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125 Series I Volume XLIII-I Serial 90 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign Part I

Page 125 Chapter LV. THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN.


No. 6. Organization of the Union forces, commanded by Major General Philip H. Sheridan, U. S. Army, at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., October 19.

ARMY OF THE SHENANDOAH.

Major General HORATIO G. WRIGHT.*

ESCORT.

17th Pennsylvania Cavalry [detachment], Major Weidner H. Spera.

6th U. S. Cavalry, Captain Ira W. Claffin.

SIXTH ARMY CORPS.

Brigadier General JAMES B. RICKETTS.

Brigadier General GEORGE W. GETTY.

Major General HORATIO G. WRIGHT.

ESCORT.

1st Michigan Cavalry, Company G, LieutenantWilliam H. Wheeler.

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General FRANK WHEATON.

First Brigade.

Colonel WILLIAM H. PENROSE.

LieutenantColonel EDWARD L. CAMPBELL.

Captain BALDWIN HUFTY.

4th New Jersey, Captain Baldwin Hufty.

10th New Jersey:

Major Lambert Boeman.

Captain Charles D. Claypool.

15th New Jersey:

LieutenantColonel Edward L. Campbell.

Captain James W. Penrose.

Second Brigade.

Colonel JOSEPH E. HAMBLIN.

Colonel RANALD S. MACKENZIE.

LieutenantColonel EGBERT OLCOTT.

2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery:

Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie.

Major Edward W. Jones.

65th New York:

LieutenantColonel Thomas H. Higinbotham.

Captain Henry C. Fisk.

121st New York:

LieutenantColonel Egbert Olcott.

Captain Daniel D. Jackson.

95th Pennsylvania,

96th Pennsylvania, Captain John Harper.

Third Brigade.+

Colonel OLIVER EDWARDS.

37th Massachusetts, LieutenantColonel George L. Montague.

49th Pennsylvania, LieutenantColonel Baynton J. Hickman.

82nd Pennsylvania, Colonel Isaac C. Bassett.

119th Pennsylvania, LieutenantColonel Gideon Clark.

2nd Rhode Island [battalion], Captain Elisha H. Rhodes.

5th Wisconsin [battalion], Major Charles W. Kempf.

17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Major Coe Durland.

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*Commanded during General Sheridan's temporary absence is the early part of the battle.

+At Winchester, Va., and not engaged in the battle.

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