SOUTHWEST CREEK, NORTH CAROLINA

13 December 1862

(Foster’s Goldsborough Expedition)

OR-Series I, Volume XVIII, Chapter XXX, Pg 70

 

Union Forces

1st Brigade, 1st Division – Colonel Thomas J. C. Amory

17th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John F. Fellows

23rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment --- Major John G. Chambers

43rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment* --- Colonel Charles L. Holbrook

45th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Charles R. Codman

51st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Augustus B. R. Sprague

                * Not actively engaged

            1st Brigade, 2nd Division

9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Charles Heckman

            Cavalry

Detachment, 3rd New York Cavalry --- Captain Ferris Jacobs Jr.

Company B, 3rd New York Cavalry --- Captain John F. Moschell

Artillery

Right Section, Battery B, 3rd New York Artillery --- Lieutenant Day

2 Sections, Battery B, 3rd New York Artillery --- Captain Morrison

Battery F, 3rd New York Artillery --- Captain Jenney

Battery E, 3rd New York Artillery

Battery I, 3rd New York Artillery

1 Gun Lee’s Battery --- Lieutenant Cady

Partial Casualty List

Private Jack Costello – Wounded

Private B. F. Chapman - Wounded

 

Confederate Forces

Evans's Brigade - Brigadier General Nathan George “Shanks” Evans

61st North Carolina Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Radcliffe

17th South Carolina Infantry Regiment

22nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment

23rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment

47th North Carolina Infantry Regiment --- Colonel S. H. Rogers

Holcombe South Carolina Legion

Mallett’s Battalion --- Colonel Peter Mallett

Boyce’s South Carolina Battery --- Captain R. Boyce

Bunting’s North Carolina Battery --- Captain Bunting

Battery B. 13th North Carolina Artillery --- Captain Starr

North Carolina Heavy Artillery --- Colonel Pool

 

 

 

 

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