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Major General John M. Schofield (absent in St. Louis) (9,216 men on the battlefield)
1st Division: Brigadier General James G. Blunt, Field Command (commanding 3,144 men on the battlefield)
1st Brigade: Brigadier General Frederick Salomon (commanding 752 men on the battlefield)

9th Wisconsin Infantry - Colonel Charles E. Salomon (stationed at Rhea's Mill)
2nd Ohio Cavalry - Colonel Augustus V. Kautz (stationed at Rhea's Mill)
3rd Wisconsin Cavalry - Colonel William A Bartow (333 men) ť *Attached Artillery Section (21 men, two 12 pound mountain howitzers)
6th Kansas Cavalry - Colonel William P. Judson (180 men) ť *Attached Artillery Section - Lt. Brainard D. Benedict (21 men, two 12 pound mountain howitzers)
9th Kansas Cavalry - Colonel Edward Lynde (197 men) ť *Attached Artillery Section - Lt. Henry H. Opedyke (stationed at Rhea's Mill)
Stockton's Ohio Battery - Captain J. B. Stockton (stationed at Rhea's Mill)
2nd Kansas Battery - Captain E. A. Smith (stationed at Rhea's Mill)

2nd Brigade: Colonel William A. Weer (commanding 902 men on the battlefield)

3rd Indian Home Guard - Colonel William Phillips (44 men)

10th Kansas Infantry - Major Henry H. Williams (387 men)

13th Kansas Infantry - Colonel Thomas M. Bowen (375 men)

1st Kansas Battery - Captain Marcus D. Tenney (96 men, six 10 pounders) 3rd Brigade: Colonel William F. Cloud (commanding 1490 men on the battlefield)

1st Indian Home Guard - Lt. Colonel Stephen H. Wattles (337 men)

11th Kansas Infantry - Colonel Thomas Ewing, Jr. (608 men)

2nd Kansas Cavalry - Lt. Colonel Owen A. Bassett (344 men) ť *Attached Artillery Section - Lt. Elias S. Stover (22 men, two 12 pound Mountain Howitzers)

2nd Indiana Battery - Captain John W. Rabb (126 men, 4 James cannon, two 6 pound smooth bore cannon)

3rd Kansas Battery - Captain Henry Hopkins (53 men, three 6 pound smooth bore cannon, one 12 pound field howitzer) 2nd Division: Brigadier General James Totten (Absent), Colonel Daniel Huston, Jr. (commanding 2118 men on the battlefield)
1st Brigade: Colonel John G. Clark (commanding 938 men on the battlefield)

18th Iowa Infantry - Colonel J. Edwards (stationed in Springfield, MO)

26th Indiana Infantry - Colonel John G. Clark (445 men)

7th Missouri Cavalry - Major Eliphalet Bredett (453 men)

Battery 'A', 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - Lt. H. Borris (40 men, one 6 pound smooth bore cannon, one 12 pound field howitzer) 2nd Brigade: Colonel William McEntyre Dye (commanding 1175 men on the battlefield)

20th Iowa Infantry - Lt. Colonel Joseph B. Leake (293 men)

37th Illinois Infantry - Lt. Colonel John Charles Black (401 men)

1st Missouri Cavalry - Major Charles Banzhaf (165 men)

6th Missouri Cavalry - Major Samuel Montgomery (206 men)

Company F, 1st Missouri Light Artillery - Captain David Murphy (110 men, four 3 pound 'rifles', two James cannon) 3rd Division: Brigadier General Francis J. Herron (commanding 3950 men on the battlefield)
1st Brigade: Lt. Colonel Henry Bertram (commanding 1765 men on the battlefield)

20th Wisconsin Infantry - Major Henry A. Starr (436 men)

(*) 1st Iowa Cavalry - Major J. O. Gower (500 men)

(*) 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry - Major William H. Miller (88 men)

(*) 10th Illinois Cavalry - Lt. Colonel James Stuart (612 men) ť *Attached Artillery Battery (43 men, four 12 pound mountain howitzers)

Company L. 1st Missouri Light Artillery - Captain Frank Backof (86 men, four James cannon, two 12 pound field howitzers) 2nd Brigade: Colonel William W. Orme (commanding 1600 men on the battlefield)

19th Iowa Infantry - Lt. Colonel Samuel McFarland (500 men)

94th Illinois Infantry - Lt. Colonel John McNulta (589 men)

(*) 8th Missouri Cavalry - Colonel Washington Geiger (400 men)

Company E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery - Lt. Joseph Foust (111 men, four 10 pound Prussian cannon, two 3 pound 'rifles') Unattached units (585 additional men)

14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry - Colonel John M. Richardson (100 men)

1st Arkansas Cavalry - Colonel Marcus LaRue Harrison (485 men) Units marked by (*) joined together to form Colonel Dudley Wickersham's Cavalry Brigade

I Corps, Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army

Major General Thomas C. Hindman (commanding 11,059 men on the battlefield)
First Division: Brigadier General John S. Roane (commanding 2132 men on the battlefield)
1st Brigade: Colonel Stand Watie (guarding Confederate supply train at Evansville)

Mounted Cherokee Rifles (guarding Confederate supply train at Evansville)

Mounted Creek Rifles (guarding Confederate Supply train at Evansville)

Osage, Choctaw, Seminole, Chickasaw and Comanche Indian Companies (guarding Confederate supply train at Evansville) 2nd Brigade: Brigadier General John S. Roane (commanding 2132 men on the battlefield)

20th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Colonel Thomas C. Bass (228 men)

22nd Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Major Robert D. Stone (429 men)

31st Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Lt. Colonel George W. Guess (284 men)

34th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Colonel A. M. Alexander (491 men)

9th Missouri Infantry - Colonel John B. Clark (564 men)

Reid's Arkansas Battery - Captain John G. Reid (37 men, two 6 pound smooth bore cannon)

Shoup's Arkansas Battery - Captain James C. Shoup (98 men, three mountain howitzers, two 25 pound mountain howitzers) Second Division: Brigadier General Francis A. Shoup (commanding 3219 men on the battlefield)
1st Brigade: Brigadier General James F. Fagan (commanding 1555 men on the battlefield)

Hawthorn's Arkansas Infantry - Colonel Alexander T. Hawthorn (291 men)

22nd (35th) Arkansas Infantry - Colonel James P. King (400 men)

29th (37th) Arkansas Infantry - Colonel Joseph C. Pleasants (304 men)

34th Arkansas Infantry - Colonel William H. Brooks (400 men)

Chew's Arkansas Infantry Battalion - Major Rober E. Chew (115 men)

Blocher's Arkansas Battery - Captain William D. Blocher (45 men, two 6 pound smooth bore cannon, two 12 pound field howitzers) 2nd Brigade: Brigadier General Dandrdge McRae (commanding 1664 men on the battlefield)

26th Arkansas Infantry - Colonel Asa S. Morgan (412 men)

28th (36th) Arkansas Infantry - Lt. Colonel John E. Glenn (497 men)

30th (39th) Arkansas Infantry - Colonel Archibald J. McNeill (304 men)

32nd Arkansas Infantry - Lt. Colonel Charles L. Young (370 men)

Marshall's Arkansas Battery - Captain John G. Marshall (78 men, two 6 pound smooth bore cannon, two 12 pound field howitzers) Third Division: Brigadier General Daniel M. Frost (commanding 3926 men on the battlefield)
1st Brigade: Brigadier General Mosby M. Parsons (commanding 3111 men on the battlefield)

Mitchell's Missouri Infantry - Lt. Colonel Charles S. Mitchell (440 men)

7th Missouri Infantry - Colonel Josiah H. Caldwell (754 men)

8th Missouri Infantry - Colonel Dewitt C. Hunter (684 men)

9th Missouri Infantry - Lt. Colonel Willis M. Ponder (476 men)

10th Missouri Infantry - Colonel Alexander E. Steen (560 men)

9th Missouri Sharpshooters - Major Lebbeus A. Pindall (123 men)

Tilden's Missouri battery - Captain Charles B. Tilden (74 men, two 6 pound smooth bore cannon, two 12 pound field howitzers) 2nd Brigade: Colonel Robert G. Shaver (commanding 815 men on the battlefield)

Adams' Arkansas Infantry - Colonel Charles W. Adams (305 men)

27th Arkansas Infantry - Colonel James R. Shaler (stationed at Ft. Smith, Arkansas)

33rd Arkansas Infantry - Colonel Hiram L. Grinstead (306 men)

38th Arkansas Infantry Battalion - Lt. Colonel William C. Adams (140 men)

Roberts' Missouri Battery - Captain Westley Roberts (64 men, two 14 pound James cannon, two six pound smooth bore cannon) Fourth Division (Cavalry): Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke (commanding 1782 men on the battlefield)
1st Brigade: Colonel James C. Monroe (commanding 500 men on the battlefield)

Carroll's Arkansas Cavalry - Lt. Colonel Lee. L. Thomson (225 men)

Monroe's Arkansas Cavalry - Major A. N. Johnson (225 men) 2nd Brigade: Colonel Joseph O. Shelby (Shelby's Raiders) (commanding 1475 men on the battlefield)

4th Missouri Cavalry - Colonel Beal G. Jeans (334 men)

5th Missouri Cavalry - Colonel Benjamin F. Gordon (338 men)

6th Missouri Cavalry - Colonel Gideon W. Thompson (333 men)

Elliot's Missouri Cavalry battalion - Captain Benjamin Elliott (101 men)

Quantrill's Company - Lt. William Gregg (33 men) (Included Frank and Jesse James)

Bledsoe's Missouri Battery - Captain Joseph Bledsoe (36 men, two six pound smooth bore cannon) 3rd Brigade: Colonel Emmett MacDonald (commanding 807 men on the battlefield)

MacDonald's Missouri Cavalry - Lt. Colonel Merrit L. Young (202 men)

Crump's Texas Cavalry - Lt. Colonel R. Phillip Crump (544 men)

West's Arkansas Battery - Captain Henry C. West (61 men, one 6 pound smooth bore cannon, two 12 pound field howitzers)Further Information

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