Belmont Union order of battle

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

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Union Forces

Grant's Expeditionary Command, District of Southeast Missouri

BG Ulysses S. Grant

Brigade Regiments and Other
McClernand's Brigade

   BG John A. McClernand
Dougherty's Brigade

   Col Henry Dougherty
Cavalry
Artillery
  • Chicago Light Battery: Cpt Ezra Taylor
Gunboats
Steamers
  • Aleck Scott: Captain Robert A. Reilly
  • Chancellor
  • Keystone State
  • Belle Memphis: Captain ___ Turner, Pilot Charles M. Scott
  • James Montgomery
  • Rob Roy

Units subject to Grant's command
Brigade Regiments and Other
from Bird's Point toward Bloomfield
Oglesby's Brigade

   Col Richard James Oglesby
Cavalry
  • Langen's (Missouri) MCompany: Lt Ferdinand Hansen
  • Pfaff's (Missouri) Company: Cpt Ernest Pfaff
  • Noleman's Centralia (Illinois) Company: Lt Samuel P. Tufts
Artillery
  • Campbell's Battery (1 section)
  • Schwartz's Battery (1 section): Lt George C. Gumbart
Plummer's Brigade

   Col Joseph B. Plummer
[from Cape Girardeau to Bloomfield]
from Cape Girardeau to Charleston
Cook's Brigade

   Col John Cook
[from Fort Holt, Kentucky to Columbus]
  • 7th Illinois: Col John Cook
  • 28th Illinois

From Paducah, Kentucky

BG Charles Ferguson Smith

Brigade Regiments and Others
1st Brigade


   BG Eleazer A. Paine
2nd Brigade

Cooperating unit not subject to Grant's command, from Ironton to St. Francis River

  • 38th Illinois: Col William P. Carlin
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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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