Prairie Grove Union order of battle

The following Union 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 Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

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Military rank

Other

Army of the Frontier

MG James G. Blunt[1] 9,216 men on the battlefield

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division
     BG James G. Blunt 3,144

 1st Brigade


   BG Frederick Salomon 752
  • 9th Wisconsin Infantry: Col Charles E. Salomon (at Rhea's Mill)
  • 2nd Ohio Cavalry: Col Augustus V. Kautz (at Rhea's Mill)
  • 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry: Col William A. Barstow 333 men
  • 6th Kansas Cavalry: Col William R. Judson 180 men
    • Attached Artillery Section: Lt. Brainard D. Benedict 21 men, two 12 pound mountain howitzers
  • 9th Kansas Cavalry: Col Edward Lynde 197 men
    • Attached Artillery Section: Lt. Henry H. Opedyke (at Rhea's Mill)
  • 25th Ohio Battery: Cpt Julius L. Hadley (at Rhea's Mill)
  • 2nd Kansas Battery: Cpt E. A. Smith (at Rhea's Mill)
2nd Brigade


   Col William A. Weer 902
3rd Brigade


   Col William F. Cloud 1490

2nd Division[2]
     Col Daniel Huston, Jr. 2118

 1st Brigade


   Col John G. Clark 938
  • 18th Iowa Infantry: Col John Edwards (at Springfield)
  • 26th Indiana Infantry: Col John G. Clark 445 men
  • 7th Missouri Cavalry: Maj Eliphalet Bredett 453 men
  • Battery 'A', 2nd Illinois Light Artillery: Lt H. Borris 40 men, one 6 pound smoothbore cannon, one 12 pound field howitzer
2nd Brigade


   Col William Dye 1175
  • 20th Iowa Infantry: Ltc Joseph B. Leake 293 men
  • 37th Illinois Infantry: Ltc John C. Black 401 men
  • 1st Missouri Cavalry: Maj Charles Banzhaf 165 men
  • 6th Missouri Cavalry: Maj Samuel Montgomery 206 men
  • Battery F, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt David Murphy 110 men, four 3-inch Ordnance rifles, two James rifles

3rd Division
     BG Francis J. Herron 3950

 1st Brigade


   Ltc Henry Bertram 1765
  • 20th Wisconsin Infantry: Maj Henry A. Starr 436 men
  • (*)[3] 1st Iowa Cavalry: Maj J. O. Gower 500 men
  • (*) 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry: Maj William H. Miller 88 men
  • (*) 10th Illinois Cavalry: Ltc James Stuart 612 men
    • Attached Artillery Battery 43 men, four 12 pound mountain howitzers
  • Battery L, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Frank Backof 86 men, four James rifles, two 12 pound field howitzers
2nd Brigade


   Col William W. Orme 1600

Unattached 585
  • 14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry: Col John M. Richardson 100 men
  • 1st Arkansas Cavalry: Col Marcus LaRue Harrison 485 men

Notes
  1. Blunt had replaced John Schofield as commander when the latter fell ill a week earlier and returned to St. Louis to recuperate.
  2. The division's regular commander, BG James Totten, was absent during the battle. The 2nd Division was attached to Herron's division.
  3. Units marked by (*) joined together to form Colonel Dudley Wickersham's Cavalry Brigade

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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