EASTPORT TENNESSEE

10 October 1864

{Forrest’s Northern Alabama & Middle Tennessee Raid}

OR-Series I, Volume XXXIX, Chapter LI, Pg 539

 

Union Forces

            Hodge’s Brigade - Colonel George B. Hodge

113th Illinois Infantry Regiment

120th Illinois Infantry Regiment

61st U.S. C. T. --- Lieutenant Colonel John Foley

Company G, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery

            Cavalry

Detachment, 12th Missouri Cavalry --- Lieutenant McMillaen

 

U.S. Naval Forces

            Gunboats

U.S.S. KEY WEST

U.S.S. UNDINE

            Transports

U,S.  CITY OF PIKIN

U,S.  AURORA

U,S.  KENTON

 

Confederate Forces

MAJOR GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST

                   Buford’s Cavalry Division - Brigadier General Abraham Buford

Bell’s Brigade

15th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Russell

18th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John F. Newsom

21st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Andrew N. Wilson

Lyons’ Brigade

2 Companies Kentucky Cavalry

3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Gustavus A. C. Holt

7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Joe T. Cochran

8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel A. R. Shacklett

12th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel W.W. Faulkner

Kelly’s Brigade - Colonel D. C. Kelly (Rucker’s Bde)

Forrest’s Escort

22nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Barteau

7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

20th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Jesse A. Forrest

14th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Raleigh R. White

15th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Logwood

Wheeler’s Cavalry Regiment

Roddy’s Brigade - Colonel William A. Johnson

Biffle’s Cavalry Regiment

3 Regiments

                   Williams Division - Brigadier General John s. Williams

            Cosby’s Brigade - Brigadier General George B. Cosby

(composition not reported)

            Artillery

Hudson’s Battery --- Lieutenant E. S. Walton

Morton’s Battery --- Captain John W. Morton

Ferrell’s Battery

Partial Casualty List

Colonel William Johnson - Wounded

 

 

 

                             

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