Battle of Little Rock Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Little Rock of the American Civil War on August 25 to September 10, 1863.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

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

Other

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

District of Arkansas

MG Sterling Price (vice LTG Theophilus H. Holmes, sick)^[1]

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Price's Division      BG James F. Fagan Until August 17, 1863, when Frost's Brigade joined the Division      BG Daniel M. Frost, Assumed Command August 17, 1863, by General Orders No.11 [2]	First Brigade    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    BG James F. Fagan	Hawthorn's Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col Alexander T. Hawthorn 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment – Col William H. Brooks 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment – Col James P. King 37th Arkansas Infantry Regiment – Maj Thomas H. Blacknall (vice Col Samuel S. Bell, captured at Helena) Arkansas Battery – Cpt William D. Blocher
	Third Brigade    BG James C. Tappan [3]    Returned to Little Rock, from Louisiana, August 20, 1863, held in reserve south of Arkansas River.	27th Arkansas Infantry Regiment – Col James R. Shaler 33rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment – Col Hiram L. Grinstead 38th Arkansas Infantry Regiment – Col Robert G. Shaver
	Fourth Brigade    BG Mosby M. Parsons	7th Missouri Regiment – Col Levin M. Lewis 8th Missouri Regiment – Col Simon P. Burns 9th Missouri Regiment – Col James D. White 10th Missouri Regiment – Col Alexander C. Pickett[4] 1st Battalion, Missouri Sharpshooters – Maj Lebbeus A. Pindall Missouri Artillery Battery – Cpt Charles B. Tilden
	Frost's Brigade, a.k.a. Clark's Brigade    Col John B. Clark[5]    Moved from Fort Pleasant at Pine Bluff and joing Little Rock Defenses on August 17, 1863.	19th/24th Arkansas – Col William R. Hardy 8th Missouri – Col Charles S. Mitchell 9th Missouri – Col John B. Clark Musser's Missouri Battalion Missouri Artillery Battery – Cpt Samuel T. Ruffner Missouri Battery – Cpt Benjamin von Phul
Walker's Division      BG Lucius M. Walker	Dobbins Arkansas Cavalry Brigade    Col Archibald S. Dobbins relieved 10 September 1863 Col Robert C. Newton	5th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment – Col Robert C. Newton 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment – Maj Samuel Corley Etter's Arkansas Battery – Cpt Chambers B. Etter
	Carter's Texas Cavalry Brigade    Col George W. Carter[6]	21st Texas Cavalry Regiment – Ltc DeWitt C. Giddings Morgan's Texas Cavalry Battalion – Maj Charles L. Morgan Denson's Squadron – Cpt William B. Denson Johnson's Spie Company – Cpt Alfred Johnson Tenth Texas Field Battery – Cpt Joseph H. Pratt
Marmaduke's Division      BG John S. Marmaduke	Shelby's Iron Brigade    BG Jo Shelby (ill until Sept. 10th) Col Benjamin F. Gordon	2nd Missouri Cavalry (Jean's) – Cpt Robert H. Adams 5th Missouri Cavalry – Ltc B. Frank Gordon 6th Missouri Cavalry – Col Gideon W. Thompson 1st Missouri Cavalry Battalion – Maj Benjamin Elliott Bledsoe's Missouri Battery – Cpt Joseph Bledsoe
	Second Brigade    Col William L. Jeffers    (vice Col Colton Greene)	3rd Missouri Cavalry – Ltc Leonidas C. Campbell 4th Missouri Cavalry – Ltc William J. Preston Kitchen's Missouri Cavalry – Col Solomon G. Kitchen 8th Missouri Cavalry – Ltc Samuel J. Ward 1st Missouri Cavalry Battalion – Ltc Merritt L. Young Bell's Missouri Battery – Cpt Charlie O. Bell

See also

• List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units
• Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
• Confederate Units by State
• Arkansas in the American Civil War
• Arkansas Militia in the Civil War

References

1. "The Division-Defending Little Rock-August 25-Sep.10,1863" by Timothy W Burford & Stephanie McBride.1999 and 2000.
2. OR Series 1, Vol.22, Part 2 p.969, Accessed 23 July 2013 at Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?page=1;md=read;id=28394
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=GME9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA469&lpg=PA469&dq=Action+before+little+rock+newton+cavalry&source=bl&ots=sa74b3ulqS&sig=e7xvZNsdZB5c6b0XC6GMNRwuTOI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AkXvUajAIoq-9gSrioCwDQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=Action%20before%20little%20rock%20newton%20cavalry&f=false
4. McGhee, James E. (2008). Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861–1865. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-55728-870-7.
5. Taylor, Doyle, "Re: Aug/Sep 1863 – CS Order of Battle" Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 5/13/2004, Accessed 23 July 2013, http://www.history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?md=read;id=7340
6. PARSONS'S BRIGADE, The Handbook of Texas, accessed 23 July 2013, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qkp01

External links

• Community & Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War In the Ozarks
• Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page
• The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
• The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
• The Arkansas History Commission, State Archives, Civil War in Arkansas