AVOYELLES PRAIRIE, LOUISIANA

15 May 1864

Also known as

Marksville Prairie

{Red River Campaign 1864}

 

Union Forces

BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES WINNING McMILLAN

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XIX - Brigadier General James W. McMillan

13th Maine Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Henry Rust Jr.

15th Maine Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Isaac Dyer

160th New York Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel John B. Van Petten

47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Tilghman H. Good

1st Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Thomas J. Lucas 

12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Hasbouck Davis

16th Indiana Mounted Infantry Regiment--- Captain James M. Hildreth

2nd Louisiana (US) Mounted Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Charles Everett

6th Missouri Cavalry Regiment--- Major Bacon Montgomery

3rd Cavalry Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel John H. Crebs

1st Louisiana (US) Cavalry Regiment--- Major Algernon S. Badger

87th Illinois Mounted Infantry Regiment--- Major George W. Land

CASUALTIES - Not reported

 

Confederate Forces

CAVALRY CORPS

BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN AUSTIN WHARTON

Major's Cavalry Division - Bgen. James Patrick Major 

Baylor's Brigade - Colonel George Wythe Baylor

1st Texas Partisan Ranger Regiment--- Major W. P. Saufley

2nd Texas Partisan Ranger Regiment--- Colonel Isham Chisum

2nd Cavalry, Arizona Brigade--- Lieutenant Colonel John W. Mullen

3rd Cavalry, Arizona Brigade--- Lieutenant Colonel George T. Madison

Bagby's Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General Arthur Pendleton Bagby* 

4th Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel George J. Hampton

5th Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Harry C. McNeill

7th Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Philemont Hebert

13th Texas Cavalry Battalion--- Lieutenant Colonel Edward Waller Jr.

                        * Bagby was promoted to Brigadier by General E. K. Smith.

Artillery

J. A. A. West's Artillery Battery

CASUALTIES - Not reported

Partial Casualty List

McKee - Captain - 3rd Arizona - Mortally Wounded

 

 

 

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