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Cheat Mountain

Confederate Commander

General Robert E. Lee

Forces Engaged: 1,600

Killed: Unknown

Wounded: Unknown

Captured or Missing: 1

Total: Unknown

Confederate Officers

Brig. Gen. R. Garnett

Col. Turner Ashby

Confederate Order of Battle

Confederate Official Records

General Robert E. Lee

Commanding General

Col. Albert Rust

Third Arkansas Infantry

September 12-15, 1861

Pocahontas County, Virginia

Union Victory

Operations in Western Virginia (June-December 1861)

Also Called: Cheat Mountain Summit, Elkwater

National Park Service

Union Commander

Brig. Gen. Joseph Reynolds

Forces Engaged: 4,500

Killed: 9

Wounded: 2

Captured or Missing: 60

Total: 71

Union Officers

Col. Nathan Kimball

​Union Order of Battle

Union Official Records

Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Reynolds

Commander, First Brigade

Col. Nathan Kimball

Fourteenth Indiana Infantry

Col. George D. Wagner

Fifteenth Indiana Infantry

Lt. Col. Richard Owen

Fifteenth Indiana Infantry

Capt. David J. Higgins

Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry

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