BALL’S FERRY GEORGIA

24-25 November 1864

{Savannah Campaign}

Also Known As

March To The Sea

OR-Series I, Volume XLIV, Chapter LVI

 

Conf Forces

Union Forces

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

Right Wing

MAJOR GENERAL OLIVER OTIS HOWARD

XV CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL PETER JOSEPH OSTERHAUS

1st Division - Brigadier General Charles Robert Woods

1st Brigade - Colonel Milo Smith

12th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Major Elbert D. Baldwin

26th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Major John Lubbers

27th Missouri Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Thomas Curly

29th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph S. Gage

6 Companies, 31st & 32nd Missouri--- Lieutenant Colonel Abraham J. Seay

76th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Colonel William B. Woods

2nd Brigade - Colonel Robert F. Catterson

26th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Captain George H. Reed

40th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Hiram W. Hall

103rd Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Major Asias Willison

97th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Captain George Elliott

100th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Major Reul M. Johnson

6th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel William H. Clune

46th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Isaac N. Alexander

3rd Brigade - Colonel James A. Williamson

4th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Samuel D. Nichols

9th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Captain Paul McSweeney

25th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Colonel George A. Stone

30th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Aurelius Roberts

31st Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah W. Jenkins

2nd Division - Major General William Babcock Hazen

1st Brigade - Colonel Theodore Jones

55th Illinois Infantry Regiment**--- Captain Charles A. Andress

116th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel John E. Maddux

127th Illinois Infantry Regiment**--- Captain Charles Schryver

6th Missouri Infantry Regiment**--- Lieutenant Colonel Delos Van Deusen

2 Companies, 8th Missouri Infantry** --- Captain John W. White

30th Ohio Infantry Regiment**--- Captain Emory W. Muenacher

57th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Major John McClure

**= Not Engaged

2nd Brigade - Colonel Willis S. Jones

111th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Colonel James S. Martin

83rd Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel George H. Scott

37th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Louis von Blessingh

47th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Augustus C. Parry

53rd Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Captain David H. Lasley

54th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Israel T. Moore

3rd Brigade - Brigadier General John Morrison Oliver

48th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Major Edward Adams

90th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Owen Stuart

99th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel John M. Berkey

15th Michigan Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Frederick S. Hutchinson

70th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Henry L. Philips

3rd Division - Brigadier General John Eugene Smith

1st Brigade - Colonel Joseph B. McCown

63rd Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel James Isaminger

93rd Illinois Infantry Regiment**--- Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas C. Buswell

48th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Wood

59th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Jefferson K. Scott

4th Minnesota Infantry Regiment--- Colonel John E. Tourtellotte

**= Non-veterans 18th Wisconsin attached

2nd Brigade - Bvt. Brigadier General Green B. Raum

56th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Captain James P. Files

10th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Paris P. Henderson

26th Missouri Infantry Regiment** --- Colonel Benjamin D. Dean

80th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Pren Metham

**= Detachment, 10th Missouri attached

4th Division - Brigadier General John Murry Corse

1st Brigade - Brigadier General Elliott Warren Rice

52nd Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Major Wesley Boyd

Lieutenant Colonel Jerome D. Davis

66th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Roger Martin

2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Noel B. Howard

7th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel James C. Parrott

2nd Brigade - Colonel Robert N. Adams

12th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Henry Van Sellar

66th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Andrew K. Campbell

81st Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Major William C. Henry

3rd Brigade - Colonel Frederick J. Hurlbut

7th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Hector Perrin

            6 Companies, 7th Ill Mounted --- Major Edward S. Johnson

50th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Captain Henry Horn

57th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Major Frederick A. Battery

39th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Major Joseph M. Griffiths

Artillery - Major Charles J. Stolbrand

Battery "H", 1st Illinois Light Artillery--- Captain Francis DeGress

Battery "B", 1st Michigan Light Artillery--- Captain Albert F. R. Arndt

Battery "H", 1st Missouri Light Artillery--- Lieutenant John F. Brunner

12th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery--- Captain William Zickerick

XVII CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL FRANK PRESTON BLAIR JR.

Escort

Company "G", 11th Illinois Cavalry--- Captain Stephen S. Tripp

1st Division - Major General Joseph Anthony Mower

1st Brigade - Brigadier General John W. Fuller

64th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Major Joseph S. Reynolds

18th Missouri Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Sheldon

27th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Captain James Morgan

39th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Captain Daniel Weber

2nd Brigade - Brigadier General John Wilson Sprague

35th New Jersey Infantry Regiment--- Colonel John J. Cladek

43rd Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Wager Swayne

63rd Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Major John W. Fouts

25th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah M. Rush

3rd Brigade - Colonel John Tillson

10th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel M. F. Wood

25th Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel James S. Wright

32nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Charles H. De Groat

3rd Division - Brigadier General Mortimer Dormer Leggett

            Provost Guard

20th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Captain Henry King

1st Brigade - Brigadier General Manning Ferguson Force

30th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel William C. Rhodes

31st Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Robert N. Pearson

45th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Major John O. Duer

12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment--- Colonel James K. Proudfit

16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment--- Major William F. Dawes

2nd Brigade - Colonel Rob ert K. Scott

20th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Captain Lyman N. Ayres

68th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel George E. Wells

78th Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Colonel Greenbury F. Wiles

17th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment--- Major Patrick H. McCauley

4th Division - Brigadier General Giles Alexander Smith

1st Brigade - Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Potts

Battalion, 14th Illinois Infantry --- Lieutenant Alonzo J. Gillespie

Battalion, 15th Illinois Infantry --- Lieutenant Alonzo J. Gillespie

Battalion, 41st Illinois Infantry --- Major Robert H. McFadden

53rd Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Colonel John W. McClanahan

23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel George S. Babbitt

53rd Indiana Infantry Regiment--- Major Henry Duncan

32nd Ohio Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Jefferson J. Hibbetts

3rd Brigade - Brigadier General William Worth Belknap

32nd Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Major Henry Davidson

11th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Captain Benjamin Beach

13th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Captain John C. Kennedy

15th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Major George Pomutz

16th Iowa Infantry Regiment--- Captain Crandall W. Williams

Artillery - Major Allen C. Waterhouse

Battery "C", 1st Michigan Light Artillery--- Lieutenant Henry Shier

1st Battery, Minnesota Light Artillery--- Lieutenant Henry Hurter

15th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery--- Lieutenant George R. Caspar

Cavalry

Detachment, 1st Alabama (US) Cavalry

 

 

 

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