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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.
Abbreviations used [ ]
Military Rank [ ]
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 [ ]
American Civil War portal
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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