title: New Bern order of battle
text: # New Bern order of battle
  
  Orders of battle of the Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of New Bern, 14 March 1862.
  
  ## Military Rank Abbreviations Used
  
  * BG = Brigadier General
  * Col = Colonel
  * Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
  * Maj = Major
  * Cpt = Captain
  * Lt = Lieutenant
  
  ## Union Army
  
  ### Department of North Carolina "Coast Division of the US Army"
  
  BG Ambrose E. Burnside
  
  | Brigades | Regiments and batteries |
  | - | - |
  | First Brigade:   BG John G. Foster | 10th Connecticut: Ltc Albert Drake 23rd Massachusetts: Col John Kurtz 24th Massachusetts: Col Thomas G. Stevenson 25th Massachusetts: Col Edwin Upton 27th Massachusetts: Col Horace C. Lee |
  | Second Brigade   BG Jesse L. Reno | 21st Massachusetts: Ltc William S. Clark 9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry (Jersey Muskrats): Ltc Charles Heckman 51st New York: Col Edward Ferrero 51st Pennsylvania: Col John Hartranft |
  | Third Brigade   BG John G. Parke | 8th Connecticut: Col Edward Harland 11th Connecticut: Ltc Charles Mathewson 4th Rhode Island: Col Isaac P. Rodman 5th Rhode Island |
  | Unassigned units | 1st New York Marine Artillery (detachment): Col William A. Howard 99th New York (Union Coast Guard) (Company B): Ltc Charles W. Tillotson New York Rocket Battalion Army gunboat Picket |
  
  ### Union Navy
  
  | US Naval Forces in Pamlico Sound    Commander Stephen C. Rowan | Philadelphia Stars and Stripes Louisiana Hetzel Underwriter Delaware Commodore Perry Valley City Commodore Barney Hunchback Southfield Morse John L. Lockwood Henry Brinker |
  | - | - |
  
  ## Confederate Army
  
  | | Regiments and batteries |
  | - | - |
  | Pamlico District of the Department of North Carolina    BG Lawrence O'Bryan Branch | 2nd North Carolina Cavalry 7th North Carolina 26th North Carolina 27th North Carolina 28th North Carolina 33rd North Carolina: Col. Clark M. Avery 35th North Carolina 37th North Carolina North Carolina Heavy Artillery (company) Special Battalion, North Carolina Militia |
  