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. ReynoldsEicher p.451
Brigade Unit 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
Gen Robert E. LeeEicher p.889
Brigade Unit 1st Brigade
BG Henry R. JacksonEicher p.315 3rd Arkansas: Col Albert Rust 23rd Virginia: Col Alexander Taliaferro 25th Virginia 31st Virginia: Col William L. Jackson 2nd Brigade
BG Samuel R. AndersonEicher p.106 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.