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HONEY SPRINGS, INDIAN TERRITORY
17 July 1863
Also Known As
Elk Creek
Union Forces
Army of the Frontier
1st Division - Brigadier General James G. Blunt
1st Brigade - Colonel William R. Judson
2nd Indian
Home Guard --- Lieutenant Colonel Fred W. Schaurte
1st Kansas
Colored Infantry--- Colonel James M. Williams (W)
Lieutenant
Colonel John Bowles
6 Companies,
3rd Wisconsin Cavalry --- Captain Edward R. Stevens
2nd Brigade - Colonel William Phillips
6 Companies,
2nd Colorado Infantry --- Colonel Theodore H. Dodd
1st Indian
Home Guard --- Colonel Stephen H. Wattles
Detachments
of 6th Kansas Cavalry* --- Colonel William F. Campbell
Company A
Company C
Company F
Company H
* Detached from the 1st Brigade on the morning of the
battle
Artillery
2nd Kansas
Light Artillery
1st Section
--- Captain Edward Smith
2nd Section
--- Lieutenant John P. Grassberger
3rd Kansas
Light Artillery* --- Captain Henry Hopkins
* Also known as Hopkins' Battery
UNION
STRENGTH = 3,000 to 4,500
CASUALTIES
Killed 17; Wounded 60
Confederate Forces
BRIGADIER GENERAL DOUGLAS
HANCOCK COOPER
Texas Troops - Colonel Thomas Coker Bass
20th Texas
Cavalry (Dismounted) --- Colonel Thomas Coker Bass
29th Texas
Cavalry - Colonel Charles DeMorse (W)
5th Texas
Partisan Rangers--- Colonel Leonidas M. Martin
Indian Troops - Brigadier General Douglas Hancock Cooper
1st Cherokee
Mounted Rifles* --- Major Joseph F. Thompson
2nd Cherokee
Mounted Rifles# --- Lieutenant Colonel James M. Bell
1st
Choctaw---Chickasaw Mounted Rifles --- Colonel Tandy Walker
1st Creek
--- Colonel Daniel N. McIntosh
2nd Creek---
Colonel Chilly McIntosh
* = Colonel Stand Watie absent with detachment
# = Colonel Adair absent due to illness
Artillery
Lee's
Battery--- Captain Roswell W. Lee
Miscellaneous Units
Scanland's
Squadron Texas Cavalry --- Captain John Scanland
Gillett's
Squadron Texas Cavalry --- Captain L. E. Gillett
STRENGTH
= 3,500 to 3,800
CASUALTIES
Killed & Wounded 134; Captured 47
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