MERIDIAN EXPEDITION, MISSISSIPPI

3 February - 6 March 1864

(Meridian & Yazoo River Expedition)

Including

Liverpool Heights 3-4 Feb                Champions Hill 4 Feb            Queen’s Hill 4 Feb

Edward’s Ferry 4 Feb                      Bolton Depot 4 Feb               Baker’s Creek 5 Feb

Clinton 5 Feb                                     Jackson 5 Feb                        Hillsborough 6 Feb

Brandon 7 Feb                                  Morton 7 Feb                         Satartia 28 Feb

Coldwater Ferry 8 Feb                     Morton 8 Feb                         Senatobia 8-9 Feb

Hillsborough 10 Feb                          Morton 10 Feb                       Hickadale 10 Feb

Raiford’s Plantation 11 Feb             Lake Station 11 Feb              Decatur 12 Feb

Wall Hill 12 Feb                                 Holly Springs 12 Feb             Wyatt 13 Feb

Chunky Creek 13 Feb                      Chunky Station 14 Feb            Meridian 14 Feb

Marion Station 15-17 Feb                 Lauderdale Springs 16 Feb      Pontotoc 17 Feb

Houlka Swamp 17 Feb                     Okolona 18 Feb                     Aberdeen 18 Feb

Houston 19 Feb                                 Chunky Station 19 Feb            Egypt Station 19 Feb

Meridian 19 Feb                                West Point 20 Feb                 Ellis’ Bridge 21 Feb

West Point 20 Feb                             Prairie Station 21 Feb            Okolona 22 Feb

Ivey’s Hill 22 Feb                               Tallahatchie 22 Feb               New Albany 23 Feb

Tippah River 24 Feb                         Canton 24 Feb                       Hudsonville 25 Feb

Canton 28 Feb                                   Madisonville 27 Feb              Sharon 27 Feb

Pearl River 27 Feb                            Yazoo City 28 Feb                 Canton 28 Feb

Canton 2 Mar                                                Liverpool 3 Mar                        Brownsville 3 Mar

Yazoo City 5 Mar

OR-Series I, Volume XXXII, Chapter XLIV, Pg 164

To Conf Units

 

 

 

Union Forces

Department of the Tennessee

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

 

 

Escort

Company A, 4th Illinois Cavalry --- Lieutenant Samuel A. Lowe

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. 

On 27 February the brigade started for Canton as guard to supply train.

            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

                                    Colonel Risdon M. Moore

(Colonel Moore assumed command on 28 February)

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

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

                                                            Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Merriam

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

            Escort

Company B, 4th Illinois Cavalry --- Captain Garrett L. Collins

Company C, 4th Illinois Cavalry --- Captain Garrett L. Collins

Company D, 4th Illinois Cavalry --- Captain Garrett L. Collins

4th Independent Company, Ohio Cavalry --- Captain John S. Foster

                   1st Division -

            3rd Brigade - Brigadier General Alexander Chambers

11th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William Hall

13th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John Shane

15th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William W. Belknap

16th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Addison H. Sanders

Battery C, 1st Missouri Light Artillery --- Lieutenant John H. Tiemeyer

4 Guns, Battery M, 1st Missouri Light Artillery --- Lieutenant John T. Tiemeyer

                   3rd Division - Brigadier General Mortimer D. Leggett

            Escort

Company H, 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry --- Captain Ernest J. Meyers

            1st Brigade - Brigadier General Manning Ferguson Force

20th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bradley

31st Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant colonel Robert N. Pearson

45th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Major John O. Duer

124th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John H. Howe

            2nd Brigade - Colonel Benjamin F. Potts

20th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John C. Fry

32nd Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant colonel Jefferson J. Hibbets

68th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel George E. Wells

78th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Greenberry F. Wiles

            3rd Brigade - Brigadier General Jasper A. Maltby

8th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Josiah A. Sheetz

17th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Francis M. Smith

30th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Warren Shedd

7th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William S. Oliver

            Artillery - Captain William S. Williams

Battery H., 1st Michigan LightArtillery --- Lieutenant Marcus D. Elliott

3rd Battery, Ohio Light Artillery* --- Lieutenant Thomas J. Blackburn

*= Detachment 26th Ohio Battery Attached

                   4th Division - Brigadier General Marcellus M. Crocker

            Escort

Company G, 11th Illinois Cavalry --- Captain Stephen S. Tripp

            1st Brigade - Brigadier General Thomas Kilby Smith

41st Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John H. Nale

53rd Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Major Rolland H. Allison

3rd Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Major George W. Crosley

33rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Jonathan B. Moore

            2nd Brigade - Colonel Cyrus Hall

14th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Major John F. Nolte

15th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel George C. Rogers

76th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Jones

            3rd Brigade - Brigadier General Walter Q. Gresham

32nd Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel George H. English

23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel William P. Davis

53rd Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel William Jones

12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel James K. Proudfit

            Artillery --- Captain John W. Powell

Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Walter H. Powell

7th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Harlow P. McNaughton

15th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery --- Captain Edward Spear Jr.

            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

SMITH’S COLUMN

BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM SOOY SMITH

(Gen Smith was also Chief of Cavalry Military division of the Mississippi)

                   Cavalry Division (XVI CORPS)  - Brigadier General Benjamin H. Grierson

            1st Cavalry Brigade - Colonel George E. Waring Jr.

5 Companies, 2nd Illinois Cavalry --- Captain Franklin Moore

7th Indiana Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John P. c. Shanks

4th Missouri Cavalry Regiment* --- Major Gustav Heinrichs

2nd New Jersey Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Joseph Karge

19th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph C. Hess

                                                            Major Amos J. Holahan#

*= Companies A & B, brigade provost guard

#= In command from 16 February

            2nd Cavalry Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel William P, Hepburn

6th Illinois Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant colonel Mathew H. Starr

7th Illinois Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel George W. Trafton

9th Illinois Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Henry B. Burgh

2nd Iowa Cavalry Regiment --- Major Datus E. Coon

Battery K, 1st Illinois Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Isaac W. Curtis

            3rd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel LaFayette McCrillis

5 companies, 3rd Illinois Cavalry --- Captain Andrew B. Kirkbride

72nd Indiana Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Major Henry M. Carr

5th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment --- Major Christopher T. cheek

2nd Tennessee (U.S.) Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant colonel William R. Cook*

                                                            Major William F. Prosser

3rd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Major John B. Minnis

4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Jacob M. Thornburgh

*= Wounded and captured 22 February

            Unassigned

4th United States Infantry Regiment --- Captain Charles S. Bowman

YAZOO EXPEDITION

COLONEL JAMES H. COATES

11th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Major George C. McKee

Companies A & D, 8th Louisiana (U.S.) Infantry --- Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand E. Peebles

Companies A & D, 1st Mississippi Infantry --- Colonel Embury D. Osband

Partial Casualty List

Private Peter Griffin - Wounded

Private Isaac Way - Wounded

Private Charles Callas - Wounded

Private William Williams - Captured

Private John Rolfe - Captured

Private Henry C. Everett - Captured

Private Alfred B, Ramsey - Wounded & Captured

Private Joseph Sadler - Wounded

Private Cleveland Acox - Wounded

Private Francis M. Coverston - Wounded & Captured

Corporal William H. Symms - Killed

Colonel George C. Rogers - Wounded

Lieutenant Allison - Wounded

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confederate Forces

Department of Alabama, Mississippi & East Louisiana

LIEUTENANT GENERAL LEONIDAS "Bishop" POLK

            Escort

Louisiana Company --- Lieutenant P. M. Kenner

                   Loring’s Division* - Major General William Wing Loring

            Featherston’s Brigade - Brigadier General Winfield Scott Featherston

3rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Colonel T. A. Mellon

22nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel H. J. Reid

31st Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel M. D. L. Stephens

33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Drake

1st Mississippi Sharpshooter Regiment --- Major James M. Stigler

Alabama Battery --- Captain Stephen Charpentier

            Adams’ Brigade - Brigadier General John Adams

1st Confederate Battalion --- Lieutenant Colonel George H. Forney

6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Robert Lowry

14th Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel W. L. doss

15th Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Colonel M. Farrell

20th Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William N. Brown

26th Mississippi Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Arthur E. Reynolds

Lookout Tennessee Artillery --- Captain Robert L. Barry

            Buford’s Brigade - Brigadier General Abraham Buford

27th Alabama Infantry Regiment --- Colonel James Jackson

35th Alabama Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Samuel S. Ives

54th Alabama Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Alpheus Baker

55th Alabama Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John Snodgrass

9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Isaac L. Dunlop

3rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment --- Colonel A. P. Thompson

7th Kentucky Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Ed. Crossland

8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel A. R. shacklett

12th Louisiana Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Thomas M. Scott

Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery --- Captain Alcide Bouanchaud

*= The return reports four batteries with this division;

the fourth was probably cowan’s Mississippi Battery

                   French’s Division* - Major General Samuel G. French

            Ector’s Brigade - Brigadier General Matthew Duncan Ector

29th North Carolina Infantry Regiment --- Captain W. W. Rollins

9th Texas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William H. Young

10th Texas Cavalry Regiment (dismounted) ---Colonel C. R. Earp

14th Texas Cavalry Regiment (dismounted) --- Colonel John L. Camp

32nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (dismounted) --- Captain Nathan Anderson

            Cockrell’s Brigade - Brigadier General Francis Marion Cockrell

1st Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel A. C. Riley

4th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel A. C. Riley

2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel P. C. Flournoy

6th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel P. C. Flournoy

3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel James McCown

5th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel James McCown

1st Missouri Cavalry Regiment (dismounted) --- Colonel Elijah Gates

3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment (dismounted) --- Colonel Elijah Gates

*= Batteries not accounted for on original return;  they were probably

Hoskins’ (Mississippi) and Walsh’s (Missouri) Batteries

CAVALRY CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL STEPHEN DILL LEE

            Escort

Georgia Company --- Captain T. M. Nelson

                   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

            2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Lawrence Sullivan Ross

1st Texas Legion --- Colonel Edwin R. Hawkins

3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Hinchie P. Mabry

6th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Jack Wharton

9th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Dudley W. Jones

Escort, Texas Company --- Lieutenant rush L. Elkin

Missouri Battery --- Captain Houston King

            Adams’ Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General Wirt Adams

11th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John Griffith

14th confederate Cavalry Regiment --- Captain Josephus R. Quin

8th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion --- Captain E. A. Scott

4th (2nd) Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Major J. L. Harris

4th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Major Thomas R. Stockdale

Adams’ Mississippi Regiment --- Colonel Robert C. Wood Jr.

9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion --- Major James H. Akin

Mississippi Battery --- Captain Calvit Roberts

            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

                   Chalmer’s Cavalry Division --- Brigadier General James R. Chalmers

            1st Cavalry Brigade - Colonel W. F. Slemons

2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel W. F. Slemons

3rd Mississippi (State) Cavalry --- Colonel John McGuirk

5th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel James Z. George

7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William L. Duckworth

Mississippi Battery --- Captain J. M. McLendon

            2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Robert McCulloch

1st Mississippi Partisan Ranger Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel L. B. Hovis

18th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion --- Lieutenant Colonel Alexander H. Chalmers

19th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion --- Lieutenant colonel William L. Duff

2nd Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Robert McCulloch

Buckner (Mississippi) Battery --- Lieutenant H. C. Holt

FORREST’S CAVALRY

MAJOR GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST

12th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment

3rd Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

5th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

19th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion

2nd Missouri Cavalry Battalion

2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

Forrest’s Cavalry Regiment

McDonald’s Cavalry Battalion

Russell’s Cavalry Regiment

Willis’ Cavalry Battalion

Wilson’s Cavalry Regiment

Escort Company

Red’s Mississippi Cavalry Company

MILITARY POSTS

Cahaba --- Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Davis

Columbus --- Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles

Demopolis --- Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Wickliffe

Selma --- Colonel Thomas H. Rosser

Partial Casualty List

Colonel Jeff E. Forrest - Killed

Lieutenant Colonel J. A.Barksdale - Killed

Colonel McCulloch - Wounded

Colonel Barteau - Wounded

Captain E. D. Williams - Killed

Lieutenant W. J. Yandle - Killed

Lieutenant J. T. Morris - Killed

Lieutenant N. Rayburn - Killed

Lieutenant A. Swaim - Killed

Major Bridges - Killed

Captain Magruder - Wounded

Private James Renfrow - Killed

Private John Graham - Killed

Corporal Thomas Field - Killed

Private Ruel M. Stancill - Wounded

Private Tindale - Wounded & Captured

Private Perean - Captured

Major Thurmand - Killed

Lieutenant Gavin - Wounded

Lieutenant Harwell - Wounded

 

 

Notes=

            1.  Forney’s command transferred to General Maury

            2.  Cheatham’s division from Army of Tennessee not accounted for

 

 

 

 

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