The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.
1st U.S. Cavalry, Companies. BCH&I: Cpt Marcus A. Reno
4th U.S. Cavalry, Companies A and E: Cpt James B. McIntyre
9th New York Infantry, Company G: Cpt Charles Child
8th U.S. Infantry (5 companies): Cpt Royal T. Frank
Volunteer Engineer Brigade: BG Daniel Phineas Woodbury
15th New York Engineer Regiment: Col John M. Murphy
50th New York Engineer Regiment: Ltc William H. Pettes
Battery A, 1st Battalion New York Light: Cpt Otto Diederichs
Battery B, 1st Battalion New York Light: Cpt Adolph Voegelee
Battery C, 1st Battalion New York Light: Lt Bernhard Wever
Battery D, 1st Battalion New York Light: Cpt Charles Kusserow
Battery K, 1st United States: Cpt William M. Graham
32nd Massachusetts Infantry, Company C: Cpt Josiah C. Fuller
Battery B, 1st Connecticut Heavy: Cpt Albert F. Brooker
Battery M, 1st Connecticut Heavy: Cpt Franklin A. Pratt
6th New York Cavalry, Company B: Cpt Hillman A. Hall
6th New York Cavalry, Company C: Cpt William L. Heermance
1st Maine Cavalry, Company L: Cpt Constantine Taylor
10th New York Cavalry, Company L: Lt George Vanderbilt
6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company I: Cpt James Starr
6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company K: Cpt Frederick C. Newhall
National Park Service: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (Fredericksburg Union order of battle: Reserve Grand Division).
Official Records, Series I, Volume XXI, Part 1, pages 935-938.
12th Illinois Cavalry, Company A: Cpt P. E. Fisher
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901: Return of casualties in the Union forces commanded by Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, U. S. Army, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 11-15, 1862.
National Park Service: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (Fredericksburg Union order of battle).
Civil War Home: Fredericksburg Union order of battle
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was the deadliest conflict in American history, killing an estimated 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians. The Confederate States of America, formed by eleven seceding Southern states, faced the Union in four years of warfare across 23 states and territories. Major engagements included First and Second Bull Run, Antietam (the bloodiest single day in American history, September 17, 1862), Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), Vicksburg (surrendered July 4, 1863), and Sherman's March through Georgia and the Carolinas (1864–1865). President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, transforming the war's stated purpose to include the abolition of slavery and enabling the enlistment of approximately 180,000 Black men in the United States Colored Troops. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. The war resolved the question of secession and ended American slavery, though Reconstruction would face sustained resistance in its attempt to secure civil rights for formerly enslaved people.
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