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Subject: Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 by Ron Field
Important Points:
Chaffin’s Farm/New Market Heights: September 29, 1864
Unit Strengths
- Samuel A. Duncan’s 3rd Brigade, Paine’s Division, XVIII Corps, AotJ: about 750 officers and men PFD in the 4th USCT and 6th USCT on September 29, 1864. 1
- 4th USCT: 11 officers and 350 men PFD (September 29, 1864)2
Unit Armament
- Graham’s 1st Rockbridge VA Artillery: 5 “guns” (September 29, 1864)3
- 1st Section/3rd Richmond Howitzers: 2 3-in Rifles (September 29, 1864)4
Unit Commanders:
- 3rd Brigade, Paine’s Division, XVIII Corps, AotJ: Colonel Samuel A. Duncan5
- Texas Brigade, Field’s Division, First Corps, ANV: Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Bass6
- 1st Section/3rd Richmond Howitzers: Lieutenant Henry C. Carter (September 29, 1864)7
- 4th USCT: Major Augustus S. Boernstein (September 29, 1864)8
- 6th USCT: Colonel John W. Ames (September 29, 1864)9
- Graham’s 1st Rockbridge VA Artillery: Captain Archibald Graham (September 29, 1864)10
- 3rd Arkansas: Lieutenant Colonel Robert S. Taylor (September 29, 1864)11
- 5th Texas: Captain Tacitus T. Clay (September 29, 1864)12
- 4th Texas: Lieutenant Colonel Clinton M. Winkler (September 29, 1864)13
- 1st Texas: Lieutenant Colonel Richard J. Harding (September 29, 1864)14
- 24th VA Cav: Colonel William T. Robins (September 29, 1864)15
- 7th SC Cav: Colonel Alexander C. Haskell (September 29, 1864)16
- Hampton SC Legion Cav: Lieutenant Colonel Robert B. Arnold (September 29, 1864)17
- 2nd United States Colored Cavalry: Captain Robert Dollard (September 29, 1864)18
Sources:
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 58: The 10th USCT was left behind at City Point, Virginia. ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 59 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 58 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 58 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 58 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 58 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 58 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 59 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 59 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61, 63 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩