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
First Corps, Trans-Mississippi Army[]
MG Thomas C. Hindman (11,059 men on the battlefield) [1]
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Division
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First Brigade[2]
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| Second Brigade
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Second Division
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First Brigade
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| Second Brigade
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Third Division
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First Brigade
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| Second Brigade
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Fourth Division
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First Brigade
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| Second Brigade (Shelby's Raiders)
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| Third 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.
- ↑ guarding Confederate supply train at Evansville
- ↑ 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 978-0-8078-3315-5l.
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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