WHEELER AND RODDY’S TENNESSEE RAID

30 September - 17 October 1863

(Raid on Rosecrans line of communications)

including

Cotton Port Ford 30 Sep      Mountain Gap 1 Oct             Anderson’s Crossroads 2 Oct

Pitt’s Crossroads 2 Oct         Jasper (near) 2 Oct                Dunlap 2 Oct

McMinnville 3 Oct                 Hill’s Gap 3 Oct                     Sugar Creek 4 Oct

McMinnville 4 Oct                 Readyville 5 Oct                    Stones River R.R. Bridge 5 Oct

Christiana 6 Oct                    Readyville 6 Oct                    Garrison’s Creek 6 Oct

Wartrace 6 Oct                      Farmington 7 Oct                  Sim’s Farm 7 Oct

Cowan 9 Oct                          Elk River 9 Oct                      Buckhorn Tavern 12 Oct

Maysville 13 Oct                    Fayetteville 13-14 Oct

 

OR-Series I, Volume XXX, Chapter XLII, Part 2, Pg 663

 

Union Forces

Department of the Cumberland

MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS

 

Cavalry

BRIGADIER GENERAL ROBERT B. MITCHELL

BRIGADIER GENERAL DAVID S. STANLY

2nd Cavalry Division - Brigadier General Crook

1st Cavalry Brigade - Colonel R. H. G. Minty

(composition unknown)

2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Long

1st Ohio Cavalry Regiment

3rd Ohio Cavalry Regiment

4th Ohio Cavalry Regiment

2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Nicholas

Mounted Infantry Brigade - Colonel Abraham O. Miller

17th Indiana Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Major William T. Jones

72nd Indiana Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel S. C. Kirkpatrick

98th Illinois Mounted Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Edward Kitchell

123rd Illinois Mounted Infantry --- Colonel James Monroe

                                                            Lieutenant Colonel Biggs

18th Indiana Artillery Battery --- Captain Eli Lilley

Detachment, Pioneers --- Sergeant Edwards

Chicago Board of Trade Battery --- Captain Stokes

3rd Brigade - Colonel William H. Lowe

5th Iowa Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Patrick

1st Battalion, 1st Ohio Cavalry --- Major Scott

1st Battalion, 3rd Ohio Cavalry --- Major Rowland

6 Companies, 4th Ohio Cavalry --- Major Rodgers

6 Companies, 1st Middle Tennessee Cavalry --- Colonel Galbraith

2nd Cavalry Brigade - Colonel E. M. McCook

1st Wisconsin Cavalry --- Colonel Oscar H. LaGrange

2nd Indiana Cavalry Regiment --- Major David A. Briggs

4th Indiana Cavalry Regiment --- Major George H. Purdy

1 Section Artillery --- Lieutenant Newell

Campbell’s Brigade - Colonel Archibald Campbell

1st East Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment

Unattached

15th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William J. Palmer

4th Michigan Cavalry

 

 

Confederate Forces

MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER

Wharton’s Brigade

Martin’s Brigade

 

 

 

To Index