VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS

28 December 1862

OR-Series I, Volume XXII, Chapter XXIV, Pg 167

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Union Forces

Department Commander

MAJOR GENERAL SAMUEL R. CURTIS

Army Of The Frontier

BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES G. BLUNT

1st Division - Brigadier General James G. Blunt

1st Brigade - Brigadier General Frederick Salomon

6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William R. Judson

9th Kansas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Edward Lynde

6 Companies, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry --- Major Elias A. Calkins

9th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment* --- Colonel Charles E. Salomon

2nd Brigade - Colonel William A. Weer

3rd Indian Home Guard --- Colonel William A. Phillips

10th Kansas Infantry Regiment --- Major Henry H. Williams

13th Kansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Thomas M. Bowen

1st Battery, Kansas Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Marcus D. Tenney

3rd Brigade - Colonel William F. Cloud

1st Indian Home Guard --- Lieutenant Colonel Stephen H. Wattles

2nd Kansas Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Owen A. Bassett

11th Kansas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Thomas Ewing Jr.

2nd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery --- Captain John W. Robb

2nd Battery, Kansas Light Artillery --- Captain Henry Hopkins

2nd Division - Colonel Daniel Huston Jr.

Escort

2 Companies, 1st Missouri Cavalry --- Major Charles Banzhaf

1st Brigade - Colonel John G. Clark

26th Indiana Infantry Regiment ---

7th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Captain Wesley R. Love

                                                           

Battery "A", 2nd Illinois Light Artillery --- Lieutenant Herman Borris

2nd Brigade - Colonel William McE. Dye

37th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Major Henry M. Frisbie

20th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Leake

2nd Battalion, 6th Missouri Cavalry --- Major Samuel Montgomery

Battery "F", 1st Missouri Artillery --- Captain David Murphy

3rd Division - Brigadier General Francis J. Herron

(In Command of 2nd & 3rd Divisions Combined)

Escort

Battalion, 1st Missouri Cavalry --- Captain Amos L. Burrows

1st Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Henry Bertram

10th Illinois Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel James Stuart

1st Iowa Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel James O. Gower

1st Battalion, 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry Major William H. Miller

20th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment --- Major Henry A. Starr

Battery "L", 1st Missouri Artillery --- Captain Frank Backof

2nd Brigade - Colonel William W. Orme

94th Illinois Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John McNulta

19th Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Major Daniel Kent

8th Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Washington F. Geiger

Battery "E", 1st Missouri Artillery --- Lieutenant Joseph Foust

Unattached

1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel M. LaRue Harrison

14th Missouri Militia Cavalry --- Colonel John M. Richardson

 

 

Confederate Forces

Trans-Mississippi Army

 

FIRST CORPS

MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS C. HINDMAN

4th Cavalry Division - Brigadier General John Sappington Marmaduke

Carroll's Brigade - Colonel J. C. Monroe

Arkansas Cavalry Regiment --- Major John B. Thompson

Arkansas Cavalry Regiment --- Major Johnston

Shelby's Cavalry Brigade - Colonel Joseph Orville Shelby

1st Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel B. Frank Gordon

2nd Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Beal G. Jeans

3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel G. W. Thompson

Quantrill's Guerilla Company --- Lieutenant Gregg

Bledsoe's Missouri Battery --- Captain H. M. Bledsoe

Roberts's Missouri Battery --- Captain Wesley Roberts

Scouts --- Major B. Elliott

MacDonald's Brigade - Colonel Emmett MacDonald

Lane's Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel R. P. Crump

Young's Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel M. L. Young

West's Arkansas Battery --- Captain Henry C. West

Infantry Divisions

Brigadier General Daniel Marsh Frost

Brigadier General Francis M. Shoup

Brigades

Roane's Infantry Brigade

Fagan's Infantry Brigade

Parsons's Infantry Brigade

McRae's Infantry Brigade

Shaver's Infantry Brigade

 

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