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	1st Indiana Cavalry and Battery - Ltc Thomas Pace 5th Kansas Cavalry - Ltc Wilton A. Jenkins
	Artillery K-0, W-1, M-0 = 1	3rd Battery, Iowa Artillery - Lt Melvin Wright Battery "K", 1st Missouri Artillery - Lt John O'Connell
	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
1st Division (XIII Corps)^[2] BG Frederick Salomon	2nd Brigade K-43, W-99, M-30 = 172 Col Samuel A. Rice	29th Iowa - Col Thomas Hart Benton II 33rd Iowa - Ltc Cyrus H. Mackey 36th Iowa - Col Charles W. Kittredge 33rd Missouri - Ltc William H. Heath

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	32nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col Lucien C. Gause 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col John E. Glenn 39th (30th) Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col Robert A. Hart (w) Arkansas Artillery Battery - Cpt John G. Marshall
	Second Brigade K-47, W-115, M-273 = 435 BG James F. Fagan	Hawthorn's Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col A. T. Hawthorn 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col William H. Brooks 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col James P. King 37th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col Samuel S. Bell (w & c) Denson's Cavalry - Cpt William B. Denson Arkansas Battery - Cpt William D. Blocker
	Fourth Brigade K-59, W-326, M-368 = 753 BG Mosby M. Parsons	7th Missouri Infantry Regiment - Col Levin M. Lewis 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment - Col Simon P. Burns 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment - Col James D. White 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment - Col Alexander C. Pickett 1st Battalion, Missouri Sharpshooters - Maj Lebbeus A. Pindall 3rd Field Battery Missouri Light Artillery - Cpt Charles B. Tilden
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
Marmaduke's Division BG John S. Marmaduke	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	5th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment - Col Robert C. Newton 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment- Col Archibald S. Dobbins

See also

References

↑ 28th Wisconsin Regimental History
↑ 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.

External links

Coordinates: 34°23′25″N 90°52′11″W / 34.39027778°N 90.86972222°W / 34.39027778; -90.86972222

Arkansas in the American Civil War

1861	Seizure of U.S. Arsenal at Little Rock Seizure of U.S. ordnance stores at Napoleon Seizure of U.S. subsistence stores at Pine Bluff Seizure of Fort Smith Ordinance of secession adopted by Arkansas Convention Provisional C.S. constitution adopted by Arkansas Convention Permanent C.S. constitution ratified by Arkansas Convention

1862	Battle of Pea Ridge Action at Whitney's Lane Engagement at St. Charles Action at Hill's Plantation Engagement at Cane Hill Battle of Prairie Grove Skirmish at Dripping Springs

1863	Battle of Arkansas Post Action at Fayetteville Skirmish at Chalk Bluff Battle of Helena Skirmish at Brownsville Action at Bayou Meto Action at Devil’s Backbone Engagement at Bayou Fourche Evacuation of Little Rock Action at Pine Bluff

1864	Execution of David O. Dodd Action at Mount Elba Engagement at Elkin’s Ferry Skirmish at Prairie D'Ane Engagement at Poison Spring Action at Marks’ Mills Engagement at Jenkins’ Ferry Engagement at Old River Lake Action at Fort Smith Action at Ashley's Station

1865	Indian Council

American Civil War

Origins

Origins Issues	Timeline leading to the War Antebellum era Bleeding Kansas Border states Compromise of 1850 Dred Scott v. Sandford Missouri Compromise Popular sovereignty Secession States' rights President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers

Slavery	African Americans Emancipation Proclamation Fugitive slave laws Slave Power Treatment of slaves in the United States Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abolitionism	Susan B. Anthony John Brown Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison Lysander Spooner George Luther Stearns Charles Sumner Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad

Combatants
Theaters
Campaigns
Battles
States

Combatants

Union (USA)	Army Navy Marine Corps Revenue Cutter Service

Confederacy (CSA)	Army Navy Marine Corps

Theaters

Major Campaigns

Involvement (by
state or territory)

Leaders

Confederate

Military	R. H. Anderson Beauregard Bragg Cooper Early Ewell Forrest Gorgas Hill Hood Jackson A. S. Johnston J. E. Johnston Lee Longstreet Morgan Mosby Price Quantrill Semmes E. K. Smith Stuart Taylor Wheeler

Civilian	Benjamin Bocock Breckinridge Davis Hunter Mallory Memminger Seddon Stephens

Union

Military	Anderson Buell Burnside Butler Du Pont Farragut Foote Frémont Grant Halleck Hooker Hunt McClellan McDowell Meade Meigs Ord Pope D. D. Porter Rosecrans Scott Sheridan Sherman Thomas

Civilian	Adams Chase Ericsson Hamlin Lincoln Pinkerton Seward Stanton Stevens Wade Welles

Aftermath

U.S. Constitution	13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment

Reconstruction	Alabama Claims Carpetbaggers Freedman's Savings Bank Freedmen's Bureau Redeemers Southern Claims Commission

post-Reconstruction	Disenfranchisement Black Codes Jim Crow Ku Klux Klan Lost Cause

Cemeteries	Confederate monuments and memorials National cemeteries U.S. monuments and memorials

Veterans	Confederate Veteran Grand Army of the Republic Old soldiers' homes United Confederate Veterans

Related topics

Related topics

Military	Balloon Corps Bushwhacker Cavalry Field artillery Medicine Military leadership Naval battles Official Records Signal Corps Turning points Medal of Honor recipients

Political	Committee on the Conduct of the War Confederate war finance Copperheads Political General Radical Republicans Trent Affair War Democrats

Other topics	Bibliography Commemoration Draft Riots Historical reenactment Music Names of the War Native Americans Cherokee Choctaw Photographers Rail transport Supreme Court cases U.S. Sanitary Commission Sex in the American Civil War

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/21/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.