YAZOO EXPEDITION MISSISSIPPI

4-21 May 1864

Including

Benton 7-9 May

Luce’s Plantation 13 May

OR-Series I, Volume XXXIX, Chapter LI, Pg 6

 

Union Forces

BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN McARTHUR

1st Brigade – Colonel Benjamin Dornblaser

46th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel J. Jones

76th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Samuel T. Busey

2nd Brigade – Captain Bolton

11th Illinois Infantry Regiment

72nd Illinois Infantry Regiment

2nd Illinois Light Artillery Battery

7th Ohio Light Artillery Battery

Cavalry

1st Kansas Mounted Infantry

Detachment, 5th Illinois Cavalry --- Major Munford

Detachment, 11th Illinois Cavalry

3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry --- Colonel Osband

CASUALTIES= Killed-5, wounded-14

Partial Casualty List

Sergeant Lansing Ells – Killed

 

 

Confederate Forces

BRIGADIER GENERAL WIRT ADAMS

Vaughn’s Cavalry Brigade

Wood’s Regiment --- Colonel Woods

Owens’ Battery

(Remaining composition not reported)

 

 

 

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