Cotton Plant Union order of battle
The Battle of Cotton Plant (July 7, 1862) saw a 10,000-strong Union Army commanded by Samuel Ryan Curtis[1] encounter a 5,000-man Confederate force led by Albert Rust. A Union advance guard commanded by Charles Edward Hovey did most of the fighting, repelling an attack by two Texas cavalry regiments led by William Henry Parsons. Union reinforcements under William P. Benton arrived and pressed the Texas cavalry and Arkansas infantry into a disorderly retreat. Curtis's army subsequently occupied Helena.[2] Earlier in the campaign, Texas cavalry inflicted 49 casualties on a Union foraging party in the Battle of Whitney's Lane near Searcy on May 19, 1862.[3] At the Battle of L'Anguille Ferry near Marianna on August 3, 1862 the Texas cavalry overran a Union wagon convoy.[4]
The following Union Army units and commanders served in the campaign.[5]
Abbreviations used
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Hovey = Col Charles E. Hovey's brigade[2]
Army of the Southwest
Army Commander
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Notes
- Footnotes
- Dyer did not specify brigades or brigade commanders. Patrick stated that Hovey and Benton were brigade commanders in Steele's Division.
- Citations
- Dimitry & Harrell 1899, p. 108.
- Patrick 2018.
- Shea & Hess 1992, p. 299.
- Honnoll 2016.
- Dyer 1908, p. 542.
References
- Dimitry, John; Harrell, John M. (1899). Confederate Military History: Louisiana and Arkansas. 10. Atlanta, Ga.: Blue & Gray Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Army Southwest Mo. – May 1862. 1. Des Moines, Iowa: Dyer Publishing Co.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Honnoll, W. Danny (2016). "Skirmish at L'Anguille Ferry". Little Rock, Ark.: Encyclopedia of Arkansas.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Patrick, Jeffrey L. (2018). "Action at Hill's Plantation". Little Rock, Ark.: Encyclopedia of Arkansas.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Shea, William L.; Hess, Earl J. (1992). Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2042-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)