United States Regular Army
| Commission date | Name | Notes |
United States Volunteers
| Commission date | Name | Notes |
| January 1861 | Nathaniel P. Banks | |
| May 16, 1861 | Benjamin F. Butler | resigned 11/30/64 |
| March 18, 1862 | Ambrose E. Burnside | resigned 4/15/65 |
| March 22, 1862 | Don Carlos Buell | mustered out 5/64 |
| April 25, 1862 | George Cadwalader | |
| July 4, 1862 | Philip Kearny | killed 9/30/62 |
| May 31, 1862 | Silas Casey | |
| August 9, 1862 | Christopher C. Augur | |
| August, 1862 | David Hunter | |
| September 17, 1862 | Joseph K.F. Mansfield | posthumous promotion to when mortally wounded |
| November 29, 1862 | Hiram G. Berry | mortally wounded 5/3/63 |
| November 29, 1862 | Daniel Butterfield | |
| May 20, 1863 | David B. Birney | died of disease 10/18/64 |
| May 25, 1865 | Francis C. Barlow |
