VIRGINIA & TENNESSEE RAILROAD RAID, WEST VIRGINIA

8-25 December 1863

(Including)

Big Sewell Mountain 11 Dec

Gatewoods 12 December

Lewisburg 12 December

Clifton Forge

Strasburg, Va. 13 December

Woodstock 13 December

Lewisburg 14 December

Big Sulpher Springs Road 14 December

Elk Mountain 15 December

Salem 16 December

Scotts 19 December

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Union Forces

1st Separate Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General William Woodes Averrell

2nd West Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment ---  Lieutenant Colonel Scott

3rd West Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Thompson

8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Oley

14th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Blakeley

Infantry Brigade - Colonel Thoburn

(complete composition unknown)

Detachment, 1st New York Cavalry

Wells Brigade - Colonel George D. Wells

Detachment, 34th Massachusetts Infantry

Detachment, 12th West Virginia Infantry

Detachment 17, Indiana Battery

Detachment, 1st West Virginia Battery

Scammon’s Command - Brigadier General Scammon

12th Ohio Infantry Regiment

Detachment, 23rd Ohio Infantry

91st Ohio Infantry Regiment

5th West Virginia Infantry Regiment

McMullen’s Battery

 

 

Confederate Forces

Department of Western Virginia

MAJOR GENERAL SAMUEL JONES

Jackson’s Brigade - Brigadier General W. L. Jackson

(Composition Unknown)

Echols’ Brigade - Brigadier General John Echols

14th Virginia Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel James Cochran

Detachment, 9th Virginia Cavalry --- Captain George Downs

20th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Colonel William W. Arnett

McCausland’s Brigade - Colonel John McCausland

(Composition Unknown)

Thurmond’s Guerillas --- Captain Philip J. Thurmond

(Composition Unknown)

 

 

 

 

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