GALVESTON TEXAS

1 January 1863

OR-Series I, Volume XV, Chapter XXVII, Pg 199

 

To Conf Units

 U.S. Army

COLONEL BURELL

Companies "D", "G", & "I" 42nd Massachusetts Infantry--- Colonel Isaac S. Burrell

2nd Battery Vermont Light Artillery--- Captain Holcombe

CASUALTIES Captured 350

 

Union Naval Forces

COMMANDER WILLIAM B. RENSHAW

U.S.S. WESTFIELD (steamer) --- Commander W. B Renshaw (K)

Lieutenant C. W. Zimmerman (K)

Acting Master F. C Miller

L. D. Smalley

J. H. Warren

Acting Master Mate J. P. Arnett

J. B. Johnson

Acting Asst. Surgeon E. H. Ellis

Acting Assistant Paymaster C. C. Walden

Acting Engineer William R. Green (K)

G. S. Baker

C. W. Smith

U.S.S. HARRIET LANE (steamer)--- Commander J. M Wainwright (K)

Lieutenant Commander Edward Lea (MW)

Paymaster J. J. Richardson

Assistant Surgeon T. N. Penrose

U.S.S. Clifton (steamer)--- Lieutenant Commander Richard L. Law

Midshipman H. T. French

Acting Master Robert Rhodes

B. S. Weeks

Acting Ensign W. W. Weld

Acting Master Mate Loring Cannon

Acting Assistant Surgeon D. D. Nestell

Acting Assistant Paymaster J. S. Carels

Acting Engineer James Fox

S. S. Vollum

F. J. Bradley

G. W. Spies

U.S.S. OWASCO (Gunboat)--- Lieutenant Commander Henry Wilson

Assistant Surgeon W. W. Leavitt

Assistant Engineer W. K. Purse

J. A. Scott

C. H. Greenleaf

D. M. Egbert

Acting Master S. A. Swimmerton

T. D. Abb

Acting Master Mate John Ulter

J. G. Arbna

Acting Assistant Paymaster Richard Beardsley

U.S.S. SAXON

U.S.S. HENRY JANES (Schooner)--- Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Lewis W. Pennington

U.S.S. SACHEM--- Lieutenant Amos Johnson

U.S.S. CORYPHEUS--- Lieutenant T. F. Wade

Partial Casulty List

Green, William R., Chief Engineer - Killed

Renshaw, W. B., Commander - Killed

Lea, Edward, Lieutenant Commander - Mortally Wounded

Smith, Thomas - Confederate deserter - Captured and killed by firing squad

Wainwright, J. W., Lieutenant Commander - Killed

Zimmerman, C. W., Lieutenant - Killed

 

 

Confederate Forces

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN BANKHEAD MAGRUDER

5th Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Thomas Green

7th Texas Cavalry Regiment--- Colonel Arthur Pendleton Bagby

Storming Party--- Colonel Joseph J. Cook

Artillery - Brigadier General William Read Scurry

Weir's Co, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery--- Captain A. R. Weir (K)

Wilson's Artillery Battery

Fontaine's Artillery Company--- Captain S. T. Fontine

6 Companies Pyrons Regiment

 

Confederate Navy

COMMODORE LEON SMITH

C.S.S. NEPTUNE--- Captain W. H. Sangster

C.S.S. BAYOU CITY--- Captain Henry S. Lubbock

Boarding Party, Martin's Cavalry Company--- Captain Martin

CASUALTIES Killed 26; Wounded 117; TOTAL 143

Partial Casualty List

Dickerson, Major - Wounded

Payne, T, W., Captain - Captured

 

                              

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