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

Union forces

VII Corps (Department of Arkansas)

MG Frederick Steele
444 officers, 11,162 men, 30 guns (not including Clayton's command)[3]
Escort (2 officers, 88 men):

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Third Division
     BG Frederick Salomon
     193 officers, 4,657 men, 16 guns

 1st Brigade

   BG Samuel Allen Rice (mw) 30 Apr 1864
2nd Brigade

   Col William E. McLean
3rd Brigade

   Col Adolph Engelmann
Artillery

Frontier Division[5]
     BG John Milton Thayer
     Infantry: 115 officers, 2,893 men, 10 guns
     Cavalry: 40 officers, 913 men, 4 guns

 1st Brigade

   Col John Edwards
2nd Brigade

   Col Charles W. Adams
3rd Brigade

   Col Owen Bassett

Cavalry Division
     BG Eugene Asa Carr
     1st and 3rd Brigades: 77 officers, 2,611 men

 1st Brigade

   Col John F. Ritter
3rd Brigade

   Col Daniel Anderson
Independent Cavalry Brigade [Post of Pine Bluff][6]

   Col Powell Clayton
   Cavalry: 42 officers, 885 men
   Infantry: 21 officers, 688 men

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 657–659.
  2. ↑ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  3. ↑ All strength figures were "present for duty". The "aggregate present" strength was 13,754.
  4. ↑ Manned by Company F, 9th Wisconsin Infantry.
  5. ↑ Organized March 21, 1864, for the expedition. Joined near Elkins Ferry.
  6. ↑ 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.
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