Battle of Brown's Mill
Order of Battle
CONFEDERATE
CONFEDERATE TROOPS ENGAGED AT THE BATTLE OF BROWN'S MILL
CAVALRY CORPS, ARMY OF TENNESSEE
Major General Joseph Wheeler, Jr.
HUMES' DIVISION
Brigadier General William Y. C. Humes
ASHBY'S BRIGADE
Colonel Henry M. Ashby
1st [6th] Tennessee Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel James H. Lewis
2nd Tennessee Cavalry
Captain William M. Smith
5th Tennessee Cavalry
Colonel George W. McKenzie
9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
Major James H. Akin
HARRISON'S BRIGADE
Colonel Thomas Harrison
3rd Arkansas Cavalry
Colonel Amson W. Hobson
4th Tennessee Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel Paul F. Anderson
8th Texas Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel Gustave Cook
11th Texas Cavalry
Colonel George E. Reeves
KELLY'S DIVISION
ANDERSON'S BRIGADE
Brigadier General Robert H. Anderson
3rd Confederate Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel John McCaskill
8th Confederate Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel John S. Prather
10th Confederate Cavalry
Captain W. J. Vason
12th Confederate Cavalry
Captain Charles H. Conner
5th Georgia Cavalry
Colonel Edward Bird
CAVALRY CORPS, ARMY OF MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON'S DIVISION
Brigadier General William H. Jackson
JACKSON?S ESCORT
Company A, 7th Tennessee Cavalry
Captain J. W. Sneed
ROSS' BRIGADE
Brigadier General Lawrence S. Ross
1st Texas Legion (27th Texas Cavalry)
Colonel Edwin R. Hawkins
3rd Texas Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel Jiles S. Boggess
6th Texas Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel Peter F. Ross
9th Texas Cavalry
Colonel Dudley W. Jones
RODDEY'S COMMAND
Brigadier General Philip D. Roddey
JOHNSON'S BRIGADE
Lieutenant Colonel F. M. Windes
4th Alabama Cavalry
Captain E. D. Kelley
Moreland's Alabama Cavalry Regiment
Captain W. K. Dickson
Williams' Alabama Cavalry Battalion
Captain J. F. Doan
Warren's Alabama Cavalry Battalion
Lieutenant John L. Lyndon
Roddey's troops were joined by convalescent Confederate soldiers
from
BRAGG, BUCKNER, FOARD, and GAMBLE HOSPITALS
in Newnan, Georgia
UNION
UNION TROOPS ENGAGED AT THE BATTLE OF BROWN'S MILL
1st CAVALRY DIVISION, ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
Brigadier General Edward M. McCook
1ST BRIGADE
Colonel John T. Croxton
8th Iowa Cavalry
Major Richard Root
4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Kelly
1st Tennessee Cavalry
Colonel James P. Brownlow
2ND BRIGADE
Lieutenant Colonel William H. Torrey
2nd Indiana Cavalry
Major David A. Briggs
4th Indiana Cavalry (1)
Lieutenant Colonel Horace P. Lamson
1st Wisconsin Cavalry (2)
Major Nathan Paine
ARTILLERY
18th Indiana Battery (1st section) (3)
Lieutenant Martin J. Miller
HARRISON'S BRIGADE (4)
Colonel Thomas J. Harrison
2nd Kentucky Cavalry (5)
Major Owen Star
8th Indiana Cavalry (6)
Lieutenant Colonel Fielder A. Jones
5th Iowa Cavalry (7)
Major Harlon Baird
9th Ohio Cavalry (8)
Colonel William D. Hamilton
4th Tennessee Cavalry
Major Meshack Stephens
1) Company C of the 4th Indiana Cavalry was serving on detached duty in the Department of the Gulf.
(2) McCook sent Major Paine and the 1st Wisconsin toward Fairburn on July 28, 1864, to create a diversion. A handful of men from this regiment did accompany McCook's main column and fought at the battle of Brown's Mill. In addition, a few members of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry, whose enlistments had not expired, also marched with McCook.
(3) The 2nd and 3rd sections of the 18th Indiana Battery, commanded by Lieutenant William B. Rippetoe, remained on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River and did not see action at the battle of Brown?s Mill. For further details, see note 8 below.
(4) Harrison's command consisted of troops Major General Lovell H. Rousseau had assembled from the Union garrisons in Nashville and the District of Northern Alabama and recently led on a raid that crippled the Montgomery & West Point Railroad. These regiments were not part of the 1st Cavalry Division, although McCook was in overall command.
(5) There were no companies K and M in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry after the regiment veteranized in March of 1864. Company L was left at Nashville prior to Rousseau?s raid.
(6) Companies L and M of the 8th Indiana Cavalry were left in Nashville prior to Rousseau?s raid.
(7) Companies G, I, and K of the 5th Iowa Cavalry were left in Nashville prior to Rousseau?s raid.
(8) Early on July 28, 1864, while the rest of his column moved downstream, McCook left Captain Lewis H. Bowlus's 2nd battalion of the 9th Ohio Cavalry and the 3rd section of the 18th Indiana Battery opposite Campbellton to distract the attention of Rebel pickets and protect his extra pontoons. When McCook crossed the Chattahoochee that afternoon, he left Colonel Hamilton and the rest of the 9th Ohio on the west bank of the river with Lieutenant William B. Rippetoe and the 2nd section of the 18th Indiana Battery to protect the pontoon bridge laid at Smith's Ferry.
ORDER OF BATTLE
COURTESY OF
DAVID EVANS
AUTHOR, SHERMAN'S HORSEMEN
Edward Jordan Lanham