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IX Corps (ACW)

IX Corps
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IX Corps badge
Active 1862–1865
Country United States United States
Branch Usdowseal.jpg United States Army
Part of Department of Virginia
Army of the Potomac
Department of the Ohio
Department of the Tennessee
Army of the Ohio
Engagements Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Chantilly
Battle of South Mountain
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Vicksburg Campaign
Knoxville Campaign
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse
Battle of North Anna
Battle of Cold Harbor
Second Battle of Petersburg
Siege of Petersburg
Battle of the Crater
Battle of Globe Tavern
Battle of Fort Stedman
Disbanded July 27, 1865
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Ambrose Burnside
Orlando B. Willcox
John G. Parke
Insignia
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IX Corps (Ninth Army Corps) was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War that distinguished itself in combat in multiple theaters: the Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

Although the official order designating its number was not issued until July 22, 1862, the IX Corps organization dates from the expedition to North Carolina in February, 1862, under Ambrose E. Burnside and to the operations about Hilton Head, South Carolina, because the troops engaged in these movements were the only ones used in the formation of the corps. The corps was assembled by Burnside at Newport News, Virginia, from his two brigades from North Carolina and Isaac Stevens's division from Hilton Head. The corps consisted of three divisions, under Generals Stevens, Jesse L. Reno, and John G. Parke.

After a short stay at Newport News the corps was ordered to reinforce Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and at Second Bull Run it fought its first battle as the IX Corps. Only the two divisions of Stevens and Reno were engaged in this action; they numbered 12 regiments and 2 batteries, fewer than 5,000 men. General Reno was in command of both divisions in Burnside's absence. The losses in this small engagement amounted to 204 killed, 1,000 wounded, and 319 missing; total, 1,523. Some of the regiments encountered a severe fire, the 28th Massachusetts losing 234 men. General Stevens was killed at Chantilly.


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