XVI Corps (ACW)

The XVI Army Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The corps served under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Army of the Tennessee. Usually it occupied regions of the South, such as protecting the supply lines of the army during the Vicksburg Campaign. Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut commanded the corps with a base at Memphis, Tennessee. In 1863, a detachment of the corps under Maj. Gen. Cadwallader C. Washburn participated in the Siege of Vicksburg.

In 1864, the corps was divided into two wings of two divisions each. The left wing, under Maj. Gen. Grenville Dodge participated in Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. It was dissolved at the end of the campaign and its units divided between other formations of the Army of the Tennessee. The right wing, under Brig. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith, participated in the unsuccessful Red River Campaign. It later served at the Battle of Tupelo against Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. Smith's detachment later pursued Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price across Missouri and took part in the Battle of Nashville. In 1865, Smith's detachment became the official XVI Corps. It served in the operations of Maj. Gen. Edward Canby against Mobile, Alabama.

External links

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/CORPS/16thcorp.htm XVI Corps history]