BAKER’S CREEK, MISSISSIPPI

4 February 1864

{Meridian Campaign}

OR-Series I, Volume XXXII, Chapter XLIV, Pg 248

 

Union Forces

XVII CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL JAMES BIRDSEYE McPHERSON

                   4th Division - Brigadier General Marcellus M. Crocker

            Cavalry - Colonel Edward F. Winslow

5th Illinois Cavalry Regiment --- Major Abel H. Seley

11th Illinois Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Lucien H. Kerr

4th Iowa Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John H. Peters

10th Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Frederick W. Benteen

 

 

Confederate Forces

CAVALRY CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL STEPHEN DILL LEE

            Escort

Georgia Company --- Captain T. M. Nelson

                   Jackson’s Cavalry Division - Brigadier General William H. Jackson

            1st Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Peter B. Starke

1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel R. A. Pinson

28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Peter B. Starke

Ballentine’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John G. Ballentine

Escort, Louisiana Company --- Captain Junius Y. Webb

Columbus (Georgia) Light Artillery --- Captain Edward Croft

            2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Lawrence Sullivan Ross

1st Texas Legion --- Colonel Edwin R. Hawkins

3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Hinchie P. Mabry

6th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Jack Wharton

9th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Dudley W. Jones

Escort, Texas Company --- Lieutenant rush L. Elkin

Missouri Battery --- Captain Houston King

            Adams’ Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General Wirt Adams

11th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John Griffith

14th confederate Cavalry Regiment --- Captain Josephus R. Quin

8th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion --- Captain E. A. Scott

4th (2nd) Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Major J. L. Harris

4th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Major Thomas R. Stockdale

Adams’ Mississippi Regiment --- Colonel Robert C. Wood Jr.

9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion --- Major James H. Akin

Mississippi Battery --- Captain Calvit Roberts

            Ferguson’s Brigade - Brigadier General Samuel Wragg Ferguson

2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel R. G. Earle

56th Alabama Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William Boyles

12th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion --- Colonel W. M. Inge

2nd Tennessee (Barteau’s Regiment) --- Lieutenant Colonel George H. Morton

South Carolina Battery --- Captain John Waties

 

 

 

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