BUZZARD'S ROOST, GEORGIA

24-27 February 1864

{Demonstration on Dalton Georgia}

OR-Series I, Volume XXXII, Chapter XLIV, Pg 417

 

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Union Forces

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN M. PALMER

IV CORPS

                   1st Division - Brigadier General Charles Cruft*

            1st Brigade - Colonel Willard A. Dickerman

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

103rd Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Major Asias Willison

12th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel James Goodnow

97th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Captain David Shelby

99th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Captain Josiah Farrar

32nd Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Major Abraham J. Seay

*= The proper 1st Brigade of this Division, commanded by

Colonel David A. Enyart remained at Ooltewah Tn.  Its place

was supplied by Matthies’ Brigade, of the XV Corps as above.

            2nd Brigade - Colonel Thomas E. Champion

96th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John C. Smith

115th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Jesse H. Moore

84th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Major Andrew J. Neff

5 Companies, 8th Kentucky Infantry --- Captain Coleman D. Benton

40th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Jacob E. Taylor

99th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Major Benjamin F. LeFever

            3rd Brigade - Colonel William Grose

75th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John E. Bennett

80th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel William M. Kilgour

84th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Louis H. Waters

30th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Orrin D. Hurd

36th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Oliver H. P. Carey

24th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Armstead T. M. Cockerill

            Artillery - Captain Peter Simonson

5th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Alfred Morrison

Battery H, 4th United States Light Artillery --- Lieutenant William H. Heilman

            Cavalry

Detachment, 4th Michigan Cavalry --- Captain William W. Van Antwert

Detachment, 4th Ohio Cavalry --- Captain Philip Warner

XIV CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN M. PALMER

                   1st Division - Brigadier General Richard W. Johnson

            1st Brigade - Brigadier General William P. Carlin

88th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Cyrus E. Briant

2nd Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Anson G. McCook

94th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Stephen A. Bassford

10th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Captain Jacob W. Roby

            2nd Brigade - Brigadier General John H. King

19th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Alexander W. Raffen

1st Battalion, 15th U.S. Infantry --- Major Albert Tracy

1st Battalion, 16th U.S. Infantry --- Captain Robert P. Barry

1st Battalion, 18th U.S. Infantry --- Captain George W. Smith

2nd Battalion, 18th U.S. Infantry --- Captain Henry Haymond

1st Battalion, 19th U.S. Infantry --- Captain James Mooney

            3rd Brigade - Colonel Henry A. Hambright

24th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Geza Mihalotzy (MW)

                                                            Lieutenant Colonel John Van Horn

37th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Major Thomas V. Kimble

79th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment --- Major Michael H. Locher

1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel George B. Bingham

            Artillery

1 Section, Battery A, 1st Michigan Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Clark M. Harris

                   2nd Division - Brigadier General Jefferson Columbus Davis

            1st Brigade - Brigadier General James Dada Morgan

60th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William B. Anderson

            16th Illinois (Non-veterans attached)

10th Michigan Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Christopher J. Dickerson (W&C)

                                                            Major Henry S. Burnett

            2nd Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Carter Van Vleck

                                    Colonel John G. Mitchell

                (Colonel Mitchell assumed command 26 Feb)

78th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Major George Green

                                                Lieutenant Colonel Carter Van Vleck

108th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Major Joseph Good

113th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Major Lyne S. Sullivant

            3rd Brigade - Colonel Daniel McCook

85th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Caleb J. Dilworth

86th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel David W. Magee

125th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Oscar F. Harmon

52nd Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Clancy

            Artillery

1 Section, 2nd Battery, Minnesota Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Henry W. Hardee

                   3rd Division - Brigadier General Absalom Baird

            1st Brigade - Brigadier General John B. Turchin

82nd Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Paul E. Slocum (W)

                                                            Captain William C. Stineback

11th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Ogden Street

89th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Major John H. Jolly

92nd Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Major John C. Morrow

            2nd Brigade --- Colonel Ferdinand Van Derveer

87th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Newell Gleason

9th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Gustave Kammerling

35th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Captain Samuel L. Hommedieu

105th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel George T. Perkins

            3rd Brigade - Colonel William H. Hays

10th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Marsh B. Taylor

74th Indiana Infantry Regiment ---Lieutenant Colonel Myron Baker

10th Kentucky Infantry Regiment --- Major Henry G. Davidson

            Artillery

19th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery --- Captain Samuel J. Harris (W)

                                                            Lieutenant William P. Stackhouse

                   Cavalry

            2nd Brigade - Colonel Eli Long

98th Illinois Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Captain William Wood

Detachment, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry --- Colonel Elijah S. Watts

4th Michigan Cavalry Regiment*

Detachment, 1st Ohio Cavalry --- Captain Richard B. Wood (K)

Detachment, 3rd Ohio Cavalry --- Captain Richard B. Wood (K)

Detachment, 4th Ohio Cavalry --- Captain Richard B. Wood (K)

            Unassigned

8th Indiana Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Thomas J. Harrison

28th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William P. Boone

15th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William J. Palmer

Partial Casualty List

Dickerson, Christopher J. - Lieutenant Colonel - Wounded & Captured

Slocum, Paul E. - Lieutenant Colonel - Wounded

Harris, Samuel J. - Captain - Wounded

Wood, Richard B. - Captain - Killed

Mihalotzy, Geza - Colonel -Mortally Wounded

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confederate Forces

GENERAL JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON

                   Stewart’s Division - Major General Alexander Peter Stewart

Clayton’s Brigade - Brigadier General Henry Delamar Clayton

(Composition not reported)

Stovall’s Brigade - Brigadier General Marcellus Augustus Stovall

(Composition not reported)

Moore’s Brigade - Colonel John H. Higley

(Composition not reported)

Lowrey’s Brigade - Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowrey

(Composition not reported)

Cumming’s Brigade - Brigadier General Alfred Cumming

(Composition not reported)

Pettus’ Brigade - Brigadier General Edmund W. Pettus

(Composition not reported)

Reynolds’ Brigade - Brigadier General Alexander Welch Reynolds

Hotchkiss Artillery Battalion --- Major T. R. Hotchkiss

Waddell’s Artillery Battalion --- Major James F. Waddell

          Cavalry - Major General Joseph Wheeler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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