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