| Battle of Buckhead Creek | |||||||
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| Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
 Historical marker | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States (Union) |
 Confederate States (Confederacy) | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Hugh Judson Kilpatrick | Joseph Wheeler | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| 3rd Cavalry Division, Military Division of the Mississippi | Wheeler's Cavalry Corps, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida[1] | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 5,000 | 2,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 46 | 70 (Wheeler's report); 600 (Kilpatrick's report) | ||||||
The Battle of Buckhead Creek (also spelled as Buck Head Creek) or Battle of Reynolds' Plantation[2] was the second battle of Sherman's March to the Sea, fought November 28, 1864, during the American Civil War. Union Army cavalry under Brig. Gen. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick repulsed an attack by the small Confederate cavalry corps under Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, but abandoned its attempt to destroy railroads and rescue Union prisoners of war.
- ^ Confederate Military History: Wheeler, Joseph; Alabama. Hooker, C. E.; Mississippi. Confederate publishing Company. 1899.
- ^ The War of the Rebellion, a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series. I, Vol. XLIV, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1893, p. 1033