TOWN CREEK MISSISSIPPI

15 July 1864

(Old Town Creek)

(Tupelo Expedition)

OR-Series I, Volume XXXIX, Chapter LI, Pg 257

 

Union Forces

1st Division XVI - Brigadier General Joseph Anthony Mower

1st Brigade - Colonel William L. McMillen

114th Illinois Infantry ---Captain Benjamin C. Berry

93rd Indiana Infantry Regiment --- Captain Charles A. Hubbard

10th Minnesota Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Samuel P. Jennison

72nd Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Major E. A. Rawson

Captain S. N. Shoup

Captain Samuel A. J. Snyder

95th Ohio Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel J. Brumback

1 Section, Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Orrin W. Cram

4th Brigade XVII - Colonel Lyman Ward

Detachment, 41st Illinois Infantry --- Lieutenant James A. Wilson

14th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel James W. Polleys

33rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Colonel F. S. Lovell

Company A - Lieutenant Henry Cochran

Company B - Lieutenant Henry H. Knowlton

Company C - Captain A. J. Campbell

Company D - Captain William J. McKee

Company E - Lieutenant Charles L. Draper

Company F - Lieutenant Edgar L. Allen

Company G - Lieutenant Thomas Rutledge

Company H - Captain Henry Rose

Company K - Captain Elias S. Schenck

Company I - Captain George H. Tracy

6th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery

Battery M, 1st Missouri Light Artillery --- Captain Michael Mueller

Cavalry

                   Cavalry Division - Brigadier General Benjamin H. Grierson

            2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Edward F. Winslow

3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John W. Noble

1 Battalion, 4th Iowa Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John H. Peters

10th Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Major Martin H. Williams

Battery K, 1st Illinois Light Artillery --- Captain Brown

            Unattached Cavalry

2 Battalions, 9th Illinois Cavalry

Partial Casualty List

Captain B. C. Berry - Wounded

Major Eugene A. Rawson - Mortally Wounded

 

 

Confederate Forces

MAJOR GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST (W)

BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES R. CHALMERS

                   1st Cavalry Division - Brigadier General James R. Chalmers

                  Rucker’s Brigade Colonel Edmund Rucker

 8th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William Duff

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

6th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Isham Harrison

18th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion --- Lieut. Colonel A.H. Chalmers

38th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

2nd Missouri Cavalry Regiment

                        McCulloch’s Brigade - Colonel Robert McCulloch

Well’s Cavalry Battalion

1st Mississippi Infantry --- Lieutenant Colonel David C. Kelly

2nd Cavalry Division - Brigadier General Abraham Buford

            Lyon’s Brigade - Colonel Edward Crossland (W)

                                                Lieutenant Colonel A. R. Schacklett

2 Companies, Kentucky Cavalry

3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Gustavus A. C. Holt

7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Captain Joe T. Cochran

8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel A. R. Shacklett

12th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel W. W. Faulkner

            Bell’s Brigade Colonel Tyree H. Bell

15th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Russell

18th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel John F. Newsom

20th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

21st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Andrew N. Wilson

22nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel C.R. Barteau

            Morgan’s Command

Remmants --- Captain Campbell

                        Captain Estes

            Artillery

Rice’s Battery

            Partial Casualty List

Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest - Wounded

Lieutenant Colonel L. J. Sherrill - Killed

Major Hale - Wounded

 

 

 

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