Maps of Allatoona Pass

Map Legend

The Battle
     Opening Moves
     10:00 AM
     10:20 AM
     10:30 AM
     10:40 AM
     10:50 AM
     11:00 AM
     12:00 PM
     1:30 PM
     2:00 PM

Then and Now

Order of Battle

Wargaming Allatoona Pass

Bibliography

            The battle opens for the Confederates with Sears’s Brigade deployed and advancing from the north, while Cockrell and Young’s Brigades are deployed on the ridge west of the Star Fort and Rowett’s Redoubt.  The Union forces are spread out between the two redoubts, the fortifications and rifle pits adjoining them, and Rowett’s Redoubt to the west of the Star Fort.

            On the east side of the cut, the 50^th and 12^th Illinois are deployed on the south and north slopes respectively.  The 12^th Illinois occupies a naturally strong ledge, and quickly digs fieldworks in the early morning hours.  The 50^th only dug shallow trenches that were barely visible.  The 4^th Minnesota mans a line of trenches from the Tennessee Road to the Eastern Redoubt.  Portions of the 57th Illinois, a small detachment of the 15th Ohio Cavalry, and 3 cannons of the 12th Wisconsin Battery occupied the Eastern Redoubt itself.  On the ridge to the east of the Eastern Redoubt is a Signal Corps station, a simple platform constructed on top of a 60 foot tall pine tree.  Signalers manage to send and receive messages in the morning before the main assault began and it became too dangerous to remain.

            On the western side of the cut, the Star Fort was manned three companies of the 93^rd Illinois and two cannons of the 12^th Wisconsin.  Two companies of the 93^rd were deployed in a trench on the ridge north of the Star Fort, two were deployed near the headquarters building of the regiment as a reserve for the forces in Rowett’s Redoubt, and the remaining three were skirmishing in rifle pits to the west of Rowett’s Redoubt.

            The 39^th Iowa and seven companies of the 7^th Illinois (all ten companies of which were armed with the Henry repeating rifle) occupied Rowett’s Redoubt itself.  The redoubt was constructed on the next hillside west of the Star Fort along the Cartersville Road.  It was a well built fieldwork with abatis in front to slow and entangle any attacking force.  One Napoleon cannon from the 12^th Wisconsin was also in the redoubt.

            To the south, the 18^th Wisconsin was spread out in a long skirmish line keeping a watchful eye for any activity from that direction.  The remaining three companies of the 7^th Illinois were deployed in rifle pits behind them as support.

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