FORREST’S WEST TENNESSEE RAID

16 October - 10 November 1864

Including

Capture of U.S. Gunboat Undine 30 Oct

Davidson’s Ferry 2-3 Nov

Destructions of Gunboats 4 Oct

Johnsonville 4-5 Nov 64

OR-Series I, Volume XXXIX, Chapter LI

 

 

Union Forces

Johnsonville Garrison

COLONEL C. R. THOMPSON

43rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Cobb

Detachment, 12th U.S.C.T.

Detachment, 13th U.S.C.T.

Detachment, 100th U.S.C.T.

Detachment, 11 Tennessee (U.S.) Cavalry

Detachment,f 34th New Jersey Infantry --- Lieutenant Gibson

1st Kansas Battery

Company A, 2nd U.S. Colored Artillery

1 Section Quartermasters Battery

U.S. Naval Forces

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER E. M. KING

            Gunboats

U.S.S. Tawah --- Lieutenant Williams

U.S.S. Key West

U.S.S. Elfin

U.S.S. Undine

U.S.S. Naugatuck

U.S.S. Alice

U.S. Steamer Venus

U.S. Steamer Cheeseman

 

Confederate Forces

MAJOR GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST

                        Chalmer’s Division - Brigadier General James R. Chalmers

            Rucker’s Brigade - Colonel Edmund Rucker

15th Tennessee Cavalry --- Lieutenant Colonel T. H. Logwood

26th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion --- Lieutenant Colonel D. C. Kelly

 8th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William Duff

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

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

1 Section, Rice’s Battery

1 Section, Hudson’s Battery

            McCulloch’s Brigade

            Mabry’s Brigade

                        Buford’s Division - Brigadier General Abraham Buford

            Bell’s Brigade - Colonel Tyree H. Bell

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

            Lyon’s Brigade - Colonel Hyland B. Lyons

2 Companies, Kentucky Cavalry

3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment

7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment

8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment

12th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment --- Major Thomas S. Tate, Jr.

Artillery

Morton's Battery- Captain John W. Morton

Rices' Battery - Captain T. W. Rice

Hudson's Battery--- (Formerly Walton's Battery) - Captain Edwin S. Walton

Thrall's Battery - Captain J. C. Thrall

 

 

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