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.Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 657–659.Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used Military rank MG = Major General BG = Brigadier General Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel Maj = Major Cpt = Captain Lt = 1st Lieutenant
Union forces VII Corps (Department of Arkansas) MG Frederick Steele444 officers, 11,162 men, 30 guns (not including Clayton's command)All strength figures were "present for duty". The "aggregate present" strength was 13,754. Escort (2 officers, 88 men): 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company D: Lt Solomon M. Tabor 15th Illinois Cavalry, Company H: Cpt Thomas J. Beebe
Division Brigade Regiments and OthersThird Division
BG Frederick Salomon
193 officers, 4,657 men, 16 guns 1st Brigade
BG Samuel A. Rice (mw) 30 Apr
Col Charles E. Salomon 50th Indiana: Ltc Samuel T. Wells 29th Iowa: Col Thomas H. Benton Jr. 33rd Iowa: Maj Hiram D. Gibson 9th Wisconsin: Col Charles E. Salomon 2nd Brigade
Col William E. McLean 43rd Indiana: Maj Wesley W. Norris 36th Iowa: Col Charles W. Kittredge 77th Ohio: Col William B. Mason 3rd Brigade
Col Adolph Engelmann 43rd Illinois: Ltc Adolph Dengler 40th Iowa: Col John A. Garrett 27th Wisconsin: Col Conrad Krez Artillery Springfield Illinois Light Artillery (Vaughn's): Lt Charles W. Thomas Battery E, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery: Lt Charles Peetz Voegele's Wisconsin Battery:Manned by Company F, 9th Wisconsin Infantry. Cpt Martin VoegeleFrontier DivisionOrganized March 21, 1864, for the expedition. Joined near Elkins Ferry.
BG John Milton Thayer
Infantry: 115 officers, 2,893 men, 10 guns
Cavalry: 40 officers, 913 men, 4 guns 1st Brigade
Col John Edwards 1st Arkansas: Ltc Elhanon J. Searle 2nd Arkansas (8 companies): Maj Marshall L. Stephenson 18th Iowa: Cpt William M. Duncan 2nd Indiana Battery: Lt Hugh Espey 2nd Brigade
Col Charles W. Adams 1st Kansas (Colored): Col James M. Williams 2nd Kansas (Colored): Col Samuel J. Crawford 12th Kansas: Ltc Josiah E. Hayes 1st Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery: Cpt Denton D. Stark 3rd Brigade
Col Owen Bassett 2nd Kansas Cavalry: Maj Julius G. Fisk 6th Kansas Cavalry: Ltc William T. Campbell 14th Kansas Cavalry: Ltc John G. BrownCavalry Division
BG Eugene Asa Carr
1st and 3rd Brigades: 77 officers, 2,611 men 1st Brigade
Col John F. Ritter 3rd Arkansas Cavalry (4 companies): Maj George F. Lovejoy 13th Illinois Cavalry (Company B): Cpt Adolph Bechand 3rd Iowa Cavalry (detachment): Lt Franz W. Arnim 1st Missouri Cavalry (8 companies): Cpt Miles Kehoe 2nd Missouri Cavalry: Cpt William H. Higdon 3rd Brigade
Col Daniel Anderson 10th Illinois Cavalry (detachment): Ltc James Stuart 1st Iowa Cavalry: Ltc Joseph W. Caldwell 3rd Missouri Cavalry: Maj John A. Lennon Independent Cavalry Brigade [Post of Pine Bluff]Operating in connection with Steele's column.
Col Powell Clayton
Cavalry: 42 officers, 885 men
Infantry: 21 officers, 688 men 1st Indiana Cavalry (8 companies): Maj Julian D. Owen 5th Kansas Cavalry (10 companies): Ltc Wilton A. Jenkins 7th Missouri Cavalry: Maj Henry P. Spellman 18th Illinois: Ltc Samuel B. Marks 28th Wisconsin: Ltc Edmund B. Gray
See also
Army of Arkansas Arkansas in the American Civil War
Notes
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. . 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.