Belmont Confederate order of battle

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The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Belmont of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

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Confederate Forces[]

First Division, Western Department[]

MG Leonidas Polk

Brigade Regiments and Other
Camp of Observation, Belmont

   Col James Camp Tappan

  • 13th Arkansas: Col James C. Tappan
  • 1st Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Ltc John H. Miller
  • Watson Battery: Ltc Daniel Beltzhoover
Reinforcements brought by BG Pillow

   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow

Units dispatched to BG Pillow
Cavalry
  • Logwood's Tennessee Battalion: Ltc Thomas H. Logwood
Steamers
  • Charm: Captain William L. Trask
  • Harry W. R. Hill: Captain Tom H. Newel
  • Ingomar: Captain Joe D. Clark
  • Kentucky: Captain Billy Priest
  • Prince: Captain B. J. Butler
Artillery
   [fired from Kentucky shore]
  • Bankhead's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Smith P. Bankhead
  • Hamilton's Tennessee Battery: Cpt S. D. H. Hamilton
  • Jackson's Light Battery: Lt William W. Carnes
  • Pointe Coupee Battery: Cpt Richard A. Stewart
  • Smith's Mississippi Light Battery: Cpt Melancthon Smith
  • Stewart's Heavy Battery: Maj Alexander P. Stewart

Units in reserve or near Columbus[]

Units Regiments and Others
Infantry
  • 10th Arkansas: Col Thomas D. Merrick
  • 12th Arkansas: Col E. W. Gantt
  • 7th Kentucky: Col Charles Wickliffe
  • 12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott
  • 21st Louisiana Battalion (5th Louisiana Battalion): Ltc J. B. Kennedy
  • 22nd Mississippi: Col D.W.C. Bonham
  • 25th Mississippi: Col. J.D. Martin
  • 1st Missouri: Col Lucius L. Rich
  • 4th Tennessee: Col Rufus P. Neely
  • 5th Tennessee: Col William E. Travis
  • 6th Tennessee: Col William H. Stephens
  • 9th Tennessee: Col Henry L. Douglass
  • 33rd Tennessee: Col Alexander W. Campbell
Artillery
  • Hudson's Mississippi Battery: Cpt Clement L. Hudson
  • Polk's Light Battery: Cpt Marshall T. Polk
  • Williams' Tennessee Battery: Lt Thomas F. Tobin

See also[]

References[]

  • Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), 1991. ISBN 0-8078-1968-9
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