List of Don Army Units in the Civil War

Flag of Don Republic during the Civil War

Don Republic provided the following units to the Don Army and Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War. After the revolution and the collapse of the front most Don officers and Cossack's returned to their lands of the Don. Most of the Cossacks were outspoken opponents of the Bolsheviks. At the first opportunity, they formed a partisan detachment. In its first stages, the Don Army was under the leadership of the Don Ataman Full General Alexey Kaledin who led the Don Cossack Whites before he died on January 29, 1918 at Novocherkassk

First Don Army

Cavalry

2nd Stage - after reorganization of the Don Army in August 1919 under command of Generals Krasnov and Bogaewsky

1st Don Army Corps

Infantry

Cavalry

4th Independent Don Army Corps

Cavalry

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