Pea Ridge Confederate order of battle

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The following Confederate States Army and Confederate-aligned units and commanders fought in the Battle of Pea Ridge of the American Civil War in Pea Ridge, Arkansas on March 7 and 8, 1862. The Union order of battle is shown separately.

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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 4th Arkansas Infantry 14th Arkansas Infantry 15th Arkansas Infantry 16th Arkansas Infantry 17th Arkansas Infantry 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 4th Texas Cavalry Battalion (dismounted)^[1]
	McIntosh's Cavalry Brigade BG James M. McIntosh (k) Col Elkanah Greer	3rd Texas Cavalry 6th Texas Cavalry 9th Texas Cavalry 11th Texas Cavalry 1st Texas Cavalry Battalion (not engaged) 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion
	Artillery	Hart’s Arkansas Battery Provence’s Arkansas Battery Gaines’s Arkansas Battery Good’s Texas Battery
Reporting Directly	Pike’s Indian Brigade BG Albert Pike	1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles 1st Choctaw and Chickasaw (not engaged)^[2] 1st Creek Mounted Rifles (not engaged)^[3] Welch’s Texas Cavalry Squadron
Reporting Directly	Unassigned Units	19th Arkansas Infantry (not engaged) 20th Arkansas (not engaged)

Headquarters Units:

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Other
First (Price's) Division MG Sterling Price (w)	First Missouri Brigade Col Henry Little	1st Missouri Cavalry 2nd Missouri Infantry 3rd Missouri Infantry Wade’s Missouri Artillery Battery Clark’s Missouri Artillery Battery
	Second Missouri Brigade Col William Y. Slack (mw)	Bevier’s Missouri Infantry Battalion Hughes’s Missouri Infantry Battalion Rosser’s Missouri Infantry Battalion Riggins’s Missouri Cavalry Battalion Jackson’s Missouri Artillery Battery Landis’s Missouri Artillery Battery
	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
	Third Division Col John B. Clark, Jr.	1st Infantry 2nd Infantry 3rd Infantry 4th & 5th Infantry 6th Infantry Tull’s Missouri Battery
	Fifth Division Col James P. Saunders	Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Kelley’s Battery
	Sixth Division Maj D. Herndon Lindsay	Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Gorham’s Battery
	Seventh and Ninth Divisions BG Daniel M. Frost	Various unidentified infantry and cavalry units Guibor’s Missouri Battery MacDonald’s St. Louis Battery
	Eighth Division BG James S. Rains	1st Infantry 2nd Infantry 3rd Infantry 4th Infantry Shelby’s Cavalry Company Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery

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

Pea Ridge NMP website
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.