Helena order of battle

The following Union and Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Helena of the American Civil War on July 4, 1863.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

  • MG = Major General
  • BG = Brigadier General
  • Col = Colonel
  • Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
  • Maj = Major
  • Cpt = Captain

Other

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

Union

District of East Arkansas

MG Benjamin M. Prentiss[1]

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

District of East Arkansas
    

Cavalry Brigade
K-5, W-18, M-1 = 24


   Col Powell Clayton

Artillery
K-0, W-1, M-0 = 1
Unattached
K-0, W-0, M-0 = 0
  • 2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry - Maj George W. Burchard

1st Division (XIII Corps)[2]
     BG Frederick Salomon

1st Brigade
K-9, W-28, M-5 = 42


   Col William E. McLean

  • 43rd Indiana - Ltc John C. Major
  • 35th Missouri - Ltc Horace Fitch
  • 28th Wisconsin - Ltc Edmund B. Gray
2nd Brigade
K-43, W-99, M-30 = 172


   Col Samuel A. Rice

Confederate

District of Arkansas

LTG Theophilus H. Holmes

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Price's Division
     MG Sterling Price

First Brigade
K-46, W-168, M-133 = 347


   BG Dandridge McRae

Second Brigade
K-47, W-115, M-273 = 435


   BG James F. Fagan

Fourth Brigade
K-59, W-326, M-368 = 753


   BG Mosby M. Parsons

Marmaduke's Division
     BG John S. Marmaduke

First Brigade
K-8, W-37, M-10 = 55


   BG Joseph O. Shelby

  • 5th Missouri Cavalry Regiment - Ltc B. Frank Gordon
  • 6th Missouri Cavalry Regiment - Col Gideon W. Thompson
  • Jeans' Cavalry - Col Beal G. Jeans
  • 1st Missouri Cavalry Battalion - Maj Benjamin Elliott
  • Bledsoe's Missouri Battery - Cpt Joseph Bledsoe
Second Brigade
K-5, W-7, M-0 = 12


   Col Colton Greene

  • 3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment - Ltc Leonidas C. Campbell
  • 8th Missouri Cavalry Regiment - Col William L. Jeffers
  • Young's Cavalry Battalion - Ltc Merritt L. Young
  • Bell's Missouri Battery - Cpt Charlie O. Bell

Walker's Division
     BG Lucius M. Walker

K-4, W-8, M-0 = 12

See also

References

  1. 28th Wisconsin Regimental History
  2. Salomon's division was attached to the Dist of Eastern Arkansas from the XIII Corps. The rest of the XIII Corps, under General E.O.C. Ord, was engaged at Vicksburg.

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