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The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Opequon in the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. The battle was fought on September 19, 1864 near Winchester, Virginia, and Opequon Creek. The battle is also known as the Third Battle of Winchester and the Battle of Opequon Creek.

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Army of the Shenandoah

MG Philip Sheridan, Commanding

Staff: Maj George Alexander Forsyth

VI Corps

MG Horatio Wright

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


  BG David Allen Russell (k)
  BG Emory Upton (w)
  Col Oliver Edwards

1st Brigade

Ltc Edward L. Campbell

  • 4th New Jersey: Cpt Baldwin Hufty
  • 10th New Jersey: Maj Lambert Boeman
  • 15th New Jersey: Cpt William T. Cornish
2nd Brigade


   BG Emory Upton
   Col Joseph Hamblin

  • 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery: Col Ranald S. Mackenzie
  • 65th New York: Col Joseph Hamblin, Cpt Henry C. Fisk
  • 121st New York: Cpt John D. P. Douw
  • 95th Pennsylvania: Cpt Francis J. Randall
  • 96th Pennsylvania Battalion
3rd Brigade


   Col Oliver Edwards
   Col Isaac C. Bassett

  • 37th Massachusetts: Ltc George L. Montague
  • 49th Pennsylvania: Ltc Baynton J. Hickman
  • 82nd Pennsylvania: Col Isaac C. Bassett
  • 119th Pennsylvania: Ltc Gideon Clark
  • 2nd Rhode Island (battalion): Cpt Elisha Hunt Rhodes
  • 5th Wisconsin (battalion): Maj Charles W. Kempf

Second Division


     BG George W. Getty

1st Brigade


   BG Frank Wheaton

  • 62nd New York: Ltc Theodore B. Hamilton (w)
  • 93rd Pennsylvania: Ltc John S. Long
  • 98th Pennsylvania: Ltc John B. Kohler
  • 102nd Pennsylvania: Maj James H. Coleman
  • 139th Pennsylvania: Maj Robert Munroe
2nd Brigade (a.k.a. First Vermont Brigade)


   Col James M. Warner
   Ltc Amasa S. Tracy
     (supervised part of line)

  • 5th Vermont: Cpt Addison Brown, Jr. (w)
  • 6th Vermont: Cpt Martin W. Davis
  • 11th Vermont/1st Heavy Artillery: Maj Aldace F. Walker
3rd Brigade


   BG Daniel D. Bidwell

  • 1st Maine Veterans: Maj Stephen C. Fletcher
  • 43rd New York: Maj Charles A. Milliken
  • 49th New York (battalion) Ltc Erastus D. Holt
  • 77th New York: Ltc Winsor B. French
  • 122nd New York: Ltc Augustus Wade Dwight(w), Maj Jabez M. Brower
  • 61st Pennsylvania (battalion): Cpt Charles S. Greene (w), Cpt David J. Taylor

Third Division


     BG James Ricketts

1st Brigade


   Col William Emerson

  • 14th New Jersey: Maj Peter Vredenburgh (k), Cpt Jacob J. Janeway
  • 106th New York: Cpt Peter Robinson
  • 151st New York: Ltc Thomas M. Fay
  • 87th Pennsylvania: Col John W. Schall
  • 10th Vermont: Maj Edwin Dillingham (k), Cpt Lucius T. Hunt
2nd Brigade


   Col J. Warren Keifer

  • 6th Maryland: Col John W. Horn (w), Cpt Clifton K. Printiss
  • 9th New York Heavy Artillery: Maj Charles Burgess
  • 110th Ohio: Ltc Otho H. Binkley
  • 122nd Ohio: Col William H. Ball
  • 126th Ohio: Ltc Aaron W. Ebright (k), Cpt George W. Hoge
  • 67th Pennsylvania: Lt John F. Young
  • 138th Pennsylvania: Col Matthew R. McClennan (w), Maj Lewis A. May
Artillery Artillery Brigade


   Col Charles H. Tompkins

  • 5th Maine Light Artillery: Cpt Greenlief T. Stevens
  • 1st Massachusetts Light Artillery, Battery A: Cpt William H. McCartney
  • 1st New York Light Artillery, Battery: Lt William H. Johnson (k), Lt Orsamus R. Van Etten
  • 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery C: Lt Jacob H. Lamb
  • 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery G: Cpt George W. Adams
  • 5th U.S. Artillery, Battery M: Cpt James McKnight

Army of West Virginia

BG George Crook

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     Col Joseph Thoburn

1st Brigade


   Col George D. Wells

  • 34th Massachusetts: Maj Harrison W. Pratt
  • 5th New York Heavy Artillery, 2nd Battalion: Major Caspar Urban
  • 116th Ohio: Ltc Thomas F. Wildes
  • 123rd Ohio: Cpt John W. Chamberlain
3rd Brigade


   Col Thomas M. Harris

  • 23rd Illinois (battalion): Cpt Samuel A. Simison
  • 54th Pennsylvania: Ltc John P. Linton (w)
    Maj Enoch D. Yutzy
  • 10th West Virginia: Maj Henry H. Withers
  • 11th West Virginia: Ltc Van H. Bukey
  • 15th West Virginia: Maj John W. Holliday

Second Division (Kanawha Division)


     Col Isaac H. Duval (w)
     Col Rutherford B. Hayes

1st Brigade


   Col Rutherford B. Hayes
   Col Hiram F. Devol

  • 23rd Ohio: Ltc James M. Comly
  • 36th Ohio: Col Hiram F. Devol, Ltc William H. G. Adrey
  • 5th West Virginia (battalion): Ltc William H. Enochs
  • 13th West Virginia: Col William K. Brown
2nd Brigade


   Col Daniel D. Johnson (w)
   Ltc Benjamin F. Coates

  • 34th Ohio (battalion): Ltc Luther Furney
  • 91st Ohio: Ltc Benjamin F. Coates, Maj Lemuel Z. Cadet
  • 9th West Virginia: Maj Benjamin F. Skinner
  • 14th West Virginia: Ltc George W. Taggart
Artillery Artillery Brigade


   Cpt Henry A. du Pont

  • 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery L: Cpt Frank C. Gibbs
  • 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery D: Lt William Munk
  • 5th U.S. Artillery, Battery B: Cpt Henry A. du Pont

Note: Thoburn's 2nd Brigade was detached to guard wagons and field hospitals.

XIX Corps

BG William H. Emory

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG William Dwight

1st Brigade


   Col George L. Beal

  • 29th Maine: Maj William Knowlton (mw),
    Cpt Alfred L. Turner
  • 30th Massachusetts: Cpt Samuel D. Shipley
  • 114th New York: Col Samuel R. Per Lee (w),
    Maj Oscar H. Curtis
  • 116th New York: Col George M. Love
  • 153rd New York: Col Edwin P. Davis
2nd Brigade


   BG James W. McMillan

Division Artillery
  • New York Light Artillery, 5th Battery: Lt John V. Grant

Second Division


     BG Cuvier Grover

1st Brigade


   BG Henry W. Birge

  • 9th Connecticut: Col Thomas W. Cahill
  • 12th Maine: Ltc Edwin Ilsley
  • 14th Maine: Col Thomas W. Parker
  • 26th Massachusetts: Col Alphon B. Farr
  • 14th New Hampshire: Col Alexander Gardiner (k);
    Cpt Flavel L. Tolman
  • 75th New York: Ltc Willoughby Babcock (k),
    Maj Benjamin F. Thurber
2nd Brigade


   Col Edward L. Molineux

  • 13th Connecticut: Col Charles D. Blinn
  • 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry (dismounted): Ltc Lorenzo D. Sargent
  • 11th Indiana: Col Daniel Macauley
  • 22nd Iowa: Col Harvey Graham
  • 131st New York: Col Nicholas W. Day
  • 159th New York: Ltc William Waltermire
3rd Brigade


   Col Jacob Sharpe (w)
   Ltc Alfred Neafie

  • 38th Massachusetts: Ltc James P. Richardson (w),
    Maj Charles F. Allen
  • 128th New York: Cpt Charles R. Anderson
  • 156th New York: Ltc Alfred Neafie,
    Cpt James J. Hoyt
  • 175th New York (3 companies): Cpt Charles McCarthy
  • 176th New York: Maj Charles Lewis
4th Brigade


   Col David Shunk

  • 8th Indiana: Ltc Alexander J. Kenny
  • 18th Indiana: Ltc William S. Charles
  • 24th Iowa: Ltc John Q. Wilds
  • 28th Iowa: Ltc Bartholomew W. Wilson
Division Artillery
  • Maine Light Artillery, 1st Battery: Cpt Albert W. Bradbury
Artillery Reserve


   Cpt Elijah D. Taft

  • 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery D: Lt Frederick Chase
  • Indiana Light Artillery, 17th Battery: Cpt Milton L. Milner

Cavalry Corps

BG Alfred T. A. Torbert

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division


     BG Wesley Merritt

1st Brigade


   BG George Armstrong Custer

  • 1st Michigan Cavalry: Col Peter Stagg
  • 5th Michigan Cavalry: Maj Smith H. Hastings
  • 6th Michigan Cavalry: Col James H. Kidd
  • 7th Michigan Cavalry: Ltc Melvin Brewer (mw)
  • 25th New York Cavalry: Maj Charles J. Seymour
2nd Brigade


   BG Thomas C. Devin

  • 4th New York Cavalry: Maj August Haurand (w),
    Maj Edward Schwartz
  • 6th New York Cavalry: Maj William E. Beardsley
  • 9th New York Cavalry: Ltc George S. Nichols
  • 19th New York Cavalry (1st Dragoons): Col Alfred Gibbs
  • 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Maj Coe Durland
Reserve Brigade


   Col Charles Russell Lowell

Second Division


     BG William W. Averell

1st Brigade


   Col James M. Schoonmaker

  • 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc Andrew J. Greenfield
  • 8th Ohio Cavalry: Col Alpheus S. Moore
  • 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Cpt Ashbell F. Duncan (mw)
    Cpt William W. Miles
2nd Brigade


   Col William H. Powell

  • 1st New York Cavalry: Maj Timothy Quinn
  • 1st West Virginia Cavalry: Maj Harvey Farabee
  • 2nd West Virginia Cavalry: Ltc John J. Hoffman
  • 3rd West Virginia Cavalry: Maj John S. Witcher
Division Artillery
  • 5th U.S. Artillery, Battery L: Lt Gulian V. Weir

Third Division


     BG James H. Wilson

1st Brigade


   BG John B. McIntosh (w)

  Ltc George A. Purington

  • 1st Connecticut Cavalry: Maj George O. Marcy
  • 3rd New Jersey Cavalry: Maj William P. Robeson, Jr.
  • 2nd New York Cavalry: Cpt Walter C. Hull
  • 5th New York Cavalry: Maj Abram H. Krom
  • 2nd Ohio Cavalry: Ltc George A. Purington,
    Maj A. Bayard Nettleton
  • 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry: Ltc William P. Brinton (c),
    Maj John W. Phillips
2nd Brigade


  BG George H. Chapman (w)
  Col William Wells

  • 3rd Indiana Cavalry (2 companies): Lt Benjamin F. Gilbert
  • 1st New Hampshire Cavalry (battalion): Col John L. Thompson
  • 8th New York Cavalry: Ltc William H. Benjamin
  • 22nd New York Cavalry: Maj Caleb Moore
  • 1st Vermont Cavalry: Col William Wells
Horse Artillery Horse Artillery


   Cpt La Rhett L. Livingston

  • 1st United States, Batteries K and L: Lt Franck E. Taylor
  • 2nd United States, Batteries B and L: Cpt Charles H. Pierce
  • 2nd United States, Battery D: Lt Edward B. Williston
  • 3rd United States, Batteries C and F: Lt William C. Cuyler
  • 4th United States, Battery C: Lt Terrence Reilly


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