Seven Days
Relative Strength of the Opposing Forces
(by Davide Pastore)
Last Update 01 July 2005
U.S. Forces (McClellan) |
Staff |
Infantry |
Cavalry |
Artillery |
Aggregate |
II CORPS (Sumner) |
|
|
|
|
|
1st Division (Richardson) |
|
7,750 |
60 |
240 |
8,050 |
2nd Division (Sedgwick) |
|
8,366 |
60 |
240 |
8,666 |
Unattached |
|
|
|
355 |
355 |
III CORPS (Heintzelman) |
|
|
|
|
|
2nd Division (Hooker) |
|
8,761 |
|
320 |
9,081 |
3rd Division (Kearny) |
|
8,068 |
|
240 |
8,308 |
Unattached |
|
|
751 |
378 |
1,129 |
IV CORPS (Keyes) |
|
|
|
|
|
1st Division (Couch) |
|
8,099 |
60 |
140 |
8,299 |
2nd Division (Peck) |
|
4,996 |
60 |
180 |
5,236 |
Unattached |
|
|
643 |
356 |
999 |
V PROVISIONAL CORPS (Porter) |
|
|
|
|
|
1st Division (Morell) |
|
10,092 |
|
480 |
10,572 |
2nd Division (Sykes) |
|
4,330 |
|
240 |
4,570 |
3rd Division (McCall) |
|
7,885 |
480 |
440 |
8,805 |
Artillery Reserve (Hunt) |
|
|
|
2,442 |
2,442 |
Unattached |
|
|
671 |
|
671 |
VI PROVISIONAL CORPS (Franklin) |
|
|
|
|
|
1st Division (Slocum) |
|
8,871 |
|
360 |
9,231 |
2nd Division (Smith) |
|
8,733 |
120 |
440 |
9,293 |
Unattached |
|
|
841 |
|
841 |
UNATTACHED |
|
|
|
|
|
Cavalry Division (Cooke) |
|
|
675 |
|
675 |
Aggregate Engaged |
|
85,951 |
4,421 |
6,851 |
97,223 |
% of enemy |
|
96.7% |
88.4% |
114.6% |
97.3% |
NOT ENGAGED |
|
|
|
|
|
Staff etc. |
265 |
2,073 |
467 |
|
2,805 |
Stoneman's Command |
|
1,424 |
967 |
120 |
2,511 |
Casey's Command |
|
1,129 |
540 |
663 |
2,332 |
Aggregate Total |
265 |
90,577 |
6,395 |
7,364 |
104,871 |
All strength are Present for Duty Equipped (except part of the staff)
taken from OR 14:238 (situation at 20 June 1862).
The calculations behind this table are somewhat complicated, since
apparently a number of detached units were still counted within
their old command.
Field artillery: the aggregate of Corps reserves (Bartlett, De Russy,
West and Hunt) is 3,197 men with 164 guns; average 19.5 men per gun,
rounded to 20 men per gun.
U.S.V. cavalry: the aggregate of Corps reserves (Averell, Gregg,
Farnsworth, McReynolds) is 2,906 men in 48 companies; average 60.5
men per company, rounded to 60.
Staff: my assessments (when strength not reported) are 6 men for
each division and 3 men for each brigade.
Divisional details are:
- Richardson:
Pfde 8,145 men, 140 co.inf + 1 co.cav + 3 co.art, 16 guns
(minus 1 co.art, 4 guns, detached to Casey);
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 12 x 20 = 240 men;
artillery detached 4 x 20 = 80 men;
cavalry 60 men;
infantry 8,145 - 15 - 240 - 80 - 60 = 7,750 men.
Note: according to Dyer, the battery with Casey (F, 1st N.Y.) was
detached from Slocum's division. However I decided for the solution
shown above, since otherwise (according to the OR table) Richardson
would have had four guns too much, and Slocum four guns too few.
- Sedgwick:
Pfde 8,681 men, 122 co.inf + 1 co.cav + 2 co.art, 12 guns;
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 12 x 20 = 240 men;
cavalry 60 men;
infantry 8,681 - 15 - 240 - 60 = 8,366 men.
- Hooker:
Pfde 8,976 men, 150 co.inf + 2 co.art, 10 guns
(plus 1 co.art, 6 guns, detached from Hunt);
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 10 x 20 = 200 men (plus 6 x 20 = 120 men, aggregate 320 men);
infantry 8,976 - 15 - 200 - 60 = 8,761 men.
- Kearny:
Pfde 8,323 men, 150 co.inf + 2 co.art, 12 guns;
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 12 x 20 = 240 men;
infantry 8,323 - 15 - 240 = 8,068 men.
- Couch:
Pfde 8,314 men, 140 co.inf + 1 co.cav + 2 co.art, 7 guns;
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 7 x 20 = 140 men;
cavalry 60 men;
infantry 8,314 - 15 - 140 - 60 = 8,099 men.
- Peck:
Pfde 5,248, 130 co.inf + 1 co.cav + 2 co.art, 9 guns;
staff 6 + 2 x 3 = 12 men;
artillery 9 x 20 = 180 men;
cavalry 60 men;
infantry 5,248 - 12 - 180 - 60 = 4,996 men.
- Morell:
Pfde 12,011 men, 162 co.inf (minus 20 co.inf detached to
Stoneman) + 4 co.art, 24 guns;
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 24 x 20 = 480 men;
aggregate infantry 12,011 - 15 - 480 = 11,516 men;
detached infantry 11,516 x 20/162 = 1,424 men;
remaining infantry 11,516 x 142/162 = 10,092 men.
- Sykes:
Pfde 5,745 men, 95 co.inf + 12 heavy artillery companies (all
detached, seven to Hunt and five to Casey)
(plus 2 co.art, 12 guns, detached from Hunt);
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
heavy artillery 1,400 men (OR 12:339)
(to Hunt: 1,400 x 7/12 = 817 men; to Casey: 1,400 x 5/12 = 583 men);
field artillery 0 (plus 12 x 20 = 240 men);
infantry 5,745 - 15 - 1,400 = 4,330 men.
- McCall:
Pfde 9,501 men, 126 co.inf (minus 10 co.inf detached to Casey)
+ 8 co.cav + 4 co.art, 22 guns;
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 22 x 20 = 440 men;
cavalry 8 x 60 = 480 men;
aggregate infantry 9,501 - 15 - 440 - 480 = 8,566 men;
detached infantry 8,566 x 10/126 = 681 men;
remaining infantry 8,566 x 116/126 = 7,885 men.
- Hunt:
Pfde 2,108 men, 24 co.art, 108 guns (minus 4 co.art, 24 guns,
detached to Hooker, Sykes and Stoneman) (plus five companies
heavy artillery detached from Sykes);
staff 3 men (notwithstanding the division of Reserve into
five brigades, total force was comparable to a single infantry
or cavalry brigade);
detached field artillery 24 x 20 = 480 men;
heavy artillery 0 (plus 817 men, see Sykes);
remaining field artillery 2,108 - 3 - 480 = 1,625 men.
- Slocum:
Pfde 9,246 men, 120 co.inf + 3 co.art (18 guns);
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 18 x 20 = 360 men;
infantry 9,246 - 15 - 360 = 8,871 men.
- Smith:
Pfde 9,308 men, 140 co.inf + 2 co.cav + 4 co.art (22 guns);
staff 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
artillery 22 x 20 = 440 men;
cavalry 2 x 60 = 120 men;
infantry 9,308 - 15 - 440 - 120 = 8,733 men.
- Cooke:
Pfde 2,087 men, 45 co.cav (20 U.S.V. + 25 U.S.) with many
detachments.
staff 6 + 2 x 3 = 12 men;
U.S.V. cavalry 20 x 60 = 1,200 men;
U.S. cavalry 2,087 - 12 - 1200 = 875 men (average of 35 men
per company). Individual detachments are:
-
With the army: 6 USV.co (BCEFGH/6th Pa.) + 9 US.co
(1st U.S. & half/5th U.S.) 6 x 60 + 9 x 35 = 675 men.
-
With Stoneman: 4 USV.co (ADIK/6th Pa.) + 16 US.co
(1st & 6th U.S.) 4 x 60 + 16 x 35 = 800 men.
-
With Dix (at Williamsburg and Yorktown): 10 USV.co
(5th Pa.) 10 x 60 = 600 men.
- Staff etc.
-
Staff proper: Army and Corps 88 men (mostly listed as Pfd
but not as Pfde) + 174 men listed above = 262 men.
-
Escort and Orderlies: Pfde cavalry 102 men.
-
Provost Guard and HQ Guard:
Pfde 927 men, 2 USV.cav.co + 7 US.cav.co + 9 inf.co;
cavalry 2 x 60 + 7 x 35 (as per Cooke above) = 365 men;
infantry 927 - 365 = 562 men.
-
Engineers: U.S. 194 men, U.S.V. 1,317 men; aggregate infantry
including Guard 194 + 1,317 + 562 = 2,073 men.
- Stoneman:
-
18th Mass. & 17th N.Y. (detached from Morell) 1,424 men.
-
Artillery (detached from Hunt) 120 men.
-
6th Pa. Cavalry, 1st U.S. Cavalry and 6th U.S. Cavalry (detached
from Cooke) 800 men.
-
5th U.S. Cavalry: the table in OR 14:238 shows but 62 Pfde men in
Stoneman's command. Very puzzling. After some reflection I decided
these men represent two companies (5 officers Pfd being too much
for a single company) of 5th U.S. (three others being initially
with Casey). I have absolutely no evidence for this; it's pure guess.
Initial 62 men plus 3 x 35 men = 167 men.
Aggregate cavalry 800 + 167 = 967 men.
- Casey:
Pfde 1,093 men (listed as "Quartermaster Guard"), 6 co.inf (plus
10 detached from McCall) + 9 USV.co.cav + 3 US.co.cav (all detached
to Stoneman (plus 1 co.art, 4 guns, detached from Richardson, and
5 heavy artillery companies detached from Sykes);
cavalry 9 x 60 + 3 x 35 (as per Cooke above) = 645 men (540 men
present, 105 detached to Stoneman);
infantry 1,093 - 645 = 448 men (plus 681 men from McCall = 1,129 men);
field artillery (detached from Richardson) 4 x 20 = 80 men;
heavy artillery (detached from Sykes) 583 men.
C.S. Forces (Lee) |
Staff |
Infantry |
Cavalry |
Artillery |
Aggregate |
JACKSON'S COMMAND |
|
|
|
|
|
Jackson's Division |
|
9,668 |
|
324 |
9,992 |
Ewell's Division |
|
7,320 |
47 |
288 |
7,655 |
Whiting's Division |
|
4,449 |
|
144 |
4,593 |
Unattached |
|
|
564 |
|
564 |
MAGRUDER'S COMMAND |
|
|
|
|
|
Magruder's Division |
|
4,444 |
|
144 |
4,588 |
Jones's Division |
|
4,444 |
|
288 |
4,732 |
McLaws' Division |
|
4,943 |
|
162 |
5,105 |
Unattached |
|
|
|
468 |
468 |
INDEPENDENT DIVISIONS |
|
|
|
|
|
Longstreet's Division |
|
12,316 |
|
702 |
13,018 |
Huger's Division |
|
6,396 |
|
378 |
6,774 |
D. H. Hill's Division |
|
10,699 |
|
360 |
11,059 |
A. P. Hill's Division |
|
14,852 |
|
738 |
15,590 |
Holmes' Command (engaged) |
|
9,386 |
280 |
472 |
10,138 |
UNATTACHED |
|
|
|
|
|
Stuart's Brigade |
|
|
4,112 |
72 |
4,184 |
Reserve Artillery (Pendleton) |
|
|
|
1,440 |
1,440 |
Aggregate Engaged |
|
88,917 |
5,003 |
5,980 |
99,900 |
% of enemy |
|
103.5% |
113.2% |
87.3% |
102.8% |
NOT ENGAGED |
|
|
|
|
|
Staff etc. |
209 |
|
|
|
209 |
Holmes' Command (not engaged) |
|
1,921 |
|
297 |
2,218 |
Richmond Defenses (Rhett) |
|
|
|
2,622 |
2,622 |
Aggregate Total |
209 |
90,838 |
5,003 |
8,899 |
104,740 |
All strength are Present for Duty, mainly derived from
Livermore (p.84) but with some variations (notably for
Longstreet division).
Officers: As a rule, Confederate strength reports (unless
the contrary is explicitly stated) do not include officers
(nor cavalry, nor artillery). Livermore adds 3,500 officers
to a total of 51,908 men (from 1,201 companies) deducted from
the OR reports. I have slightly raised this rate to 3 officers
per company, since the single lone confederate report mentioning
them (Wise's brigade, OR 13:916) lists 62 officers against 20
infantry companies.
Artillery: Livermore adds 1,500 officers and men to the above
(from 40 companies) which seems quite a bit on the lower side.
Reports detailing battery strength can be found in OR 13:912 (Holmes),
13:916 (Wise) and 14:689 (S. D. Lee). Leaving apart the statistical
flukes (much too low: Graham's; much too high: Carlton's and Woolfolk's)
and adding two guns to Woolfolk (as per OR 13:542) the remaining 18
batteries have 73 guns and 1,241 effective men, average 4.0 gun per
battery and 17.0 men per gun (18 men Pfd, including officers and
rounded). I assigned 4 guns to each battery whose pieces are not
detailed in OR (with the ecception of some unit listed in OR 14:615,
put at 3, 5 or 6 guns according to their personnel strength and
average of men per gun) but only 2 guns to the units training
at Camp Lee.
Cavalry: calculated on Stuart's average of 47 men per company
(see below).
Staff: my assessments (when strength not reported) are 6 men for
each division and 3 men for each brigade (Jackson's and Magruder's
"Commands", being ad-hoc units, did not qualify for extra staff).
Army and Department staff I put at 20 men (my guess).
Divisional detail are:
- Jackson:
infantry 1,122 Eff (Winder) + 4,527 Eff (Jones and Fulkerson)
+ 3,500 Eff (Lawton),
as per Livermore, plus 3 * 173 = 519 officers,
aggregate infantry 9,668 men;
artillery 18 x 18 = 324 men;
divisional aggregate 9,992 men.
- Ewell:
infantry 6,825 Eff as per Livermore, plus 3 x 165 = 495 officers,
aggregate infantry 7,320 men;
cavalry 47 men;
Artillery 16 x 18 = 288 men.
Divisional aggregate 7,655 men.
- Whiting:
infantry 3,963 Eff (Hood and Law) + 219 Eff (Hampton's Legion)
as per Livermore, plus 3 x 89 = 267 officers,
aggregate infantry 4,449 men;
artillery 8 x 18 = 144 men;
divisional aggregate 4,593 men.
- Cavalry, Jackson's Command:
cavalry 12 x 47 = 564 men.
- Magruder:
infantry 89/277 x 13,000 (Magruder's Command, as per OR 13:661)
= 4,177 Eff, plus 3 x 89 = 267 officers,
aggregate infantry 4,444 men;
artillery 8 x 18 = 144 men;
divisional aggregate 4,588 men.
- Jones:
infantry 89/277 x 13,000 (as per above)
= 4,177 Eff, plus 3 x 89 = 267 officers,
aggregate infantry 4,444 men;
artillery 16 x 18 = 288 men;
divisional aggregate 4,732 men.
- McLaws:
infantry 99/277 x 13,000 (as per above) = 4,646 Eff,
plus 3 x 99 = 297 officers,
aggregate infantry 4,943 men;
artillery 9 x 18 = 162 men;
divisional aggregate 5,105 men.
- Artillery, Magruder's Command:
artillery 26 x 18 = 468 men.
- Longstreet: Livermore lists 8,661 effective infantry, which
seems unduly low. Army strength for 20 July (as per OR 14:645)
for the divisions of D. H. Hill (including Wise's brigade),
McLaws (including the former Magruder's one), A. P. Hill,
Anderson (former Huger's), Jones and Whiting shows a total
of 41,664 Pfd + 12,877 infantry losses during the Seven Days
(as per OR 13:973 et seq.) = 54,541 Pfd before battle; this is
105.2% of the 51,855 infantry Pfd calculated here (the difference
being the slightly wounded men returned to the ranks);
individual divisional vales range from 98.5% to 125.3%.
But Longstreet division on 20 July had 8,514 men and had
previously suffered 4,430 infantry losses, aggregate
12,944, half as much as Livermore's. To reach the 105.1%
average requires a raise of his values by a 1/3 factor,
which I employed.
infantry 8,661 Eff (as per Livermore) x 4/3 (as per above)
= 11,545 Eff, plus 3 x 257 = 771 officers,
aggregate infantry 12,316 men (105.1% of 12,944);
artillery 39 x 18 = 702 men;
divisional aggregate 13,018 men.
- Huger:
infantry 1,800 (Mahone, as per OR 13:796) + 2,000 (Wright, as per
OR 13:806) + 2,128 (Armistead, at the divisional average of 38 men
per company) = 5,928 Eff, plus 3 x 156 = 468 officers,
aggregate infantry 6,396 men;
artillery 21 x 18 = 378 men;
divisional aggregate 6,774 men.
- D. H. Hill:
infantry 10,000 Eff as per Livermore, plus 3 x 233 = 699 officers,
aggregate infantry 10,699 men;
artillery 20 x 18 = 360 men;
divisional aggregate 11,059 men.
- A. P. Hill:
infantry 14,000 Eff as per Livermore, plus 3 x 284 = 852 officers,
aggregate infantry 14,852 men;
artillery 41 x 18 = 738 men;
divisional aggregate 15,590 men.
- Holmes (engaged):
infantry 3,000 (Ransom, as per 13:794) + 1,570 (Daniel, as
per OR 13:906) + 3,600 (Walker, as per OR 13:906) = 8,170 Eff,
plus 3 x 134 = 402 officers, plus 62 officers and 752 men (Wise,
as per OR 13:916), aggregate infantry 9,386 men;
Cavalry 130 Eff (Daniel, as per OR 13:906), plus 3 x 3 = 9 officers,
plus 3 x 47 (Ransom and Walker), aggregate cavalry 280 men;
artillery 296 (Holmes, as per OR 13:912), plus 3 x 4 = 12 officers,
plus 17 losses during the Seven Days, plus 6 officers and 141 men
(Wise, as per OR 13:916), aggregate artillery 472 men;
divisional aggregate 10,138 men.
- Stuart:
cavalry 301 officers + 3,740 men (Pfd 20 July, as per OR 14:645),
+ 71 losses (as per OR 13:984), aggregate 4,112 men (referred to
90 companies, average 45.7 men per company);
artillery 4 x 18 = 72 men;
aggregate 4,184 men.
- Pendleton:
artillery 80 x 18 = 1,440 men.
- Staff:
army 20 men; Jackson 6 + 4 x 3 = 18 men; Ewell 6 + 4 x 3 = 18 men;
Whiting 6 + 2 x 3 = 12 men; Magruder 6 + 2 x 3 = 12 men;
Jones 6 + 2 x 3 = 12 men; Mclaws 6 + 2 x 3 = 12 men;
Longstreet 6 + 6 x 3 = 24 men; Huger 6 + 3 x 3 = 15 men;
D. H. Hill 6 + 5 x 3 = 21 men; A. P. Hill 6 + 6 x 3 = 24 men;
Holmes 6 + 4 x 3 = 18 men; Stuart 3 men; aggregate 209 men.
- Holmes (not engaged):
infantry 1,047 Eff (20/30 of Daniel) plus 3 x 20 officers,
plus 62 officers and 752 men (Wise, as above), aggregate infantry 1,921 men;
artillery 144 (as per OR 13:912), plus 3 * 2 officers, plus 6 officers
and 141 men (Wise, as above), aggregate artillery 472 men;
divisional aggregate 2,218 men.
- Richmond Defenses:
field artillery 28 x 18 = 504 men;
Camp Lee 26 x 18 = 468 men;
heavy artillery 33 companies x 50 men (my guess) = 1,650 men;
aggregate 2,622 men.