Read in date order nearly 500 military orders, reports and communications related to Garrard’s Cavalry during Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, May through September in 1864. These records were extracted from The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume 38, Parts 1 to 5.
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Here are the cavalry units and commanders under General Garrard during Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign…
CAVALRY CORPS, ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
Brigadier General WASHINGTON L. ELLIOTT
SECOND DIVISION
Brigadier General KENNER GARRARD
First Brigade
Colonel ROBERT H. G. MINTY
4th Michigan Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel Josiah B. Park
Major Frank W. Mix
Captain L. Briggs Eldridge
7th Pennsylvania Cavalry
Colonel William B. Sipes
Major James F. Andreas
Major William H. Jennings
4th U. S. Cavalry
Captain James B. McIntyre
Second Brigade
Colonel ELI LONG
Colonel BEROTH B. EGGLESTON
1st Ohio Cavalry
Colonel Beroth B. Eggleston
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Patten
3d Ohio Cavalry
Colonel Charles B. Seidel
4th Ohio Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver P. Robie
Third Brigade
Colonel JOHN T. WILDER
Colonel ABRAM O. MILLER
98th Illinois Mounted Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Edward Kitchell
123d Illinois Mounted Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Biggs
17th Indiana Mounted Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Jordan
Major Jacob G. Vail
72d Indiana Mounted Infantry
Colonel Abram O. Miller
Major Henry M. Carr
Captain Adam Pinkerton
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel C. Kirkpatrick
Artillery
Chicago (Illinois) Board of Trade Battery
Lieutenant George I. Robinson