Little Rock Campaign Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Little Rock Campaign, also known as the Advance on Little Rock, of the American Civil War on August 25 to September 10, 1863.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

  • w = wounded
  • mw = mortally wounded
  • k = killed

District of Arkansas

MG Sterling Price (vice LTG Theophilus H. Holmes, sick)[1]

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Price's Division
     BG James F. Fagan Until August 17, 1863, when Frost's Brigade joined the Division
     BG Daniel M. Frost, Assumed Command August 17, 1863, by General Orders No.11 [2]

 First Brigade


   BG Dandridge McRae
Second Brigade


   BG James F. Fagan
Third Brigade


   BG James C. Tappan [3]
   Returned to Little Rock, from Louisiana, August 20, 1863, held in reserve south of Arkansas River.
Fourth Brigade


   BG Mosby M. Parsons
  • 7th Missouri Regiment – Col Levin M. Lewis
  • 8th Missouri Regiment – Col Simon P. Burns
  • 9th Missouri Regiment – Col James D. White
  • 10th Missouri Regiment – Col Alexander C. Pickett[4]
  • 1st Battalion, Missouri Sharpshooters – Maj Lebbeus A. Pindall
  • Missouri Artillery Battery – Cpt Charles B. Tilden
Frost's Brigade, a.k.a. Clark's Brigade


   Col John B. Clark[5]
   Moved from Fort Pleasant at Pine Bluff and joining Little Rock Defenses on August 17, 1863.
  • 19th/24th Arkansas – Col William R. Hardy
  • 8th Missouri – Col Charles S. Mitchell
  • 9th Missouri – Col John B. Clark
  • Musser's Missouri Battalion
  • Missouri Artillery Battery – Cpt Samuel T. Ruffner
  • Missouri Battery – Cpt Benjamin von Phul

Walker's Division
     BG Lucius M. Walker

 Dobbins's Arkansas Cavalry Brigade


   Col Archibald S. Dobbins relieved 10 September 1863
Col Robert C. Newton
Carter's Texas Cavalry Brigade


   Col George W. Carter[6]
  • 21st Texas Cavalry Regiment – Ltc DeWitt C. Giddings
  • Morgan's Texas Cavalry Battalion – Maj Charles L. Morgan
  • Denson's Squadron – Cpt William B. Denson
  • Johnson's Spy Company – Cpt Alfred Johnson
  • Tenth Texas Field Battery – Cpt Joseph H. Pratt

Marmaduke's Division
     BG John S. Marmaduke

 Shelby's Iron Brigade


   BG Jo Shelby (ill until Sept. 10th) Col Benjamin F. Gordon
  
  • 2nd Missouri Cavalry (Jean's) – Cpt Robert H. Adams
  • 5th Missouri Cavalry – Ltc B. Frank Gordon
  • 6th Missouri Cavalry – Col Gideon W. Thompson
  • 1st Missouri Cavalry Battalion – Maj Benjamin Elliott
  • Bledsoe's Missouri Battery – Cpt Joseph Bledsoe
Second Brigade


   Col William L. Jeffers
   (vice Col Colton Greene)
  • 3rd Missouri Cavalry – Ltc Leonidas C. Campbell
  • 4th Missouri Cavalry – Ltc William J. Preston
  • Kitchen's Missouri Cavalry – Col Solomon G. Kitchen
  • 8th Missouri Cavalry – Ltc Samuel J. Ward
  • 1st Missouri Cavalry Battalion – Ltc Merritt L. Young
  • Bell's Missouri Battery – Cpt Charlie O. Bell

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Division-Defending Little Rock-August 25-Sep.10,1863" by Timothy W Burford & Stephanie McBride.1999 and 2000.
  2. ↑ OR Series 1, Vol.22, Part 2 p.969, Accessed 23 July 2013 at Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?page=1;md=read;id=28394
  3. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=GME9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA469&lpg=PA469&dq=Action+before+little+rock+newton+cavalry&source=bl&ots=sa74b3ulqS&sig=e7xvZNsdZB5c6b0XC6GMNRwuTOI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AkXvUajAIoq-9gSrioCwDQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=Action%20before%20little%20rock%20newton%20cavalry&f=false
  4. ↑ McGhee, James E. (2008). Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861–1865. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-55728-870-7.
  5. ↑ Taylor, Doyle, "Re: Aug/Sep 1863 – CS Order of Battle" Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 5/13/2004, Accessed 23 July 2013, http://www.history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?md=read;id=7340
  6. ↑ PARSONS'S BRIGADE, The Handbook of Texas, accessed 23 July 2013, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qkp01

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