POCATALIGO, SOUTH CAROLINA

22 October 1862

or

Yemassee

OR-Series I, Volume XIV, Chapter XXVI, Pg 144

 

Union Forces

BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN M. BRANNAN

 

            1st Brigade - Colonel J. L. Charfield (w)

                                    Colonel Tilghman H. Good

6th Connecticut Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John Speidel (w)

                                                            Major Lorenzo Meeker

4th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment ---Colonel Louis Bell

                                                            Lieutenant Colonel Sleeper

47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment ---Colonel Tilghman H. Good

55th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Richard White

Battery "M", 1st U.S. Light Artillery --- Lieutenant G. V. Henry

            2nd Brigade - Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry

7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Joseph R. Hawley

3rd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John H. Jackson

76th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment --- Colonel De Witt C. Strawbridge

3 Companies, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery --- Major H. Rodgers

Battery "E", 3rd U.S. Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Gittings

Detachment, 1st New York Engineer --- Lieutenant Colonel James F. Hall

            Unattached

Detachment, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry --- Captain L. Richmond

 

 

U.S. Naval Forces

CAPTAIN STEEDMAN

            Gunboat

U.S.S. PAUL JONES

            Transports

U.S.S. PLANTER

U.S.S. GEORGE WASHINGTON

U.S.S. BEN DE FORD

U.S.S. CONEMAUGH

U.S.S. WISSAHICKON

U.S.S. BOSTON

U.S.S. PATROON

U.S.S. DARLINGTON

U.S.S. MARBLEHEAD

U.S.S. VIXEN

U.S.S. FLORA

U.S.S. WATER WITCH

U.S.S. RELIEF (Tug)

CASUALTIES Killed 43; Wounded 294, Missing 3

Partial Casualty List

Captain Charles Mickley - Killed

Captain George Junker - Mortally Wounded

Captain Horace C. Bennett - Killed

Captain Arthur Hamilton - Killed

Captain Henry Wayne - Killed

Colonel J. L. Chatfield - Wounded

Lieutenant H. R. Hangen - Wounded

Lieutenant W. W. Geety - Wounded

Private Michael Larkings - Wounded

Lieutenant Colonel John Speidel - Wounded

Sergeant Samuel Herter - Killed

Sergeant Abram Alstead - Wounded

Sergeant Patrick F. Hodge - Wounded

Sergeant Harry Marlett - Wounded

1st Sergeant W. L. Martin - Killed

Sergeant G. E. Leech - Wounded

 

 

Confederate Forces

3rd Military District, South Carolina

BRIGADIER GENERAL W. S. WALKER

 

4 guns, Lafayette Artillery --- Lieutenant L. F. LeBluex

1 Section, Beaufort Artillery --- Lieutenant H. M. Stuart

1 Company Rutledge Mounted Rifles --- Lieutenant Walker

1 Company, Kirk’s Partisan Rangers --- Captain W. L. Trenholm

1st Battalion, South Carolina Cavalry

Company B, 1st Battalion, South Carolina Sharpshooters --- Captain Allston

Nelson’s Battalion --- Captain Sligh

Nelson’s Virginia Light Artillery --- Captain J. N. Lamkin

Charleston Light Dragoons --- Captain B. H. Rutledge

7th South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Company F, 11sth South Carolina Infantry --- Captain B. F. Wyman

Company I, 11th South Carolina Infantry --- Lieutenant W. L. Campgell

3rd South Carolina Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel C. J. Colcock

14th South Carolina Cavalry Battalion --- Major J. H. Morgan

Company H, 7th South Carolina --- Captain J,. H. Brooks

Company B, Marion Men --- Captain Heyward

Company D, Marion Men --- Captain D. B. Howard

CASUALTIES= Killed 21; Wounded 124, Missing 18

Partial Casualty List

Major J. H. Morgan - Wounded

Private Fripp - Wounded

Private Bell - Wounded

Private Martin - Wounded

Captain T. G. Buckner - Wounded

Lieutenant E. E. Jefferson - Wounded

Lieutenant F. T. Martin - Wounded

                      

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