List_of_Don_Army_Units_in_the_Civil_War References

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