SPRING HILL ALBAMA to BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA

8-22 May 1865

{Expedition}

Route

Spring Hill Alabama

Dog River

Rocky Gap

Chickasaw River

Robert’s Ferry

Enon Post Office

Black Creek

Columbia

Atkinson’s Ferry

Pearl River

MaGee’s Creek

Bouge Chitto River

Tangipahoa River

Osyka Mississippi

Tickfaw River

Amite River

Comite River

Baton Rouge Louisiana

OR-Series I, Volume XLVIII, Chapter LX, Pg 262

Union Forces

Military Division of West Mississippi

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division - Brigadier General Joseph Bailey

3rd Michigan Cavalry Regiment --- Major Edward B. Nugent

4th Tennessee (US) Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Jacob M. Thornburg

Detachment, 10th Illinois Cavalry --- Major George A. Willis

Detachment, 1st Company Pontoniers --- Lieutenant A. M. Conrad

Supply Train

100 Wagons

Detachment, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry*

*= Acting teamsters

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