First Winchester Union Order of Battle

United States Army

The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

units and commanders fought in the First Battle of Winchester

First Battle of Winchester

The First Battle of Winchester, fought on May 25, 1862, in and around Frederick County, Virginia, and Winchester, Virginia, was a major victory in Confederate Army Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Campaign through the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War. Jackson enveloped the...

of the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

. The Confederate order of battle

First Winchester Confederate Order of Battle

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the First Battle of Winchester of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.-Military rank:* Gen = General* LTG = Lieutenant General...

is listed separately.

Military rank

Gen = General
General
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LTG = Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General
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MG = Major General
Major General
Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...
BG = Brigadier General
Brigadier General
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Col = Colonel
Colonel
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Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant colonel
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Maj = Major
Major
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Cpt = Captain
Lt = Lieutenant
Lieutenant
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Sgt = Sergeant
Sergeant
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Other

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

Department of the Shenandoah

MG Nathaniel P. Banks

Division	Brigade	Regiment or Other
First Division BG Alpheus S. Williams Alpheus S. Williams Alpheus Starkey Williams was a lawyer, judge, journalist, U.S. Congressman, and a Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...	First Brigade Col Dudley Donnelly	5th Connecticut Infantry - Ltc George D. Chapman 28th New York Infantry - Ltc Edwin B. Brown 46th Pennsylvania Infantry - Col Joseph F. Knipe Joseph F. Knipe Joseph Farmer Knipe was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His troops won a decisive victory in late 1864 that helped clear Tennessee of Confederates during the Franklin-Nashville Campaign.-Biography:Joseph F. Knipe was born to a blacksmith and his wife in Mount...
	Third Brigade Col George Henry Gordon George Henry Gordon George Henry Gordon was an American lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...	2nd Massachusetts Infantry 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry The 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive federal service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment saw action at the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg.-History:... - Ltc George L. Andrews 29th Pennsylvania Infantry - Col John K. Murphy (c), Cpt Samuel M. Zulich 27th Indiana Infantry - Col Silas Colgrove 3rd Wisconsin Infantry - Col Thomas H. Ruger Thomas H. Ruger Thomas Howard Ruger was an American soldier and lawyer who served as a Union general in the American Civil War. After the war, he was a superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York....
	Cavalry Attachment	1st Michigan Cavalry (5 companies) - Col. Thornton F. Brodhead, Maj. Angelo Paldi.
	Artillery Attachment Cpt Robert B. Hampton	Battery M, 1st New York Light Artillery - Lt James H. Peabody Battery F, Pennsylvania Light Artillery - Lt J. Presley Fleming Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery - Lt Franklin B. Crosby
Attached Independent Units
	Cavalry Brigade BG John P. Hatch	1st Maine Cavalry 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment The 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was one of the Maine units used during the American Civil War.- History :Organized in Augusta, Maine on October 31, 1861 for three years... (5 companies) - Ltc Calvin R. Douty 1st Vermont Cavalry 1st Vermont Cavalry The 1st Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Cavalry was a three years' cavalry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater from November 1861 to August 1865, in the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac.... - Col Charles H. Tompkins 5th New York Cavalry - Col Othneil De Forest 1st Maryland Cavalry (5 companies) - Ltc Charles Wetschky
	Various Units	10th Maine Infantry - Col Geo. L. Beal Pennsylvania Zouaves d'Afrique - Cpt Charles H. T. Collis Charles H. T. Collis Charles Henry Tucker "Tucky" Collis was an Irish-American US Army officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the American Civil War. He was born in Ireland.... 8th New York Cavalry (5 companies, dismounted) - Ltc Charles R. Babbitt Battery E, Pennsylvania Artillery - Lt Charles A. Atwell

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