Battle of Cheat Mountain order of battle explained

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

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

Other

• w = wounded
• k = killed

Union Forces

Cheat Mountain District

BG Joseph J. Reynolds^[1]

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1st Brigade  BG Joseph J. Reynolds	7th Indiana: Col Ebenezer Dumont 9th Indiana: Col Robert H. Milroy 13th Indiana: Col Jeremiah C. Sullivan 14th Indiana: Col Nathan Kimball 15th Indiana: Col George D. Wagner 17th Indiana: Col Milo S. Hascall 3rd Ohio: Col Isaac H. Marrow 6th Ohio: Col William K. Bosley 24th Ohio: Col Jacob Ammen 25th Ohio: Col James A. Jones 32nd Ohio: Col Thomas H. Ford 2nd West Virginia: Col John W. Moss 3rd West Virginia: Col David T. Hewes
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

See main article: Army of the Northwest (Confederate). Gen Robert E. Lee^[2]

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1st Brigade  BG Henry R. Jackson^[3]	3rd Arkansas: Col Albert Rust 23rd Virginia: Col Alexander Taliaferro 25th Virginia 31st Virginia: Col William L. Jackson
2nd Brigade  BG Samuel R. Anderson^[4]	1st Tennessee: Col George Maney 4th Tennessee 16th Tennessee

See also

• West Virginia in the American Civil War

References

• Eicher, John H., & Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, .
• Lesser, W. Hunter, Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided, Sourcebooks, 2004, .
• Newell, Clayton R., Lee vs. McClellan: The First Campaign, Regnery Publishing, 1996, .
• The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Ser. 1, Vol. 5, p. 184.

Notes and References

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