Commanders

South

Stonewall was not present, but he cast a long shadow.

Corps

Division

Brigade

I Corps
Longstreet

McLaws
Pickett
Hood
-

Kershaw, Barksdale, Semmes, Wofford, Cabell
Garnett, Kemper, Armistead, Dearing
Law, Robertson, Anderson, Benning, Henry
Walton

II Corps
Ewell

Early
Johnson
Rodes
-

Hays, Smith, Avery, Gordon, Jones
Steuart, Williams, Walker, Jones, Latimer
Daniels, Iverson, Doles, Ramseur, O'Neal, Carter
Brown

III Corps
A.P. Hill

Anderson
Heth
Pender
-

Wilcox, Wright, Mahone, Lang, Posey, Lane
Pettigrew, Brokenbrough, Archer, Davis, Garnett
Abner, Lane, Thomas, Scales, Poague
Walker

Cavalry

Stuart

Hampton, Robertson, Jones,
Fitz. Lee, Jenkins, W.H.F. Lee,
Beckham
Imboden

Confederate Commanders
Italics indicates an artillery command.

North

The Union Corps Commanders

The I Corps had three commanders in the course of the battle. I suspect the photographers started taking pictures of generals only after Gettysburg. General Reynolds, the I Corps general who died early in the fighting is not among the Library of Congress portraits. Daniel Sickles of the III Corps is shown on the lead page. He was wounded on July 2nd. His successor, General Birney, is also unavailable. Pleasonton led the cavalry. Hunt was on Meade's staff, not in line command, but was in charge of artillery.

Corps	Division	Brigade
I Corps Reynolds Doubleday Newton	Wadsworth Robinson Rowley -	Meredith, Cutler Paul, Baxter Biddle, Stone, Stannard Wainwright
II Corps Hancock Gibbon	Caldwell Gibbon Hays -	Cross, Zook Harrow, Webb, Hall Carroll, Smyth, Willard Hazard
III Corps Sickles Birney	Birney Humphreys -	Grahm, Ward, Trobriand Carr, Brewster, Burling Randolph
V Corps Sykes	Barnes Ayres Crawford -	Tilton, Sweitzer, Vincent Day, Burbank, Weed McCandless, Fisher Martin
VI Corps Sedgwick	Wright Howe Newton -	Torbert, Bartlett, Russell L. Grant, Neill Shaler, Eustis, Wheaton Tompkins
XI Corp (German Corps) Howard Schurz	Barlow Steinwehr Schurz -	Von Gilsa, Ames Coster, Smith Schimmelfennig, Krzyzanowski Osborn
XII Corps Slocum Williams	Williams Geary -	McDougall, Lockwood, Ruger Candy, Cobham, Greene Muhlenberg
Cavalry Corps Pleasonton	Buford D. Gregg Kilpatrick -	Gamble, Devin, Merritt McIntosh, J.I. Gregg Farnsworth, Custer Robertson, Tidball
Artillery Reserve	Tyler Robertson	Ransom, McGilvery, Taft, Huntington, Fitzhugh

Union Commanders
Italics indicates an artillery command.

The Union had slightly more men, but a lot more Corps, Divisions and Brigades. Union reinforcements tended to arrive as new regiments or new brigades, rather than as soldiers to bring old units up to strength. Thus, the veteran organizations become ever smaller as the war progressed. Many of the maps on these pages show Confederate divisions, but Union Corps. The maps are just too small to show all 19 Union infantry divisions clearly. Showing nine southern divisions and seven northern corps offers better clarity.

During the winter of 1863 - 1864, the AoP was reorganized into fewer but larger Corps. Many vetrans of the dissolved Corps that vanished during the reorganization were displeased, but the resulting army was easier to manage. Among the Corps dissolved were the I and III Corps, effective fighting forces on the morning of July 1st 1863, but mere shadows of themselves by July 4th.

The Union has 12 artillery brigades with its infantry, one with each Corps, and five in an army level reserve. The Confederates also had twelve brigades of artillery with their infantry, one with each division, and another in reserve with each Corps.

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