Battle of Wilson's Creek order of battle: Confederate

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The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek of the American Civil War, fought on August 10, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. Though identified with the Confederates, the Missouri State Guard were technically an independent army, as Missouri had not yet seceded, and were not folded into the Confederate Army of the West until March 17, 1862. Though identified with the Confederates, the Arkansas State Troops were technically not yet Confederate troops. Arkansas had seceded on May 6, 1861, and been recognized as a Confederate State, but Brigadier General Nichols Pearce's troops had not been transferred from the State of Arkansas to the Confederate Government and had not been sworn into Confederate Service. After the battle, Pearce's troops voted to disband rather than enter Confederate Service.

The Union order of battle is shown separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

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

Other

k = killed
w = wounded

Confederate Forces at Wilson’s Creek

BG Benjamin McCulloch

Western Army

BG Benjamin McCulloch

Brigade	Regiments and Others
McCulloch's Brigade BG Benjamin McCulloch Col James M. McIntosh	3rd Louisiana Infantry: Col Louis Hebert 3rd Arkansas Infantry Battalion: Ltc Dandridge McRae 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles: Col Thomas J. Churchill 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles: Col James M. McIntosh, Ltc Benjamin T. Embry South Kansas-Texas Mounted Regiment (3rd Texas Cavalry): Col Elkanah Greer
Pearce's Division, Arkansas State Troops BG Nicholas Bartlett Pearce	1st Arkansas Cavalry: Col De Rosey Carroll Carroll's Cavalry: Cpt Charles Carroll 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops: Col John R. Gratiot 4th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops: Col James D. Walker (ill), Col Frank A. Rector 5th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops: Col Thomas P. Dockery Woodruff's Battery: Cpt William E. Woodruff, Jr. Reid's Battery: Cpt John G. Reid

Missouri State Guard

MG Sterling Price (w)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Second Division BG James S. Rains	Infantry Brigade Col Richard Hanson Weightman (k)	1st Missouri State Guard Infantry 2nd Missouri State Guard Infantry 3rd Missouri State Guard Infantry 4th Missouri State Guard Infantry
	Cavalry Brigade Col James Cawthorn	Peyton's Cavalry McCowen's Cavalry Hunter's Cavalry
	Artillery	Bledsoe's Battery: Cpt Hiram Bledsoe
Third Division BG John Bullock Clark, Jr.	commanded directly	Burbridge's Infantry: Col John Q. Burbridge Major's Cavalry: Ltc James P. Major
Fourth Division BG William Y. Slack	commanded directly	Hughes’ Infantry: Col John T. Hughes Thornton's Infantry: Maj John C.C. Thornton Rives’ Cavalry: Col Benjamin A. Rives
Sixth Division BG Mosby M. Parsons	commanded directly	Kelly's Infantry: Col Joseph M. Kelly Brown's Cavalry: Col Ben Browne Guibor's Battery: Cpt Henry Guibor, Lt William P. Barlow
Seventh Division BG James H. McBride	commanded directly	Wingo's Infantry: Col Edmund T. Wingo Foster's Infantry: Col John A. Foster Campbell's Cavalry: Cpt A.J. Campbell

Notes

Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
McIntosh acted as McCulloch's adjutant and second-in-command during the battle, and exercised command of the brigade while McCulloch commanded the army. See Piston & Hatcher, p. 214.
Embry exercised tactical command of the regiment during the battle. See Piston & Hatcher, p. 214.
Rector was Pearce's adjutant general and took command of the 4th Arkansas after Walker fell ill on August 10 (Piston & Hatcher, p. 208).
While scouting for a position to place his battery, Guibor was cut off behind Union lines during the remainder of the battle (Piston & Hatcher, pp. 240–241).

References

NPS Order of Battle
Brooksher, William Riley. Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson’s Creek (Washington: Brassey's, Inc.), 2000. ISBN 1-57488-205-8
Piston, William Garrett & Richard W. Hatcher, III. Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), 2003. ISBN 0-8078-5575-8

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