Confederate Forces at Wilson's Creek

Many photo's herein are post war

The Confederate Forces

(estimated at 10,175 troops)

		CSA forces
		Brig General Benjamin McCulloch

Col Louis Hebert	Lt Col Dandridge McRae	Col Thomas James Churchill	Col James McIntosh	Col Elkanah Greer
3rd Louisiana Infantry	Arkansas Inf	1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles	2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles	South Kansas- Texas Mtd Reg
700	220	600	400	800

State of Arkansas Troops


			Brig General Nicholas Bartlett Pearce
N/A	N/A	N/A			N/A	N/A
Col De Rosey Carroll	Capt Charles Carroll	Col John Rene Gratiot	Col James David Walker	Col Thomas Dockery	Capt William Edward Woodruff, Jr	Capt J G Reid
1st Arkansas Cavalry	Carroll's Cavalry	3rd Arkansas Infantry	4th Arkansas Infantry	5th Arkansas Infantry	Woodruff's Battery	Reid's Battery
350	40	500	550	650	71	73
					4 guns	4 guns

Missouri State Guard

Maj General

Sterling Price

	3rd Division

	Brig Gen John B Clark

Col John Quincy Burbridge Infantry		Lt Col James Major Cavalry
273		300

	4th Division

	Brig General William Slack
N/A	N/A
Col John Hughes Infantry	Maj John Calhoun Caldwell Thornton Infantry	Col Benjamin Rives Cavalry
650	(combined w/ Hughes total)	234

	6th Division

	Brig Gen Monroe Parsons
N/A		N/A
Col Joseph Kelly Infantry	Capt Henry Guibor Artillery	Col Benjamin Johnson Brown Cavalry
195	61 men 4 guns	406

	7th Division

	Brig Gen James McBride
N/A	N/A	N/A
Col Edmund T Wingo Infantry	Col John Foster Infantry	Capt Campbell Cavalry
300	305	40

8th Division

N/A

Brig Gen James S Rains

N/A

N/A

Col Richard Weightman
Infantry

Capt Hiram Bledsoe
Artillery

Col James Cawthorn
Cavalry

1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th MSG Infantry

3 guns

Payton, McGowan, and Hunter's units

1250

66

1210

Southern Soldiers who served in this battle and attained the rank of General by war's end
Please advise of corrections

Col Elkanah Greer - 3rd TexasCavalry - Brigadier General CSA (Oct 1862)
Col James McQueen McIntosh - 2nd AR Mtd Rifles - Brigadier General CSA (kia Pea Ridge, AR)
Col Evander McNair - 4th AR Inf - Brigadier General CSA (1862)
Lt Col Dandridge McRae - Arkansas Infantry - Brigadier General CSA (Nov 1862)
Capt Daniel Harris Reynolds - 1st AR Mtd Rifles - Brigadier General CSA (March 1864)
Col Thomas J Churchill - 1st AR Mtd Rifles - Major General CSA (March 1865)
Maj John B Clark - MSG Clark's Division - Brigadier General CSA (March 1864)
Col Thomas Pleasant Dockery - 5th AR Infantry- Brigadier General CSA (Aug 1863)
Col Louis Hebert - 3rd LA Infantry - Brigadier General CSA (May 1862)
Col James Patrick Major - MSG 3rd Division - Brigadier General CSA (July 1863)
Gen Mosby M Parsons - 6th Division - Brigadier General CSA (Nov 1862)
Gen Nathaniel Bart Pearce - AR Brigade - Major General CSA (Dec 1861)
Gen Sterling Price - MSG Commander - Major General CSA (Mar 1862)
Capt Joseph Orville Shelby - MSG - Brigadier General CSA
Capt Francis Marion Cockrell - 8th Division, MSG - Brigadier General
Lt John Bullock Clark, Jr - Clark's Division, MSG - Brigadier General
Lt Matthew Duncan Ector - 3rd TX Cavalry - Brigadier General CSA
Gen William Yarnell Slack - 4th Division - Brigadier General CSA (1862 - 4 weeks after death)

McRae, McIntosh, Slack, Dockery, Churchill photo courtesy of "General Officers of the Civil War"

Hebert, McCulloch, Price photo courtesy of "3rd Louisiana Infantry History"

Parsons, McBride photo courtesy of "Missouri SCV"

Clark, Pearce, Rains, Bledsoe photo courtesy of "Borderland Rebellion" by Elmo Ingenthron

Major and Greer photo courtesy of "Confederates in Gray" by Ezra Warner

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3rd Louisiana Infantry - great site and touching music "Brothers In Arms"

Dedicated to my Confederate grandfather - Thomas K Cook 35th Georgia Infantry and others unproven at present with Missouri State Guard with and numerous great uncles and cousins

	8th Division
	N/A
	Brig Gen James S Rains
N/A		N/A
Col Richard Weightman Infantry	Capt Hiram Bledsoe Artillery	Col James Cawthorn Cavalry
1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th MSG Infantry	3 guns	Payton, McGowan, and Hunter's units
1250	66	1210