JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

5 February 1864

(Meridian Expedition)

OR-Series I, Volume XXXII, Chapter XLIV, Pg 210

 

Union Forces

XVI CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL STEPHEN A. HURLBUT

                   1st Division - Brigadier General James M. Tuttle

            1st Brigade - Colonel William L. McMillen

114th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John F. King

93rd Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Major Samuel S. Crowe

72nd Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Eaton

95th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Jefferson Brumback

Note= 1st Brigade & Btry E 1st Illinois cooperated with Smith’s column from

6-15 February then was not active throughout the rest of the Expedition.

            2nd Brigade - Brigadier General Joseph A. Mower

47th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John D. McClure

5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Lucius F. Hubbard

11th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel William L. Barnum

8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John W. Jefferson

Note= Went into camp at Big Black River bridge on 4 February. 

            3rd Brigade - Colonel James L. Geddes

8th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel William B. Bell

12th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John H. Stibbs

35th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Sylvester G. Hill

Note= Went into camp at Big Black River Bridge on 4 February

            Artillery - Captain Nelson T. Spoor

Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery* --- Lieutenant John A. fitch

6th Battery Indiana Light Artillery #--- Lieutenant Louis Kern

2nd Battery, Iowa Light Artillery $--- Lieutenant Joseph R. Reed

*= Attached to 1st Brigade

#= Attached to 3rd Brigade

$= Attached to 2nd Brigade

                   3rd Division - Brigadier General Andrew Jackson Smith

            1st Brigade - Colonel David Moore

58th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William F. Lynch

119th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Thomas J. Kinney

89th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Charles D. Murray

21st Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Major Edwin Moore

            2nd Brigade - Colonel William T. Shaw

14th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Newbold

27th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Colonel James I. Gilbert

32nd Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John Scott

24th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel James K. Mills

            3rd Brigade - Colonel Edward H. Wolfe

49th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William W. Bishop

117th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Risdon M. Moore

52nd Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Major William T. Strickland

178th New York Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Edward Wehler

            Artillery - Captain James M. Cockfair

3rd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Thomas J. Ginn

9th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery --- Captain George R. Brown

14th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Francis W. Morse.

                   Detachment, 4th Division - Brigadier General James C. Veatch

            1st Brigade - Colonel Milton Montgomery

33rd Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel William H. Heath

35th New Jersey Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel William A. Henry

25th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah M. Rusk

            2nd Brigade - Colonel James H. Howe

25th Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John Rheinlander

17th New York (Veteran) Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William T. C. Grower

32nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Major Charles H. DeGroat

1 Section, Battery D, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery --- Captain Charles S. Cooper

XVII CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL JAMES BIRDSEYE McPHERSON

            Cavalry - Colonel Edward F. Winslow

5th Illinois Cavalry Regiment --- Major Abel H. Seley

11th Illinois Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Lucien H. Kerr

4th Iowa Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John H. Peters

10th Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Frederick W. Benteen

 

Confederate Forces

CAVALRY CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL STEPHEN DILL LEE

                   Jackson’s Cavalry Division - Brigadier General William H. Jackson

            1st Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Peter B. Starke

1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel R. A. Pinson

28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Peter B. Starke

Ballentine’s Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John G. Ballentine

Escort, Louisiana Company --- Captain Junius Y. Webb

Columbus (Georgia) Light Artilery --- Captain Edward Croft

            Ferguson’s Brigade - Brigadier General Samuel Wragg Ferguson

2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel R. G. Earle

56th Alabama Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William Boyles

12th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion --- Colonel W. M. Inge

2nd Tennessee (Barteau’s Regiment) --- Lieutenant Colonel George H. Morton

South Carolina Battery --- Captain John Waties

 

 

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