cwla - Pea Ridge Order Of Battle File

> ## Order Of Battle

> ## Confederate Units

> ## Army Of The West, Major General Earl Van Dorn

> McCulloch's Division, Brigadier General Ben McCulloch (killed)

> Infantry Brigade, Colonel Louis Hebert (captured) Colonel Evander McNair

> 4th Arkansas Infantry
> 14th Arkansas Infantry
> 15th Arkansas Infantry
> 16th Arkansas Infantry
> 17th Arkansas Infantry
> 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted)
> 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted)
> 3rd Louisiana Infantry
> 4th Texas Cavalry Battalion

> Colonel Evander McNair, Lt. Colonel Samuel Ogden
> Colonel William C. Mitchell (captured)
> Colonel Dandridge McRae
> Colonel John F. Hill
> Colonel Frank A. Rector
> Colonel Thomas J. Churchill
> Colonel Benjamin T. Embry
> Major Will F. Tunnard (captured), Captain W. L. Gunnells
> Major John W. Whitfield

> Cavalry Brigade, Brigadier General James McIntosh (killed)

> 3rd Texas Cavalry
> 6th Texas Cavalry
> 9th Texas Cavalry
> 11th Texas Cavalry
> 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion
> 1st Texas Cavalry Battalion

> Colonel Elkanah Greer, Lt. Colonel Walter P. Lane
> Colonel B. Warren Stone
> Colonel William B. Sims (wounded), Lt. Colonel William Quayle
> Colonel William C. Young
> Major Willaim H. Brooks
> Major R. Phillip Crump

> Artillery

> | Hart's Arkansas Battery (4 guns) Provence's Arkansas Battery (4 guns) Good's Texas Battery (6 guns) Gaines' Arkansas Battery (4 guns) | Captain William Hart Captain David Provence Captain John J. Good Captain James J. Gaines

> Pike's Brigade, Brigadier General Albert Pike

> 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles
> 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles
> Drew's Cherokee Mounted Rifles
> 1st Choctaw and Chickasaw
> 1st Creek Mounted Rifles
> Welch's Texas Cavalry Squadron

> Colonel John Drew
> Colonel Stand Watie
> Colonel Douglas H. Cooper
> Colonel Daniel N. McIntosh
> Captain Otis G. Welch

> Unassigned

> | 19th Arkanses 20th Arkanses | Lt. Colonel P. R. Smith Colonel George W. King

> Price's Division, Major General Sterling Price (wounded)
> Confederate Units

> 1st Missouri Brigade, Colonel Henry Little

> | 1st Missouri Cavalry 2nd Missouri 3rd Missouri Wade's Missouri Battery (6 guns) Clark's Missouri Battery (4 guns) | Colonel Elijah Gates Colonel John Q. Burbridge Colonel Benjamin A. Rives (killed), Lt. Colonel James A. Pritchard Captain William Wade Captain S. Churchill Clark (killed), Lieutenant James L. Farris

> 2nd Brigade, Brigadier General William Y. Slack (killed), Colonel Thomas H. Rosser

> Hughes' Missouri Infantry Battalion
> Bevier's Missouri Infantry Battalion
> Rosser's Missouri Infantry Battalion
> Landis' Missouri Battery (4 guns)
> Jackson's Missouri Battery (4 guns)
> Riggin's Missouri Cavalry Battalion

> Colonel John T. Hughes
> Colonel Robert S. Bevier
> Colonel Thomas H. Rosser
> Captain John C. Landis
> Captain William Lucas
> Colonel George W. Riggins

> 3rd Brigade, Colonel Colton Greene

> | Several partially organized battalions and companies | Colonel Thomas R. Freeman Lt. Colonel John A. Schnable Captain L. C. Campbell

> Headquarters Unit (Price's Escort)

> | Cearnal's Missouri Cavalry Battalion | Lt. Colonel James T. Cearnal (wounded), Major D. Todd Samuels

> Missouri State Guard

> 2nd Division, Brigadier General Martin E. Green

> | Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Kneisley's Missouri Battery (5 guns) | Unknown Captain James W. Kneisley

> 3rd Division, Colonel John B. Clark, Jr.

> 1st Infantry
> 2nd Infantry
> 3rd Infantry
> 4th and 5th Infantry
> 6th Infantry
> Tull's Battery

> Major John F. Rucker
> Colonel Congreve Jackson
> Major Robert R. Hutchinson
> Colonel J. A. Poindexter
> Lt. Colonel Quinton Peacher
> Captain Francis M. Tull

> 5th Division, Colonel James P. Saunders

> | Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Kelly's Battery (5 guns) | Unknown Captain Joseph Kelly

> 6th Division, Major D. Herndon Lindsay

> | Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Gorham's Battery (4 guns) | Unknown Captain James C. Gorham

> 7th and 9th Divisions, Brigadier General Daniel M. Frost

> | Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units (from Frost's & McBride's Divisions) Guibor's Battery (4 guns) MacDonald's St. Louis Battery (3 guns) | Unknown Captain Henry Guibor Captain Emmett MacDonald

> 8th Division, Brigadier General James S. Rains

> 1st Infantry
> 2nd Infantry
> 3rd Infantry
> 4th Infantry
> Bledsoe's Battery (4 guns)
> Shelby's Cavalry Company

> Colonel William H. Erwin
> Lt. Colonel John P. Bowman
> Lt. Colonel A. J. Pearcy
> Lt. Colonel John M. Stemmons
> Lieutenant Charles W. Higgins
> Captain Joseph O. Shelby

> ## Federal Units

> ## Army Of The Southwest, Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis

> 1st and 2nd Divisions, Brigadier General Franz Sigel

> 1st Division, Colonel Peter J. Osterhaus

> 1st Brigade, Colonel W. N. Coler

> | 25th Illinois Infantry 44th Illinois Infantry 17th Missouri Infantry | Colonel William N. Coler Colonel Charles Knobelsdorff Major August Poten

> 2nd Brigade, Colonel Nicholas Greusel

> | 36th Illinois Infantry 12th Missouri Infantry Company I, 15th Illinois Cavalry Company K, 15th Illinois Cavalry | Colonel Nicholas Greusel Major Hugo Wanzelin Captain Albert Jenks Captain Henry A. Smith

> Artillery

> | Welfley's Indep. Battery, Missouri Light Artillery (6 guns) 4th Indep. Battery, Ohio Light Artillery (6 guns) | Captain Martin Welfley Captain Louis Hoffman

> 2nd Division, Brigadier General A. Asboth (wounded)

> 1st Brigade, Colonel Frederick Schaefer

> | 2nd Missouri Infantry 15th Missouri Infantry | Lt. Colonel Bernard Laiboldt Colonel Francis J. Joliat

> Artillery

> | 1st Missouri Flying Battery (6 guns) 2nd Indep. Battery, Ohio Light Artillery (6 guns) | Captain Gustavus M. Elbert Lieutenant William B. Chapman

> Not Brigaded

> | 3rd Missouri 4th Missouri Cavalry (Frémont Hussars) 5th Missouri Cavalry (Benton Hussars) | Major Joseph Conrad Major Emeric Meszaros Colonel Joseph Nemett

> 3rd Division, Colonel Jefferson C. Davis

> 1st Brigade, Colonel T. Pattison

> | 8th Indiana Infantry 18th Indiana Infantry 22nd Indiana Infantry 1st Battery, Indiana Light Artillery (6 guns) | Colonel William P. Benton Lt. Colonel Henry D. Washburn Lt. Colonel John A. Hendricks (killed); Major David W. Daily, Jr. Captain Martin Klauss

> 2nd Brigade, Colonel Julius White

> | 37th Illinois Infantry 59th Illinois Infantry Battery A, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery (Peoria Battery) (6 guns) | Lt. Colonel Myron S. Barnes Lt. Colonel Calvin H. Frederick Captain Peter Davidson

> Not Brigaded

> | 1st Missouri Cavalry | Colonel Calvin A. Ellis

> 4th Division, Colonel Eugene A. Carr

> 1st Brigade, Colonel Grenville M. Dodge

> | 35th Illinois Infantry 4th Iowa Infantry 1st Indep. Battery, Iowa Light Artillery (6 guns) 3rd Illinois Cavalry | Colonel Gustavus A. Smith (wounded), Lt. Colonel William P. Chandler (captured) Lt. Colonel John Galligan (wounded) Captain Junius A. Jones (wounded), Lieutenant Virgil J. David Major John McConnell

> 2nd Brigade, Colonel William Vandever

> | 9th Iowa Infantry 25th Missouri (Phelps' Indep. Missouri Regiment) 3rd Indep. Battery, Iowa Light Artillery (6 guns) | Lt. Colonel Francis J. Herron (wounded, captured); Major William H. Coyl (wounded) Colonel John S. Phelps (wounded) Captain Mortimer M. Hayden

> Headquarters Units

> | 3rd Iowa Cavalry 24th Missouri Infantry Bowen's Missouri Cavalry Battalion (4 guns) | Colonel Cyrus Bussey Major Eli W. Weston Major William D. Bowen

> (Source: William L. Shea & Earl J. Hess, Pea Ridge Civil War Campaign in the West, (Chapell Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), pp. 331-339; Pea Ridge ROTC Staff Ride: Orientation Packet. National Park Service paper distributed to visitors of the Pea Ridge National Military Park, September 2003.)

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