Prairie Grove Union Order of Battle

The following Union 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 Confederate 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

Army of the Frontier

MG James G. Blunt^[1] 9,216 men on the battlefield

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division      BG James G. Blunt 3,144	1st Brigade    BG Frederick Salomon 752	9th Wisconsin Infantry: Col Charles E. Salomon (at Rhea's Mill) 2nd Ohio Cavalry: Col Augustus V. Kautz (at Rhea's Mill) 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry: Col William A. Barstow 333 men Attached Artillery Section 21 men, two 12 pound mountain howitzers 6th Kansas Cavalry: Col William R. Judson 180 men Attached Artillery Section: Lt. Brainard D. Benedict 21 men, two 12 pound mountain howitzers 9th Kansas Cavalry: Col Edward Lynde 197 men Attached Artillery Section: Lt. Henry H. Opedyke (at Rhea's Mill) 25th Ohio Battery: Cpt Julius L. Hadley (at Rhea's Mill) 2nd Kansas Battery: Cpt E. A. Smith (at Rhea's Mill)
	2nd Brigade    Col William A. Weer 902	3rd Indian Home Guard: Col William A. Phillips 44 men 10th Kansas Infantry: Maj Henry H. Williams 387 men 13th Kansas Infantry: Col Thomas M. Bowen 375 men 1st Kansas Battery: Cpt Marcus D. Tenney 96 men, six 10 pounders
	3rd Brigade    Col William F. Cloud 1490	1st Indian Home Guard: Ltc Stephen H. Wattles 337 men 11th Kansas Infantry: Col Thomas Ewing, Jr. 608 men 2nd Kansas Cavalry: Ltc Owen A. Bassett 344 men Attached Artillery Section: Lt Elias S. Stover 22 men, two 12 pound Mountain Howitzers 2nd Indiana Battery: Cpt John W. Rabb 126 men, 4 James cannon, two 6 pound smooth bore cannon 3rd Kansas Battery: Cpt Henry Hopkins 53 men, three 6 pound smooth bore cannon, one 12 pound field howitzer
2nd Division[2]      Col Daniel Huston, Jr. 2118	1st Brigade    Col John G. Clark 938	18th Iowa Infantry: Col John Edwards (at Springfield) 26th Indiana Infantry: Col John G. Clark 445 men 7th Missouri Cavalry: Maj Eliphalet Bredett 453 men Battery 'A', 2nd Illinois Light Artillery: Lt H. Borris 40 men, one 6 pound smooth bore cannon, one 12 pound field howitzer
	2nd Brigade    Col William Dye 1175	20th Iowa Infantry: Ltc Joseph B. Leake 293 men 37th Illinois Infantry: Ltc John C. Black 401 men 1st Missouri Cavalry: Maj Charles Banzhaf 165 men 6th Missouri Cavalry: Maj Samuel Montgomery 206 men Company F, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt David Murphy 110 men, four 3-inch ordnance rifles, two James cannon
3rd Division      BG Francis J. Herron 3950	1st Brigade    Ltc Henry Bertram 1765	20th Wisconsin Infantry: Maj Henry A. Starr 436 men (*)[3] 1st Iowa Cavalry: Maj J. O. Gower 500 men (*) 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry: Maj William H. Miller 88 men (*) 10th Illinois Cavalry: Ltc James Stuart 612 men Attached Artillery Battery 43 men, four 12 pound mountain howitzers Company L. 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Cpt Frank Backof 86 men, four James cannon, two 12 pound field howitzers
	2nd Brigade    Col William W. Orme 1600	19th Iowa Infantry: Ltc Samuel McFarland 500 men 94th Illinois Infantry: Ltc John McNulta 589 men (*) 8th Missouri Cavalry: Col Washington Geiger 400 men Company E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: Lt Joseph Foust 111 men, four 10 pound Parrott cannon, two 3-inch ordnance rifles
	Unattached 585	14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry: Col John M. Richardson 100 men 1st Arkansas Cavalry: Col Marcus LaRue Harrison 485 men

Notes

1. Blunt had replaced John Schofield as commander when the latter fell ill a week earlier and returned to St. Louis to recuperate.
2. The division's regular commander, BG James Totten, was absent during the battle. The 2nd Division was attached to Herron's division.
3. Units marked by (*) joined together to form Colonel Dudley Wickersham's Cavalry Brigade

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