I've decided to have some fun and make an other OOB with completely different purpose :
FEDERAL SITUATION :
- the 6th Corps is dissolved and its divisions are used to consolidate other corps. The brigades from the 6th may keep enough cohesion, the men have served into several other different corps / wings before (1st Corps and 4th Corps) and so they should get along well with their comrades from different corps without being too frustrated.
- the 8th, 10th & 22nd Corps are dissolved and reduced to big divisions, the extra troops provided are used to consolidate other corps. The 8th is identified as the Kanawha Division, the 10th as the "Atlantic Division" (Department of the South) and the 22nd as the "Columbia Division" (Washington garrison).
- the 11th & 12th Corps still merged into one single 20th Corps in the West (this decision seemed to have been well accepted by the men from the 11th Corps, so their cohesion and "esprit de corps" should not be altered).
- the 16th & 17th Corps are unified, the 16th stays in garrison in Mississippi while the 17th follows Sherman in Georgia.
- the 7th, 13th & 19th Corps are sent to the Trans-Mississippi / Gulf theater and are not concerned by this thread.
- Lincoln makes Frémont understand that he will not be given another field command but assures him a role in his future government and Frémont resign officially from the Army, freeing one MG (R) slot for Meade.
- as full Commander of the Western theater, Sherman is promoted LG (V) to make him officially senior to Thomas who, as an MG (V), outranks him otherwise.
Each standard division contains three complete brigades, with an estimate of 2,100 men per brigade (so 6,300 effectives per division).
I - EASTERN THEATER
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF : LG (R) Ulysses Simpson GRANT = 134,400 (Army of the Potomac + Army of the James)
- Chief of Staff : MG (R) Henry Wager HALLECK
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC : MG (R) George Gordon MEADE = 88,200
- Chief of Staff : MG (V) George SYKES
- First Corps : MG (V) Darius Nash COUCH = 18,900
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : MG (V) Abner DOUBLEDAY
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : MG (V) James Samuel WADSWORTH
--- 3rd Division (from the 6th Corps) : BG (V) Horatio Gouverneur WRIGHT
- Second Corps : MG (V) Winfield Scott HANCOCK = 18,900
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : MG (V) John GIBBON
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : MG (V) James Brewerton RICKETTS
--- 3rd Division (from the 22nd Corps) : MG (V) Christopher Columbus AUGUR
- Third Corps : MG (V) Philip Henry SHERIDAN = 18,900
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : MG (V) David Bell BIRNEY
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Francis Channing BARLOW
--- 3rd Division (from the 6th Corps) : BG (V) George Washington GETTY
- Five Corps : MG (V) Gouverneur Kemble WARREN = 18,900
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : MG (V) Andrew Atkinson HUMPHREYS
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Charles GRIFFIN
--- 3rd Division (from the 8th Corps) : MG (V) Julius STAHEL
- Cavalry Corps : MG (V) George STONEMAN = 12,600
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : BG (V) William Woods AVERELL
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) James Harrison WILSON
- Artillery Corps : MG (V) Quincy Adams GILLMORE
------ 1st Artillery Brigade
------ 2nd Artillery Brigade
------ 3rd Artillery Brigade
MIDDLE DEPARTMENT : MG (V) John SEDGWICK = 8,400
--- Kanawha Division (four Brigades) : MG (V) John NEWTON
DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON : MG (V) Franz SIGEL = 8,400
--- "Columbia Division" (four Brigades) : MG (V) Lewis WALLACE
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH : MG (V) Benjamin Franklin BUTLER = 8,400
--- "Atlantic Division" (four Brigades) : BG (V) Truman SEYMOUR
ARMY OF THE JAMES : MG (R) George Brinton McCLELLAN = 46,200
- Chief of Staff : MG (V) William Buel FRANKLIN
- Ninth Corps : MG (V) Ambrose Everett BURNSIDE = 27,300
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : MG (V) John Grubb PARKE
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : MG (V) Thomas Leonidas CRITTENDEN
--- 3rd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Orlando Bolivar WILLCOX
--- Colored Division (four Brigades) : MG (V) Godfrey WEITZEL
- Eighteenth Corps : MG (V) Edward Otho Cresap ORD = 18,900
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : MG (V) Alexander McDowell McCOOK
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : MG (V) William Farrar SMITH
--- 3rd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Alfred Howe TERRY
- Artillery Corps : BG (V) Henry Jackson HUNT
------ 1st Artillery Brigade
------ 2nd Artillery Brigade
------ 3rd Artillery Brigade
II - WESTERN THEATER
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI : LG (V) William Tecumseh SHERMAN = 119,700
- Chief of Staff : BG (V) Joseph Dana WEBSTER
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND : MG (V) George Henry THOMAS = 69,300
- Chief of Staff : BG (V) William Denison WHIPPLE
- Fourth Corps : MG (V) Gordon GRANGER = 18,900
--- 1st Division : MG (V) David Sloane STANLEY
--- 2nd Division : MG (V) John McAuley PALMER
--- 3rd Division : BG (V) Thomas John WOOD
- Fourteenth Corps : MG (V) Joseph HOOKER = 18,900
--- 1st Division : BG (V) Richard Woodhouse JOHNSON
--- 2nd Division : BG (V) Jefferson Columbus DAVIS
--- 3rd Division : MG (V) Daniel BUTTERFIELD
- Twentieth Corps : MG (V) Henry Warner SLOCUM = 18,900
--- 1st Division : BG (V) Alpheus Starkey WILLIAMS
--- 2nd Division : BG (V) John White GEARY
--- 3rd Division : BG (V) Absalom BAIRD
- Cavalry Corps : MG (V) Alfred PLEASONTON = 12,600
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Washington Lafayette ELLIOTT
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Edward Moody McCOOK
- Artillery Corps : BG (V) John Milton BRANNAN
------ 1st Artillery Brigade
------ 2nd Artillery Brigade
------ 3rd Artillery Brigade
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE : MG (V) James Birdseye McPHERSON = 50,400
- Chief of Staff : MG (V) Grenville Mellen DODGE
- Fifteenth Corps : MG (V) John Alexander LOGAN = 12,600
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : MG (V) Francis Preston BLAIR
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Peter Joseph OSTERHAUS
- Sixteenth Corps (protection of Mississippi) : MG (V) Andrew Jackson SMITH = 12,600
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : BG (V) James Madison TUTTLE
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Joseph Anthony MOWER
- Seventeenth Corps : MG (V) Oliver Otis HOWARD = 12,600
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Thomas William SWEENY
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) John McARTHUR
- Twenty-Third Corps : MG (V) John McAllister SCHOFIELD = 12,600
--- 1st Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Jacob Dolson COX
--- 2nd Division (consolidated) : BG (V) Alvin Peterson HOVEY
- Artillery Corps : BG (V) William Farquhar BARRY
------ 1st Artillery Brigade
------ 2nd Artillery Brigade
------ 3rd Artillery Brigade
------ 4th Artillery Brigade