
23rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William Wallace
82nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel Issac C. Bassett (w 6/1), Lieutenant Colonel John M. Wetherill

Second Division – Brigadier General Thomas Neill 

First Brigade – Brigadier General Frank Wheaton 

62nd New York Infantry Regiment
93rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
98th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
102nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
139th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

Second Brigade – Brigadier General Lewis A. Grant

2nd Vermont Infantry Regiment – Major Amasa Tracy (to LC 6/17)
3rd Vermont Infantry Regiment – Colonel Thomas O. Seaver
4th Vermont Infantry Regiment – Colonel George P. Foster
5th Vermont Infantry Regiment – Colonel John R. Lewis
6th Vermont Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Hale
1st Vermont Heavy Artillery Regiment – Colonel James M. Warner

Third Brigade – Colonel D. D. Bidwell 

7th Maine Infantry Regiment – Colonel Edwin C. Mason
43rd New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel Benjamin F. Baker
49th New York Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel George Johnson
77th New York Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Winsor B. French
61st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel George F. Smith

Fourth Brigade – Brigadier General Oliver Edwards

7th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Colonel Thomas D . Johns
10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Parsons
37th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Colonel Rufus P. Lincoln
2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment – Colonel Samual B.M. Read

Third Division  – Brigadier General John B. Ricketts

First Brigade – Colonel William S. Truex (6/1), Colonel C. K. Hall (to 6/2), Colonel John W. Schall (6/3), Colonel C. K. Hall (6/3), Colonel William S. Truex

4th New Jersey Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Caldwell K. Hall (^6/2)
106th New York Infantry Regiment – Major Andrew N. McDonald
151st New York Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Erwin A. Bowen
87th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel John W. Schall (^ 6/3)
10th Vermont Infantry Regiment – Colonel Albert B. Jewett

Second Brigade – Colonel Benjamin F. Smith

th Maryland Infantry Regiment – Colonel John W. Horn
110th Ohio Infantry Regiment – Major Otho H. Binkley
122nd Ohio Infantry Regiment – Colonel William H. Ball
126th Ohio Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William H. Harlan
67th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
138th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel Matthew R. McClennan

6th Corps Artillery – Brigadier General Calvin E. Pratt

4th Maine Independent Battery
5th Maine Independent Battery
1st Massachusets Independent Battery – Captain William H. McCartney
1st New Jersey Artillery, Battery A
1st New York Independent Battery – Captain Andrew Cowan
3rd New York Independent Battery – Captain Wiliam A. Harn
9th New York Heavy Artillery, 2nd Bn. (to 22 Corps, Haskin’s Div., 1 Brig.)
1st Ohio Artillery, Battery H
1st Rhode Island Artillery, Battery C
1st Rhode Island Artillery, Battery E
1st Rhode Island Artillery, Battery G
2nd United States Artillery, Battery G – Lieutenant John H. Butler
5th United States Artillery, Battery E
5th United States Artillery, Battery M – Captain James McKnight

Ninth Corps – Major General Ambrose Burnside

First Division – Major General Thomas L. Crittenden (to 6/9), Brigadier General James Ledlie

First Brigade – Brigadier General J. H. Ledlie (^ 6/9), Colonel Jacob P. Gould

21st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel George P. Hawkes (from 2 Brig.)
29th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (from 5 Corps, 1 Div. 3 Brig.)
56th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
57th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
59th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Colonel Jacob P. Gould
3rd Maryland infantry Regiment (from 2 Brig.)
179th New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel William M. Gregg (from 2 Brig.)
100th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Matthew M. Dawson
4th United States Infantry Regiment (to Grant’s HQ, City Point)
10th United States Infantry Regiment (to 5 Corps, 2 Div. 1 Brig.)

Second Brigade – Colonel J. M. Sudsburg (to 6/4), Colonel E. W. Pierce to 6/17), Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Barnes

3rd Maryland infantry Regiment (consolidated to 4 co. battalion, to 1 Brig.)
21st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel George P. Hawkes (to 1 Brig.)
29th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
179th New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel William M. Gregg (to 2 Brig.)
14th New York Heavy Artillery (from 3 Brig.)
2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery (from 3 Brig.)
100th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Matthew M. Dawson (to 1 Brig.)P

Provisional (Third) Brigade – Colonel E. G. Marshall (became 3rd Brigade 6/11

2nd New York Mounted Rifles (dismounted) (to 2 Div. 1 Brig.)
24th New York Cavalry (dismounted) (to 3 Div. 2 Brig. 6/11)
14th New York Heavy Artillery (to 2 Brig.)
2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery (to 2 Brig.)

Engineers

35th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Major Nathaniel Wales

Artillery

2nd Maine Battery – Captain Albert F. Thomas
14th Massachusetts Battery – Captain Joseph W. B. Wright
27th New York Independent Battery

Second Division

Brigadier General R. B. Potter – First BrigadeColonel J. I. Curtin (to 6/18), Lieutenant Colonel H. Pleasants

36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Major William F. Draper
58th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel John C. Whiton
2nd New York Mounted Rifles (dismounted) (from 1 Div. 3 Brig.)
45th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel John I. Curtin
48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel Henry Pleasants
7th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment – Captain Theodore Winn

Second Brigade – Colonel S. G. Griffin

31st Maine Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hight
32nd Maine Infantry Regiment – Major Arthur Deering
6th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Henry H. Pearson
9th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel John W. Babbitt
11th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment – Colonel Walter Harriman
17th Vermont Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cummings

Engineers

51st New York Infantry RegimentColonel Charles Le Gendre (w 5/5)

Artillery

11th Massachusetts Battery – Captain Edward J. Jones
19th New York Independent Battery – Captain Edward W. Rogers

Third Division – Brigadier General Orlando B. Wilcox

First Brigade – Colonel John F. Hartranft

2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment – Colonel William Humphrey (to 2 Brig.)
8th Michigan Infantry Regiment
27th Michigan Infantry Regiment – Major Samuel Moody
109th New York Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Schall
13th Ohio Cavalry (dismounted) – Colonel Stephen R. Clarkfrom
51st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel Benjamin F. Tracy
37th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment – Colonel Samuel Harriman
38th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment – Colonel James Bintliff

Second Brigade – Colonel B. C. Christ

1st Michigan Sharpshooters Regiment – Colonel Charles V. De Land
2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment – Colonel William Humphrey (from 1 Brig.)
20th Michigan Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Byron M. Cutcheon
24th New York Cavalry (dismounted) (from 1 Div. 3 Brig.)
46th New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel George W. Travers
79th New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel David Morrison
60th Ohio Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel James N. McElroy
50th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Edward Overton, Jr.

Artillery

7th Maine BatteryCaptain Adelbert B. Twitchell
34th New York Independent Battery – Captain Jacob Roemer

Engineers

17th Michigan Infantry Regiment – Colonel Constant Luce

Fourth Division – Brigadier General Edward Ferrero

First Brigade – Colonel J. K. Sigfried

27th United States Colored Troops
30th United States Colored Troops
39th United States Colored Troops
43rd United States Colored Troops

Second Brigade – Colonel H. G. Thomas

19th United States Colored Troops
23rd United States Colored Troops
31st United States Colored Troops

Artillery

Pennsylvania Independent Battery D
Third Vermont Battery – Captain Romeo H. Start

Cavalry Corps – Major General Philip H. Sheridan

First Division – Brigadier General A. T. A. Torbert

First Brigade Brigadier General George A. Custer

1st Michigan Cavalry Regiment – Colonel Charles H. Town
5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment – Colonel Russell A. Alger
6th Michigan Cavalry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Henry E. Thompson
7th Michigan Cavalry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William D’Anton Mann

Second Brigade – Colonel Thomas C. Devin

4th New York Cavalry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Pruyn
6th New York Cavalry Regiment – Major William E. Beardsley
9th New York Cavalry Regiment – Colonel William A. Sackett
17th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment – Colonel Josiah H. Kellogg

Reserve Brigade – Brigadier General Wesley Merritt

1st United States Cavalry Regiment – Captain Richard S. C. Lord
2nd United States Cavalry Regiment – Captain Theo. F. Rodenbaugh
5th United States Cavalry Regiment – Captain Julis W. Mason
6th United States Cavalry Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Nicholas Nolan
19th New York Cavalry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Thorp
6th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment – Major Henry C. Whelan

Second Division – Brigadier General David McM. Gregg

First Brigade – Brigadier General Henry E. Davies

1st Maryland Cavalry Regiment – Colonel Andrew W. Evans
1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment – Colonel Horace B. Sargent
1st New Jersey Cavalry Regiment – Major Myron H. Beaumont
10th New York Cavalry Regiment – Major Matthew H. Avery (from 2 Brig.)
6th Ohio Cavalry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William Stedman
1st Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment – Colonel John P. Taylor

Second Brigade  – Colonel John I. Gregg

1st Maine Cavalry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Smith
10th New York Cavalry Regiment –Major Matthew H. Avery (to 1 Brig.)
2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment – Colonel Richard Butler Price
4th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment – Colonel George H. Covode (mw 6/24), Colonel Samuel B.M. Young
13th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment – Colonel Michael Kerwin (from 9 Corps Cavalry)
16th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel John K. Robison

Third Division – Brigadier General James H. Wilson

First Brigade  – Colonel John B. McIntosh

1st Connecticut Cavalry Regiment – Lietenant Colonel Erastus Blakeslee
2nd New York Cavalry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Otto Harhaus
5th New York Cavalry Regiment -Major John Hammond
3rd New Jersey Cavalry Regiment – Colonel Andrew J. Morrison
2nd Ohio Cavalry Regiment
18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment – Major Harvey B. VanVorhis

Second Brigade  – Colonel George Champman

1st New Hampshire Cavalry
8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment – Major John L. Beverage
3rd Indiana Cavalry, Cos. A-F – Major William S. McClure
8th New York Cavalry Regiment – Major William H. Benjamin
22nd New York Cavalry Regiment
1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment – Colonel William Wells

1st Brigade Horse Artillery – Captain James M. Robertson

1st United States Artillery, Battery I – Lieutenant Frank S. French
2nd United States Artillery, Battery A – Lieutenant Robert Clark
2nd United States Artillery, Batteries B&L – Lieutenant Albert O. Vincent
2nd United States Artillery, Batteries D – Lieutenant Edward B. Wiliston
2nd United States Artillery, Battery M – Lieutenant Alexander C. M. Pennington
3rd United States Artillery, Batteries CF&K – Captain Dunbar R. Ransom
4th United States Artillery, Battery E – Lieutenant Samuel S. Elde

Federal Army of the James
Commanded by Major General William F. Smith

Eighteenth Corps

Provost Guard

2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment

First Division – Brigadier General William T.H. Brooks

1st Brigade – Brigadier General Gilbert Marston (^ 6/18), Colonel E. M. Cullen

81st New York Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel William C. Raulston
96th New York Infantry Regiment – Colonel E. M. Cullen
98th New York Infantry Regiment
139th New York Infantry Regiment

2nd Brigade – Brigadier General Hiram Burnham

8th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
10th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment
13th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment
118th New York Infantry Regiment

3rd Brigade – Colonel Guy V. Henry*

21st Connecticut Infantry Regiment
40th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment – Colonel Guy V. Henry
92nd New York Infantry Regiment
58th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
188th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
19th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment – Colonel Horace T. Sanders (to 2 Div. 2 Brig.)

Division Artillery

Battery B, 1st United States Artillery
Battery L, 4th United States Artillery
Battery A, 5th United States Artillery 
4th Wisconsin Battery – Captain George B. Easterly

Second Division – Brigadier General John H. Martindale

1st Brigade – Brigadier General George J. Stannard 

23rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
25th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
27th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment
89th New York Infantry Regiment (to 3 Brig. )
10th New York Heavy Artillery – Colonel Alexander Piper
55th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

2nd Brigade – Colonel G.A. Stedman

11th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
8th Maine Infantry Regiment
2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment
12th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment
148th New York Infantry Regiment
19th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

Division Artillery

7th New York Independent Battery
3rd New York Artillery, Battery E
1st Rhode Island Artillery, Battery F
4th United States Artillery, Battery D

Third Division – Brigadier General Charles Devens, Jr. (to 6/4), Brigadier General Adelbert Ames 

1st Brigade – Colonel W.B. Barton 

47th New York Infantry Regiment
48th New York Infantry Regiment
115th New York Infantry Regiment
76th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

2nd Brigade – Colonel J.C. Drake (k 6/1), Lieutenant Colonel Z.B. Robinson (to 6/5), Colonel Alexander Piper (to 6/9), Colonel N.M. Curtis 

13th Indiana Infantry Regiment
9th Maine Infantry Regiment
112th New York Infantry Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Z.B. Robinson
169th New York Infantry Regiment
10th New York Heavy Artillery – Colonel Alexander Piper

3rd Brigade – Brigadier General Adelbert Ames (to 6/4), Colonel H.R. Guss (to 6/9), Colonel Lewis Bell

4th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment
3rd New York Infantry Regiment
117th New York Infantry Regiment
142nd New York Infantry Regiment
97th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment – Colonel H.R. Guss (to 10 Corps 2 Div.)

Corps Artillery

Battery B, 1st United States Artillery
Battery L, 4th United States Artillery
Battery A, 5th United States Artillery