Belmont Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Belmont of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Confederate Forces

First Division, Western Department

MG Leonidas Polk

Brigade Regiments and Other
Camp of Observation, Belmont

   Col James Camp Tappan

  • 13th Arkansas: Col James C. Tappan
  • 1st Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller
  • Watson Battery: Ltc Daniel Beltzhoover
Reinforcements brought by BG Pillow

   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow

Units dispatched to BG Pillow
Cavalry
  • Logwood's Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood
Steamers
  • Charm: Captain William L. Trask
  • Harry W. R. Hill: Captain Tom H. Newel
  • Ingomar: Captain Joe D. Clark
  • Kentucky: Captain Billy Priest
  • Prince: Captain B. J. Butler
Artillery
   [fired from Kentucky shore]
  • Bankhead's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Smith P. Bankhead
  • Hamilton's Tennessee Battery: Cpt S. D. H. Hamilton
  • Jackson's Light Battery: Lt William W. Carnes
  • Pointe Coupee Battery: Cpt Richard A. Stewart
  • Smith's Mississippi Light Battery: Cpt Melancthon Smith
  • Stewart's Heavy Battery: Maj Alexander P. Stewart

Units in reserve or near Columbus

Units Regiments and Others
Infantry
  • 6th Arkansas: Col Richard Lyon
  • 10th Arkansas: Col Thomas D. Merrick
  • 12th Arkansas: Col E. W. Gantt
  • 7th Kentucky: Col Charles Wickliffe
  • 12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott
  • 21st Louisiana Battalion (5th Louisiana Battalion): Ltc J. B. Kennedy
  • 9th Mississippi: Col John M. Bradley
  • 22nd Mississippi: Col D. W. C. Bonham
  • 25th Mississippi: Ltc Edward F. McGehee
  • 1st Missouri: Col Lucius L. Rich
  • 4th Tennessee: Col Rufus P. Neely
  • 5th Tennessee: Col William E. Travis
  • 6th Tennessee: Col William H. Stephens
  • 9th Tennessee: Col Henry L. Douglass
  • 33rd Tennessee: Col Alexander W. Campbell
Artillery
  • Hudson's Mississippi Battery: Cpt Clement L. Hudson
  • Polk's Light Battery: Cpt Marshall T. Polk
  • Williams' Tennessee Battery: Lt Thomas F. Tobin
Cavalry
  • 6th Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood
  • 1st Mississippi Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller

See also

References

  • Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), 1991. ISBN 0-8078-1968-9
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