Although the lord of the Kishu Domain Mochitsugu TOKUGAWA was appointed as the governor general of the Choshu Conquest troops at first, it changed to Yoshikatsu and he went to the front with a feudal retainer of the Satsuma Domain Takamori SAIGO as the Senior Staff.
長州征討軍総督には初め紀州藩主徳川茂承が任じられたが、慶勝に変更され、慶勝は薩摩藩士西郷隆盛を大参謀として出征した。