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Commanded by Major General Nathaniel P. Banks

The Corps was heavily engaged in the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9. After the battle the brigade structure was reorganized, with the First Division’s Second Brigade moved to become the Second Division’s First Brigade, and the Second Division’s First and Second Brigades being renumberd to Second and Third Brigades.

First Division

Brigadier General Alpheus S. Williams
First Brigade Brigadier General Samuel Crawford
5th Connecticut Infantry Regiment Colonel George D. Chapman (w&c 8/9)
Captain Henry W. Daboll
10th Maine Infantry Regiment Colonel George L. Beal
28th New York Infantry Regiment Colonel Dudley Donnelly (mw 8/9)
46th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Colonel Joseph F. Knipe (w 9/8)
Second Brigade Colonel Charles Candy  to 2nd Div. (below)
as 1 Brig. after 8/9
5th Ohio Infantry Regiment Colonel Samuel H. Dunning
7th Ohio Infantry Regiment Lieutenant Colonel William Creighton (w 8/9)
29th Ohio Infantry Regiment Colonel Lewis P. Buckley
66th Ohio Infantry Regiment
28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Colonel Gabriel De Korponay
Third Brigade Brigadier General George H. Gordon 
27th Indiana Infantry Regiment Colonel Silas Colgrove
2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment Colonel George L. Andrews
29th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Captain Samuel M. Zulich
3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment Captain Thomas H. Ruger
Division Artillery
Battery M, 1st New York Artillery Lieutenant James H. Peabody
Pennsylvania Independent Battery F Lieutenant Charles A. Atwell
Battery F, 4th United States Artillery Lieutenant Franklin B. Crosby

Second Division

Brigadier General C. C. Augur (w 8/9)
Brigadier General Henry Prince (c 8/9)
Brigadier General George S. Greene
First Brigade Brigadier General James Cooper
Colonel D. P. DeWitt (8/9 – 8/12)
Colonel M. Schlandecker (8/12 – 8/30)
Colonel T. P. Van Buren (after 8/30)
 redesignated 2nd Brig.
after 8/9
3rd Maryland Infantry Regiment
102nd New York Infantry Regiment
109th Pensylvania Infantry Regiment Colonel Henry J. Stainrook
111th Pensylvania Infantry Regiment Colonel Matthew Schlaudecker
8th & 12th United States Infantry
Second Brigade Brigadier General Henry Prince (c 8/9)
Colonel D. P. DeWitt (to 8/12)
Colonel J.A. Tate
redesignated 3rd Brig.
after 8/9
3rd Delaware Infantry Regiment
1st District of Columbia Infantry Regt.
60th New York Infantry Regiment
78th New York Infantry Regiment
Purnell (Maryland) Legion Infantry
Division Artillery
4th Maine Battery
1st New York Light Artillery, Battery L

Cavalry Command

Brigadier General John Buford (w 8/30)
1st Michigan Cavalry Regiment
5th New York Cavalry Regiment
2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment Colonel Richard B. Price from Mil Dist. Washington after 8/9
1st Vermont Cavary Regiment
1st West Virginia Cavalry (8 Cos.)

Corps Artillery

16th Indiana Battery