EAST MACON GEORGIA

20 November 1864

{Savannah Campaign}

AKA

March To The Sea

OR-Series I, Volume XLIV, Chapter LVI, Pg

 

Union Forces

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

CAVALRY

3rd Cavalry Division - Brigadier General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick

1st Brigade - Colonel Eli H. Murray

8th Indiana Cavalry Regiment*--- Lieutenant Colonel Lielder A. Jones

2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment**--- Captain Robert M. Gilmore

3rd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. King

            1st Battalion - Major Breathitt

            2nd Battalion - Captain Thomas

5th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Oliver L. Baldwin

            1st Battalion - Captain John A. P. Glore

9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Thomas J. Jordan

            *= Not Engaged

**= Detached & Guarding Trains 19-24 Dec

2nd Brigade - Colonel Smith D. Atkins

92nd Illinois Mounted Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Van Buskirk

            Company H - Captain John F. Nelson

3rd Indiana Cavalry Regiment --- Captain Charles U. Patton

9th Michigan Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel George S. Acker

5th Ohio Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Thomas T. Heath

9th Ohio Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel William D. Hamilton

10th Ohio Cavalry Regiment*--- Colonel Thomas L. Sanderson

            Company C - Captain J. H. Hafford (C)

            Company M - Captain J. H. Hafford (C) 

McLaughlin's Ohio Squadron--- Captain John Dalzell

            *= 1st Battalion Not Present

Unattached

1st Alabama (US) Cavalry Regiment**--- Colonel George E. Spencer

9th Illinois Mounted Infantry Regiment** --- Lieutenant Colonel Samuel T. Hughes

**= Serving with the Left Wing

Artillery

10th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery--- Captain Yates V. Beebe

            1st Section - Lieutenant Ebenezer W. Stetson

            2nd Section - Lieutenant Elbert W. Fowler

            3rd Section - Lieutenant Oscar A. Clark

Partial Casualty List

Hafford J. H. -Capt -C

 

 

Confederate Forces

LIEUTENANT JOSEPH HARDEE

BRIGADIER GENERAL HOWELL COBB

Confederate Forces

CAVALRY CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER

Allen’s Division - Brigadier General William Wirt Allen   

Hagan’s Brigade - Colonel James Hagan 

1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment

3rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment

4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel A. A. Russell

7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment

51st Alabama Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel M. L. Kirkpatrick

12th Alabama Cavalry Battallion--- Captain W. S. Reese

Crew’s Brigade -  Colonel C. C. Crews 

1st Georgia Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel S. W. Davitte

2nd Georgia Cavalry Regiment

3rd Georgia Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel R. Thompson

4th Georgia Cavalry Regiment

6th Georgia Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel J. R. Hart

Iverson’s Division - Brigadier General Alfred Iverson  

Anderson's Brigadier General Robert Huston Anderson 

3rd Confederate Cavalry Regiment

8th Confederate Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel J. S. Prather

10th Confederate Cavalry Regiment

12th Confederate Cavalry Regiment--- Captain C. H. Conner

5th Georgia Cavalry Regiment

Dibrell's Brigade - Brigadier General George Gibbs Dibrell 

4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel W. S. McLemore

8th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment--- Captain J. Leftwich

9th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

10th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

11th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel D. W. Holman

Gaines’ Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Gaines

53rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Gaines

24th Alabama Cavalry Battalion--- Major R. B. Snodgrass

Humes's Division - Brigadier General William Young Conn Humes 

Ashby’s Brigade - Colonel H. M. Ashby

1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

5th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel G. W. McKenzie

9th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

Harrison's Brigade - Colonel Thomas Harrison 

3rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel A. W. Hobson

4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment--- Lieutenant Colonel P. F. Anderson

8th Texas Cavalry Regiment

11th Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel G. R. Reeves

 

 

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