LEE’S MILLS, VIRGINIA

16 April 1862

(Burnt Chimneys)

(Dam #1)

OR- Series I, Volume XI, Chapter XXIII, Pg 363

 

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Union Forces

Smith’s Division – Brigadier General William F. Smith

            1st Brigade – Brigadier General Winfield Scott Hancock

5th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Amasa Cobb

6th Maine Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Hiram Burnham

43rd New York Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Francis L. Vinton

49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William H. Irwin

5th U.S. Artillery --- Captain Romeyn Beck Ayres

1st New York Artillery --- Captain Wheeler

            2nd Brigade – Brigadier General William T. H. Brooks

2nd Vermont Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Whiting

3rd Vermont Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Breed N. Hyde

4th Vermont Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Edwin H. Stoughton

5th Vermont Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Henry  A. Smalley

6th Vermont Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Nathan Lord Jr.

3rd Battery, New York Artillery --- Captain Thaddeus P. Mott

Battery, 5th U.S. Artillery

            3rd Brigade – Brigadier General John W. Davidson

7th Maine Infantry --- Colonel Edwin C. Mason

33rd New York Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Robert F. Taylor

49th New York Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Daniel D. Bidwell

77th New York Infantry Regiment --- Colonel James B. McKean

Kennedy’s Battery, 1st New York Artillery --- Captain Terrence J. Kennedy

                   Hamilton’s Division – Brigadier General Charles S. Hamilton

Thompson’s Battery --- Captain Thompson

Beam’s Battery --- Captain Beam

CASUALTIES Killed 35; Wounded 129; Missing 0

Partial Casualty List

Captain Atherton – Wounded

Captain Edwin F. Reynolds – Killed

Captain Davenport - Wounded

Lieutenant Bailey – Wounded

Lieutenant Kinney - Wounded

Lieutenant Morrill - Wounded

Lieutenant Charles F. Bailey – Mortally Wounded

Lieutenant Alfred M. Nevins – Mortally Wounded

Corporal Cox - Captured

 

Confederate Forces

GENERAL JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON

                   2nd Division – Brigadier General Lafayette McLaws

10th Louisiana Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Mandeville de Marigny

15th Virginia Infantry Regiment

4 Companies, 17th Mississippi Infantry

15th Alabama Infantry Regiment

            Kershaw’s Brigade – Brigadier General Joseph Brevard Kershaw

3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment

4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment

7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment

8th South Carolina Infantry Regiment

Anderson’s Brigade – Brigadier General George T. Anderson

7th Georgia Infantry Regiment --- Colonel W. T. Wilson

8th Georgia Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Lamar

5th Louisiana Infantry Regiment

            2nd Brigade – Brigadier General Howell Cobb

11th Georgia Infantry Regiment

16th Georgia Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Goode Bryan

2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William M. Levy

            Company B – Captain A. H. Martin

            Company D – Captain R. E. Burke

            Company I – Captain Flournoy

            Company K – Captain Kelso

                (remaining Companies Unknown)

15th North Carolina Infantry Regiment --- Colonel McKinney

                                                                        Lieutenant Colonel Ross R. Ihrie

Cobb’s Legion

            Artillery

Page’s Battery --- Captain Thomas Jefferson Page

1 Section Palmer’s Battery

Troup Artillery --- Captain M. Stanley

            1, 6lb Gun – Lieutenant Pope

            1, 12lb Gun – Lieutenant Lumpkin

Jordan’s Battery --- Captain Jordan

CASUALTIES Killed 20; Wounded 75; Missing 19

Partial Casualty List

Colonel McKinney – Killed

Captain James Barrow – Wounded

Driver W. P. Meeler – Wounded

 

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