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This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States and the Confederate States (Confederate States Army).
Union Army Divisions, Departments and Districts. During the American Civil War, a department was a geographical command within the Union's military organization, usually reporting directly to the War Department. Many of the Union's departments were named after rivers or other bodies of water, such as the Department of the Potomac and the ...
The strength of a Union corps averaged 9,000 to 12,000 officers and men, those of Confederate armies might average 20,000. Two or more corps usually constituted an army, the largest operational organization. During the Civil War there were at least 16 armies on the Union side, and 23 on the Confederate side.
The Iron Brigade, also known as The Black Hats, Black Hat Brigade, Iron Brigade of the West, and originally King's Wisconsin Brigade was an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Although it fought entirely in the Eastern Theater, it was composed of regiments from three Western states that are now ...
1st Infantry Regiment. 2nd Infantry Regiment. 3rd Infantry Regiment. 4th Infantry Regiment. 5th Infantry Regiment. 6th Infantry Regiment. 7th Infantry Regiment. 8th Infantry Regiment. 9th Infantry Regiment.
This list of United States Army divisions is divided into three eras: 1911–1917, 1917–1941, and 1941–present. These eras represent the major evolutions of army division structure (there have been several minor changes during these times). The 1911–1917 era lists divisions raised during the Army's first attempts at modernizing the ...
During World War I, the United States Army formed its divisions as square divisions of four infantry or cavalry regiments in two infantry or cavalry brigades and three artillery regiments in one artillery brigade. The US Army reorganized as triangular divisions of three infantry regiments and "division artillery" of three 105 mm howitzer ...
The Texas Brigade (also known as Hood's Brigade) was an infantry formation of the Confederate Army that distinguished itself in the American Civil War. Along with the Stonewall Brigade , they were considered the Army of Northern Virginia's shock troops .