Pea Ridge NMP: Order of Battle


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ORDER OF BATTLE

Confederate 1st National flag with "Jeff Davis" on the middle stripe.

ARMY OF THE WEST

Major General Earl Van Dorn
(16,000 men / 65 cannon)

MCCULLOCH’S DIVISION
Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch (killed)
Brigadier General James M. McIntosh (killed)
Colonel Louis Hébert (captured)
Colonel Elikanah Greer
Brigadier General Albert Pike

HEBERT’S INFANTRY BRIGADE (losses: unknown)
Colonel Louis Hébert (captured)
Colonel Evander McNair

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

MCINTOSH’S CAVALRY BRIGADE (losses: unknown)
Brigadier General James M. McIntosh (killed in action)
Colonel Elikanah Greer

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

PIKE’S INDIAN BRIGADE (losses: unknown)
Brigadier General Albert J. Pike

1^st Cherokee Mounted Rifles	2^nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles
1^st Choctaw and Chickasaw (not engaged)	1^st Creek Mounted Rifles (not engaged)
Welch’s Texas Cavalry Squadron

DIVISION ARTILLERY (losses: unknown)

Hart’s Arkansas Battery	Provence’s Arkansas Battery
Gaines’s Arkansas Battery	Good’s Texas Battery

UNASSIGNED UNITS (losses: unknown)

19^th Arkansas Infantry

20^th Arkansas Infantry

PRICE’S DIVISION
Major General Sterling Price (wounded)

HEADQUARTERS UNITS (losses: unknown)

Cearnal’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion

1^stMISSOURI BRIGADE (losses: unknown)
Colonel Henry Little

2^nd Missouri Infantry	3^rd Missouri Infantry
Wade’s Missouri Artillery Battery	Clark’s Missouri Artillery Battery
1^st Missouri Cavalry

2^ndMISSOURI BRIGADE (losses: unknown)
Colonel William Y. Slack (mortally wounded)
Colonel Thomas H. Rosser

Hughes’s Missouri Infantry Battalion	Bevier’s Missouri Infantry Battalion
Rosser’s Missouri Infantry Battalion	Riggins’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion
Jackson’s Missouri Artillery Battery	Landis’s Missouri Artillery Battery

3^rd MISSOURI BRIGADE (losses: unknown)
Colonel Colton Greene

(several partially organized battalions and companies of infantry and cavalry)

2^nd DIVISION, MISSOURI STATE GUARD (losses: unknown)
Brigadier General Martin E. Green

(various unidentified infantry and cavalry units)
Kneisley’s Missouri Battery

3^rd DIVISION, MISSOURI STATE GUARD (losses: unknown)
Colonel John B. Clark, Jr

1^st Infantry	2^nd Infantry
3^rd Infantry	4^th & 5^th Infantry
6^th Infantry	Tull’s Missouri Battery

5^th DIVISION, MISSOURI STATE GUARD (losses: unknown)
Colonel James P. Saunders

(various unidentified infantry and cavalry units)
Kelley’s Battery

6^th DIVISION, MISSOURI STATE GUARD (losses: unknown)
Major D. Herndon Lindsay

(various unidentified infantry and cavalry units)
Gorham’s Battery

7^th & 9^th DIVISIONS, MISSOURI STATE GUARD (losses: unknown)
Brigadier General Daniel M. Frost

(various unidentified infantry and cavalry units)

Guibor’s Missouri Battery

MacDonald’s St. Louis Battery

8^th DIVISION, MISSOURI STATE GUARD (losses: unknown)
Brigadier General James S. Rains

1^st Infantry	2^nd Infantry
3^rd Infantry	4^th Infantry
Shelby’s Cavalry Company	Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery

* Casualty figures are not complete due to incomplete & inaccurate muster rolls, and the large numbers of stragglers and desertions during the campaign.

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

Confederate 1st National battleflag by Wayne J. Lovett. Missouri State Guard flag by Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr.

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Last updated on: October 11, 2003
Written by: Interpretation Staff
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