Camden Expedition order of battle: Union

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Camden Expedition of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.^[1]^[2] 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
Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Union forces

VII Corps (Department of Arkansas)

MG Frederick Steele
Escort:

3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company D: Lt Solomon M. Tabor
15th Illinois Cavalry, Company H: Cpt Thomas J. Beebe

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Third Division BG Frederick C. Salomon	1st Brigade BG Samuel Allen Rice (mw) 30 Apr 1864	50th Indiana: Ltc Samuel T. Wells 29th Iowa: Col Thomas H. Benton, jr. 33rd Iowa: Maj Hiram D. Gibson 9th Wisconsin: Col Charles E. Salomon
	2nd Brigade Col William E. McLean	43rd Indiana: Maj Wesley W. Norris 36th Iowa: Col Charles W. Kittredge 77th Ohio: Col William B. Mason
	3rd Brigade Col Adolph Engelmann	43rd Illinois: Ltc Adolph Dengler 40th Iowa: Col John A. Garrett 27th Wisconsin: Col Conrad Krez
	Artillery	Springfield Illinois Light Artillery (Vaughn's): Lt Charles W. Thomas Battery E, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery: Lt Charles Peetz Voegele's Wisconsin Battery:^[3] Cpt Martin Voegele
Frontier Division^[4] BG John Milton Thayer	1st Brigade Col John Edwards	1st Arkansas: Ltc Elhanon J. Searle 2nd Arkansas (8 companies): Maj Marshall L. Stephenson 18th Iowa: Cpt William M. Duncan 2nd Indiana Battery: Lt Hugh Espey
	2nd Brigade Col Charles W. Adams	1st Kansas (Colored): Col James M. Williams 2nd Kansas (Colored): Col Samuel J. Crawford 12th Kansas: Ltc Josiah E. Hayes 1st Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery: Cpt Denton D. Stark
	3rd Brigade Col Owen Bassett	2nd Kansas Cavalry: Maj Julius G. Fisk 6th Kansas Cavalry: Ltc William T. Campbell 14th Kansas Cavalry: Ltc John G. Brown
Cavalry Division BG Eugene Asa Carr	1st Brigade Col John F. Ritter	3rd Arkansas Cavalry (4 companies): Maj George F. Lovejoy 13th Illinois Cavalry (Company B): Cpt Adolph Bechand 3rd Iowa Cavalry (detachment): Lt Franz W. Arnim 1st Missouri Cavalry (8 companies): Cpt Miles Kehoe 2nd Missouri Cavalry: Cpt William H. Higdon
	3rd Brigade Col Daniel Anderson	10th Illinois Cavalry (detachment): Ltc James Stuart 1st Iowa Cavalry: Ltc Joseph W. Caldwell 3rd Missouri Cavalry: Maj John A. Lennon
	Independent Cavalry Brigade [Post of Pine Bluff]^[5] Col Powell Clayton	1st Indiana Cavalry (8 companies): Maj Julian D. Owen 5th Kansas Cavalry (ten companies): Ltc Wilton A. Jenkins 7th Missouri Cavalry: Maj Henry P. Spellman 18th Illinois: Ltc Samuel B. Marks 28th Wisconsin: Ltc Edmund B. Gray

Notes

^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 658-659.
^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
^ Manned by Company F, 9th Wisconsin Infantry.
^ Organized March 21, 1864, for the expedition. Joined near Elkins Ferry.
^ Operating in connection with Steele's column.

References

Forsyth, Michael J. The Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil War (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers), 2003. ISBN 0-7864-1554-1.
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. XXXIV, Part 1, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.

[1] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 658-659.

[2] Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.

[3] Manned by Company F, 9th Wisconsin Infantry.

[4] Organized March 21, 1864, for the expedition. Joined near Elkins Ferry.

[5] Operating in connection with Steele's column.

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