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Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Union Order of Battle
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United States of America Order of Battle
Fort  Donelson

Brigadier General U.S. Grant, Commanding

 

First Division (Brigadier General John A. McClernand

1st Brigade (Oglesby)
   8th, 18th, 29th, 30th, 31st Illinois Infantry
   Battery D, E,  2d Illinois Light Artillery
   Companies A, B, 2d Illinois Cavalry
   Company C, 2d US Cavalry
   Company I, 4th US Cavalry
   Carmichael's Illinois Cavalry
   O'Harnett's Illinois Cavalry
   Stewart's Illinois Cavalry

2d Brigade (W.H.L. Wallace)
   11th, 20th, 45th, 48th
Illinois Infantry
  
Battery B, D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
   4th
Illinois Cavalry

3d Brigade (Morrison passed to W.H.L. Wallace)
    17th, 49th Illinois Infantry

 

 

Second Division (Brigadier General Charles F. Smith)

1st Brigade (McArthur)
   9th, 12th, 41st
Illinois Infantry

3d Brigade (Lauman)
  
25th Indiana Infantry
   2d, 7th, 14th
Iowa Infantry
   Birge's Western Sharpshooters

 

2d Brigade (Cook)
   Batteries D, H, K Missouri Light Artillery
   7th, 50th Illinois Infantry
   12th Iowa Infantry
   13th Missouri Infantry

4th Brigade (M.L. Smith)
  
8th Missouri Infantry
   11th
Indiana Infantry

 

Third Division (Brigadier General L. Wallace)

1st Brigade (Cruft)
   31st, 44th
Indiana Infantry
   17th, 25th
Kentucky Infantry

3d Brigade (Thayer)
   1 st Nebraska Infantry
   58th, 68th, 76th Ohio Infantry

2d Brigade (attached to 3d Brigade)
   46th, 57th, 58th Illinois Infantry

Not Brigaded
   Company A, 32nd
Illinois Infantry
  
Battery A, 1st Illinois (Chicago Light Artillery)

 

US Navy

Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote, USN, Commanding Naval Fleet Fort Donelson

St. Louis (Paulding); Carondelet (Walke); Louisville (Dove); Pittsburg (Thompson); Tyler (Gwinn); Conestoga (Phelps)

Grant at Fort Donelson  

Did You Know?
BG Charles F. Smith, a division commander under BG US Grant during the Battle of Fort Donelson, was Commandant of Cadets during Grants and Buckner’s time at West Point.

Last Updated: July 24, 2006 at 22:37 EST