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ORDER OF BATTLE

Federal National flag.

ARMY OF THE SOUTHWEST 

Federal Regimental flag.

Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis
(10,500 men / 52 cannon)

Headquarters Units  (losses:  82)
24th Missouri Infantry (5 companies)
3rd Iowa Cavalry (5 companies)
Bowen’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion (four companies of cavalry plus 4 mountain howitzers)

 

1st & 2nd Divisions
Brigadier General Franz Sigel

 

1st Division
Colonel Peter J. Osterhaus

1st Brigade   (losses: 37)

2nd Brigade   (losses: 109)

25th Illinois Infantry

36th Illinois Infantry (minus Company F)

44th Illinois Infantry

12th Missouri Infantry

17th Missouri Infantry (minus Company A)


Artillery  (losses: 10)

4th Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery
Welfley’s Independent Battery, Missouri Light Artillery

 

2nd Division
Brigadier General Alexander S. Asboth (wounded)

1st Brigade   (losses: 87)

Not Brigaded   (losses: 33)

2nd Missouri Infantry

3rd Missouri Infantry (3 companies)

15th Missouri Infantry

4th Missouri Cavalry (6 companies)

1st Missouri Flying Artillery Battery

5th Missouri Cavalry

2nd Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery

 

3rd Division
Colonel Jefferson C. Davis

1st Brigade   (losses: 111)

2nd Brigade   (losses: 227)

8th Indiana Infantry

37th Illinois Infantry

18th Indiana Infantry

59th Illinois Infantry (formerly 9th Missouri Infantry)

22nd Indiana Infantry

Battery A, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery

1st Battery Indiana Light Artillery


Not Brigaded  (losses: 6)

1st Missouri Cavalry (8 companies)

 

4th Division
Colonel Eugene A. Carr (wounded)

1st Brigade   (losses: 348)

2nd Brigade   (losses: 334) 

4th Iowa Infantry

9th Iowa Infantry

35th Illinois Infantry 

25th Missouri Infantry

3rd Illinois Cavalry

1st Independent Battery, Iowa Light Artillery

3rd Independent Battery, Iowa Light Artillery

 

* Casualty figures include the numbers of killed, wounded and missing/captured.  

Shea, William & Hess, Earl.  Pea Ridge, Civil War Campaign in the West, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1992: 331-339.

US National & Regimental battleflags by Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr.  Regimental battleflag colorized by Steven Burt.

 

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