The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Prairie Grove of the American Civil War on December 7, 1862, in Washington County, Arkansas. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

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

Trans-Mississippi Army

MG Thomas C. Hindman (12,059 men on the battlefield) [1]

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Shoup's Division
     BG Francis A. Shoup (3,219)

Fagan's Brigade


   BG James F. Fagan (1,555)
McRae's Brigade


   Col Dandridge McRae (1,664)

Frost's Division
     BG Daniel M. Frost (6,058)

 Parsons's Brigade


   BG Mosby M. Parsons (3,111)
Roane's Brigade[2]


   BG John S. Roane (2,132)
  • 20th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Col Thomas C. Bass (228)
  • 22nd Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Maj Robert D. Stone (429)
  • 31st Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Ltc George W. Guess (284)
  • 34th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Col Almarine M. Alexander (491)
  • 9th Missouri Infantry - Col John B. Clark (564)
  • Reid's Arkansas Battery - Cpt John G. Reid (37 men, two 6 pound smooth bore cannon)
  • Shoup's Arkansas Battery - Cpt James C. Shoup (98 men, three mountain howitzers, two 25 pound mountain howitzers)
Shaver's Brigade


   Col Robert G. Shaver (815)

Marmaduke's Cavalry Division
     BG John S. Marmaduke (2,782)

Carroll's/Monroe's Brigade


   Ltc James C. Monroe (500)
Shelby's Brigade

(Shelby's Raiders)
   Col Joseph O. Shelby (1,475)
  • 4th Missouri Cavalry - Col Beal G. Jeans (334)
  • 5th Missouri Cavalry - Col B. Frank Gordon (338)
  • 6th Missouri Cavalry - Col Gideon W. Thompson (333)
  • Elliot's Missouri Cavalry battalion - Cpt Benjamin Elliott (101)
  • Quantrill's Company (Missouri) - Lt William Gregg (33)[3]
  • Bledsoe's Missouri Battery - Cpt Joseph Bledsoe (36 men, two six pound smooth bore cannon)
MacDonald's Brigade


   Col Emmett MacDonald (807)
  • MacDonald's Missouri Cavalry - Ltc Merrit L. Young (202)
  • Crump's Texas Cavalry - Ltc R. Phillip Crump (544)
  • West's Arkansas Battery - Cpt Henry C. West (61 men, one 6 pound smooth bore cannon, two 12 pound field howitzers)

Notes

  1. ↑ United States. War Dept.. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 22, In Two Parts. Part 1, Reports., Book, 1888; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154600/m1/906/?q=west's arkansas battery : accessed January 14, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries, Denton, Texas.
  2. ↑ William L. Shea, Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 217. 292. Roane's brigade, together with Cooper's Indian brigade (at Evansville) constituted a Reserve Division for the Trans-Mississippi Army. However, during field operations Hindman attached Roane and the dismounted Texas cavalrymen, in whom he held little confidence, to Frost's division.
  3. ↑ Including Frank and Jesse James

References

  • Shea, William. Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8078-3315-5.

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