BEATTIE’S PRAIRIE, ARKANSAS

22 October 1862

Also Known As

 Old Fort Wayne

OR-Series I, Volume XIII, Chapter XXV, Pg 324

 

Union Forces

Advance of 1st Division – Brigadier General Blunt

2nd Kansas Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Bassett

            Company A – Lieutenant John Johnston

            Company B – Captain Henry Hopkins

            Company C – Lieutenant Williwm M. Hook *

1st Sergeant Edward Barker

            Company D – Lieutenant Anaziah Moore

            Company E – Captain John Gardner

            Company F – Lieutenant John A. Lee

            Company G – Lieutenant Patrick Cosgrove

            Company H – Lieutenant David E. Ballard

            Company I – Captain Byron P. Ayres

6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Charles O.Judson

2nd Indiana Battery --- Lieutenant John W. Rabb

2 Mountain Howitzers --- Lieutenant E. S. Stover

CASUALTIES= Killed-4, Wounded-15

            * Lieutenant Hook deserted the field during the beginning of the battle

 

Confederate Forces

BRIGADIER GENERAL DOUGLAS HANCOCK COOPER

1st Choctaw/Chickasaw Regiment --- Colonel S. N. Folsom

2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles --- Colonel Stand Watie

3rd Cherokee Regiment --- Colonel Phillips

Buster’s Battalion

Creek Battalion --- Lieutenant Colonel Chilly McIntosh

Howell’s Texas Battery

 

 

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