Prairie Grove Union Order of Battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Prairie Grove of the American Civil War on December 7, 1862, in Washington County, Arkansas. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

1 Abbreviations used
- 1.1 Military rank
- 1.2 Other
2 Army of the Frontier
3 References
4 External links

Abbreviations used

Military rank

MG = Major General
BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain

Other

w = wounded
mw = mortally wounded
k = killed

Army of the Frontier

MG James G. Blunt^[1] (9,216 men on the battlefield)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division BG James G. Blunt (3,144)	1st Brigade BG Frederick Salomon (752)	9th Wisconsin Infantry - Col Charles E. Salomon (at Rhea's Mill) 2nd Ohio Cavalry - Col Augustus V. Kautz (at Rhea's Mill) 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry - Col William A. Barstow (333 men) Attached Artillery Section (21 men, two 12 pound mountain howitzers) 6th Kansas Cavalry - Col William R. Judson (180 men) Attached Artillery Section - Lt. Brainard D. Benedict (21 men, two 12 pound mountain howitzers) 9th Kansas Cavalry - Col Edward Lynde (197 men) Attached Artillery Section - Lt. Henry H. Opedyke (at Rhea's Mill) 25th Ohio Battery - Cpt Julius L. Hadley (at Rhea's Mill) 2nd Kansas Battery - Cpt E. A. Smith (at Rhea's Mill)
	2nd Brigade Col William A. Weer (902)	3rd Indian Home Guard - Col William A. Phillips (44 men) 10th Kansas Infantry - Maj Henry H. Williams (387 men) 13th Kansas Infantry - Col Thomas M. Bowen (375 men) 1st Kansas Battery - Cpt Marcus D. Tenney (96 men, six 10 pounders)
	3rd Brigade Col William F. Cloud (1490)	1st Indian Home Guard - Ltc Stephen H. Wattles (337 men) 11th Kansas Infantry - Col Thomas Ewing, Jr. (608 men) 2nd Kansas Cavalry - Ltc Owen A. Bassett (344 men) Attached Artillery Section - Lt Elias S. Stover (22 men, two 12 pound Mountain Howitzers) 2nd Indiana Battery - Cpt John W. Rabb (126 men, 4 James cannon, two 6 pound smooth bore cannon) 3rd Kansas Battery - Cpt Henry Hopkins (53 men, three 6 pound smooth bore cannon, one 12 pound field howitzer)
2nd Division^[2] Col Daniel Huston, Jr. (2118)	1st Brigade Col John G. Clark (938)	18th Iowa Infantry - Col John Edwards (at Springfield) 26th Indiana Infantry - Col John G. Clark (445 men) 7th Missouri Cavalry - Maj Eliphalet Bredett (453 men) Battery 'A', 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - Lt H. Borris (40 men, one 6 pound smooth bore cannon, one 12 pound field howitzer)
2nd Division^[2] Col Daniel Huston, Jr. (2118)	2nd Brigade Col William Dye (1175)	20th Iowa Infantry - Ltc Joseph B. Leake (293 men) 37th Illinois Infantry - Ltc John C. Black (401 men) 1st Missouri Cavalry - Maj Charles Banzhaf (165 men) 6th Missouri Cavalry - Maj Samuel Montgomery (206 men) Company F, 1st Missouri Light Artillery - Cpt David Murphy (110 men, four 3 pound 'rifles', two James cannon)
3rd Division BG Francis J. Herron (3950)	1st Brigade Ltc Henry Bertram (1765)	20th Wisconsin Infantry - Maj Henry A. Starr (436 men) ()^[3] 1st Iowa Cavalry - Maj J. O. Gower (500 men) () 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry - Maj William H. Miller (88 men) (*) 10th Illinois Cavalry - Ltc James Stuart (612 men) Attached Artillery Battery (43 men, four 12 pound mountain howitzers) Company L. 1st Missouri Light Artillery - Cpt Frank Backof (86 men, four James cannon, two 12 pound field howitzers)
3rd Division BG Francis J. Herron (3950)	2nd Brigade Col William W. Orme (1600)	19th Iowa Infantry - Ltc Samuel McFarland (500 men) 94th Illinois Infantry - Ltc John McNulta (589 men) (*) 8th Missouri Cavalry - Col Washington Geiger (400 men) Company E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery - Lt Joseph Foust (111 men, four 10 pound Prussian cannon, two 3 pound 'rifles')
	Unattached (585)	14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry - Col John M. Richardson (100 men) 1st Arkansas Cavalry - Col Marcus LaRue Harrison (485 men)

References

Shea, William Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign, University of North Carolina Press, 2009

^ Blunt had replaced John Schofield as commander when the latter fell ill a week earlier and returned to St. Louis to recuperate.
^ The division's regular commander, BG James Totten, was absent during the battle. The 2nd Division was attached to Herron's division.
^ Units marked by (*) joined together to form Colonel Dudley Wickersham's Cavalry Brigade

External links

Arkansas in the American Civil War

1861	Seizure of Little Rock Arsenal

1862	Battle of Pea Ridge Battle of Whitney's Lane Battle of Saint Charles Battle of Cotton Plant Battle of Cane Hill Battle of Prairie Grove

1863	Battle of Arkansas Post Battle of Chalk Bluff Battle of Helena Battle of Devil's Backbone Battle of Bayou Fourche Battle of Pine Bluff

1864	Battle of Elkin's Ferry Battle of Prairie D'Ane Battle of Poison Spring Battle of Marks' Mills Battle of Jenkins' Ferry Battle of Old River Lake Battle of Fort Smith

Reconstruction	Arkansas Militia in Reconstruction

Units	Arkansas Militia in the Civil War List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units List of Arkansas Civil War Union units

American Civil War (outline)

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Civilian	Benjamin Breckinridge Bocock Davis Mallory Memminger Seddon Stephens

Union

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