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This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).
At the start of the war, the entire United States Army consisted of 16,367 men of all branches, with infantry representing the vast majority of this total. [2] Some of these infantrymen had seen considerable combat experience in the Mexican–American War, as well as in the West in various encounters, including the Utah War and several campaigns against Indians.
1st Infantry Regiment; 2nd Infantry Regiment; 3rd Infantry Regiment; 4th Infantry Regiment; 5th Infantry Regiment; ... List of United States Regular Army Civil War units.
The authorized strength of a Civil War infantry regiment was about 1,000 officers and men, arranged in ten companies plus a headquarters and (for the first half of the war at least) a band. Discharges for physical disability, disease, special assignments (bakers, hospital nurses, or wagoners), court-martial, and battle injuries all combined to ...
During the American Civil War, a department was a geographical command within the Union's military organization, usually reporting directly to the War Department.Many of the Union's departments were named after rivers or other bodies of water, such as the Department of the Potomac and the Department of the Tennessee.
Units later became part of 14th and 15th Batteries Light Artillery Anthon's Battalion of Artillery: Willard's Battalion of Artillery: Uncompleted – became part of 20th and 28th Batteries Light Artillery New York Rocket Battalion: General Barry's Rocket Battalion of Artillery: Units later became part of 23rd and 24th Batteries Light Artillery
3rd Confederate Infantry (Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, and additional Tennessee units) [2] 4th Confederate Infantry (1st Regiment, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi Infantry) 9th Confederate Infantry (5th Confederate Infantry; 5th Confederate Regiment, Tennessee Infantry)
1st (Gunter's) Battalion, Partisan Rangers (Gibson's / 18th Infantry Battalion) 13th Battalion, Partisan Rangers 14th Alabama Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers; Malone's Brigade (Consolidated with the 19th Cavalry Battalion, folded into the 7th, then 9th, Alabama Cavalry, fought under Gen. Wheeler the entire war)