Battle of Carnifex Ferry order of battle explained

The following Union Army and Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Carnifex Ferry of the American Civil War on September 10, 1861, in Nicholas County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Cpt = Captain

Other

• w = wounded
• k = killed

Union Forces

Army of West Virginia

See main article: Department of the Ohio. BG William S. Rosecrans^[1]

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1st Brigade  BG Henry Washington Benham	10th Ohio: Col William Haines Lytle (w), Ltc Herman J. Korff 12th Ohio: Col John W. Lowe (k), Ltc Carr B. White 13th Ohio: Col William Sooy Smith 1st Ohio Battery: Cpt James Ross McMullen Schneider's Provisional Battery (2 rifled guns):^[2] Cpt William Schneider
2nd Brigade  Col Robert Latimer McCook	9th Ohio: Col Charles Sondershoff 28th Ohio: Col Augustus Moor 47th Ohio: Col Frederick Poschner Chicago Dragoons:^[3] Cpt Fred Schambeck
3rd Brigade  Col Eliakim Parker Scammon (in reserve)	23rd Ohio: Maj Rutherford B. Hayes 30th Ohio: Col Hugh B. Ewing Mack's (New York) Battery

Confederate Forces

Army of the Kanawha

See main article: Army of the Kanawha. BG John Buchanan Floyd^{[4] [5]}

• 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment "1st Kanawha Infantry": Col Christopher Q. Tompkins
• 36th Virginia Infantry Regiment "2nd Kanawha Infantry": Col John McCausland
• 45th Virginia Infantry Regiment

Col Henry Heth

• 50th Virginia Infantry Regiment

Col Alexander W. Reynolds

• 51st Virginia Infantry Regiment

Col Gabriel C. Wharton

• 51st Virginia Militia Regiment: Ltc William W. Glass
• Beckett's Cavalry Company: Cpt. Albert J. Beckett
• Corn's Cavalry Company: Cpt. James M. Corn
• Virginia Light Artillery "Gauley Artillery": Cpt. Stephen Adams
• State Volunteer Artillery: Cpt. John H. Guy

See also

• West Virginia in the American Civil War

References

• The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Ser. 1, Vol. 5, p. 128.
• Ohio Roster Commission. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861 - 1865, Compiled Under the Direction of the Roster Commission 12 vol. (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886–1895.
• Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868.

External links

• Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park

Notes and References

1. A total of 17 men killed and 142 wounded was reported.
2. Schneider and personnel from the 13th Ohio
3. Also known as Schambeck's Independent Cavalry Company
4. The command structure of Floyd's force has never been determined. In addition to these regiments, he also had two unidentified regiments under his command. His total strength is reported as 1,800 men; 20 wounded in action were reported.
5. Web site: Additional command structure . 2018-07-15 . 2018-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180715094023/http://www.wvculture.org/history/civilwar/carnifex01.html . dead .