Belmont Confederate order of battle

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

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain
Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Confederate Forces

First Division, Western Department

MG Leonidas Polk

Brigade	Regiments and Other
Camp of Observation, Belmont Col James Camp Tappan	13th Arkansas: Col James C. Tappan 1st Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller Watson Battery: Ltc Daniel Beltzhoover
Reinforcements brought by BG Pillow BG Gideon Johnson Pillow	12th Tennessee: Col Robert M. Russell, Ltc Tyree H. Bell 13th Tennessee: Col John Vines Wright, Ltc Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Jr. 21st Tennessee: Col Edward Pickett, Jr. 22nd Tennessee: Col Thomas J. Freeman
Units dispatched to BG Pillow	11th Louisiana: Col Samuel F. Marks, Ltc Robert H. Barrow 1st Mississippi Battalion: Ltc Andrew K. Blythe 2nd Tennessee: Col J. Knox Walker, Ltc William B. Ross 15th Tennessee: Col Charles M. Carroll, Ltc Robert C. Tyler 154th Senior Tennessee: Col Preston Smith, Ltc Marcus Joseph Wright
Cavalry	Logwood's Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood
Steamers	Charm: Captain William L. Trask Harry W. R. Hill: Captain Tom H. Newel Ingomar: Captain Joe D. Clark Kentucky: Captain Billy Priest Prince: Captain B. J. Butler
Artillery [fired from Kentucky shore]	Bankhead's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Smith P. Bankhead Hamilton's Tennessee Battery: Cpt S. D. H. Hamilton Jackson's Light Battery: Lt William W. Carnes Pointe Coupee Battery: Cpt Richard A. Stewart Smith's Mississippi Light Battery: Cpt Melancthon Smith Stewart's Heavy Battery: Maj Alexander P. Stewart

Units in reserve or near Columbus

Units	Regiments and Others
Infantry	6th Arkansas: Col Richard Lyon 10th Arkansas: Col Thomas D. Merrick 12th Arkansas: Col E. W. Gantt 7th Kentucky: Col Charles Wickliffe 12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott 21st Louisiana Battalion (5th Louisiana Battalion): Ltc J. B. Kennedy 9th Mississippi: Col John M. Bradley 22nd Mississippi: Col D. W. C. Bonham 25th Mississippi: Ltc Edward F. McGehee 1st Missouri: Col Lucius L. Rich 4th Tennessee: Col Rufus P. Neely 5th Tennessee: Col William E. Travis 6th Tennessee: Col William H. Stephens 9th Tennessee: Col Henry L. Douglass 33rd Tennessee: Col Alexander W. Campbell
Artillery	Hudson's Mississippi Battery: Cpt Clement L. Hudson Polk's Light Battery: Cpt Marshall T. Polk Williams' Tennessee Battery: Lt Thomas F. Tobin
Cavalry	6th Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood 1st Mississippi Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller

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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