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    Monocacy Union order of battle

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    The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Monocacy of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.

    Abbreviations used[edit]

    Military rank[edit]

    • MG = Major General
    • BG = Brigadier General
    • Col = Colonel
    • Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
    • Maj = Major
    • Cpt = Captain

    Other[edit]

    • w = wounded

    VIII Corps (detachment)[edit]

    MG Lewis Wallace

    Brigade Regiment or other
    First Brigade


       BG Erastus B. Tyler

    • 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade (5 companies): Cpt Charles J. Brown
    • 3rd Maryland Potomac Home Brigade: Col Charles Gilpin
    • 11th Maryland: Col William T. Landstreet
    • 144th Ohio (3 companies): Col Samuel H. Hunt
    • 149th Ohio (7 companies): Col Allison L. Brown
    • Baltimore Artillery (6 guns): Cpt Frederick W. Alexander
    • Howitzer, B&O Railroad Blockhouse: Cpt William H. Wiegel
    Cavalry


       Ltc David R. Clendenin

    • 8th Illinois Cavalry: Ltc David R. Clendenin
    • 159th Ohio Infantry (detachment; mounted): Cpt Edward H. Leib
    • Detachment Mixed Cavalry: Maj Charles H. Wells
    • Loudoun Virginia Rangers

    VI Corps (detachment)[edit]

    Division Brigade Regiments and other

    Third Division
       BG James B. Ricketts

    		First Brigade


       Col William S. Truex (w)
       Col William Emerson

    • 14th New Jersey: Ltc Caldwell K. Hall (w)
    • 106th New York: Cpt Edward M. Paine
    • 151st New York: Col William Emerson
    • 87th Pennsylvania: Ltc James Alonzo Stahle
    • 10th Vermont: Col William Wirt Henry (w)
    Second Brigade


       Col Matthew R. McClennan

    • 9th New York Heavy Artillery: Col William H. Seward Jr. (w)
    • 110th Ohio: Ltc Otto H. Brinkley
    • 122nd Ohio (detachment): Ltc Charles J. Gibson
    • 126th Ohio: Ltc Aaron W. Ebright
    • 138th Pennsylvania: Maj Lewis A. May

    References[edit]

    • Leepson, Marc. Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed the Course of American History (New York: Thomas Dunne Books), 2007. ISBN 0-3123-6364-8
    • Monacacy National Battlefield website
    • Composition and losses of the Union Forces at the Battle of Monocacy. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. United States War Department. Volume XXXVII, Chapter 49, pp. 201–203
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