BLAIR'S LANDING, LOUISIANA

12 April 1864

 also known as

Plesant Hill Landing

{Red River Campaign}

To Conf Forces

 

U.S. Naval Forces

ADMIRAL DAVID DIX PORTER

Iron Clads

U.S.S. ESSEX ---Commander Robert Townsend

U.S.S. BENTON --- Lieutenant Commander James A. Greer

U.S.S. LAFAYETTE --- Lieutenant Commander J. F. Foster

U.S.S. CHOCTAW --- Lieutenant Commander F. M. Ramsay

U.S.S. CHILLICOTHE--- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Joseph P. Couthouy

U.S.S. OZARK --- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant George W. Brown

U.S.S. LOUISVILLE --- Lieutenant Commander E. K. Owen

U.S.S. CARONDELET --- Lieutenant Commander J. G. Mitchell

U.S.S. EASTPORT --- Lieutenant Commander S. L. Phelps

U.S.S. PITTSBURG --- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant W. R. Hoel

U.S.S. MOUND CITY --- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant A. R. Langthorn

U.S.S. OSAGE --- Lieutenant Commander T. O. Selfridge

U.S.S. NEOSHO --- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Samuel Howard

Tin Clads

U.S.S. CRICKET --- Acting Master H. H. Gorringe

U.S.S. GAZELL--- Acting Master Charles Thatcher

U.S.S. SIGNAL --- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant E. Morgan

U.S.S. JULIET--- Acting Master J. S. Watson

Other Vessels

U.S.S. LEXINGTON --- Lieutenant George M. Bache

U.S.S. BLACK HAWK --- Lieutenant Commander K. R. Breese

U.S.S. BENEFIT--- Lieutenant Commander S. W. Terry

U.S.S. COVINGTON --- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant George P. Lord

U.S.S. OUACHITA--- Lieutenant Commander Byron Wilson

U.S.S. FORT HINDMAN--- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant John Pearce

Transports

HASTINGS

EMERALD

W. L. EWING

THOMAS E. SCOTT

SIOUX CITY

CLARA BELLE

LIBERTY

HAMILTON

J. H. LACY

MARS

DES MOINES

ADRIATIC

SOUTHWESTERNER

DEADEM

METEOR

ALICE VIVIAN

ROB ROY

IBERVILLE

JOHN WARNER

UNIVERSE

TUG #13

 

U.S. Army

(on board the transports)

PROVISIONAL DIVISION XVII CORPS

BRIGADIER GENERAL THOMAS KILBY SMITH

1st Brigade - Colonel Jonathan B. Moore

41st Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Andrew W. Rogers

95th Illinois Infantry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Humphrey

14th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment--- Captain Carlos M. G. Mansfield

Artillery

Battery "M", 1st Missouri Light Artillery--- Lieutenant John H. Tiemeyer

CASUALTIES - Not Reported

 

Confederate Forces

MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS GREEN (K)

Parson's Cavalry Brigade - Colonel William H. Parson 

12th Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Andrew B. Burleson

19th Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Nathan M. Burford

21st Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel George W. Carter

Morgan's Texas Cavalry Battalion--- Lieutenant Colonel Charles L. Morgan

Attached

32nd Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Peter C. Woods

23rd Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Nicholas C. Gould

Artillery

Valverde Texas Battery--- Captain T. D. Nettles

Mosely's Battery

CASUALTIES - Not Reported

Partial Casualty List 

Brown, Thomas J. - Killed

Fuller - 2nd Lieutenant - Wounded

Green, Thomas - Major General - Killed

 

 

 

 

 

                                  

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