Pea Ridge Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate States Army and Confederate-aligned units and commanders fought in the Battle of Pea Ridge (or Battle of Elkhorn Tavern) of the American Civil War in Pea Ridge, Arkansas on March 6-8, 1862. The Union order of battle is shown separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• MG = Major general
• BG = Brigadier general
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = Lieutenant

Other

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

Army of the West

Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn

Right Wing

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
McCulloch's Division      BG Benjamin McCulloch (k)      BG James M. McIntosh (k)      Col Elkanah Greer and BG Albert Pike	Hébert’s Infantry Brigade      Col Louis Hébert (c)      Col Evander McNair	3rd Louisiana Infantry: Maj Will F. Tunnard (c), Cpt W.L. Gunnells 4th Arkansas Infantry: Col Evander McNair, Ltc Samuel Ogden 14th Arkansas Infantry: Col William C. Mitchell (c) 15th Arkansas Infantry: Col Dandridge McRae 16th Arkansas Infantry: Col John F. Hill 17th Arkansas Infantry: Col Frank A. Rector 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Col Thomas James Churchill 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Col Benjamin T. Embry 4th Texas Cavalry Battalion (dismounted):[1] Maj John W. Whitfield
	McIntosh's Cavalry Brigade      BG James M. McIntosh (k)      Col Elkanah Greer	3rd Texas Cavalry: Col Elkanah Greer, Ltc Walter P. Lane 6th Texas Cavalry: Col B. Warren Stone 9th Texas Cavalry: Col William B. Sims (w), Ltc William Quayle 11th Texas Cavalry: Col William C. Young 1st Texas Cavalry Battalion (not engaged): Maj R. Phillip Crump 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion: Maj William H. Brooks
	Artillery	Hart’s Arkansas Battery: Cpt William Hart Provence’s Arkansas Battery: Cpt David Provence Gaines’s Arkansas Battery: Cpt James J. Gaines Good’s Texas Battery: Cpt John J. Good
Reporting Directly	Pike’s Indian Brigade    BG Albert Pike	1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles: Col John Drew 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles: Col Stand Watie 1st Choctaw and Chickasaw (not engaged):[2] Col Douglas H. Cooper 1st Creek Mounted Rifles (not engaged):[3] Col Daniel N. McIntosh Welch’s Texas Cavalry Squadron: Cpt Otis G. Welch
	Unassigned Units	19th Arkansas Infantry (not engaged): Ltc P. R. Smith 22nd Arkansas Infantry (not engaged)

Left Wing (Missouri State Guard)

MG Sterling Price (w)

Headquarters Units:

• Cearnal’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion: Ltc James T. Cearnal (w), Maj D. Todd Samuels

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Other
First (Price's) Division      MG Sterling Price (w)	First Missouri Brigade    Col Henry Little	1st Missouri Cavalry: Col Elijah Gates 2nd Missouri Infantry: Col John Q. Burbridge 3rd Missouri Infantry: Col Benjamin A. Rives (k), Ltc James A. Pritchard Wade’s Missouri Artillery Battery: Cpt William Wade Clark’s Missouri Artillery Battery: Cpt S. Churchill Clark (k), Lt James L. Farris
	Second Missouri Brigade    Col William Y. Slack (mw)    Col Thomas H. Rosser	Bevier’s Missouri Infantry Battalion: Maj Robert S. Bevier Hughes’s Missouri Infantry Battalion: Col John T. Hughes Rosser’s Missouri Infantry Battalion: Col Thomas H. Rosser Riggins’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion: Col George W. Riggins Jackson’s Missouri Artillery Battery: Cpt William Lucas Landis’s Missouri Artillery Battery: Cpt John C. Landis
	Third Missouri Brigade[4]    Col Colton Greene	Col Thomas Freeman's Regiment Ltc John A. Schnable's Regiment Cpt L.C. Campbell's cavalry company Various companies
Missouri State Guard	Second Division      BG Martin E. Green	Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Kneisley’s Missouri Battery: Cpt James W. Kneisley
	Third Division      Col John B. Clark, Jr.	1st Infantry: Maj John F. Rucker 2nd Infantry: Col Congreve Jackson 3rd Infantry: Maj Robert R. Hutchinson 4th & 5th Infantry: Col J.A. Poindexter 6th Infantry: Ltc Quinton Peacher Tull’s Missouri Battery: Cpt Francis M. Tull
	Fifth Division      Col James P. Saunders	Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Kelley’s Battery: Cpt Joseph Kelly
	Sixth Division      Maj D. Herndon Lindsay	Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Gorham’s Battery: Cpt James C. Gorham
	Seventh and Ninth Divisions      BG Daniel M. Frost	Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Guibor’s Missouri Battery: Cpt Henry Guibor MacDonald’s St. Louis Battery: Cpt Emmett MacDonald
	Eighth Division      BG James S. Rains	1st Infantry: Col William H. Erwin 2nd Infantry: Ltc John P. Bowman 3rd Infantry: Ltc A. J. Pearcy 4th Infantry: Ltc John M. Stemmons Shelby’s Cavalry Company: Cpt Jo Shelby Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery: Lt Charles W. Higgins

See also

• Indian cavalry

Notes

1. Tunnard, William H.; "a Southern Record: the history of the Third Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, page 129
2. Arrived near the battlefield on March 8 but was not engaged.
3. Arrived near the battlefield on March 8 but was not engaged.
4. Brigade was composed of partially organized battalions and companies from Missouri State Guard transferring into Confederate service, including parts of units listed.

References

• Pea Ridge National Military Park website (Order of Battle)
• Shea, William L., & Earl J. Hess. Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8078-2042-3: pages 331-339.