Alan Pitts
More on Pine Barren Creek
Tue Feb 6 09:27:22 2001


Not a typo at all; more fighting in December than the November entry we have been discussing. The December action was part of an entry which appears in the NAGI as expedition from Barrancas, Fla. to Pollard, Ala. I have also seen it listed as both Pine Barren Creek and Mitchell's Creek, Dec. 17-19, 1864. Federal units involved were the 82nd & 97th U.S.C.T. (but I'd have to check that).

This comes from Dunbar Roland's Military History of Mississippi, Armistead's Regiment:
In December, on receiving news of a Federal expedition from Pensacola to Pollard, Ala., Colonel Armistead moved his brigade to Bluff Springs, a march of 150 miles in fifty-four hours, and pursued the expedition on its return, December 16-17, General McKean, commanding at Pensacola, reported that "considerable severe fighting took place at all the streams from the Little Escambia to Pine Barren Creek." Colonel Robinson, commanding the expedition, was severely wounded, and in his troops 17 killed and 64 wounded. General Beauregard reported that our forces "acted with spirit and gallantry."

There is a partial muster roll of Company "E" here:
http://personal.bellsouth.net/mia/t/a/tadams/rosters.htm
and a contemporary picture of a 15th Confederate member here:http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/learning/CivilWar/photos/Rogers.html">