Camden Expedition Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate 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.[1][2] The Union 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

Other

k = killed
w = wounded

Confederate forces

Gen Edmund Kirby Smith, Commanding

District of Arkansas

MG Sterling Price[3]

Escort:

14th Missouri Battalion

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Fagan's Cavalry Division BG James Fleming Fagan	Cabell's Brigade BG William Lewis Cabell	1st Arkansas Cavalry: Col James C. Monroe 2nd Arkansas Cavalry: Col T. J. Morgan 4th Arkansas Cavalry: Col A. Gordon 7th Arkansas Cavalry: Col John F. Hill Gunter's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Thomas M. Gunter Blocher's Arkansas Battery
	Dockery's Brigade BG Thomas Pleasant Dockery	18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's): Col Robert Hamilton Crockett 19th and 15th Consolidated Infantry: Ltc H. G. P. Williams 20th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col Daniel W. Jones 12th Arkansas Infantry Battalion (Sharpshooters): Maj William F. Rapley
	Crawford's Brigade Col William A. Crawford	2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Slemons'): Cpt O.B. Tebbs Crawford's Arkansas Cavalry: Col William A. Crawford Wright's Arkansas Cavalry: Col John Crowell Wright Poe's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion: Maj James T. Poe McMurtrey's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion: Maj Elisha L. McMurtrey Hughey's Arkansas Battery: Cpt William M. Hughey
Marmaduke's Cavalry Division BG John S. Marmaduke	Greene's Brigade Col Colton Greene	3rd Missouri: Ltc Leonidas A. Campbell 4th Missouri: Ltc William J. Preston 7th Missouri: Col Solomon G. Kitchen 8th Missouri: Col William L. Jeffers 10th Missouri: Col Robert R. Lawther Harris' Missouri Battery: Cpt S. S. Harris
Marmaduke's Cavalry Division BG John S. Marmaduke	Shelby's Brigade BG Joseph O. Shelby	1st Missouri Battalion: Maj Benjamin Elliott 5th Missouri: Col B. Frank Gordon 11th Missouri: Col M. W. Smith 12th Missouri: Col David Shanks Hunter's Regiment: Col De Witt C. Hunter Collins' Missouri Battery: Cpt Richard A. Collins
Maxey's Cavalry Division [4] BG Samuel B. Maxey	Gano's Brigade Col Charles DeMorse	29th Texas: Maj J. A. Carroll 30th Texas: Ltc N. W. Battle 31st Texas: Maj Michael Looscan Welch's Company: Lt Frank M. Gano Krumbhaar's Texas Battery: Cpt W. Butler Krumbhaar
Maxey's Cavalry Division [4] BG Samuel B. Maxey	Choctaw Brigade Col Tandy Walker	1st Regiment: Ltc James Riley 2nd Regiment: Col Simpson W. Folsom
Walkers's Division[5] MG John George Walker (w)	Waul's Brigade BG Thomas N. Waul	8th Texas: - 18th Texas: - 22nd Texas: - 13th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): -
	Scurry's Brigade BG William Read Scurry (k)	3rd Texas: - Col Philip N. Luckett 16th Texas: - 17th Texas: - 19th Texas: - 16th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): -
	Randal's Brigade Col Horace Randal (k)	11th Texas: - 14th Texas: - 28th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): - Gould's Battalion: -
Arkansas Division[6] BG Thomas James Churchill	Tappan's Brigade BG James Camp Tappan	Hardy's Arkansas Infantry: Ltc William R. Hardy 24th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Ltc William R. Hardy 27th/38th Arkansas Infantry: Col R. G. Shaver 38th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col R. G. Shaver 33rd Arkansas Infantry: Col H. L. Grinsted
	Gause's Brigade Col Lucien C. Gause	26th Arkansas Infantry: Ltc Iverson L. Brooks 32nd Arkansas Infantry: Ltc William Hicks 36th Arkansas Infantry: Col James M. Davie
	Hawthorn's Brigade BG Alexander T. Hawthorn[7]	34th Arkansas Infantry: - 35th Arkansas Infantry: - 37th Arkansas Infantry: - Cocke's Arkansas Infantry: Col John B. Cocke (k)
Missouri Division[8] BG Mosby M. Parsons	1st Brigade BG John Bullock Clark, Jr.	8th Missouri: Col Charles S. Mitchell 9th Missouri: Col R. H. Musser Ruffner's Missouri Battalion: Cpt Samuel T. Ruffner
Missouri Division[8] BG Mosby M. Parsons	2nd Brigade Col Simon P. Burns	10th Missouri Infantry Regiment:[9] Col William M. Moore 11th Missouri: Ltc Thomas H. Murray 12th Missouri: Col Willis M. Ponder 16th Missouri: Ltc P. W. H. Cumming 9th Missouri Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj L. A. Pindall Lesueur's Missouri Battery: Cpt A. A. Lesueur

Notes

Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 784-786.
Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
Assumed command of the Arkansas and Missouri divisions April 26.
Arrived April 7–12; departed April 27.
Arrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.
Arrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.
Official Records, Series I, Vol. XXXXI, Part 3 Based in September 1864 organization
Arrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.
McGhee, James E. (2008). Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. pp. 223–224. ISBN 978-1-55728-870-7.

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. ISBN 0-7864-1554-1.
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.

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[1] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part 1, pages 784-786.

[2] Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.

[3] Assumed command of the Arkansas and Missouri divisions April 26.

[4] Arrived April 7–12; departed April 27.

[5] Arrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.

[6] Arrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.

[7] Official Records, Series I, Vol. XXXXI, Part 3 Based in September 1864 organization

[8] Arrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.

[unit223-4-9] McGhee, James E. (2008). Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. pp. 223–224. ISBN 978-1-55728-870-7.