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Skip to comments.Occasionally Naive and Fearful, Yet Honest and Capable of Repentance (Profile of St. Peter)
Posted on 05/17/2006 7:52:12 PM PDT by ELS
Profile of St. Peter
"Occasionally Naive and Fearful, Yet Honest and Capable of Repentance"
VATICAN CITY, MAY 17, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave at today's general audience, which he dedicated to the spiritual journey of "Peter the fisherman."
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Dear Brothers and Sisters:
In the new series of catecheses we have tried to understand above all what the Church is, what the Lord's idea is about this new family. Then we said that the Church exists in people, and we have seen that the Lord entrusted this new reality, the Church, to the Twelve Apostles. Now we wish to contemplate them one by one, to understand through these persons what it means to live in the Church, to follow Christ. We begin with St. Peter.
After Jesus, Peter is the most known and quoted personality in the New Testament: He is mentioned 154 times with the nickname "Petros," "stone," "rock," which is the Greek translation of the Aramaic name that Jesus gave him directly, "Kefa," witnessed on nine occasions, especially in Paul's letters. Also to be added, moreover, is the name Simon, used frequently (75 times), which is the form adapted to the Greek of his original Hebrew name, Simeon (twice: Acts 15:14; 2 Peter 1:1).
Son of John (cf. John 1:42) or, in the Aramaic form, "bar-Jona," son of Jonas (cf. Matthew 16:17), Simon was from Bethsaida (John 1:44), a town that was located east of the Sea of Galilee, from which Philip also came and, of course, Andrew, Simon's brother. His accent when speaking was Galilean.
Like his brother, he was a fisherman: With the family of Zebedee, father of James and John, he headed a small fishing business on the Lake of Gennesaret (cf. Luke 5:10). For this reason, he must have enjoyed a certain financial ease and was animated by a sincere religiosity that moved him to go with his brother to Judea, to follow the preaching of John the Baptist (John 1:35-42).
He was a faithful Jew, who believed in God's active presence in the history of his people, and was pained at not seeing His powerful action in the events of which he was, at that time, a witness. He was married and his mother-in-law, cured one day by Jesus, lived in the city of Capernaum, in the house where Simon also stayed, when he was in that city (cf. Matthew 8:14ff; Mark 1:29ff; Luke 4:38ff).
Recent archaeological excavations have made it possible to bring out into the light, under the mosaic floor of octagonal shape of a small Byzantine church, the remains of a more ancient church, built in that house, as attested by the graffiti with invocations to Peter. The Gospels tell us that Peter was among the first four disciples of the Nazarene (cf. Luke 5:1-11), to whom was added a fifth in keeping with the custom of the rabbis to have five disciples (cf. Luke 5:27: the calling of Levi). When Jesus went from five to 12 disciples, the novelty of his mission became clear: He was not one of the many rabbis, but had come to gather the eschatological Israel, symbolized by the number 12, the number of the tribes of Israel.
Simon appears in the Gospels with a strong and impulsive character; he is ready to make his opinions felt, even by force (he used the sword in the Garden of Olives, cf. John 18:10ff). At the same time, he is also occasionally naive and fearful, yet honest and capable of sincere repentance (cf. Matthew 26:75). The Gospels allows us to follow his spiritual itinerary step by step.
The starting point was the call by Jesus, which came on a day like any other, while Peter was busy at his work as a fisherman. Jesus was on the Lake of Gennesaret and the crowds surrounded him to hear him. The number of those listening to him created certain difficulties. The Master saw two boats by the lake. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He asked them if he could get into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and he asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down on that improvised chair, and taught the people from the boat (cf. Luke 5:1-3).
Thus, Peter's boat became Jesus' chair. When he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets" (Luke 5:10). Jesus, who was a carpenter, was not a fishing expert and, yet, Simon the fisherman trusted this Rabbi, who gave him no answers but called on him to have faith.
His reaction to the miraculous catch was one of astonishment and trepidation: "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord" (Luke 5:8). Jesus replied inviting him to have confidence and to be open to a project that would surpass all expectations. "Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men" (Luke 5:10). Peter could not yet imagine that one day he would arrive in Rome and would be there a "fisher of men" for the Lord. He accepted this astonishing call to let himself be involved in this great adventure: He was generous; he recognized his limits but believed in the One Who called him and followed his heart. He said yes and became a disciple of Christ.
Peter experienced another significant moment on his spiritual journey near Caesarea Philippi, when Jesus posed a specific question to his disciples: "Who do men say that I am?" (Mark 8:27). For Jesus it was not enough to have a hearsay answer. He wanted the one who had accepted to commit himself personally to him, to take a personal stance. That is why he insisted: "But who do you say that I am?" (Mark 8:29). And it was Peter who replied on behalf of the others: "You are the Christ" (ibid.), that is, the Messiah.
This reply, which "flesh and blood has not revealed" but the Father who is in heaven (cf. Matthew 16:17), has within it the seed of the Church's future profession of faith. However, Peter had not yet understood the profound substance of Jesus' messianic mission, as became clear shortly afterward when he made it known that the Messiah he sought in his dreams was very different from God's plan. Faced with the announcement of the passion, he cried out and protested, arousing Jesus' strong reaction (cf. Mark 8:32-33).
Peter wanted as Messiah a "divine man," who fulfilled people's expectations, imposing his force upon everyone: We also want the Lord to impose his force and transform the world immediately; yet Jesus presented himself as the "human God," who overturned the expectations of the multitude by following the path of humility and suffering. It is the great alternative, which we also must learn again: to favor our own expectations rejecting Jesus or to accept Jesus in the truth of his mission and lay aside all too human expectations.
Peter, who is impulsive, does not hesitate to take him to one side and reprehend him. Jesus' response demolishes all false expectations, calling him to conversion and to follow him: "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not on the side of God but of men" (Mark 8:33). Do not show me the way, I follow my way and you follow me.
Peter thus learned what following Jesus really means. It is the second call, as Abraham's in Genesis, Chapter 22, after that of Genesis, Chapter 12. "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever loses his life for my sake and the Gospel's will save it" (Mark 8:34-35). It is the exacting law to follow him: It is necessary to be able to deny oneself, if necessary, the whole world to save the true values, to save the soul, to save the presence of God in the world (cf. Mark 8:36-37). And though with difficulty, Peter accepted the invitation and continued his path in the footsteps of the Master.
I think that these different conversions of St. Peter and his whole figure are a motive of great consolation and a great teaching for us. We also desire God, we also want to be generous, but we also expect God to be strong in the world and that he transform the world immediately, according to our ideas and the needs we see.
God opts for another way. God chooses the way of the transformation of hearts in suffering and humility. And we, like Peter, must always be converted again. We must follow Jesus and not precede him. He shows us the way. Peter tells us: You think you have the recipe and that you have to transform Christianity, but the Lord is the one who knows the way. It is the Lord who says to me, who says to you, "Follow me!" And we must have the courage and humility to follow Jesus, as he is the way, the truth and the life.
[Translation by ZENIT]
[At the end of the audience, the Pope read the following summary in English:]
In our weekly catecheses, we have been considering the apostolic ministry as a form of service to the Church's communion in faith and in the living tradition that comes from the apostles. Today we begin to look at the individual apostles as they are portrayed in the New Testament, beginning with St. Peter.
A fisherman from Galilee, married, the brother of Andrew, Peter was chosen by the Lord as one of his first disciples. His strong, impulsive and openhearted character, and his deep religiosity are evident in the account of his calling.
Having fished all night and caught nothing, Peter trusted fully in Jesus' word, and, after witnessing the miraculous haul of fishes, accepted his call to follow him as a fisher of men (cf. Luke 5:10). At Caesarea Philippi, Peter speaks for the other disciples in acknowledging Jesus as the Messiah (Mark 8:29), but he is scandalized when the Lord reveals that his mission will include suffering, rejection and death.
Peter must painfully learn the meaning of conversion and true discipleship, following in the footsteps of the Master by embracing the mystery of the cross.
[The Pope then greeted pilgrims in several languages. In English, he said:]
I greet all the English-speaking visitors, especially those from England, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Canada and the United States of America. Upon all of you I invoke an abundance of joy and peace in the Risen Lord. May your stay in Rome be a happy one, filled with grace and blessings!
© Copyright 2006 - Libreria Editrice Vaticana [adapted]
VATICAN CITY, MAY 17, 2006 (VIS) - During today's general audience, held in St. Peter's Square, the Pope addressed some words to Polish pilgrims, expressing joy over his forthcoming visit to that country, due to begin in 8 days' time.
"This visit," he said "will take place under the motto 'remain strong in the faith.' Even from today I ask you, and all the Church in Poland, to pray so that in those days, with the help of God' grace, we can strengthen one another in our testimony of the faith. May Servant of God John Paul II accompany us!"
The Holy Father also greeted a group of faithful from Estonia, especially the choir of the cathedral of Maribor, to whom he said: "In your pilgrimage recalling the tenth anniversary of my predecessor's visit, may the example of his life make you strong in faithfulness to Christ and to the Church."
Finally, addressing young people and the sick, he called on them "to intensify the devout practice of praying the Rosary, especially in this month of May, dedicated to the Mother of God," entrusting to her "all your needs." He also called on recently married couples to "make the praying of the Rosary in the family a moment of spiritual growth under the maternal gaze of the Virgin Mary."
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My oldest daughter is being confirmed on Sunday, and she's taking "Peter" for her name. She's an unusual girl ...
Peter? Not Petra?
Thanks for the Papa Ping.
Thank you very much, ELS, I'll be back before I go to bed.
A lot of priests (used to) take the name Mary.
Saint Peter,
how often I have felt sorry for you,
for how, conflicted with fear,
you denied Him
even why you tried to stay near.
But Saint Peter,
how often have I denied him, too,
by my life choices,
by when I turned my back,
by choosing wrong,
by choosing to forget.
Let my tears of remorse
join yours of that night,
how reality pierces the bubble
of how strong and certain
we dream we are,
but in reality,
how weak we are without Him.
Saint Peter,
pray for me,
that like you,
I too may see
the risen Christ.
Thank you, O. That reminder of "follow me" brings me right back to John Paul the Great's extraordinary funeral .. that whole segment by then Cardinal Ratzinger made me so weepy, it was so touching.
Me too. I wish I would have had TIVO last April.
This photo disturbs me some. Chavez is an avowed Communist, no? Atheist? I hope it is because of my blind ignorance, but anyone know what Chavez's objective was in having a private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI?
Peter. "Petra" is (or was) a Christian heavy metal band.
Good point! I'll remind her of that, so she can explain to anyone who asks about the name.
"I hope it is because of my blind ignorance, but anyone know what Chavez's objective was in having a private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI?"
He wanted a photo op to show on all the media that he controls, but it won't work. The Church is the only critic he can't silence. Cardinal Castillo is one of hte good cardinals and has been Chavez's most outspoken adversary. Castillo won't be intimidated. Wish we had some cardinals like him.
(Mine took the name of St. Martin of Tours.)
One of the most famous . . .
St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney, patron of parish priests.
St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe came to mind, too.
Your daughter clearly has a strong mind!
St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney, ora pro nobis!
Did your daughter take the name "Martin" or "Martine" or "Martina," perhaps?
Sounds like it's right from the Castro playbook.
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U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Friday set a Nov. 25 trial date, which was only two weeks after the airlines' requested trial date. The case will be a bench trial, not a jury trial, at the courthouse in Washington.
The Justice Department had asked for a March trial date for the antitrust case it filed in mid-August. But attorneys for US Air and American had said such a delay would threaten the deal itself because they could not wait that long to know if they could go ahead with the combination.
"Two independent companies can be asked to stay in limbo for only so long before they need to make independent plans," said the airline in a filing on Wednesday.
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Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said "We appreciate the court's careful consideration of the scheduling issues and will be ready to present our case on Nov. 25, 2013."
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Michael J. Fox Is Feelin' Alright After 20+ Years With Parkinson's
The actor, 51, gets by — even thrives — with a little luck, a lot of love and lots of laughs
En español | Technically, Michael J. Fox is not supposed to be enjoying himself as much as he is these days. When the actor was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease at age 30 after noticing a twitch in his left pinkie, his doctors told him he had 10 more years to work, tops. That was 21 years ago. "The implication was that I was going to be in an invalid state," Fox says.
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Without question, the actor's illness has advanced. During a long, candid conversation in his New York City office about his health, career, family and philanthropic efforts, Fox's body never stops moving. His right knee swings, his hands tremble, his shoulders seesaw up and down.
"It's like your gyroscope is off," he says when asked what Parkinson's feels like. "I can be shaky. I can be slow. I can wake up with festination" — an involuntary shuffling of the feet — "and I'll say, 'This is going to be a struggle today.' " At one point, Fox, 51, calls out to his assistant to bring him an amantadine pill, which helps quiet the Parkinson's-related movement disorder known as dyskinesia. "I feel that kind of sideways feeling coming on," he says. But his resolve is steady.
"There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love," he says. "My happiness grows in direct proportion [to] my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations." Though Parkinson's has weakened his voice, Fox's face looks mostly unchanged since he appeared on TV's Spin City and in his Back to the Future movies. "That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing — not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' — then I have all this freedom to do other things."
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For Fox, acceptance translates into a positive outlook. Where others would see devastating physical and emotional consequences, he counts his blessings. It took him years to get there, but at times all he can do now is laugh.
"Even when his symptoms are most acute, it drives him crazy to be pitied," says actor Denis Leary, Fox's longtime friend, Rescue Me costar and sports buddy. "I've walked down the hall with him and he's herky-jerky and he'll go, 'Watch out, Denis, you might get an elbow in the face.' "
Indeed, Fox has a whole dark-humor repertoire. As he jokes, who needs an electric toothbrush when you have a vibrating hand? As for shaving with a blade, "I'm not suicidal," Fox cracks. His golf game — yes, Fox still plays — suffers more from comic indignity than anything else. "People say, 'Stay still over the ball.' I'm, like, 'Yeah, screw you.' " Even a box of cereal comes with a punch line. "When I start pouring, I don't know what's going to happen," he says. "The next thing I know, I'm spraying All-Bran all over the kitchen."
Fox's new NBC comedy series, coming this fall, in which he'll play a New York anchorman, husband and father of three whose family and career are shaken up by Parkinson's, is loosely based on the lighter side of life with the disease. That's not to suggest that PD is one big thigh-slapper.
Fox and his wife of 24 years, actress Tracy Pollan, 52, and their four children — Sam, 23, twins Aquinnah and Schuyler, 18, and Esmé, 11 — face daily challenges. Family outings need to be timed to Fox's medication schedule.
"Sometimes the kids will need their dad's help and he'll say, 'I'm not feeling great right now,'" says Pollan, who admits she's more of a worrier than her husband is. "But on the flip side, the first thing he does is go back to the kids when he's feeling good. It teaches them patience and empathy."
Scattered about Fox's office are mementos of a life well lived: a photo of the actor playing guitar at a fundraiser with The Who. Fox on the ice with hockey legend Bobby Orr. Winged statuettes honoring every aspect of his work. Each item brings out a boyish exuberance, as if Fox still can't believe his own luck.
"Tracy and I were talking the other day about all the people we know who since my diagnosis have died of cancer or had terrible things happen to them," he explains. "If you would have told them 10 years ago you can have that or you can have what I have, they would have taken what I have. That's only to say we all get our own bag of hammers."
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Michael Andrew Fox — the "J" came years later; he thought it sounded cooler — was born in Edmonton, Alberta, on June 9, 1961. His father, Bill, once worked as a jockey and was a sergeant in the Canadian Army; his mother, Phyllis, was a payroll clerk.
Mike, as he's known to friends and family, was the fourth of five children. Fox was too small to live out his dream of becoming a competitive ice hockey player. He turned to acting, and at 16 earned a part in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sitcom called Leo and Me, playing a 12-year-old. Two years later, he quit high school and drove to Los Angeles with his dad, where he was cast in the Alex Haley-Norman Lear series Palmerstown, U.S.A. before landing the star-making role of Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties in 1982.
"I negotiated the deal from a phone booth outside of Pioneer Chicken, wishing I had $1.99 for a wing-and-biscuit combo," Fox remembers.
Family Ties, about the clash of values of liberal, former-hippie parents and their conservative offspring, arrived after America's cultural consciousness had shifted from Haight-Ashbury to Wall Street, and the show ran for seven seasons. President Ronald Reagan called it his favorite TV program, and Fox, who won three Emmy Awards for his role, parlayed his success into a hit movie career, with popcorn classics likeTeen Wolf and the Back to the Future trilogy. A slide into drinking, carousing and overspending followed.
"By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari," he says. "It was nuts. I never stopped to figure that out." In 1986 he met Pollan, a nice girl from Long Island and the sister of The Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan, when she guest-starred as his girlfriend on Family Ties. They married in 1988. With Tracy's insistence and encouragement, Fox quit drinking in 1992, which prompted a new outlook on his success.
"You're not just a lottery winner," says Fox. "You have to respect the work you do and the work others do and how you got there."
Back To The Future
These days, even with a condition known for making patients fitful, Fox sleeps well and wakes around 8 a.m. He walks his dog, Gus ("or he walks me," Fox concedes, eyeing the gargantuan Great Dane at his feet), then sees the kids off to school.
The actor, who receives treatment available to all Parkinson's patients despite having financial resources others don't, has responded extremely well to medication and has no need for physical therapy — unusual for someone diagnosed so long ago. Even his daily pill intake (a full-time preoccupation for most PD sufferers) is "not that many relative to most people," Fox says. As with so many mysteries with Parkinson's, scientists do not know why some patients react better than others to treatment.
"I'm always aware that there are others who don't feel so good and can't express themselves the way I can," Fox says. "That's no small factor in the way I've been able to deal with this."
Fox and his family reside seven floors above his Manhattan office in a prewar apartment overlooking Central Park. It's a spacious nest that's about to get noticeably more so. The twins depart for college in the fall, leaving only Esmé at home. The upside is that Fox and Pollan get more time together. In the initial stages of Parkinson's, Fox hid his diagnosis out of fear that it would diminish his offers for work, and he kept Pollan at a distance, too.
"Tracy wanted to get in there and help me with it, but I resisted," he says. In the end, the disease has brought them closer. As Fox puts it, "The more problems you solve together and the more experiences and laughs you have, the tighter you get."
For his 50th birthday, in 2011, Pollan put together a yearbook for Fox, who never graduated from high school. He says, "She had all these people sign it, from Tony Bennett to Bruce Springsteen to my sixth-grade teacher to friends of mine from home." Fox is clearly moved talking about Pollan's support. "Yeah," he says, "my wife is great to me."
Parkinson's is an idiopathic disease, meaning researchers do not know what causes dopamine-producing brain cells to degenerate and trigger symptoms like trembling, slowness and rigidity. Fox's case is unusual in that the average age of onset is late 50s. Genetics and environmental factors, like exposure to pesticides and metals, can play a role, although the connection is unclear.
Says Fox, "When I was younger I fished in rivers that had pulp and paper mills on them, but you never know."
A Champion For His Cause
The actor sometimes jokes that Parkinson's disease is the gift that keeps on taking. In reality, Fox's illness has helped him give to others.
Since 2000, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has sought to understand the condition and improve treatment options for the estimated 1 million people in the U.S. who are living with Parkinson's. The foundation has funded nearly $325 million in research, and supported hundreds of scientists in more than 20 countries and 60 clinical studies. At the moment, all eyes are on a promising surgical therapy involving a specialized brain protein called neurturin, which may slow or stop Parkinson's symptoms rather than temporarily mask them. In testing, neurturin has been found to help rejuvenate neurons damaged by Parkinson's, and restore function.
(In 1998, Fox underwent a procedure called a thalamotomy, which destroys an area in the brain that controls some involuntary movements. It temporarily eased symptoms on his left side, but he began experiencing tremors on his right side and has vowed not to have surgery again until a more definitive solution is found.)
"The attention Michael has brought to Parkinson's research has sparked a complete revolution," says the foundation's chief executive officer, Todd Sherer. "Pharmaceutical companies are more focused than ever on finding treatments quickly, and curing PD is job one for some of the best minds in neuroscience."
Fox has testified before Congress and backed efforts to double the National Institutes of Health's research budget while advocating for speedier drug development. "The last thing this is for Michael is a vanity project," says Deborah W. Brooks, the foundation's cofounder and executive vice chairman. "His attitude has always been, 'Let's do this right. People are counting on us.' "
Fox's current push is the Fox Trial Finder, an online resource that connects patients with clinical trials in their area. Fewer than 10 percent of Parkinson's patients enroll in clinical trials, partly because of the mobility issues, depression and apathy that frequently come with PD. "The more people get involved in trials," Fox says, "the quicker our work carries on, and accelerates research down the pathway to the bedside."
Back To TV
Perhaps the surest sign of progress for Fox is that he's going back to work. Even without a pilot episode of his new sitcom, NBC said yes to a 22-show run, a confidence vote critics say is reserved for roughly two people in television: Fox and Bill Cosby.
"As his friend, I was a little concerned when Mike announced he was doing a network show and wondered whether he was up for all the work," says Denis Leary. "But then you talk to him and hear his enthusiasm and you think, 'This man is still unstoppable.' " It's a common sentiment.
Fox got rave reactions guest-starring in recent years on the TV series The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. In both, Parkinson's was written into the role. "It's too difficult to hide it," he says. "I could manage it for a scene or so, but it would fall apart over time. As long as I play a guy with Parkinson's, I can do anything."
Fox knows returning to TV might be tiring, so he has arranged for "a few trapdoors," like built-in days off when he's not in a scene. He's also looking ahead to new adventures: Visiting the Egyptian pyramids is on his bucket list. He wants his kids to be happy and to see them accomplish something meaningful. Above all, he's trying not to take himself — or his condition — too seriously. Take clapping, for instance.
"If I'm at events and I'm clapping," he says with a smile, "my mind will say, 'Stop clapping,' but I just keep going. Tracy says, 'You're always the last one clapping.' I swear, it's not out of appreciation — it's out of disintegration. You have to laugh at that."
Back To The Future
These days, even with a condition known for making patients fitful, Fox sleeps well and wakes around 8 a.m. He walks his dog, Gus ("or he walks me," Fox concedes, eyeing the gargantuan Great Dane at his feet), then sees the kids off to school.
The actor, who receives treatment available to all Parkinson's patients despite having financial resources others don't, has responded extremely well to medication and has no need for physical therapy — unusual for someone diagnosed so long ago. Even his daily pill intake (a full-time preoccupation for most PD sufferers) is "not that many relative to most people," Fox says. As with so many mysteries with Parkinson's, scientists do not know why some patients react better than others to treatment.
"I'm always aware that there are others who don't feel so good and can't express themselves the way I can," Fox says. "That's no small factor in the way I've been able to deal with this."
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Organization of the Union Field Forces
Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Commanding
7th Company Ohio Sharpshooters, Lieut. William McCrory.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM F. BARRY, Chief of Artillery.
Maj. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS.
Company I, 1st Ohio Cavalry, Lieut. Henry C. Reppert.
Brig. Gen. JOHN M. BRANNAN, Chief of Artillery.
Maj. Gen. OLIVER O. HOWARD.
Maj. Gen. DAVID S. STANLEY.
Maj. Gen. DAVID S. STANLEY.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM GROSE.
Brig. Gen. NATHAN KIMBALL.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES CRUFT.
Col. ISAAC M. KIRBY.
21st Illinois:
Maj. James E. Calloway.
Capt. William H. Jamison.
38th Illinois, Lieut. Col. William T. Chapman.
31st Indiana, Col. John T. Smith.
81st Indiana, Lieut. Col. William C. Wheeler.
1st Kentucky, Col. David A. Enyart.
2d Kentucky, Lieut. Col. John R. Hurd.
90th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Samuel N. Yeoman.
101st Ohio:
Col. Isaac M. Kirby.
Lieut. Col. Bedan B. McDanald.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. WALTER C. WHITAKER.
Col. JACOB E. TAYLOR.
59th Illinois, Col. P. Sidney Post.
96th Illinois:
Col. Thomas E. Champion.
Maj. George Hicks.
115th Illinois, Col. Jesse H. Moore.
35th Indiana:
Maj. John P. Dufficy.
Capt. James A. Gavisk.
Lieut. Col. Augustus G. Tassin.
84th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Andrew J. Neff.
Capt. John C. Taylor.
21st Kentucky:
Col. Samuel W. Price.
Lieut. Col. James C. Evans.
23d Kentucky, Lieut. Col. George W.Northup.
40th Ohio:
Col. Jacob E. Taylor.
Capt. Charles G. Matchett.
Capt. Milton Kemper.
45th Ohio, Capt. John H. Humphrey.
51st Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Charles H. Wood.
Col. Richard W. McClain.
99th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. John E. Cummins.
Capt. James A. Bope.
Lieut. Col. John E. Cummins.
Third Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM GROSE.
Col. P. SIDNEY POST.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM GROSE.
Col. JOHN E. BENNETT.
59th Illinois:
Col. P. Sidney Post. Lieut.
Col. Clayton Hale.
Col. P. Sidney Post.
75th Illinois:
Col. John E. Bennett.
Lieut. Col. William M. Kilgour.
80th Illinois:
Lieut. Col. William M. Kilgour.
Maj. James M. Stookey.
84th Illinois, Col. Louis H. Waters.
9th Indiana, Col. Isaac C. B. Suman.
30th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Orrin D. Hurd.
Capt. William Dawson.
Lieut. Col. Orrin D. Hurd.
36th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Oliver H. P. Carey.
84th Indiana:
Capt. John C. Taylor.
Capt. Martin B. Miller.
77th Pennsylvania:
Capt. Joseph J. Lawson.
Col. Thomas E. Rose.
Capt. PETER SIMONSON.
Capt. SAMUEL M. McDOWELL.
Capt. THEODORE S. THOMASSON.
Indiana Light. 5th Battery,Capt. Alfred Morrison.
Pennsylvania Light, Battery B:
Capt. Samuel M. McDowell.
Capt. Jacob Ziegler.
Brig. Gen. JOHN NEWTON.
First Brigade.
Col. FRANCIS T. SHERMAN.
Brig. Gen. NATHAN KIMBALL.
Col. EMERSON OPDYCKE.
36th Illinois:
Col. Silas Miller.
Capt. James B. McNeal.
Lieut. Col. Porter C. Olson.
44th Illinois:
Col. Wallace W. Barrett.
Lieut. Col. John Russell.
Maj. Luther M. Sabin. Lieut.
Col. John Russell.
73d Illinois, Maj. Thomas W. Motherspaw.
74th Illinois:
Col. Jason Marsh.
Lieut. Col. James B. Kerr.
Capt. Thomas J. Bryan.
88th Illinois:
Lieut. Col. George W. Chandler.
Lieut. Col. George W. Smith.
28th Kentucky, Lieut. Col. J. Rowan Boone.
2d Missouri:
Lieut. Col. Arnold Beck.
Col. Bernard Laiboldt.
15th Missouri,
Col. Joseph Conrad.
24th Wisconsin:
Lieut. Col. Theodore S. West.
Maj. Arthur MacArthur, jr.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. GEORGE D. WAGNER.
Col. JOHN W. BLAKE.
100th Illinois:
Maj. Charles M. Hammond.
Col. Frederick A. Bartleson.
Maj. Charles M. Hammond.
40th Indiana:
Col. John W. Blake.
Lieut. Col. Henry Learning.
Col. John W. Blake.
Lieut. Col. Henry Leaming.
57th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. George W. Lennard.
Lieut. Col. Willis Blanch.
28th Kentucky:
Lieut. Col. J. Rowan Boone.
Maj. George W. Barth.
26th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. William H. Squires.
Maj. Norris T. Peatman.
Capt. Lewis D. Adair.
Lieut. Col. William H. Squires.
Maj. Norris T. Peatman.
97th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Milton Barnes.
Col. John Q. Lane.
Third Brigade.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES G. HARKER.
Brig. Gen. LUTHER P. BRADLEY.
22d Illinois, Lieut. Col. Francis Swanwick.
27th Illinois,v Lieut. Col. William A.Schmitt.
42d Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Edgar D. Swain.
Capt. Jared W. Richards.
Maj, Frederick A. Atwater.
51st Illinois:
Col. Luther P. Bradley.
Capt. Theodore F. Brown.
Col Luther P. Bradley.
Capt. Albert M. Tilton.
79th Illinois:
Col. Allen Buckner.
Lieut. Col. Henry E. Rives.
Maj. Terrence Clark.
Capt. Oliver O. Bagley.
Lieut. Col. Terrence Clark.
3d Kentucky:
Col. Henry C. Dunlap.
Capt. John W. Tuttle.
Col Henry C. Dunlap.
64th Ohio:
Col. Alexander McIlvain.
Lieut. Col. Robert C. Brown.
Maj. Samuel L. Coulter.
Lieut. Co1. Robert C. Brown.
65th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Horatio N. Whirbeck.
Capt. Charles O. Tannehill.
Maj. Orlow Smith.
125th Ohio:
Col. Emerson Opdycke.
Lieut. Col. David H. Moore.
Capt. CHARLES C. ALESHIRE.
Capt. WILBUR F. GOODSPEED.
1st Illinois Light, Battery M, Capt. George W. Spencer.
1st Ohio Light, Battery A,
Capt. Wilbur F. Goodspeed.
Lieut. Charles W. Scovill.
Brig. Gen. THOMAS J. WOOD.
Col. P. SIDNEY POST.
Brig. Gen. THOMAS J. WOOD.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. AUGUST WILLICH.(h)
Col. WILLIAM H. GIBSON.
Col. RICHARD H. NODINE.
Col. WILLIAM H. GIBSON.(i)
Co1. CHARLES T. HOTCHKISS.
25th Illinois, Col. Richard H. Nodine.
35th Illinois, Lieut. Col. William P. Chandler.
89th Illinois:
Col. Charles T. Hotchkiss.
Lieut. Col. William D. Williams.
Col. Charles T. Hotchkiss.
Lieut. Col. William D. Williams.
32d Indiana. Col. Frank Erdelmeyer.
8th Kansas:
Col. John A. Martin.
Lieut. Col. James M. Graham.
15th Ohio:
Col. William Wallace.
Lieut. Col. Frank Askew.
Col. William Wallace.
Col. Frank Askew.
49th Ohio:
Col. William H. Gibson.
Lieut. Col. Samuel F. Gray.
15th Wisconsin:
Maj. George Wilson.
Lieut. Col. Ole C. Johnson.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM B. HAZEN.
Col. OLIVER H. PAYNE.
Col. P. SIDNEY POST.
59th Illinois, Capt. Samuel West.
6th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Calvin D. Campbell.
5th Kentucky, Col. William W. Berry.
6th Kentucky:
Maj. Richard T. Whitaker.
Capt. Isaac N. Johnston.
23d Kentucky:
Lieut. Col. James C. Foy.
Maj. George W. Northup.
1st Ohio, Maj. Joab A. Stafford.
6th Ohio, Col. Nicholas L. Anderson.
41st Ohio, Lieut. Col. Robert L. Kimberly.
71st Ohio, Col. Henry K. McConnell.
93d Ohio, Lieut. Col. Daniel Bowman.
124th Ohio:
Col. Oliver H. Payne.
Lieut. Col. James Pickands.
Col. Oliver H. Payne.
Third Brigade.
Brig. Gen. SAMUEL BEATTY.
Col. FREDERICK KNEFLER.
79th Indiana:
Col. Frederick Knefler.
Lieut. Col. Samuel P. Oyler.
Maj. George W. Parker.
Capt. John G. Dunbar.
Capt. Eli F. Ritter.
86th Indiana, Col. George F. Dick.
9th Kentucky:Lieut.
Col. Chesley D. Bailey.
Col. George H. Cram.
17th Kentucky, Col. Alexander M. Stout.
13th Ohio:
Col. Dwight Jarvis, jr.
Maj. Joseph T. Snider.
19th Ohio:
Col. Charles F. Manderson.
Lieut. Col. Henry G. Stratton.
59th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Granville A. Frambes.
Capt. Charles A. Sheafe.
Capt. John L. Watson. Capt. Robert H. Higgins.
Capt. CULLEN BRADLEY.
Illinois Light, Bridges' Battery:
Capt. Lyman Bridges.
Lieut. Morris D. Temple.
Lieut. Lyman A. White.
Ohio Light, 6th Battery:
Lieut. Oliver H. P. Ayres.
Lieut Lorenzo D. Immell.
Lieut. Oliver H. P. Ayres.
Lieut. Lorenzo D. Immell.
Maj. THOMAS W. OSBORN.
Capt. LYMAN BRIDGES.
1st Illinois Light, Battery M, Capt. George W. Spencer.
Illinois Light, Bridges' Battery, Lieut. Lyman A. White.
Indiana Light, 5th Battery:
Capt. Alfred Morrison.
Lieut. George H. Briggs.
1st Ohio Light, Battery A, Capt. Wilbur F. Goodspeed.
1st Ohio Light, Battery M, Capt. Frederick Schultz.
Ohio Light, 6th Battery:
Lieut. Lorenzo D. Immell.
Capt. Cullen Bradley.
Pennsylvania Light, Battery B, Capt. Jacob Ziegler.
Maj. Gen. JOHN M. PALMER.
Brig. Gen. RICHARD W. JOHNSON.(p)
Bvt. Maj. Gen. JEFFERSON C. DAVIS. (q)
Brig. Gen. RICHARD W. JOHNSON.(r)
Brig. Gen. JOHN H. KING.
Brig. Gen. RICHARD W. JOHNSON.
Brig. Gen. JOHN H. KING.
Brig. Gen. RICHARD W. JOHNSON.
Brig. Gen. JOHN H. KING.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM P. CARLIN.
Provost Guard.
16th United States, Company D, 1st Battalion, Capt. Charles F. Trowbridge.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM P. CARLIN.
Col. ANSON G. McCOOK.
Col. MARION C. TAYLOR.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM P. CARLIN.
Col. MARION C. TAYLOR.
104th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Douglas Hapeman.
42d Indiana:
Lieut. Col. William T. B. McIntire.
Capt. James H. Masters.
Capt. Gideon R. Kellams.
Lieut. Col. William T. B. McIntire.
88th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Cyrus E. Briant.
15th Kentucky:
Col. Marion C. Taylor.
Lieut. Col. William G. Halpin.
2d Ohio:
Col. Anson G. McCook.
Capt. James F. Sarratt.
33d Ohio:
Lieut. Col. James H. M. Montgomery.
Capt. Thaddeus A. Minshall.
94th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Rue P. Hutchins.
10th Wisconsin Capt. Jacob W. Roby.
21st Wisconsin:
Lieut. Col. Harrison C. Hobart.
Maj. Michael H. Fitch.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JOHN H. KING.
Col. WILLIAM L. STOUGHTON.
Brig. Gen. JOHN H. KING.
Col. WILLIAM L. STOUGHTON.(g)
Col. MARSHALL F. MOORE.
Brig. Gen. JOHN H. KING.
Maj. JOHN R. EDIE.
11th Michigan:
Col. William L. Stoughton.
Capt. Patrick H. Keegan.
Col. William L. Stoughton.
Capt. Patrick H. Keegan.
Lieut. Col. Melvin Mudge.
Capt. Patrick H. Keegan.
69th Ohio:
Col. Marshall F. Moore.
Lieut. Col. Joseph H. Brigham.
Capt. Lewis E. Hicks.
15th United States (nine companies First and Third Battalions):
Maj. Albert Tracy.
Capt. Albert B. Dod.
Capt. James Curtis.
Capt. Horace Jewett.
15th United States (six companies Second Battalion):
Maj. John R. Edie.
Capt. William S. McManus.
16th United States (four companies First Battalion):
Capt. Alexander H. Stanton.
Capt. Ebenezer Gay.
16th United States (four companies Second Battalion), Capt. Robert P. Barry.
18th United States (eight companies First and Third Battalions):
Capt. George W. Smith.
Capt. Lyman M. Kellogg.
Capt. Robert B. Hull.
18th United States (Second Battalion), Capt. William J. Fetterman.
19th United States (First Battalion and A, Second Battalion):
Capt. James Mooney.
Capt. Lewis Wilson.
Capt. Egbert Phelps.
Capt. James Mooney.
Third Brigade.
Col. BENJAMIN F. SCRIBNER.
Col. JOSIAH GIVEN.
Col. MARSHALL F. MOORE.
37th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. William D. Ward.
Maj. Thomas V. Kimble.
Lieut. Col. William D. Ward.
38th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Daniel F. Griffin.
21st Ohio:
Col. James M. Neibling.
Lieut. Col. Arnold McMahan.
74 th Ohio:
Col. Josiah Given.
Maj. Joseph Fisher.
Col. Josiah Given.
78th Pennsylvania, Col. William Sirwell.
79th Pennsylvania:
Col. Henry A. Hambright.
Maj. Michael H. Locher.
Capt. John S. McBride.
Maj. Michael H.Locher.
1st Wisconsin, Lieut. Col. George B. Bingham.
Capt. LUCIUS H. DRURY.
1st Illinois Light, Battery C, Capt. Mark H. Prescott.
1st Ohio Light, Battery I, Capt. Hubert Dilger.
Brig. Gen. JEFFERSON C. DAVIS.
Brig. Gen. JAMES D. MORGAN.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JAMES D. MORGAN.
Col. ROBERT F. SMITH.
Brig. Gen. JAMES D. MORGAN.
Col. CHARLES M. LUM.
10th Illinois. Col. John Tillson.
16th Illinois:
Col. Robert F. Smith.
Lieut. Col. James B. Cahill.
Col. Robert F. Smith.
Lieut. Col. James B. Cahill.
Col. Robert F. Smith.
Lieut. Col. James B. Cahill.
60th Illinois, Col. William B. Anderson.
10th Michigan:
Col. Charles M. Lure.
Maj. Henry S. Burnett.
Capt. William H. Dunphy.
14th Michigan, Col. Henry R. Mizner.
17th New York:
Col. William T. C. Grower.
Maj. Joel O. Martin.
Second Brigade.
Col. JOHN G. MITCHELL.
34th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Oscar Van Tassell.
78th Illinois:
Col. Carter Van Vleck.
Lieut. Col. Maris R. Vernon.
98th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. John S. Pearce.
Capt. John A. Norris.
Capt. David E. Roatch.
Lieut. Col. John S. Pearce.
108th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Joseph Good.
Col. George T. Limberg.
Lieut. Col. Joseph Good.
113th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Darius B. Warner.
Maj. Lyne S. Sullivant.
Capt. Toland Jones.
121st Ohio,Col. Henry B. Banning.
Third Brigade.
Col. DANIEL McCOOK.(r)
Col. OSCAR F. HARMON.(r)
Col. CALEB J. DILWORTH. (s)
Lieut. Col. JAMES W. LANGLEY.
85th Illinois:
Col. Caleb J. Dilworth.
Maj. Robert G. Rider.
Capt. James R. Griffith.
86th Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Allen L. Fahnestock.
Maj. Joseph F. Thomas.
Lieut. Col. Allen L. Fahnestock.
110th Illnois,
Lieut. Col. E. Hibbard Topping.
125th Illinois:
Col. Oscar F. Harmon.
Maj. John B. Lee.
Lieut. Col. James W. Langley.
Capt. George W. Cook.
22d Indiana:
Lieut. Col. William M. Wiles.
Capt. William H. Taggart.
Capt. William H. Snodgrass.
Maj. Thomas Shea.
Capt. William H. Taggart.
Capt. William H. Snodgrass.
52d Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Charles W. Clancy.
Maj. James T. Holmes.
Capt. Samuel Rothacker.
Maj. James T. Holmes.
Capt. CHARLES M. BARNETT.
2d Illinois Light, Battery I, Lieut. Alonzo W. Coe.
Wisconsin Light, 5th Battery, Capt. George Q. Gardner.
Brig. Gen. ABSALOM BAIRD.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JOHN B. TURCHIN.
Col. MOSES B. WALKER.
19th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Alexander W. Raffen.
24th Illinois, Capt. August Mauff.
82d Indiana, Col. Morton C. Hunter.
23d Missouri, Col. William P. Robinson.
11th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Ogden Street.
17th Ohio, Col. Durbin Ward.
31st Ohio:
Col. Moses B. Walker.
Lieut. Col. Frederick W. Lister.
89th Ohio:
Maj. John H. Jolly.
Col. Caleb H. Carlton.
92d Ohio, Col. Benjamin D. Fearing.
Second Brigade
Col. FERDINAND VAN DERVEER.(p)
Col. NEWELL GLEASON.
75th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. William O'Brien.
Maj. Cyrus J. McCole.
87th Indiana:
Col. Newell Gleason.
Lieut. Col. Edwin P. Hammond.
101st Indiana, Lieut. Col. Thomas Doan.
2d Minnesota:
Col. James George.
Lieut. Col. Judson W. Bishop.
9th Ohio, Col. Gustave Kammerling.
35th Ohio, Maj. Joseph L. Budd.
105th Ohio, Lieut. Col. George T. Perkins.
Third Brigade.
Col. GEORGE P. ESTE.
10th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Marsh B. Taylor.
74th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Myron Baker.
Maj. Thomas Morgan.
10th Kentucky, Col. William H. Hays.
18th Kentucky, Lieut. Col. Hubbard K. Milward.
14th Ohio:
Maj. John W. Wilson.
Capt. George W. Kirk.
38th Ohio:
Col. William A. Choate.
Capt. Joseph Wagstaff.
Capt. GEORGE ESTEP.
Indiana Light, 7th Battery, Capt. Otho H. Morgan.
Indiana Light, 19th Battery, Lieut. William P. Stackhouse.
Maj. CHARLES HOUGHTALING.
1st Illinois Light, Battery C, Capt. Mark H. Prescott.
2d Illinois Light, Battery I, Capt. Charles M. Barnett.
Indiana Light, 7th Battery, Capt. Otho H. Morgan.
Indiana Light, 19th Battery, Lieut. William P. Stackhouse.
Indiana Light, 20th Battery, Capt. Milton A. Osborne.
1st Ohio Light, Battery I, Capt. Hubert Dilger.
Wisconsin Light, 5th Battery:
Capt. George Q. Gardner.
Lieut. Joseph McKnight.
Maj. Gen. JOSEPH HOOKER.
Brig. Gen. ALPHEUS S. WILLIAMS.
Maj. Gen. HENRY W. SLOCUM.
15th Illinois Cavalry, Company K, Capt. William Duncan.
Brig. Gen. ALPHEUS S. WILLIAMS.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH F. KNIPE.
Brig. Gen. ALPHEUS S. WILLIAMS.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH F. KNIPE.
Col. WARREN W. PACKER. (g)
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH F. KNIPE.
5th Connecticut:
Col. Warren W. Packer.
Lieut. Col. Henry W. Daboll.
Maj. William S. Cogswell.
Col. Warren W. Packer.
3d Maryland (detachment):
Lieut. David Gove.
Lieut. Donald Reid.
Lieut. David Gore.
123d New York:
Col. Archibald L. McDougall.
Lieut. Col. James C. Rogers.
141st New York:
Col. William K. Logie.
Lieut. Col. Andrew J. McNett.
Capt. Elisha G. Baldwin.
Capt. Andrew J. Compton.
46th Pennsylvania, Col. James L. Selfridge.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. THOMAS H. RUGER.
27th Indiana:
Col. Silas Colgrove.
Lieut. Col. John R. Fesler.
2d Massachusetts:
Col. William Cogswell.
Lieut. Col. Charles F. Morse.
Col. William Cogswell.
13th New Jersey. Col. Ezra A. Carman.
107th New York, Col. Nirom M. Crane.
150th New York, Col. John H. Ketcham.
3d Wisconsin, Col. William Hawley.
Third Brigade.
Col. JAMES S. ROBINSON.
Col. HORACE BOUGHTON.
82d Illinois, Lieut. Col. Edward S. Salomon.
101st Illinois, Lieut. Col. John B. LeSage.
45th New York, Col. Adolphus Dobke.
143d New York:
Col. Horace Boughton.
Lieut. Col. Hezekiah Watkins.
Maj. John Higgins.
61st Ohio:
Col. Stephen J. McGroarty.
Capt. John Garrett.
82d Ohio, Lieut. Col. David Thomson.
31st Wisconsin, Col. Francis H. West.
Capt. JOHN D. WOODBURY.
1st New York Light, Battery I, Lieut. Charles E. Winegar.
1st New York Light, Battery M, Capt. John D. Woodbury.
Brig. Gen. JOHN W. GEARY.
First Brigade.
Col. CHARLES CANDY.
Col. ARIO PARDEE, jr.
5th Ohio:
Col. John H. Patrick.
Lieut. Col. Robert L. Kilpatrick.
Maj. Henry E. Symmes.
Capt. Robert Kirkup.
7th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Samuel McClelland.
29th Ohio:
Col. William T. Fitch,
Capt. Myron T. Wright.
Capt. Wilbur F. Stevens.
66th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Eugene Powell.
Capt. Thomas McConnell.
28th Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. John Flynn.
147th Pennsylvania:
Col. Ario Pardee, jr.
Lieut. Col. John Craig.
Second Brigade.
Col. ADOLPHUS BUSCHBECK.
Col. JOHN T. LOCKMAN.
Col. PATRICK H. JONES,
Col. GEORGE W. MINDIL.
33d New Jersey:
Col. George W. Mindil.
Lieut. Col. Enos Fourat.
Capt. Thomas O'Connor.
119th New York:
Col. John T. Lockman.
Capt. Charles H. Odell.
Capt. Chester H. Southworth.
Col. John T. Lockman.
134th New York:
Lieut. Col. Allan H. Jackson.
Capt. Clinton C. Brown.
154th New York:
Col. Patrick H. Jones.
Lieut. Col. Daniel B. Allen.
Maj. Lewis D. Warner.
Lieut. Col. Daniel B. Allen.
Maj. Lewis D. Warner.
27th Pennsylvania, Lieut. Col. August Riedt.
73d Pennsylvania, Maj. Charles C. Cresson.
109th Pennsylvania:
Capt. Frederick L. Gimber.
Capt. Walter G. Dunn.
Capt. Hugh Alexander.
Capt. William Geary.
Third Brigade.
Col. DAVID IRELAND.
Col. WILLIAM RICKARDS, Jr.
Co1. GEORGE A. COBHAM, Jr.
Col. DAVID IRELAND.
60th New York:
Col. Abel Godard.
Capt. Thomas Elliott.
Col. Abel Godard.
Capt. Thomas Elliott.
78th New York:
Lieut. Col. Harvey S. Chatfield.
Col. Herbert von Hammerstein.
102d New York:
Col. James C. Lane.
Maj. Lewis R. Stegman.
Capt. Barent Van Buren.
Col Herbert von Hammerstein.
137th New York, Lieut. Col. Koert S. Van Voorhis.
149th New York:
Lieut. Col. Charles B. Randall.
Col. Henry A Barnum.
29th Pennsylvania:
Col. William Rickards, jr.
Maj. Jesse R. Millison.
Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Walker.
Capt. John H. Goldsmith.
Capt. Benjamin F. Zarracher.
Lieut. Col. Samuel M. Zulich.
111th Pennsylvania:
Col. George A. Cobham, jr.
Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Walker.
Col. George A. Cobham, jr.
Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Walker.
Capt. WILLIAM WHEELER.
Capt. CHARLES C. ALESHIRE.
New York Light, 18th Battery:
Capt. William Wheeler.
Lieut. Henry Bundy.
Pennsylvania Light, Battery E:
Capt. James D. McGill.
Lieut. Thomas S. Sloan.
Maj. Gen. DANIEL BUTTERFIELD.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM T. WARD.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM T. WARD.(o)
Col. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM T. WARD.
Col. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
102d Illinois:
Col. Franklin C. Smith.
Lieut. Col. James M. Mannon.
Col. Franklin C. Smith.
105th Illinois:
Col. Daniel Dustin.
Lieut. Col. Everell F. Dutton.
Col. Daniel Dustin.
129th Illinois: Col. Henry Case.
70th Indiana:
Col. Benjamin Harrison.
Lieut. Col. Samuel Merrill.
79th Ohio:
Col. Henry G. Kennett.
Lieut. Col. Azariah W. Doan.
Capt. Samuel A. West.
Second Brigade.
Col. SAMUEL ROSS.
Col. JOHN COBURN.
20th Connecticut:
Lieut. Col. Philo B. Buckingham.
Col. Samuel Ross.
Maj. Levin T. Miller.
Capt. Edward T. McCrea.
Maj. Levin T. Miller.
85th Indiana:
Col. John P. Baird.
Lieut. Col. Alexander B. Crane.
Capt. Jefferson E. Brant.
19th Michigan:
Col. Henry C. Gilbert.
Maj. Eli A. Griffin.
Capt. John J. Baker.
Capt. David Anderson.
22d Wisconsin:
Col. William L. Utley.
Lieut. Col. Edward Bloodgood.
Third Brigade.
Col. JAMES WOOD, Jr.
20th Connecticut:
Col. Samuel Ross.
Lieut. Col. Philo B. Buckingham.
33d Massachusetts, Lieut. Col. Godfrey Rider, jr.
136th New York:
Lieut. Col. Lester B. Faulkner.
Maj. Henry L. Arnold.
55th Ohio:
Col. Charles B. Gambee.
Capt. Charles P. Wickham.
Lieut. Col. Edwin H. Powers.
73d Ohio, Maj. Samuel H. Hurst.
26th Wisconsin, Lieut. Col. Frederick C. Winkler.
Capt. MARCO B. GARY.
1st Michigan Light, Battery I, Capt. Luther R. Smith
1st Ohio Light, Battery C, Lieut. Jerome B. Stephens.
Maj. JOHN A. REYNOLDS.
1st Michigan Light, Battery I, Capt. Luther R. Smith.
1st New York Light, Battery I, Capt. Charles E. Winegar.
1st New York Light, Battery M, Capt. John D. Woodbury.
New York Light, 13th Battery, Capt. Henry Bundy.
1st Ohio Light, Battery C:
Lieut. Jerome B. Stephens.
Capt. Marco B. Gary.
Pennsylvania Light, Battery E, Lieut. Thomas S. Sloan.
5th United States, Battery K, Capt. Edmund C. Bainbridge.
Col. JOSEPH W. BURKE.
Col. HEBER LE FAVOUR.
10th Ohio, Col. Joseph W. Burke.
9th Michigan, Lieut. Col. William Wilkinson.
22d Michigan Lieut. Col. Henry S. Dean.
Col. GEORGE P. BUELL.
58th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Joseph Moore.
Pontoon Battalion, Capt. Patrick O'Connell.
11th Indiana Battery, Capt. Arnold Sutermeister.
1st Battalion Ohio Sharpshooters, Capt. Gershom M. Barber.
Brig. Gen. WASHINGTON L. ELLIOTT.
4th Ohio, Company D, Capt. Philip H. Warner.
Brig. Gen. EDWARD M. McCOOK.
First Brigade.
Col. JOSEPH B. DORR. (b)
Col. JoHN T. CROXTON.
Col. JOSEPH B. DORR.(c)
Lieut. Col. JAMES P. BROWNLOW.
Brig. Gen. JOHN T, CROXTON.
8th Iowa:
Lieut. Col. Horatio G. Barrier.
Col. Joseph B. Dorr.
Maj. Richard Root.
Maj. John H. Isett.
Maj. Richard Root.
4th Kentucky e (mounted infantry):
Col. John T. Croxton.
Lieut. Col. Robert M. Kelly.
Capt. James H. West.
Lieut. Granville C. West.
Capt. James I. Hudnall.
2d Michigan:
Maj. Leonidas S. Scranton.
Lieut. Col. Benjamin Smith.
1st Tennessee, Col. James P. Brownlow.
Second Brigade.
Col. OSCAR H. LA GRANGE
Lieut. Col. JAMES W. STEWART.
Lieut. Col. HORACE P. LAMSON.
Lieut. Col. WILLIAM H. TORREY.
Lieut. Col. HORACE P. LAMSON.
2d Indiana:
Lieut. Col. James W. Stewart.
Maj. David A. Briggs.
4th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Horace P. Lamson.
Maj. George H. Purdy.
Capt. Albert J. Morley.
1st Wisconsin:
Maj. Nathan Paine.
Capt. Henry Harnden.
Capt. Lewis M. B. Smith.
Lieut. Col. William H. Torrey.
Maj. Nathan Paine.
Capt. Lewis M. B. Smith.
Third Brigade.
Col. Louis D. WATKINS.
Col. JOHN K. FAULKNER.
4th Kentucky, Col. Wickliffe Cooper.
6th Kentucky, Maj. William H. Fidler.
7th Kentucky:
Col. John K. Faulkner.
Maj. Robert Collier,
Col. John K. Faulkner.
18th Indiana Battery:
Lieut. William B. Rippetoe.
Capt. Moses M. Beck.
Brig. Gen. KENNER GARRARD.
First Brigade.
Col. ROBERT H. G. MINTY.
4th Michigan:
Lieut. Col. Josiah B. Park.
Maj. Frank W. Mix.
Capt. L. Briggs Eldridge.
7th Pennsylvania:
Col. William B. Sipes.
Maj. James F. Andreas.
Maj. William H. Jennings.
4th United States, Capt. James B. McIntyre.
Second Brigade.
Col. ELI LONG.
Col. BEROTH B. EGGLESTON.
1st Ohio:
Col. Beroth B. Eggleston.
Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Patten.
3d Ohio, Col. Charles B. Seidel.
4th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Oliver P. Robie.
Third Brigade (mounted infantry).
Col. JOHN T. WILDER.
Col. ABRAM O. MILLER.
98th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Edward Kitchell.
123d Illinois, Lieut. Col. Jonathan Biggs.
17th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Henry Jordan.
Maj. Jacob G. Vail.
72d Indiana:
Col. Abram O. Miller.
Maj. Henry M. Carr.
Capt. Adam Pinkerton.
Lieut. Col. Samuel C. Kirkpatrick.
Chicago (Illinois) Board of Trade Battery, Lieut. George I. Robinson.
Brig. Gen. JUDSON KILPATRICK.
Col. ELI H. MURRAY.
Col. WILLIAM W. LOWE.
Brig. Gen. JUDSON KILPATRICK.
First Brigade.
Lieut. Col. ROBERT KLEIN.
Lieut. Col. MATTHEWSON T. PATRICK.
Maj. J. MORRIS YOUNG.
3d Indiana (four companies), Maj. Alfred Gaddis.
5th Iowa:
Maj. Harlon Baird.
Maj. J. Morris Young.
Capt. Martin Choumee.
Second Brigade.
Col. CHARLES C. SMITH.
Maj. THOMAS W. SANDERSON.
Lieut. Col. FIELDER A. JONES.
8th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Fielder A. Jones.
Maj. Thomas Herring.
Maj. Thomas Graham.
2d Kentucky:
Maj. William H. Effort.
Maj. Owen Star.
10th Ohio:
Maj. Thomas W. Sanderson.
Maj. William Thayer.
Lieut. Col. Thomas W. Sanderson.
Third Brigade.
Col. ELI H. MURRAY.
Col. SMITH D. ATKINS
Co1. ELI H. MURRAY.
92d Illinois (mounted infantry):
Col. Smith D. Atkins.
Capt. Matthew Van Buskirk.
Col Smith D. Atkins.
Maj. Albert Woodcock.
Col. Smith D. Atkins.
3d Kentucky:
Maj. Lewis Wolfiey.
Lieut. Col. Robert H. King.
5th Kentucky:
Col. Oliver L. Baldwin.
Maj. Christopher T. Cheek.
Col. Oliver L. Baldwin.
10th Wisconsin Battery, Capt. Yates V. Beebe.
Maj. Gen. JAMES B. MCPHERSON.
Maj. Gen. JOHN A. LOGAN.
Maj. Gen. OLIVER O. HOWARD.
4th Company Ohio Cavalry:
Capt. John S. Foster.
Capt. John L. King.
1st Ohio Cavalry, Company B, Capt George F. Conn.
Maj. Gen. JOHN A. LOGAN.
Brig. Gen. MORGAN L. SMITH.
Maj. Gen. JOHN A. LOGAN.
Brig. Gen. PETER J. OSTERHAUS.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES R. WOODS.
Maj. Gen. PETER J. OSTERHAUS.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES R. WOODS.
Col. MILO SMITH.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES R. WOODS.
Col. MILO SMITH.
26th Iowa:
Col. Milo Smith.
Lieut. Col. Thomas G. Ferreby.
Col. Milo Smith.
Lieut. Col. Thomas G. Ferreby.
30th Iowa, Lieut. Col. Aurelius Roberts.
27th Missouri:
Col. Thomas Curly,
Maj. Dennis O'Connor.
Col. Thomas Curly.
76th Ohio, Col. William B. Woods.
Second Brigade.
Col. JAMES A. WILLIAMSON.
4th Iowa:
Lieut. Col. Samuel D. Nichols.
Capt. Randolph Sry.
9th Iowa:
Col. David Carskaddon.
Maj. George Granger.
25th Iowa,
Col. George A. Stone.
31st Iowa, Col. William Smyth.
Third Brigade.
Col. HUGO WANGELIN.
3d Missouri, Col. Theodore Meumann.
12th Missouri:
Lieut. Col. Jacob Kaercher.
Maj. Frederick T. Ledergerber.
17th Missouri, Maj. Francis Romer.
29th Missouri:
Lieut. Col. Joseph S. Gage.
Maj. Philip H. Murphy.
Col. Joseph S. Gage.
31st Missouri:
Lieut. Col. Samuel P. Simpson.
Maj. Frederick Jaensch.
Lieut. Col. Samuel P. Simpson.
32d Missouri:
Capt. Charles C. Bland.
Maj. Abraham J. Seay.(h)
Maj. CLEMENS LANDGRAEBER.
2d Missouri Light, Battery F:
Capt. Louis Voelkner
Lieut. Lewis A. Winn.
Ohio Light, 4th Battery:
Capt. George Froehlich.
Lieut. Louis Zimmerer.
Brig. Gen. MORGAN L. SMITH.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH A. J. LIGHTBURN.
Brig. Gen. MORGAN L. SMITH.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH A. J LIGHTBURN.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM B. HAZEN.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. GILES A. SMITH.(b)
Col. JAMES S. MARTIN.
Col. THEODORE JONES.
55th Illinois :
Lieut. Col. Theodore C. Chandler.
Capt. Jacob M. Augustin.
Capt. Francis H. Shaw.
Capt. Cyrus M. Browne.
111th Illinois:
Col. James S. Martin.
Maj. William M. Mabry.
116th Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Anderson Froman.
Capt. Thomas White.
Capt. John S. Windsor.
127th Illinois:
Lieut. Col Frank S. Curtiss.
Capt. Alexander C. Little.
Lieut. Col. Frank S. Curtiss.
Capt. Charles Schryver.
6th Missouri, Lieut. Col. Delos Van Deusen.
8th Missouri
Lieut. Col. David C. Coleman.
Capt. Hugh Neill.
Capt. John W. White
30th Ohio, Lieut. Col. George H. Hildt.
57th Ohio:
Col. Americus V. Rice.
Lieut. Col. Samuel R. Mott.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH A. J. LIGHTBURN.
Col. WELLS S. JONES.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH A. J. LIGHTBURN.
Col. WELLS S. JONES.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH A. J. LIGHTBURN.
Col. WELLS S. JONES.
Illth Illinois, Col. James S. Martin.
83d Indiana:
Col. Benjamin J. Spooner.
Capt. George H. Scott.
Capt. Benjamin North.
30th Ohio, Col. Theodore Jones.
37th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Louis von Blessing.
Maj. Charles Hipp.
Capt. Carl Moritz.
47th Ohio
Col. Augustus C. Parry.
Lieut. Col. John Wallace.
Maj. Thomas T. Taylor.
53d Ohio:
Col. Wells S. Jones.
Lieut. Col. Robert A. Fulton.
Col. Wells S. Jones.
54th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Robert Williams, jr.
Maj. Israel T. Moore.
Capt. FRANCIS DE GRESS.
1st Illinois Light, Battery A:
Capt. Peter P. Wood.
Lieut. George McCagg, jr.
Lieut. Samuel S. Smyth.
Lieut. George Echte.
1st Illinois Light, Battery B, Capt. Israel P. Rumsey.
1st Illinois Light, Battery H, Capt. Francis De Gress.
Brig. Gen. JOHN E. SMITH.
4th Missouri Cavalry, Company F, Lieut. Alexander Mueller,
First Brigade.
Col. JESSE I. ALEXANDER
Col. JOSEPH B. McCOWN.
63d Illinois:
Col. Joseph B. McCown.
Lieut. Col. James Isaminger.
48th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Edward J. Wood.
59th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Jefferson K. Scott.
4th Minnesota:
Lieut. Col. John E. Tourtellotte.
Maj. James C. Edson.
18th Wisconsin, Lieut. Col. Charles H. Jackson.
Second Brigade.
Col. GREEN B. RAUM.
13th Illinois (detachment), Lieut. Mark M. Evans.
56th Illinois, Lieut. Col. John P. Hall.
17th Iowa, Col. Clark R. Wever.
10th Missouri:
Col. Francis C. Deimling.
Capt. Joel W. Strong
24th Missouri, Company E, Lieut. Daniel Driscoll.
80th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Pren Metham.
Third Brigade.
Brig. Gen. CHARLES L. MATTHIES.
Col. BENJAMIN D. DEAN.
Col. JABEZ BANBURY.
93d Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Nicholas C. Buswell
Maj..James M. Fisher.
5th Iowa :
Col. Jabez Banbury.
Lieut. Col. Ezekiel S. Sampson.
10th Iowa:
Lieut. Col. Paris P. Henderson.
Lieut. David H. Emry.
26th Missouri:
Lieut. Col. John McFall.
Col. Benjamin D. Dean.
Lieut. Col. John McFall.
Capt. HENRY DILLON.
Wisconsin Light, 6th Battery:
Lieut. Samuel F. Clark.
Lieut. James G. Simpson.
Wisconsin Light, 12th Battery, Capt. William Zickerick.
5th Ohio, Col. Thomas T. Heath.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM HARROW.
First Brigade.
Col. REUBEN WILLIAMS.
Col. JOHN M. OLIVER.
26th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Robert A. Gillmore.
48th Illinois, Maj. Edward Adams.
90th Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Owen Stuart.
Capt. Daniel O'Connor.
12th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. James Goodnow.
Col. Reuben Williams.
99th Indiana :
Capt. Josiah Farrar.
Lieut. Col. John M. Berkey.
100th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Albert Heath.
15th Michigan, Lieut. Col. Frederick S. Hutchinson.
70th Ohio:
Capt. Louis Love.
Capt. Henry L. Philips.
Second Brigade
Brig. Gen. CHARLES C. WALCUTT.
40th Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Rigdon S. Barnhill.
Maj. Hiram W. Hall.
Capt. Michael Galvin.
Capt. William Stewart.
103d Illinois:
Maj. Asias Willison.
Col. Willard A. Dickerman.
Lieut. Col. George W. Wright.
Capt. Franklin C. Post.
97th Indiana:
Col. Robert F. Catterson.
Lieut. Col. Aden G. Cavins.
6th Iowa:
Lieut. Col. Alexander J. Miller.
Maj. Thomas J. Ennis.
Capt. William H. Clune.
Lieut. Col. Alexander J. Miller.
46th Ohio:
Maj. Henry H. Giesy.
Capt. Joshua W. Heath.
Lieut. Col. Isaac N. Alexander.
Third Brigade.
Col. JOHN M. OLIVER.
48th Illinois:
Col. Lucien Greathouse.
Maj. Edward Adams.
99th Indiana:
Col. Alexander Fowler.
Lieut. Col. John M. Berkey.
15th Michigan:
Lieut. Col. Austin E. Jaquith.
Lieut. Col. Frederick S.Hutchinson.
53d Ohio, Col. Wells S. Jones.
70th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. De Witt C. Loudon.
Maj. William B. Brown.
Capt. Louis Love.
Capt. HENRY H. GRIFFITHS.
Maj. JOHN T. CHENEY.
Capt. HENRY S. GRIFFITHS.
Capt. JOSIAH H. BURTON.
1st Illinois Light, Battery F:
Capt. Josiah H. Burton.
Lieut. Jefferson F. Whaley.
Lieut. George P. Cunningham.
Iowa Light, 1st Battery:
Lieut. William H. Gay.
Capt. Henry H. Griffiths.
Lieut. William H. Gay.
Maj. Gen. GRENVILLE M. DODGE.
Brig. Gen. THOMAS E.G. RANSOM.
1st Alabama Cavalry :
Lieut. Col. George L. Godfrey.Col. George E. Spencer.
52d Illinois, Company A,(c) Capt. George E. Young.
Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SWEENY.
Brig. Gen. ELLIOTT W. RICE.
Brig. Gen. JOHN M. CORSE.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. ELLIOTT W. RICE.
52d Illinois, Lieut. Col. Edwin A. Bowen.
66th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Roger Martin.
Maj. Thomas G. Morrison.
Capt. Alfred Morris.
2d Iowa:
Col. James B. Weaver.
Lieut. Col. Noel B. Howard.
Maj. Mathew G. Hamill.
Capt. John A. Duckworth.
7th Iowa:
Lieut. Col. James C. Parrott.
Maj. James W. McMullin.
Lieut. Col. James C. Parrott.
Maj. James W. McMullin.
Capt. Samuel Mahon.
Second Brigade.
Col. PATRICK E. BURKE.
Lieut. Col.. ROBERT N. ADAMS.
Col. AUGUST MERSY.
Lieut. Col. JESSE J. PHILLIPS.
Col. ROBERT N. ADAMS.
9th Illinois (mounted):
Lieut. Col. Jesse J. Phillips.
Maj. John H. Kuhn.
Capt. Samuel T. Hughes.
12th Illinois:
Maj. James R. Hugunin.
Lieut. Col. Henry Van Sellar.
66th Illinois:
Maj. Andrew K. Campbell.
Capt. William S. Boyd.
81st Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Robert N. Adams
Maj. Frank Evans.
Lieut. Col. Robert N. Adams.
Capt. Noah Stoker.
Capt. William Clay Henry.
Third Brigade.
Col. MOSES M. BANE.
Brig. Gen. WlLLIAM VANDEVER. (s)
Col. HENRY J. B. CUMMINGS.
Col. RICHARD Rowett. (t)
7th Illinois:
Col. Richard Rowett.
Lieut. Col. Hector Perrin.
50th Illinois, Maj. William Hanna.
57th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Frederick J. Hurlbut.
89th Iowa:
Col. Henry J. B. Cummings.
Lieut. Col. James Redfield.
Col. Henry J. B. Cummings.
Maj. Joseph M. Griffiths.
Lieut. Col. James Redfield.
Capt. FREDERICK WELKER.
1st Michigan Light, Battery B, Capt. Albert F. R. Arndt.
1st Missouri Light, Battery H, Lieut. Andrew T. Blodgett.
1st Missouri Light, Battery I,(w) Lieut. John F. Brunner.
Brig. Gen. JAMES C. VEATCH.
Brig. Gen. JOHN W. FULLER.
Brig. Gen. THOMAS E.G. RANSOM.
Brig. Gen. JOaN W. FULLER.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JOHN W. FULLER.
Col. JOHN MORRILL.
Maj. John W. Fouts.
Lieut. Col. HENRY T. McDOWELL.
Brig. Gen. JOHN W. FULLER.
Lieut. Col. HENRY T. McDOWELL.
64th Illinois:
Col. John Morrill.
Lieut. Col. Michael W. Manning.
18th Missouri:
Lieut. Col. Charles S. Sheldon.
Maj. William H. Minter.
27th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Mendal Churchill.
39th Ohio:
Col. Edward F. Noves.
Lieut. Col. Henry T. McDowell.
Maj. John S. Jenkins.
Lieut. Col. Henry T. McDowell.
Maj. John S. Jenkins.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. JOHN W. SPRAGUE.
35th New Jersey:
Capt. Charles A. Angel.
Col. John J. Cladek.
Lieut. Col. William A. Henry.
43d Ohio,
Col. Wager Swayne.
63d Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Charles E. Brown.
Maj. John W. Fouts.
25th Wisconsin:
Col. Milton Montgomery.
Lieut. Col. Jeremiah M. Rusk.
Third Brigade.
Col. JAMES H. HOWE.
Col. WILLIAM T. C. GROWER.
Col. JOHN TILLSON.
10th Illinois, Capt. George C. Lusk.
25th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. John Rheinlander.
Capt. James S. Wright.
17th New York, Maj. Joel O. Martin.
32d Wisconsin, Col. Charles H. De Groat.
Capt. JEROME B. BURROWS.
Capt. GEORGE ROBINSON.
1st Michigan Light, Battery C:
Capt. George Robinson.
Lieut. Henry Shier.
Ohio Light, 14th Battery.
Capt. Jerome B. Burrows.
Lieut. Seth M. Laird.
Lieut. George Hurlbut.
2d United States, Battery F:
Lieut. Albert M. Murray.
Lieut. Joseph C. Breckinridge.
Lieut. Lemuel Smith.
Lieut. Rezin G. Howell.
Maj. Gen. FRANK P. BLAIR, Jr.
1st Ohio Cavalry, Company M, Lieut. Charles H. Shultz.
9th Illinois (mounted infantry), Company G, Capt. Isaac Clements.
11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G, Capt. Stephen S. Tripp.
Brig. Gen. MORTIMER D. LEGETT
Brig. Gen. CHARLES R. WOODS.
1st Ohio Cavalry, Company D, Lieut. James W. Kirkendall.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. MANNING F. FORCE.
Col. GEORGE E. BRYANT.
20th Illinois:
Lieut. Col. Daniel Bradley.
Maj. George W. Kennard.
Capt. John H. Austin.
30th Illinois:
Col. Warren Shedd.
Lieut. Col. William C. Rhoads.
Capt. John L. Nichols.
81st Illinois:
Col. Edwin S. McCook.
Lieut. Col. Robert N. Pearson.
Capt. Simpson S. Stricklin.
45th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Robert P. Sealy.
12th Wisconsin:
Col. George E. Bryant.
Lieut. Col. James K. Proudfit.
16th Wisconsin:
Col. Cassius Fairchild.
Maj. William F. Dawes.
Second Brigade.
Col. ROBERT K. SCOTT.
Lieut. Col. GREENBERRY F. WILES.
20th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. John C. Fry.
Maj. Francis M. Shaklee.
32d Ohio, Col. Benjamin F. Potts.
68th Ohio, Lieut. Col. George E. Welles.
78th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Greenberry F. Wiles.
Maj. John T. Rainey.
Third Brigade.
Col. ADAM G. MALLOY.
17th Wisconsin:
Lieut. Col. Thomas McMahon.
Maj Donald D. Scott.
Worden's battalion, Maj. Asa Worden.
Capt. WILLIAM S. WILLIAMS.
1st Illinois Light, Battery D, Capt. Edgar H. Cooper.
1st Michigan Light, Battery H:
Capt. Marcus D. Elliott.
Lieut. William Justin.
Ohio Light, 3d Battery, Lieut. John Sullivan.
Brig. Gen. WALTER Q. GRESHAM
Col. WILLIAM HALL.
Brig. Gen. GILES A. SMITH.
11th Illinois Cavalry, Company G, Capt. Stephen S. Tripp.
First Brigade.
Col. WILLIAM L. SANDERSON.
Col. BENJAMIN F. POTTS.
82d Illinois, Col. John Logan.
53d Illinois, Lieut. Col. John W. McClanahan.
23d Indiana:
Lieut. Col. William P. Davis.
Lieut. Col. George S. Babbitt.
53d Indiana:
Lieut. Col. William Jones.
Maj. Warner L. Vestal.
Capt. George H. Beers.
3d Iowa (three companies) :
Capt. Daniel McLennan.
Capt. Pleasant T. Mathes.
Lieut. Lewis T. Linnell.
Lieut. D. W. Wilson.
82d Ohio:
Capt. William M. Morris.
Lieut. Col. Jeff. J. Hibbets.
12th Wisconsin, Col. George E. Bryant.
Second Brigade.
Col. GEORGE C. ROGERS.
Col. ISAAC C. PUGH.
Col. JOHN LOGAN.
14th Illinois, Capt. Carlos C. Cox.
15th Illinois, Maj. Rufus C. McEathron.
32d Illinois, Lieut. Col. George H. English.
41st Illinois, Maj. Robert H. McFadden.
53d Illinois, Lieut. Col. John W. Mc-Clanahan.
Third Brigade.
COl. WILLIAM HALL.
Col. John SUANE.(s)
Col. WILLIAM HALL.
Brig. Gen. WILLIAM W. BELKNAP.
11th Iowa, Lieut. Col. John C. Abercrombie.
13th Iowa:
Col. John Shane.
Maj. William A. Walker.
Col. John Shane.
15th Iowa:
Col. William W. Belknap.
Maj. George Pomutz.
16th Iowa:
Lieut. Col. Addison H. Sanders.
Capt. Crandall W. Williams.
Capt. EDWARD SPEAR, jr.
Capt. WILLIAM Z. CLAYTON.
2d Illinois Light, Battery F :
Lieut. Walter H. Powell.
Lieut. George R. Richardson.
Lieut. Wendolin Meyer.
Minnesota Light, 1st Battery:
Capt. William Z. Clayton.
Lieut. Henry hurter.
1st Missouri Light Battery C, Capt. John L. Matthaei.
Ohio Light, 10th Battery, Capt. Francis Seaman.
Ohio Light. 15th Battery, Lieut. James Burdick.
Maj. Gen. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD.
Brig. Gen. JACOB D. Cox.
Maj. Gen. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD.
7th Ohio Cavalry, Company G, Capt. John A. Ashbury.
Capt. CHARLES E. MCALESTER.
Capt. OLIVER S. MCCLURE.
FIRST DIVlSION.
Brig. Gen. ALVIN P. HOVEY.
First Brigade.
Col. RICHARD F. BARTER.
120th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Allen W. Prather.
124th Indiana:
Col. James Burgess.
Col. John M. Orr.
128th Indiana :
Col. Richard P. De Hart.
Lieut. Col. Jasper Packard.
Second Brigade.
Col. JOHN C. McQUISTON.
Col. PETER T. SWAINE.
123d Indiana :
Lieut. Col. William A. Cullen.
Col. John C. McQuiston.
129th Indiana:
Col. Charles Case.
Col. Charles A. Zollinger.
130th Indiana, Col. Charles S. Parrish.
99th Ohio, Lieut. Col. John E. Cummins.
Indiana Light, 23d Battery :
Lieut. Luther S. Houghton.
Lieut. Aaron A. Wilber.
Indiana Light, 24th Battery, Capt. Alexander Hardy.
Brig. Gen. HENRY M. JUDAH.
Brig. Gen. MILO S. HASCALL.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. NATHANIEL C. MCLEAN.
Brig. Gen. JOSEPH A. COOPER.
80th Indiana :
Lieut. Col. Alfred D. Owen.
Maj. John W. Tucker.
91st Indiana :
Lieut. Col. Charles H. Butterfield.
Col. John Mehringer.
13th Kentucky, Col. William E. Hobson.
25th Michigan:
Lieut. Col. Benjamin F. Orcutt.
Capt. Samuel L. Demarest.
Capt. Edwin Childs.
45th Ohio:
Col. Benjamin P. Runkle.
Lieut. Col. Charles H. Butterfield.
3d Tennessee:
Col. William Cross.
Maj. R. H. Dunn.
Col. William Cross.
Maj. R.H. Dunn.
6th Tennessee:
Col. Joseph A. Cooper.
Lieut. Col. Edward Maynard.
Capt. Marcus D. Bearden.
Capt. William Ausmus.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. MILO S. HASCALL.
Col. JOHN R. BOND.
Co]. WILLIAM E. HOBSON.
Col. JOHN R. BOND.
107th Illinois:
Maj. Uriah M. Laurance.
Lieut. Col. Francis H. Lowry.
80th Indiana :
Lieut. Col. Alfred D. Owen.
Maj. John W. Tucker.
Capt. Jacob Ragle.
Maj. John W. Tucker.
13th Kentucky :
Col. William E. Hobson.
Lieut. Col. Benjamin P. Estes.
23d Michigan:
Lieut. Col. Oliver L. Spaulding.
Maj. William W. Wheeler.
45th Ohio,
Col. Benjamin P. Runkle.
111th Ohio:
Col. John R. Bond.
Lieut. Col. Isaac R. Sherwood.
118th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. Thomas L. Young.
Capt. Edgar Sowers.
Capt. William Kennedy.
Capt. Rudolph Reul.
Capt. Edgar Sowers.
Third Brigade.
Col. SILAS A. STRICKLAND.
14th Kentucky, Col. George W. Gallup.
20th Kentucky, Lieut. Col. Thomas B. Waller.
27th Kentucky:
Lieut. Col. John H. Ward.
Capt. Andrew J. Bailey.
50th Ohio:
Lieut. Col. George R. Elstner.
Maj. Hamilton S. Gillespie.
Capt. JOSEPH C. SHIELDS.
Indiana Light, 29d Battery :
Capt. Benjamin F. Denning.
Lieut. Edward W. Nicholson.
1st Michigan Light. Battery F:
Capt. Byron D. Paddock.
Lieut. Marshall M. Miller.
Ohio Light, 19th Battery,
Capt. Joseph C. Shields.
Brig. Gen. JACOB D. COX.
Col. JAMES W. REILLY.
Brig. Gen. JACOB D. COX.
First Brigade.
Col. JAMES W. REILLY.
Col. JAMES W. GAULT.
Brig. Gen. JAMES W. REILLY.
112th Illinois :
Col. Thomas J. Henderson.
Lieut. Col. Emery S. Bond.
Maj. Tristram T. Dow.
Col. Thomas J. Henderson.
Maj. Tristram T. Dow.
16th Kentucky:
Col. James W. Gault.
Maj. John S. White.
Col. James W. Gault.
Maj. John S. White.
Capt. Jacob Miller.
Maj. John S. White.
100th Ohio:
Col. Patrick S. Slevin.
Capt. Frank Rundell.
104th Ohio: Col. Oscar W. Sterl.
8th Tennessee:
Col. Felix A. Reeve.
Maj. William J. Jordan.
Capt. Robert A. Ragan.
Capt. James W. Berry.
Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. MAHLON D. MANSON.
Col. JOHN S. HURT.(g)
Brig. Gen. MILO S. HASCALL.
Col. JOHN S. HURT.
Col. JOHN S. CASEMENT
Col. DANIEL CAMERON.
Col. JOHN S. CASEMENT.
65th Illinois, Lieut. Col. William S. Stewart.
63d Indiana :
Col. Israel N. Stiles.
Lieut. Col Daniel Morris.
65th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Thomas Johnson.
Capt. Walter G. Hodge.
Capt. William F. Stillwell.
Capt. Edward A. Baker.
24th Kentucky:
Col. John S. Hurt.
Lieut. Col. Lafayette North.
Col. John S. Hurt.
103d Ohio:
Capt. William W. Hutchinson.
Capt Philip C Hayes
Lieut. Col. James T. Sterling.
Col. John S. Casement.
Capt. Philip C. Hayes.
5th Tennessee :
Col. James T.. Shelley.
Maj. David G. Bowers
Third Brigade.
Brig. Gen. NATHANIEL C. McLean
Col. ROBERT K. BYRD.
Col. ISRAEL N. STILES.
11th Kentucky :
Col. S. Palace Love.
Lieut. Col. Erasmus L. Mottley.
Col. S. Palace Love.
12th Kentucky, Lieut. Col. Laurence H. Rousseau.
1st Tennessee :
Col. Robert K. Byrd.
Lieut. Col. John Ellis.
5th Tennessee, Col. James T. Shelley.
Dismounted Cavalry Brigade.
Col. EUGENE W. CRITTENDEN.
16th Illinois, Capt. Hiram S. Hanchett.
12th Kentucky:
Lieut. Col. James T. Bramlette.
Maj. James B. Harrison.
Maj. HENRY W. WELLS.
Indiana Light, 15th Battery, Capt. Alonzo D. Harvey.
1st Ohio Light, Battery D, Capt. Giles J. Cockerill.
Maj. Gen. GEORGE STONEMAN.
Col. HORACE CAPRON.
7th Ohio, Company D:
Lieut. Samuel Murphy.
Lieut. Washington W. Manning.
First Brigade
Col. ISRAEL GARRARD.
9th Michigan, Col. George S. Acker.
7th Ohio, Lieut. Col. George G. Miner.
Second Brigade.
Col. JAMES BIDDLE.
Col. THOMAS H. BUTLER.
Col. JAMES BIDDLE.
16th Illinois, Capt. Hiram S. Hanchett,
5th Indiana:
Col. Thomas H. Butler.
Maj. Moses D. Leeson.
6th Indiana:
Lieut. Col. Courtland C. Matson.
Maj. William W. Carter.
12th Kentucky:
Col. Eugene W. Crittenden.
Maj. James B. Harrison.
Third Brigade.
Col. HORACE CAPRON.
14th Illinois, Lieut. Col. David P. Jenkins.
8th Michigan:
Lieut. Col. Elisha Mix.
Maj. William L. Buck.
Maj. Edward Coates.
McLaughlin's Ohio Squadron, Maj. Richard Rice.
Independent Brigade.
Col. ALEXANDER W. HOLEMAN.
Lieut. Col. SILAS ADAMS.
1st Kentucky, Lieut. Col. Silas Adams.
11th Kentucky, Lieut. Col. Archibald J, Alexander.
24th Indiana Battery:
Capt. Alexander Hardy.
Lieut. Hiram Allen


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The German government is being accused of terrorism on its own citizens for a police squad raid in which officers armed with a battering ram forcibly took four children from their parents because they were being homeschooled.
The accusations are being posted on a Facebook page for the German embassy in Washington.
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"Unbelievable. This could reasonably be viewed as terrorism by the state against its own citizens – something I know you yourself would decry and condemn in any other nation on this earth," Mark Romanowitz told German embassy officials through the social media page.
"Fights for freedom in matters of faith and conscience are not new to Germany. I invite you to remember the courageous Martin Luther … a man who stood up for what was right, following his faith in God, rather than the precepts of men," he said. "This is a man I know your nation is justifiably proud to have sired. Be the Germany you know you should be and release these children to their parents to pursue a quality education as their parents, who are the rightful determinants of their children's education, see fit, rather than go back to that shameful era some 70 years ago where people were persecuted, forcibly removed form their homes, and even killed due to their faith and heritage."
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Amy Escobar took a little more succinct approach to counseling the German government: "You guys are making a big mistake."
The reaction developed after, as WND reported, four homeschooled children, ages 7 to 14, were forcibly taken from their Darmstadt, Germany, home by police armed with a battering ram. The parents, Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, were told they won't see the children again soon, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association, the world's premiere defender of homeschooling families.
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The Wunderlichs have battled for several years Germany's World War II-era requirement that all children submit to the indoctrination programs in the nation's public schools. The shocking raid was made solely because the parents were providing their children's education, HSLDA said. The organization noted the paperwork that authorized police officers and social workers to use force on the children contained no claims of mistreatment.
Unknown locations
HSLDA said the children were taken to unknown locations and government officials "ominously promised the parents that they would not be seeing their children anytime soon."
The raid, which took place Thursday at 8 a.m. as the children were beginning their day's classes, has been described by observers as "brutal and vicious."
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A team of 20 social workers, police and special agents stormed the family's home. HSLDA reported a Judge Koenig, who is assigned to the Darmstadt family court, signed an order authorizing the immediate seizure of the children by force.
HSLDA lawyer Michael Donnelly said that when child protective systems in countries such as a Germany– which "claims to be a 'liberal democracy' committed to pluralism and human rights – allows for police raids to take children from otherwise good families who are providing a home education, liberty is at risk everywhere."
Even the United States?
Of course, he told WND.
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"There are already too many voices in the United States that want to advance the idea that the state must control education for the safety of the state or other reasons," he said. "And this is the same rationale of the German government in perpetrating deplorable acts like this. Why should we think it couldn't or won't happen here?"
Donnelly continued: "Can't a government that can order you to get health care tell you that you don't qualify for certain life-saving treatments, tell parents they can't allow their children to get certain kinds of counseling or that they must have a particular kind of medical treatments or that certain religious speech is intolerant and may not be permitted or must be punished, or that only national curricular standards are acceptable for all children, etc. – can't a government like that order you to send your children to school? And then punish you if you don't?"
The German judge authorized the raid because the parents didn't cooperate "with the authorities to send the children to school."
HSLDA said the judge also authorized the use of force against the children reasoning that such force might be required because the children had "adopted the parents' opinions" regarding homeschooling and that "no cooperation could be expected" from either the parents or the children.
There have been no significant changes in the status of the family members since the raid, but HSLDA continues to monitor circumstances.
The group has posted online a list of contacts for various German officials linked to the case, including the telephone number for the German embassy in Washington.
How to contact
Also listed are various school official officials in Darmstadt, the youth welfare office in the city and family court officials who were involved in the case.
It was on the embassy's own Facebook page where the government action's were being blasted into bits.
"This is happening all over and people will NOT stand for this!" wrote Lindsay Ashby Hall. "Governments everywhere need to know … you don't own our children!!!"
"I am amazed that Germany is still enforcing an anti-homeschooling law enacted by Hitler by sending a SWAT team to remove the Wunderlich children," added Timothy J. McMahon. "A UN rapporteur has criticized Germany for its harsh treatment of homeschoolers way back in a 2006 report. … German authorities should immediately release the Wunderlich children…"
Said Bob Schmitt: "We are appalled at the shameful abuse of misappropriated power in your government's kidnapping of the Wunderlich children."
He added: "I only wish someone would send in an extraction team to rescue both the kidnapped Wunderlich children and their parents from this shameful totalitarian regime. Maybe the Isrealis can do it."
One commenter, Sybille Brinson, who apparently knows the family said: "Those kids are some of the happiest children I have seen growing up in our neighborhood! … I am horrified by the way this matter developed. The kids must be returned home!!!"
Another noted that the German embassy in London, under pressure, was busily deleting comments as they were posted.
"Shame on German authorities," wrote Ingo Breuer.
Jayme Metzgar noted: "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.' Furthermore, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, of which Germany is a party, promises 'respect for the liberty of parents … to choose for their children schools, other than those established by the public authorities."
"I think it's a shame that almost 70 years after the end of WWII, the German government is still knocking down the doors of families in order to deny them their civil rights. May God bless the Wunderlich family," added Megan Boniface.
"There are no words to describe how disgusted I am by your treatment of the Wunderlich family This type of intolerance has no place in a free society. Shame on you," said Jill White.
To several of the criticisms, the embassy referred people to an online description of German schools.
Dirk Wunderlich described the attack: "I looked through a side window and saw many people, police and special agents, all armed. They told me they wanted to come in to speak with me. I tried to ask questions, but within seconds, three police officers brought a battering ram and were about to break the door in, so I opened it."
His narration continued: "The police shoved me into a chair and wouldn't let me even make a phone call at first. It was chaotic as they told me they had an order to take the children. At my slightest movement the agents would grab me, as if I were a terrorist. You would never expect anything like this to happen in our calm, peaceful village. It was like a scene out of a science fiction movie. Our neighbors and children have been traumatized by this invasion."
Human rights violations
Michael Farris, HSLDA founder, said in a report the actions violated a number of established European precedents, including provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights.
"Germany is a party to numerous human rights treaties that recognize the right of parents to provide an education distinct from the public schools so that children can be educated according to the parents' religious convictions," he said.
He continued: "Germany has simply not met its obligations under these treaties or as a liberal democracy. HSLDA and I will do whatever we can to help this family regain custody of their children and ensure that they are safe from this persecution. This case demonstrates conclusively why the Romeike asylum case is so important. Families in Germany need a safe place where they can educate their children in peace."
As WND reported, the Romeike case has been submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2010, an immigration judge granted asylum in the U.S. to the family, which fled Germany because their children were forced to go to public schools.
The Obama administration, unhappy with the outcome, appealed and obtained an order from a higher court that the family must return to Germany. The Obama administration has argued in court parents essentially have no right to determine how and what their children are taught, leaving the authority with the government.
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The Wunderlich family earlier was subjected to an ordeal in France when police snatched the children from their home there, accusing them of "being alone."
At the time, two French social workers and two police officers appeared without notice at the home of Dominique Chanal in St. Leonard, France, where Dirk and Angela Wunderlich and their children were living.
The family had fled Germany because of a series of fines imposed for homeschooling. The children were released a short time later. But Dirk Wunderlich was forced last year to return his family to Germany because he could not find work elsewhere.
Wunderlich told Donnelly, HSLDA director for international affairs, that he and his wife were devastated.
"These are broken people. They said they felt like they were being ground into dust. They were shaken to their core and shocked by the event. But they also told me that they had followed their conscience and the dictates of their faith," Donnelly said. "Although they don't have much faith in the German state – they have a lot of faith in God. They are an inspiring and courageous family.
Hitler youth
Germany has a long history of persecuting homeschooling families.
It was in 1937 when Adolf Hitler said: "The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing."
Just a few years ago, a German government spokesman, Wolfgang Drautz, emphasized the importance of socializing children through public schools.
His statement followed a response from the German government to another family that objected to police picking up their child and delivering him to a public school.
"The minister of education does not share your attitudes toward so-called homeschooling," said a government letter. "You complain about the forced school escort of primary school children by the responsible local police officers. ... In order to avoid this in future, the education authority is in conversation with the affected family in order to look for possibilities to bring the religious convictions of the family into line with the unalterable school attendance requirement."
HSLDA previously has documented in the Konrad and Plett cases how the German government considers homeschooling to be child abuse, even though it is recognized as a right by the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.