OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI

18 February 1864

(Meridian Expedition)

OR-Series I, Volume XXXII, Chapter XLIV, Pg 250

 

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

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 --- Major Amos J. Holahan

            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

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

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

            Unassigned

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

 

 

Confederate Forces

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

 

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