Wilson's Creek Confederate order of battle

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 never effectively seceded, and were not folded into the Confederate Army of the West until March 17, 1862.

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

• w = wounded

Confederate Forces at Wilson’s Creek

BG Benjamin McCulloch

Western Army

BG Benjamin McCulloch

Brigade	Regiments and Others
Pearce’s Arkansas Militia    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 J. D. Walker 5th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops: Col Thomas P. Dockery Woodruff’s Battery: Cpt W. E. Woodruff, Jr. Reid’s Battery: Cpt J. G. Reid
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

Missouri State Guard

MG Sterling Price (w)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Second Division      BG James S. Rains	Infantry Brigade    Col Richard Hanson Weightman	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 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
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 Campbell

See also

• Missouri in the American Civil War

References

• Brooksher, William Riley. Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson’s Creek (Washington: Brassey’s, Inc.), 2000. ISBN 1-5748-8205-8
• 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