Prairie Grove Confederate order of battle
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
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Cpt = Captain
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 |
|---|---|---|
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Shoup's Division
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Fagan's Brigade
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| McRae's Brigade
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Frost's Division
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Parsons's Brigade
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| Roane's Brigade[2]
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| Shaver's Brigade
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Marmaduke's Cavalry Division
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Carroll's/Monroe's Brigade
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| Shelby's Brigade (Shelby's Raiders)
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| MacDonald's Brigade
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Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- ”Battle of Prairie Grove: Civilian Recollections of the Civil War”, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
- Battle of Prairie Grove - Information and battlefield pictures
- 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
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