SAYLER’S CREEK, VIRGINIA

6 April 1865

including

Hillman Farm

Lockett Farm

Harper’s Farm

Deatonsville

{Appomattox Campaign}

OR-Series I, Volume XLVI, Chapter LVIII, Pg 557

 

To Conf Forces

 

 

 

Union Forces

ARMY OF THE POTOMAC

II CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL ANDREW ATKINSON HUMPHREYS

1st Division - Brigadier General Nelson Appleton Miles

1st Brigade - Colonel George W. Scott

26th Michigan Infantry Regiment--- Captain Lucius H. Ives

Battalion, 5th New Hampshire Infantry--- Lieutenant Colonel Welcome A. Crafts

2nd New York Heavy Artillery Regiment--- Major Oscar F. Hulser

61st New York Infantry Regiment--- Major George W. Schaffer

81st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel William Wilson

140th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Captain William A. F. Stockton

2nd Brigade - Colonel Robert Nugent

5 Companies, 28th Massachusetts Infantry--- Captain Patrick H. Bird

6 Companies, 63rd New York Infantry--- Captain William H. Terwilliger

69th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Smith

5 Companies, 88th New York Infantry--- Lieutenant Colonel Denis F. Burke

4th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment--- Major Seward F. Gould

3rd Brigade - Bvt. Brigadier General Clinton D. MacDougall

7th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Pokorny

39th New York Infantry Regiment--- Major John McE. Hyde

52nd New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Henry N. Karples

111th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Lewis W. Husk

125th New York Infantry--- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hyde

Battalion, 126th New York Infantry --- Captain I. Hart Wilder

            Artillery

Battery K, 4th U.S. Artillery--- Captain John W. Roder

Battery M, 1st New Hampshire Light Artillery--- Captain George K. Dakin

2nd Division - Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow

1st Brigade - Colonel William A. Olmstead

19th Maine Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Isaac W. Starbird

19th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment--- Captain Charles S. Palmer

20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Arthur R. Curtis

7th Michigan Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel George W. La Point

2 Companies, 1st Minnesota Infantry--- Captain Frank Houston

59th New York Infantry Regiment--- Captain William Ludgate

152nd New York Infantry Regiment--- Major James E. Curtiss

184th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Colonel John H. Stover

36th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Clement E. Warner

2nd Brigade - Colonel James P. McIvor

8th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment--- Colonel Joel B. Baker

155th New York Infantry Regiment--- Captain Michael Doheny

164th New York Infantry Regiment--- Captain Timothy J. Burke

170th New York Infantry Regiment--- Captain John Mitchell

182nd New York Infantry Regiment--- * Captain Robert Heggart

* Also known as 69th New York National Guard

3rd Brigade - Brigadier General Thomas Alfred Smyth

14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment--- Captain J. Frank Morgan

1st Delaware Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Daniel Woodall

12th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Major Henry F. Chew

Battalion, 10th New York Infantry--- Lieutenant Colonel George F. Hopper

108th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Francis E. Pierce

4 Companies, 4th Ohio Infantry--- Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Calahan

69th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Captain Charles McAnally

3 Companies, 106th Pennsylvania ---Captain John H. Gallagher

4 Companies, 7th West Virginia--- Lieutenant Colonel F. W. H. Baldwin

Unattached -

2nd Company Minnesota Sharpshooters--- Lieutenant Edward N. Schoff

            Artillery

10th Battery Massachusetts Lght Artillery--- Captain J. Webb Adams

Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery--- Lieutenant William B. Westcott

3rd Division - Bvt. Major General Gershom Mott  (W)

Brigadier General Phillip Regis de Trobriand

1st Brigade - Brigadier General Phillip Regis de Trobriand

Colonel Russell B. Shepherd

20th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Captain John W. Shafer

1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment--- Colonel Russell B. Shepherd

                                                            Lieutenant Colonel Zemro A. Smith

40th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Madison M. Cannon

73rd New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Michael W. Burns

86th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Nathan H. Vincent

124th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Weygant

99th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Captain Jacob Giller

110th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Captain Franklin B. Stewart

2nd Brigade - Brigadier General Byron Root Pierce 

17th Maine Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel William Hobson (W)

                                                                        Major Charles P. Mattocks

1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery---Major Nathan Shatswell

5th Michigan Infantry Regiment--- Colonel John Pulford

93rd New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Haviland Gifford

57th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Colonel George Zinn

105th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Major James Miller

141st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Horton

3rd Brigade - Colonel Robert McAllister

11th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Rivers

7th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Francis Price 

8th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Major Henry Hartford

11th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel John Schoonover

120th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Abram L. Lockwood

Artillery

Battery B, 1st New Jersey Light Artillery --- Captain A. Judson Clark

11th Battery, New York Light Artillery--- Lieutenant James A. Manning

 Corps Artillery Brigade - Major John G. Hazard

Company C, 4th New York Heavy Artillery--- Captain Richard Kennedy

Company L, 4th New York Heavy Artillery--- Lieutenant Frank Seymour

VI CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL HORATIO GOUVERNEUR WRIGHT

Escort

Company E, 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry--- Captain William H. Boyd Jr.

1st Division - Brigadier General Frank Wheaton

1st Brigade - Colonel William H. Penrose 

Battalion, 1st New Jersey Infantry --- Lieutenant Colonel Baldwin Hufty

Battalion, 4th New Jersey Infantry --- Lieutenant Colonel Baldwin Hufty

2 Companies, 2nd New Jersey Infantry--- Captain Adolphus Weiss

1 Company, 3rd New Jersey Infantry--- Captain James H. Comings

10th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Captain James W. McNeely

            Company A - 1st Sergeant Samuel H. Moyer

15th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Major Ebenezer W. Davis

40th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Stephen R. Gilkyson

2nd Brigade - Colonel Joseph E. Hamblin  

2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery--- Colonel James Hubbard

65th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Henry C. Fisk

121st New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Egvert Olcott

95th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel John Harper

3rd Brigade - Colonel Oliver Edwards  

37th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment--- Captain Archibald Hopkins

49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment --- Bvt. Colonel Baynton J. Hickman

82nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Isaac C. Bassett

119th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Major William C. Gray

2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Elisha H. Rhodes

5th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Thomas S. Allen

            Company C - Lieutenant E. R. Jones

            Company G - Captain Henry Curran

2nd Division - Bvt. Major General George Washington Getty

(Division not engaged)

1st Brigade - Colonel James Meech Warner 

62nd New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Theodore B. Hamilton

93rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Charles W. Eckman

98th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Captain Bernhard Gessler

102nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel James Patchnell

139th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel John G. Parr

*= In Command part of 2 April

2nd Brigade - Brigadier General Louis Addison Grant 

2nd Vermont Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Amasa S. Tracy

3rd Vermont Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Horace W. Floyd $

4th Vermont Infantry Regiment --- Captain George H. Amidon

5th Vermont Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Ronald A. Kennedy

6th Vermont Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Sumner H. Lincoln

1st Vermont Heavy Artillery--- - Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hunsdon

3rd Brigade - Colonel Thomas W. Hyde

1st Maine (Veteran) Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Stephen C. Fletcher

5 Companies, 43rd New York Infantry--- Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Milliken

5 Companies, 49th New York Infantry --- Major George H. Selkirk

5 Companies, 77th New York Infantry--- Captain Charles E. Stevens

122nd New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Horace Walpole

61st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Colonel George F. Smith

3rd Division - Brigadier General Truman Seymour

1st Brigade - Colonel William S. Truex

14th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Jacob J. Janeway

106th New York Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Andrew N. McDonald

5 Companies, 151st New York Infantry--- Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bogardus

87th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Captain James Tearney

10th Vermont Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel George B. Damon

2nd Brigade - Colonel J. Warren Keifer 

6th Maryland Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph C. Hill

9th New York Heavy Artillery--- Lieutenant Colonel James W. Snyder

110th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Otho H. Binkley

            Company A - 1st Sergeant John W . Hays

            Company G - Sergeant Richard Pearson

122nd Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Charles M. Cornyn

126th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Benjamin F. Smith

67th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Major William G. Williams

138th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Matthew R. McClennan

Artillery - Brigade - Captain Andrew Cowan

1st Battery, (A), New Jersey Light Artillery--- Captain Augustin N. Parsons

1st Battery, New York Light Artillery--- Lieutenant O. R. Van Etten

3rd Battery, New York Light Artillery--- Captain William A. Harn

Battery L, 9th New York Heavy Artillery--- Captain S. Augustus Howe

Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery--- Captain George W. Adams

Battery H, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery--- Captain Crawford Allen Jr.

Battery E, 5th U.S. Light Artillery--- Lieutenant John R. Brinckle

Battery D, 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery--- Captain Charles J. Lewis

 

CAVALRY

MAJOR GENERAL PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN

Army Of The Shenandoah

BVT. MAJOR GENERAL WESLEY MERRITT

1st Cavalry Division - Brigadier General Thomas Casimer Devin 

1st Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Peter Stagg

1st Michigan Cavalry Regiment--- Captain Edward L. Negus

5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Smith H. Hastings

6th Michigan Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Harvey H. Vinton

7th Michigan Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel George G. Briggs

2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Charles L. Fitzhugh

6th New York Cavalry Regiment--- Major Harrison White

9th New York Cavalry Regiment--- Major James R. Dinnin

19th New York Cavalry Regiment--- * Major Howard M. Smith

17th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Coe Durland

20th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Middleton

* Also known as 1st New York Dragoons

3rd (Reserve) Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General Alfred Gibbs 

2nd Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Casper Crowninshield

6 Companies, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry--- Colonel Charles L. Leiper

1st U. S. Cavalry Regiment--- Captain Richard C. S. Lord

5th U. S. Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Gustavus Urban

6th U. S. Cavalry Regiment--- Major Robert M. Morris

Artillery

Battery C 4th U. S. Light Artillery--- Captain Marcus P. Miller

Battery E 4th U. S. Light Artillery--- Captain Marcus P. Miller

                        3rd Cavalry Div - Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer 

1st Brigade - Colonel Alexander C. M. Pennington 

1st Connecticut Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Brayton Ives

3rd New Jersey Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel William P. Robeson Jr.

2nd New York Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Alanson M. Randol

2nd Ohio Cavalry Regiment--- Captain Albert Barnitz

2nd Brigade * - Colonel William Wells 

8th New York Cavalry Regiment--- Major James Bliss

15th New York Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John J. Coppinger

1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Hall

* = Not engaged

3rd Brigade - Colonel Henry Capehart

1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Jenyns C. Batterbey

1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment--- Major Shesh B. Howe

7 Companies, 2nd West Virginia Cavalry -- Lieutenant Colonel James Allen

3rd West Virginia Cavalry Regiment--- Major John S. Witcher

2nd Cavalry Division (Army Of The Potomac)- Major General George Crook 

1st Brigade - Brigadier General Henry E. Davies  Jr.

1st New Jersey Cavalry Regiment--- Major Walter R. Robbins

            Company H - Lieutenant Johnson

            Company L - Lieutenant Cearl Carty

10th New York Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel M. Henry Avery

24th New York Cavalry Regiment--- Major William A. Snyder

5 Companies, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry--- Major Hampton S. Thomas

Battery A 2nd U.S. Light Artillery--- Lieutenant James H. Lord

2nd Brigade - Colonel J. Irvin Gregg

4th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Alender P. Duncan

8th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel William A. Corrie

16th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel John K. Robison

21st Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Alvin B. Knowles

Battery H 1st U.S. Light Artillery * ---Lieutenant Chandler P. Eakin

Battery I 1st U.S. Light Artillery--- Lieutenant Chandler P. Eakin

* Detached with Artillery Brigade of IX Corps

3rd Brigade - Colonel Charles H. Smith

1st Maine Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan P. Cilley

2nd New York Mounted Rifle Regiment--- Colonel John Fisk

6th Ohio Cavalry Regiment--- Captain Matthew H. Cryer

13th Ohio Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Stephen R. Clark

CASUALTIES Killed 166 Wounded1,014 Captured

            Partial Casualty List

K=Killed, W=Wounded

Fort Thomas H. -Lt -W

Freese J. W. Capt -W

Gleason Charles W. -Capt -K

Heald John A. -Capt -K

Hobson William -LtCol -W

Howland T. C. -Capt -K

Hughes William -Capt -W

Ivers Albert -Capt -W

Knight William H. -Capt -W

Little T. -Lt -W

Metler James H. -Lt -W

Moore S. A. -LtCol -W

Mott Gerswhom -Mgen -W

Northrop Theodore B. -Lt -W

Perry William H. -Lt -K

Poor J. W. -Lt -W

Smith A. J. -Maj -W

Wood William -Maj -W

 

   MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS

                       

Dockrun Warren C. -Pvt

Gibbs Wesley -Sgt

Taggart Charles A. -Pvt

Keough John -Cpl

Connell Trustrim -Cpl

Confederate Forces

Army Of Northern Virginia

EWELL’S RESERVE CORPS

LIEUTENANT GENERAL RICHARD STODDART EWELL (C)

Kershaw's Division * - Major General Joseph Brevard Kershaw 

DuBose's Brigade - Brigadier General Dudley McIver DuBose  (C 6 Apr)

16th Georgia Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant William W. Montgomery

18th Georgia Infantry Regiment--- Captain J. F. Espy

Lieutenant Gideon J. Lasseter

24th Georgia Infantry Regiment--- Captain J. A. Jarrard

3rd Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters

Cobb's Georgia Legion--- Lieutenant W. G. Steed

Phillip's Georgia Legion--- Lieutenant A. J. Reese

Humphreys's Brigade - Colonel W. H. Fitzgerald

13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant W. H. Davis

17th Mississippi Infantry Regiment--- Captain Gwin R. Cherry

18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant John W. Gower

21st Mississippi Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Benjamin George

Simms's Brigade - Brigadier General James P. Simms 

10th Georgia Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant John B. Evans

50th Georgia Infantry Regiment --- Captain George W. Waldron

                                                            Lieutenant Hillary W. Cason

51st Georgia Infantry Regiment--- Captain H. R. Thomas

53rd Georgia Infantry Regiment--- Captain R. H. Woods

*= During the retreat Kershaw’s and G.W.C. Lee’s Divisions,

with other troops from the defenses of Richmond were

commanded by Lieut. Gen. Richard S. Ewell

G. W. C. Lee's Division - Major General George Washington Custis Lee  (C)

 Barton's Cavalry Brigade

(Composition not given)

Crutchfield's Cavalry Brigade  - Colonel Stapleton Crutchfield (K)

(Composition not given)

Tucker's Naval Battalion

(Composition not given)

FIRST CORPS

Pickett's Division  

Hunton's Brigade - Brigadier General Eppa Hunton  (C)

8th Virginia Infantry Regiment

18th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Charles H. Wilkinson

19th Virginia Infantry Regiment

28th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Major Michael P. Spessard

56th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Captain John W. Jones

 Corse's Brigade - Brigadier General Montgomery Dent Corse (C)

15th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Major Charles H. Clarke

17th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Arthur Hebert

29th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant John A. Coulson

30th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Robert S. Chew

32nd Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Captain Samuel W. Armistead

 ANDERSON'S CORPS

LIEUTENANT GENERAL RICHARD HERON ANDERSON

Johnson's Division - Major General Bushrod Rust Johnson

Wise's Brigade - Brigadier General Henry Alexander Wise  

26th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Major William K. Perrin

34th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Thomas Goode

46th Virginia Infantry Regiment

59th Virginia Infantry Regiment--- Colonel William B. Tabb

Moody's Brigade - Brigadier General Young Marshall Moody 

41st Alabama Infantry Regiment--- Captain Martin L. Stansel

43rd Alabama Infantry Regiment--- Major William J. Mims

59th Alabama Infantry Regiment--- Major Lewis H. Crumpler

60th Alabama Infantry Regiment--- Colonel John W. A. Sanford

23rd Alabama Infantry Battalion--- Major Nicholas Stallworth

Wallace's Brigade - Brigadier General William Henry Wallace  

17th South Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Captain E. A. Crawford

18th South Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel W. B. Allison

22nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Colonel William G. Burt

23rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel John M. Kinloch

26th South Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Major Ceth S. Land

Holcombe's South Carolina Legion

Ransom's Brigade - Brigadier General Matt Whitaker Ransom  

24th North Carolina Infantry Regiment

25th North Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Henry M. Rutledge

35th North Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Major Robert E. Petty

49th North Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Major Charles Q. Petty

56th North Carolina Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Paul F. Faison

 CASUALTIES Killed 1,000 Wounded 1,800 Captured 6,000

Partial Casualty List –

Barton Seth M -Bgen -C

Corse Montgomery D. -Bgen -C

Crutchfield Stapleton -Col -K

DuBose Dudley M. -Bgen -C

Ewell Richard S. -LtGen -C

Goldsborough Robert -Lt -MW

Hunton Eppa -Bgen -C

Kershaw Joseph B. -Bgen -C

Lee, G. W. C. -Mgen -C

Simms James P -Bgen -C

 

 

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