Fort Organization of Forces, Forts Henry, Heiman & Donelson--Federal

This information taken from: Forts Henry & Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland by Benjamin Franklin Cooling. University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

Federal Forces:

Army:
GRANT: (approximately 12,000, Feb. 6; approximately 25,000, Feb. 16.)

• 37 infantry regiments + 1 company
• 8 artillery batteries (field guns)
• 2 cavalry regiments + 4 independent companies

First Division (McClernand)
1st Brigade (Oglesby)

• 8th, 18th, 29th, 30th, 31st Illinois Infantry
• Battery D, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery (Dresser)
• Battery E, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery (Schwartz ) (Gumbart)
• Companies A, B, 2nd Illinois Cavalry (Noble)
• Company C, 2nd US Cavalry (Powell)
• Company I, 4th US Cavalry (Powell)
• Carmichael’s Illinois Cavalry
• Dollins’ Illinois Cavalry
• O’Harnette’s Illinois Cavalry
• Stewart’s Illinois Cavalry (King)

2nd Brigade (W.H.L. Wallace)

• 11th, 20th, 45th, 48th Illinois Infantry
• Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery (Taylor)
• Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery (McAllister)
• 4th Illinois Cavalry (Dickey)
• 3rd Brigade (Morrison—wounded, Feb. 13, command passed to W.H.L. Wallace on
• Feb. 15, Ross senior officer present)
• 17th, 49th Illinois Infantry

Second Division (C.F. Smith)
1st Brigade (McArthur)

• 9th, 12th, 41st Illinois Infantry

3rd Brigade (Cook)

• Battery D, 1st Missouri Light Artillery (Richardson)
• Battery H, 1st Missouri Light Artillery (Welker)
• Battery K, 1st Missouri Light Artillery (Stone)
• 7th, 50th Illinois Infantry
• 12th Iowa Infantry
• 13th Missouri Infantry

4th Brigade (Lauman)

• 25th Indiana Infantry
• 2nd, 7th, 14th Iowa Infantry
• Birge’s Western Sharpshooters

5th Brigade (M.L. Smith)

• 8th Missouri Infantry
• nth Indiana Infantry

Third Division (L. Wallace)
1st Brigade (Cruft)

• 31st, 44th Indiana Infantry
• 17th, 25th Kentucky Infantry

2nd Brigade (attached to 3rd Brigade)

• 46th, 57th, 58th Illinois Infantry

3rd Brigade (Thayer)

• 1st Nebraska Infantry
• 58th, 68th, 76th Ohio Infantry

Not Brigaded

• Company A, 32nd Illinois Infantry
• Battery A, 1st Illinois (Chicago) Light Artillery (Wood)

Navy:
FOOTE: (6-8 iron- and timber-clad gunboats)

At Fort Henry
Cincinnati (Stembel); Essex (Porter); Carondelet (Walke); St. Louis (Paulding); Conestoga (Phelps); Tyler (Gwinn); Lexington (Shirk)

At Fort Donelson
St. Louis (Paulding); Carondelet (Walke); Louisville (Dove); Pittsburg (Thompson); Tyler (Gwinn); Conestoga (Phelps)