Pea Ridge Confederate order of battle
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The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Pea Ridge of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is shown separately.
Army of the West
Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn
Right Wing
- McCulloch’s Division
- Brig. Gen. Benjamin McCulloch (killed)
- Brig. Gen. James M. McIntosh (killed)
- Col. Elkanah Greer and Brig. Gen. Albert Pike
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- Hébert’s Infantry Brigade
- Col. Louis Hébert (captured)
- Col. Evander McNair
- 3rd Louisiana Infantry
- 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)
- 4th Texas Cavalry Battalion (dismounted)[1]
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- McIntosh’s Cavalry Brigade
- Brig. Gen. James McIntosh (killed)
- Col. Elkanah Greer
- 3rd Texas Cavalry
- 6th Texas Cavalry
- 9th Texas Cavalry
- 11th Texas Cavalry
- 1st Texas Cavalry Battalion (not engaged)
- 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion
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- Division Artillery
- Hart’s Arkansas Battery
- Provence’s Arkansas Battery
- Gaines’s Arkansas Battery
- Good’s Texas Battery
- Division Artillery
- Pike’s Indian Brigade
- Brig. Gen. Albert Pike
- 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles
- 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles
- 1st Choctaw and Chickasaw (not engaged)
- 1st Creek Mounted Rifles (not engaged)
- Welch’s Texas Cavalry Squadron
- Unassigned Units
- 19th Arkansas (not engaged)
- 20th Arkansas (not engaged)
Left Wing
- Price’s Division
- Maj. Gen. Sterling Price (wounded)
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- Headquarters Units
- Cearnal’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion
- Headquarters Units
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- 1st Missouri Brigade
- Colonel Henry Little
- 1st Missouri Cavalry
- 2nd Missouri Infantry
- 3rd Missouri Infantry
- Wade’s Missouri Artillery Battery
- Clark’s Missouri Artillery Battery
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- 2nd Missouri Brigade
- Col. William Y. Slack (mortally wounded)
- Bevier’s Missouri Infantry Battalion
- Hughes’s Missouri Infantry Battalion
- Rosser’s Missouri Infantry Battalion
- Riggins’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion
- Jackson’s Missouri Artillery Battery
- Landis’s Missouri Artillery Battery
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- 3rd Missouri Brigade
- Col. Colton Greene
- Brigade composed of partially organized battalions and companies from Missouri State Guard transferring into Confederate service. Units included parts of:
- Col. Thomas Freeman's Regiment
- Lt. Col. John A. Schnable's Regiment
- Capt. L.C. Campbell's cavalry company
- Brigade composed of partially organized battalions and companies from Missouri State Guard transferring into Confederate service. Units included parts of:
- 2nd Division
- Brig. Gen. Martin E. Green
- Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units
- Kneisley’s Missouri Battery
- 3rd Division
- Col. John B. Clark, Jr.
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- 1st Infantry
- 2nd Infantry
- 3rd Infantry
- 4th & 5th Infantry
- 6th Infantry
- Tull’s Missouri Battery
- 5th Division
- Col. James P. Saunders
- Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units
- Kelley’s Battery
- 6th Division
- Major D. Herndon Lindsay
- Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units
- Gorham’s Battery
- 7th & 9th Divisions
- Brig. Gen. Daniel M. Frost
- Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units
- Guibor’s Missouri Battery
- MacDonald’s St. Louis Battery
- 8th Division
- Brig. Gen. James S. Rains
- 1st Infantry
- 2nd Infantry
- 3rd Infantry
- 4th Infantry
- Shelby’s Cavalry Company
- Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Tunnard, William H.; "a Southern Record: the history of the Third Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, page 129
[edit] References
- Pea Ridge NMP website
- Shea, William L., & Earl J. Hess. Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
