Cheat Mountain order of battle

The following Union Army and Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Cheat Mountain of the American Civil War on September 12 and 13, 1861 in present-day West Virginia.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Union Forces

Cheat Mountain District

BG Joseph J. Reynolds[1]

Brigade Unit
1st Brigade

   BG Joseph J. Reynolds

Artillery
  • Rigby's Indiana Battery
  • 1st Michigan Artillery, Battery A
  • 12th Ohio Independent Battery
  • 4th U.S. Artillery, Battery G: Cpt Albion P. Howe
  • 1st West Virginia Artillery, Battery A
Cavalry
  • Bracken's Indiana Cavalry
  • 1st Ohio Cavalry, Company A
  • 1st Ohio Cavalry, Company C

Confederate Forces

Army of the Northwest

Gen Robert E. Lee[2]

Brigade Unit
1st Brigade

   BG Henry Rootes Jackson[3]

  • 3rd Arkansas: Col Albert Rust
  • 23rd Virginia: Col Alexander Taliaferro
  • 25th Virginia
  • 31st Virginia
2nd Brigade

   BG Samuel Read Anderson[4]

  • 1st Tennessee
  • 4th Tennessee
  • 16th Tennessee

See also

Notes

  1. Eicher p.451
  2. Eicher p.889
  3. Eicher p.315
  4. Eicher p.106

References