Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study

Appendix A: Tables

Appendix A tables This page intentionally left blank Tables 229 Table 1. Army of Northern Virginia Strength, April 20, 1864 Army HQ Provost Guard (principally the 1st Bn. Va. Inf.) 320 Escort, couriers, etc. (& 39th Bn Va. Cav.) 230 Total 550 Second Corps (Ewell) Corps Staff 16 Early’s Division (less Hoke’s Brigade) 4,575 Johnson’s Division 5,450 Rodes’s Division (less 12th Ga. & 43rd N.C. Inf. Rgts.) 7,188 Total 17,229 Third Corps (Hill) Corps Staff 16 Anderson’s Division 6,992 Heth’s Division 7,506 Wilcox’s Division 7,830 Total 22,344 Cavalry Corps (Stuart) Corps Staff 13 Hampton’s Division (two brigades) 3,235 F. Lee’s Division (three brigades) 5,309 Total 8,557 Artillery First Corps (Cabell’s Bn. only) 427 Second Corps (five battalions) 1,690 Third Corps (five battalions & Haskell’s Bn., First Corps) 2,315 Cavalry Corps 422 Total 4,854 Maryland Line (at Hanover Junction) 810 Grand Total 54,344 230 Appendix A Table 2. Army of Northern Virginia Units in East Tennessee Strength, March 31, 1864 First Corps (Longstreet) Corps Staff 17 Kershaw’s Division 4,934 Field’s Division (less Law’s Brigade) 4,224 Law’s Brigade (temp. att’d to Buckner’s Division) 1,270* Artillery (Huger’s Bn.) 459 Total 10,904 *Estimate provided in Thomas L. Livermore, Numbers & Losses in the Civil War in America; 1861–1865 (1900; reprint, Dayton, Ohio, 1986), 111. Tables 231 Table 3. Army of Northern Virginia Strength, June 30, 1864 Army HQ No Report First Corps (Anderson) Corps Staff 17 Pickett’s Division 4,917 Field’s Division 4,797 Kershaw’s Division 4,546 Total 14,277 Second Corps (Early) Absent—Serving in the Shenandoah Valley Third Corps (Hill) Corps Staff 16 Mahone’s Division 5,334 Heth’s Division 5,636 Wilcox’s Division 4,677 Total 15,663 Dept. of N.C. & So. Va. (Beauregard) Dept. Staff 12 Hoke’s Division 5,309 B. Johnson’s Division 6,970 Total 12,291 Cavalry Corps (Hampton) Hampton’s Division No Report, est. ~ 3,100 F. Lee’s Division 1,683 W. H. F. Lee’s Division 2,867 Dearing’s Brigade No Report, est. ~ 1,800 Total 4,550 Artillery First Corps 1,609 Second Corps (one bn., two bns. serving in the Valley) 640 Third Corps 2,223 Dept. of N.C. & So. Va. 1,072 Total 5,544 Grand Total 52,325 (or about 57,225 men, including the unreported cavalry units) 232 Appendix A Table 4. Army of Northern Virginia Strength, May 5, 1864 First Corps Corps Staff 15 Kershaw’s Division 5,180 Field’s Division 6,090 Total 11,285 Second Corps Corps Staff 15 Early’s Division 4,700 Johnson’s Division 5,495 Rodes’s Division (less two rgts. with Beauregard) 7,445 Total 17,655 Third Corps Corps Staff 15 Provost Guard (5th Ala. Bn.) 135 Anderson’s Division 7,140 Heth’s Division 7,460 Wilcox’s Division 7,925 Total 22,675 Artillery First Corps 1,595 Second Corps 1,700 Third Corps 1,910 Total 5,205 Cavalry Corps Corps Staff 20 Hampton’s Division 2,475 F. Lee’s Division 3,450 W. Lee’s Division 2,905 Horse Artillery 470 Total 9,320 Estimated Total Army Strength 66,140 Tables 233 Table 5. Army of Northern Virginia Reinforcements Received during the Campaign First Corps Units Pickett’s Division (rejoined at Milford Station, May 21) 5,370 Total 5,370 Second Corps Units (rejoined parent commands at the end of Spotsylvania) Hoke’s Brigade (under Lewis)—to Ramseur’s Division 1,360 From Rodes’s Division (temporarily serving with Hoke’s Brigade)— 12th Ga. Rgt. (Doles’s Brigade), 43rd N.C. Rgt. (Daniels’s Brigade) 855 Total 2,215 Miscellaneous Units Maryland Line (primarily posted in the rear of the army until joining in late May) 2nd Md. Inf. Bn. (eventually to Walker’s Brigade, Heth’s Division) 285 1st Md. Cav. Rgt. (later went with F. Lee’s Division to the Shenandoah Valley) 375 1st (Dement), 2nd (Griffin), & 4th (Chew) Md. Batteries (eventually to Third Corps & Cavalry Corps) 240 Finegan’s Brigade (joined in late May)—originally 1st, 2nd, 4th, & 6th Fla. Bns. & three indep. cos.; reorganized on June 8 to form 9th, 10th, & 11th Fla. Rgts. (to Anderson’s/Mahone’s Division) 1,270 20th S.C Rgt. (joined late May; to Henegan...