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Fifteenth ARMY CORPS.
Major General WILLIAM T. SHERMAN.
FIRST DIVISION.
Major General FREDERICK STEELE.
First Brigade.
(1.)Colonel FRANCIS H. MANTER.
(2.)Colonel BERNARD G. FARRAR. *
13th Illinois Co. Adam B. Gorgas. 27th Missouri, colonel Thomas Curly. 29th Missouri, colonel James Peckham. 30th Missouri, lieutenant Colonel Otto Schadt. 31st Missouri: Colonel Thomas C. Fletcher. Major Frederick Jaensch. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel P. Simpson. 32nd Missouri, major Abraham J. Seay.
SECOND Brigade.
Colonel CHARLES R. WOODS.
25th Iowa, colonel George A. Stone, 31st Iowa: Colonel William Smyth. Major Theodore Stiming. 3rd Missouri, lieutenant Colonel Theodore Meumann. 12th Missouri, colonel Hugo Wangelin. 17th Missouri: Colonel Francis Hassendeubel. Lieutenant Colonel John F. Cramer. 76th Ohio, lieutenant Colonel William B. Woods.
THIRD Brigade.
Brigadier General John M. THAYER.
4th Iowa: Colonel James A. Williamson. Lieutenant Colonel George Burton. 9th Iowa: Major Don. A. Carpenter. Captain Frederick S. Washburn Colonel David Carskaddon. 26th Iowa, colonel Milo Smith. 30th Iowa: Colonel Charles H. Abbott. Colonel William M. G. Torrence.
Artillery. +
Iowa Light, 1st Battery, captain Henry H. Griffiths. 2nd Missouri Light Battery F. Captain Clemens Landgraeber. Ohio Light, 4th Battery, captain Louis Hoffmann.
Cavalry.
Kane Country (Illinois) Independent Company, lieutenant Thomas. J. Beebe. 3rd Illinois, company D, lieutenant Jonathan Kersher.
SECOND DIVISION.
Major General FRANK P. BLAR.
First Brigade.
Colonel GILES A. SMITH.
113th Illinois: Colonel George B. Hoge, lieutenant Colonel John W. Panddock. 116th Illinois, colonel Nathan W. Tupper, 6th Missouri: Lieutenant Colonel Ira Boutell. Colonel James H. Blood. 8th Missouri, lieutenant Colonel David C. Coleman. 13th United States 1st, battalion: Cpt. Edward C. Washington: Captain Charles Ewing. Captain Charles C. Smith.
SECOND Brigade.
Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith.
Brigadier General JOSEPH A. J. Lightburn. #
55th Illinois, colonel Oscar Malmborg. 127th Illinois, colonel Hamilton N. Eldridge. 83rd Indiana, colonel Benjamin J. Spooner. 54th Ohio, lieutenant Colonel Cyrus W. Fisher. 57th Ohio: Colonel Americus V. Rice. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel R. Mott.
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*Assumed command June 13.
+Major Ezra Taylor, chief of the corps artillery.
#Assumed command May 24.
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