YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI

5 March 1864

(Meridian Expedition)

OR-Series I, Volume XXXII, Chapter XLIV, Pg 208

 

Union Forces

COLONEL JAMES H. COATES

11th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Major George C. McKee

Companies A & D, 8th Louisiana (U.S.) Infantry --- Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand E. Peebles

Companies A & D, 1st Mississippi Infantry --- Colonel Embury D. Osband

CASUALTIES=  K-19, W-89, M-18

 

 

Confederate Forces

                   Jackson’s Cavalry Division - Brigadier General William H. Jackson

            2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Lawrence Sullivan Ross

1st Texas Legion --- Colonel Edwin R. Hawkins

3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Hinchie P. Mabry

6th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Jack Wharton

9th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Dudley W. Jones

Escort, Texas Company --- Lieutenant Rush L. Elkin

Missouri Battery --- Captain Houston King

            Richardson’s Brigade

Composition unreported

            Partial Casualty List

Major Thurmand - Killed

Lieutenant Gavin - Wounded

Lieutenant Harwell - Wounded

 

 

 

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