WILSON'S CREEK, MISSOURI

(Oak Hill)

10 August 1861

OR-Series I, Volume III, Chapter X, Pg 72

To Conf Units

Union Forces

BRIGADIER GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON (K)

MAJOR SAMUEL D. STURGIS

1st Brigade - Major Samuel D. Sturgis

U.S. Infantry Battalion Captain Joseph B. Plummer

Company "B"

Company "C"

Company "D"

Wood's Company, Rifle Recruits

Battalion, 2nd Missouri Infantry Major Peter J. Osterhaus

Battery "F", 2nd U.S. Light Artillery ---Captain James Totten

Kansas Rangers --- Captain S. N. Wood

Company "B", 1st U.S. Cavalry --- Lieutenant Charles W. Canfield

2nd Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel George L. Andrews

Regular Battalion, 2nd U.S. Infantry Captain Frederick Steele

Company "B", 2nd U.S. Infantry

Company "E", 2nd U.S. Infantry

1st Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel George L. Andrews

Lotrhrops Company

Morine's Rifle Recruits

DuBois's Improvised Battery --- Lieutenant John V. DuBois

2nd Brigade, Missouri Volunteers - Colonel Franz Sigel

3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant colonel Anselm Albert

5th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel C. E. Solomon

Company "I", 1st U.S. Cavalry Captain Eugene Asa Carr

Company "C", 2nd U.S. Dragoon Lieutenant C. E. Farrand

Detachment, Backof's Missouri Artillery ---Lieutenant G. A. Schaefer

                                                            Lieutenant Edward Schuetzerbach

3rd Brigade - Colonel George W. Deitzler

1st Kansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel George W. Deitzler (W)

                                                            Major J. A. Halderman

2nd Kansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel R. B. Mitchell (W)

                                                            Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Blair

Unattached

1st Iowa Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel William H. Merritt

Wright's Missouri Home Guards

Detachment, Company "D", 1st U.S. Cavalry

Missouri Pioneers Captain J. D. Voester

STRENGTH 5,400

CASUALTIES=  Killed 233 Wounded 721 Missing 291 TOTAL 1,235

 

Confederate Forces

BRIGADIER GENERAL BEN McCULLOCH

Missouri State Guards

MAJOR GENERAL STERLING "Pap" PRICE

Rains's Division - Brigadier General James S. Rains

1st Brigade - Colonel Roger H. Weightman (MW)

Colonel John R. Graves

1st Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Rosser

3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Edgar V. Hurst

Battalion, 4th Missouri Infantry Major Thomas H. Murray

5th Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel J. J. Clarkson

Graves's Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John R. Graves

                                                            Major Brashear

Bledsoe's Missouri Battery --- Captain Hiram Bledsoe

2nd Brigade - Colonel Cawthorn (MW)

(Composition Unknown)

Parsons's Brigade - Brigadier General Mosby Monroe Parsons

Kelly's Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Kelly (K)

Brown's Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Ben Brown (K)

Guibor's Missouri Battery --- Captain Henry Guibor

Clark's Division - Brigadier General John Bullock Clark

Burbridge's Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John Q. Burbridge (W)

                                                            Major John B. Clark Jr.

Battalion, 1st Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John Patrick Major

Slack's Division - Brigadier General William Yarnell Slack (W)

Hughes's Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John T. Hughes

Thornton's Missouri Infantry Battalion Major J. C. Thornton

Rives's Missouri Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel B. A. Rives

McBride's Division - Brigadier General James H. McBride

Wingo's Missouri Infantry Regiment

Foster's Missouri Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Foster (W)

Campbell's Missouri Cavalry Captain Campbell

 

ARKANSAS FORCES

Pearce's Brigade - Brigadier General N. B. Pearce

1st Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel DeRosey Carroll

Carroll's Cavalry Company Captain Charles A. Carroll

3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John R. Gratiot

4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel J. D. Walker

5th Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Thomas Plesant Dockery

Woodruff's Arkansas Battery --- Captain W. E. Woodruff

Reid's Arkansas Battery --- Captain J. G. Reid

McCulloch's Brigade

1st Arkansas Mounted Rifle Regiment --- Colonel Thomas James Churchill

2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifle Regiment --- Colonel James McIntosh

                                                            Lieutenant Colonel B. T. Embry

Battalion, Arkansas Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Dandridge McRae

South Kansas-Texas Mounted Regiment --- Colonel Elkanah Greer

3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Louis Hebert

STRENGTH 10,175

CASUALTIES=  Killed 265 Wounded 800 Missing 30TOTAL 1,095

 

 

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