Camden Expedition Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Camden Expedition of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1][2] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Union forces

VII Corps (Department of Arkansas)

MG Frederick Steele
Escort:

  • 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company D: Lt Solomon M. Tabor
  • 15th Illinois Cavalry, Company H: Cpt Thomas J. Beebe
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Third Division
     BG Frederick C. Salomon

1st Brigade

   BG Samuel Allen Rice (mw) 30 Apr 1864

2nd Brigade

   Col William E. McLean

  • 43rd Indiana: Maj Wesley W. Norris
  • 36th Iowa: Col Charles W. Kittredge
  • 77th Ohio: Col William B. Mason
3rd Brigade

   Col Adolph Engelmann

Artillery

Frontier Division[4]
     BG John Milton Thayer

1st Brigade

   Col John Edwards

  • 1st Arkansas: Ltc Elhanon J. Searle
  • 2nd Arkansas (8 companies): Maj Marshall L. Stephenson
  • 18th Iowa: Cpt William M. Duncan
  • 2nd Indiana Battery: Lt Hugh Espey
2nd Brigade

   Col Charles W. Adams

  • 1st Kansas (Colored): Col James M. Williams
  • 2nd Kansas (Colored): Col Samuel J. Crawford
  • 12th Kansas: Ltc Josiah E. Hayes
  • 1st Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery: Cpt Denton D. Stark
3rd Brigade

   Col Owen Bassett

  • 2nd Kansas Cavalry: Maj Julius G. Fisk
  • 6th Kansas Cavalry: Ltc William T. Campbell
  • 14th Kansas Cavalry: Ltc John G. Brown

Cavalry Division
     BG Eugene Asa Carr

1st Brigade

   Col John F. Ritter

  • 3rd Arkansas Cavalry (4 companies): Maj George F. Lovejoy
  • 13th Illinois Cavalry (Company B): Cpt Adolph Bechand
  • 3rd Iowa Cavalry (detachment): Lt Franz W. Arnim
  • 1st Missouri Cavalry (8 companies): Cpt Miles Kehoe
  • 2nd Missouri Cavalry: Cpt William H. Higdon
3rd Brigade

   Col Daniel Anderson

  • 10th Illinois Cavalry (detachment): Ltc James Stuart
  • 1st Iowa Cavalry: Ltc Joseph W. Caldwell
  • 3rd Missouri Cavalry: Maj John A. Lennon
Independent Cavalry Brigade [Post of Pine Bluff][5]

   Col Powell Clayton

See also

Notes

  1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 658-659.
  2. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  3. Manned by Company F, 9th Wisconsin Infantry.
  4. Organized March 21, 1864, for the expedition. Joined near Elkins Ferry.
  5. Operating in connection with Steele's column.

References

  • Forsyth, Michael J. The Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil War (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers), 2003. ISBN 0-7864-1554-1.
  • U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. XXXIV, Part 1, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
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