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Wikipedia says: XIX Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of its service in Louisiana and the Gulf, though several units fought in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

XIX Corps was created on December 14, 1862, and assigned to Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, the commander of the Department of the Gulf. The corps comprised all Union troops then occupying Louisiana and east Texas. It originally consisted of four divisions, numbering 36,000 men.

Port Hudson

In April 1863, the corps was involved in the actions at Fort Bisland and Irish Bend. It operated the Siege of Port Hudson from April 27–July 9, 1863, the fall of which, along with that of Vicksburg, Mississippi, closed off the Mississippi River to Confederate shipping. XIX Corps also gained measure of distinction for being the first Federal unit to use a large number of colored troops in action, particularly against Port Hudson, with Banks giving them due credit for their valiant contributions to the siege.

MG Nathaniel P. Banks

Chief of Staff: BG George L. Andrews, BG Charles P. Stone

1st Division: MG Christopher C. Augur

2nd Division: BG Thomas W. Sherman (w), BG George L. Andrews, BG Frank S. Nickerson, BG William Dwight

3rd Division: BG Halbert E. Paine (w), Col Hawkes Fearing

4th Division: BG Cuvier Grover

1st Division, 1st Brigade (Col Edward P. Chapin (k), Col Charles J. Paine)

2nd Louisiana: Col Charles J. Paine

21st Maine: Col Elijah D. Johnson

48th Massachusetts: Col Eben F. Stone

49th Massachusetts: Ltc Burton D. Deming (k)

116th New York: Cpt John Higgins

1st Division, 2nd Brigade (BG Godfrey Weitzel, Col Stephen Thomas)

12th Connecticut: Ltc Frank H. Peck (w)

75th New York: Col Robert B. Merritt

114th New York: Col Elisha B. Smith (mw)

160th New York: Ltc John B. Van Petten

176th New York: Cols Charles C. Nott, Ambrose Stevens, Charles Lewis

8th Vermont: Col Stephen Thomas

1st Division, 3rd Brigade (Col Nathan Dudley)

30th Massachusetts : Ltc William W. Bullock

50th Massachusetts: Col Carlos P. Messer

161st New York: Col Gabriel T. Harrower

174th New York: Maj George Keating

1st Division, Artillery

1st Battery, Indiana Heavy Artillery: Col John A. Keith

1st Battery, Maine Light Artillery: Lt John E. Morton

6th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery: Lt John F. Phelps

Section, 12th Massachusetts Light Artillery: Lt Edwin M. Chamberlin

18th Battery, New York Light Artillery: Cpt Albert G. Mack

Battery A, 1st U.S. Light Artillery: Cpt Edmund C. Bainbridge

Battery G, 5th U.S. Artillery: Lt Jacob B. Rawles

2nd Division, 1st Brigade (BG Neal S. Dow (w&c), Col David S. Cowles (k), Col Thomas S. Clark)

26th Connecticut: Ltc Joseph Selden

6th Michigan: Col Thomas S. Clark

15th New Hampshire: Col John W. Kingman

128th New York: Col David S. Cowles

162nd New York: Col Lewis Benedict

2nd Division, 2nd Brigade (Col Alpha B. Farr, Col Lewis Benedict)

9th Connecticut: Ltc Richard Fitz Gibbons

26th Massachusetts: Ltc Josiah A. Sawtell

42d Massachusetts: Ltc Joseph Stedman

47th Massachusetts: Col Lucius B. Marsh

2nd Division, 3rd Brigade (BG Frank S. Nickerson)

14th Maine: Col Thomas W. Porter

24th Maine: Col George Marston Atwood

28th Maine: Col Ephriam W. Woodman

165th New York: Ltc Abel Smith Jr. (mw)

175th New York: Col Michael K. Bryan (k)

177th New York: Col Ira W. Ainsworth

2nd Division, Artillery

21st Battery, New York Light Artillery: Cpt James Barnes

1st Battery, Vermont Light Artillery: Cpt George T. Hebard

3rd Division, 1st Brigade (Col Timothy Ingraham, Col Samuel P. Ferris)

28th Connecticut: Col Samuel P. Ferris

4th Massachusetts: Col Henry Walker

16th New Hampshire: Col James Pike

110th New York: Col Clinton H. Sage

3rd Division, 2nd Brigade (Col Hawkes Fearing)

8th New Hampshire : Ltc Oliver W. Lull

133rd New York: Col Leonard D. H. Currie

173rd New York: Maj A. Power Gallway

4th Wisconsin: Col Sidney A. Bean

3rd Division, 3rd Brigade (Col Oliver P. Gooding)

31st Massachusetts : Ltc William S.B. Hopkins

38th Massachusetts: Ltc William L. Rodman (k)

53rd Massachusetts: Col John W. Kimball

156th New York: Col Jacob Sharpe

3rd Division, Artillery

4th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery: Lt Frederick W. Reinhard

Battery F, 1st U.S. Light Artillery: Cpt Richard C. Duryea

2nd Battery, Vermont Light Artillery: Cpt Pythagoras E. Holcomb

4th Division, 1st Brigade (BG William Dwight, Col Richard E. Holcomb (k), Col Joseph S. Morgan)

1st Louisiana (U.S.) : Ltc William O. Fiske

22nd Maine: Col Simon G. Jerrard

90th New York: Col Joseph S. Morgan

91st New York Infantry Regiment: Col Jacob Van Zandt

131st New York: Col Nicholas W. Day

4th Division, 2nd Brigade (Col William K. Kimball)

24th Connecticut: Col Samuel M. Mansfield

12th Maine: Ltc Edward Ilsley

41st Massachusetts: Col Thomas E. Chickering

52nd Massachusetts: Col Halbert S. Greenleaf

4th Division, 3rd Brigade (Col Henry W. Birge)

13th Connecticut: Cpt Apollos Comstock

25th Connecticut: Ltc Mason C. Weld

26th Maine: Col Nathan H. Hubbard

159th New York: Ltc Charles A. Burt

US Colored Troops, Corps D’Afrique (BG Daniel Ullman)

6th United States Colored Troops: Maj George Bishop

7th United States Colored Troops: Maj Cornelius Mowers

8th United States Colored Troops: Ltc William S. Mudgett

9th United States Colored Troops: Ltc Isaac S. Bangs

10th United States Colored Troops: Ltc Ladislas L. Zulavsky

1st Louisiana Engineers: Col Justin Hodge

US Colored Troops, Native Guard

1st Louisiana Native Guards: Ltc Chauncey J. Bassett

3rd Louisiana Native Guards: Col John A. Nelson

4th Louisiana Native Guards: Col Charles W. Drew

Cavalry, Grierson’s Brigade (Col Benjamin H. Grierson)

6th Illinois Cavalry: Col Reuben Loomis

7th Illinois Cavalry: Col Edward Prince

1st Louisiana Cavalry: Maj Harai Robinson

2nd Rhode Island Cavalry: Ltc Augustus W. Corliss

2nd Massachusetts Cavalry: Maj James Magee

14th New York Cavalry: Cpt George Branning

4th Wisconsin Mounted: Maj Webster Moore

Red River Campaign

In spring of 1864, the corps took part in Banks’ disastrous Red River Campaign, under the command of William B. Franklin, who was wounded at Mansfield. After its conspicuous role in the failure, two divisions under William H. Emory were sent to Virginia to join Phillip Sheridan’s operations in the Shenandoah Valley against Jubal Early (see Valley Campaigns of 1864). These troops took part in all of the major engagements of Sheridan’s campaign, most notably at Opequon, where they lost some 2,000 men killed or wounded (mostly in Cuvier Grover’s division).

Georgia

After this, the corps was sent Savannah, Georgia, where it remained until the end of the war. The XIX Corps was officially disbanded on March 26, 1865, but the corps took part in the Grand Review in Washington, and some of its units remained in Savannah and Louisiana until 1866.