SANDER’S EAST TENNESSEE RAID

14-24 June 1863

Including

Waitsburg 17 June

Lenoir’s Station 19 June

Knoxville 19-20 June

Strawberry Plains 20 June

Roger’s Gap 20 June

Powder Springs Gap 21 June

Powell Valley 22 June

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Union Forces

COLONEL WILLIAM P. SANDERS

Detachment, 1st East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Colonel R. K. Byrd

Detachment, 44th Ohio Mounted Infantry --- Major Moore

Detachment, 112 Illinois Mounted Infantry --- Major Tristram T. Dow

Detachment, 2nd Ohio Cavalry --- Captain David E. Welch

Detachment, 7th Ohio Cavalry --- Captain Richard C. Rankin

Detachment, 1st Kentucky Cavalry --- Captain George W. Drye

1 Section, 1st Ohio Artillery --- Lieutenant Lloyd

Partial Casualty List

Private F. Spratt - Captured

Lieutenant Badger - Captured

 

Confederate Forces

MAJOR GENERAL SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER

Knoxville Garrison - Colonel R. C. Trigg

51st Virginia Infantry

7th Florida Cavalry --- Colonel J. J. Finley

Asylum Battery --- Major Hugh L. W.Blake

McGee’s Hill Battery --- Captain Plesant A. McClung

Summit Hill Battery --- Lieutenant J. J. Purrows/Lieutenant Patterson

Temperence Hill Battery --- Lieutenant Whelon

Citizens - Colonel E. D. Baker

(Remaining composition unknown)

Partial Casualty List

Captain Plesant A. McClung - Killed

Lieutenant James A. Snellgrove - Killed

Lieutenant Fellows - Killed

 

 

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