The Department of Pennsylvania represented the Union Army at the Battle of Hoke's Run (July 2, 1861) during the outset of the American Civil War. Although the entire force crossed the Potomac River into Virginia, the First and Sixth Brigades were primarily engaged.[1]


Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Department of Pennsylvania

MG Robert Patterson

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division[2]
     BG George Cadwallader

 1st Brigade[3]


   Col George H. Thomas
3rd Brigade[4]


  BG Alpheus S. Williams
  • 7th Pennsylvania: Col William H. Irwin
  • 8th Pennsylvania: Col A.H. Emley
  • 10th Pennsylvania: Col Sullivan A. Meredith
  • 20th Pennsylvania: Col William H. Gray
4th Brigade[5]


  Col Dixon S. Miles (until June 17)
  Col. J. C. Longenecker

Second Division[6]
     MG William H. Keim

 2nd Brigade[7]


  BG G. C. Wynkoop
5th Brigade[8]


  BG J. S. Negley
  • 14th Pennsylvania: Col John W. Johnston
  • 15th Pennsylvania: Col Richard A. Oakford
  • 24th Pennsylvania: Col Joshua T. Owen
6th Brigade[9]


  Col. J. J. Abercrombie

Third Division[10]
     MG Charles W. Sandford

 7th Brigade[11]


   Col Charles P. Stone
8th Brigade


   Col C. Schwarzwaelder
   Col Daniel Butterfield
  • 5th New York State Militia: Col C. Schwarzwaelder
  • 12th New York State Militia: Col Daniel Butterfield
  • 19th New York: Col John S. Clarke
  • 28th New York: Col Dudley Donnelly

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References

  1. ↑ "CWSAC Report Update and Resurvey: Individual Battlefield Profiles" (PDF). National Park Service. p. 40. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "U.S. Army-Department of PA-1st Division". Civil War in the East. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Vol. I. Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer. p. 58.
  4. ↑ Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Vol. I. Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer. p. 68.
  5. ↑ Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Vol. I. Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer. p. 87.
  6. ↑ "U.S. Army-Department of PA-2nd Division". Civil War in the East. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  7. ↑ Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Vol. I. Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer. p. 32.
  8. ↑ Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Vol. I. Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer. p. 134.
  9. ↑ Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Vol. I. Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer. p. 107.
  10. ↑ "U.S. Army-Department of PA-3rd Division". Civil War in the East. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  11. ↑ Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Vol. I. Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer. pp. 107, 227.
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