The Battle of White Sulphur Springs by Eric J. Wittenberg Page B

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Appendix A
    Order of Battle
    Battle of White Sulphur Springs, August 26–27, 1863
    U NION F ORCES
    Middle Military District
    Eighth Army Corps
    Major General Robert Schenck
    Fourth Separate Brigade
    Brigadier William Woods Averell
    2 nd West Virginia Mounted Infantry (Colonel George R. Latham)
    3 rd West Virginia Mounted Infantry (Lieutenant Colonel Francis Thompson)
    8 th West Virginia Mounted Infantry (Colonel John H. Oley)
    14 th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Colonel James M. Schoonmaker)
    Independent Cavalry Battalion (Major Thomas Gibson Jr.)
    Battery G, 1 st West Virginia Light Artillery (Captain Chatham T. Ewing [w]; Lieutenant Howard Morton)
    Total: approximately thirteen hundred men
    C ONFEDERATE F ORCES
    Department of East Tennessee
    Major General Samuel Jones
    First (Echols’s) Brigade
    Colonel George S. Patton
    22 nd Virginia Infantry (Lieutenant Colonel Andrew R. Barbee [w]; Major Augustus R. Bailey)
    45 th Virginia Infantry (Colonel William H. Browne)
    23 rd Battalion Virginia Infantry (Lieutenant Colonel Clarence Derrick)
    26 th Battalion Virginia Infantry (Lieutenant Colonel George M. Edgar)
    Chapman’s Company of Virginia Light Artillery (Captain Beirne Chapman)
    Other Forces
    8 th Virginia Cavalry (Colonel James M. Corns; five companies)
    37 th Battalion Virginia Cavalry (Major J.R. Claiborne; two hundred men)
    Total: approximately twenty-three hundred men

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    Charleston Mercury
    Cincinnati Gazette
    Daily National Republican
    Fayette Tribune
    Greenbrier Independent
    Huntington Advertiser
    Ironton Register
    Lynchburg Republican
    Monroe Watchman [Union, West Virginia]
    National Intelligencer
    National Tribune
    New York Daily Tribune
    New York Times
    Philadelphia Weekly Times
    Pittsburgh Press
    Pomeroy Leader
    Richmond Daily Dispatch
    Wheeling Intelligencer
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    ______. Papers. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.
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