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:



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: