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.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. The Union order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations
Military rank Gen = General 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 E. Kirby Smith, Commanding
District of Arkansas MG Sterling PriceAssumed command of the Arkansas and Missouri divisions April 26.
Escort: 14th Missouri Battalion
Division Brigade Regiments and OthersFagan's Cavalry Division
BG James F. Fagan Cabell's Brigade
BG William L. 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 P. Dockery 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: 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 C. 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. HugheyMarmaduke'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 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. CollinsMaxey's Cavalry DivisionArrived April 7–12; departed April 27.
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 Second Indian Brigade
Col Tandy Walker 1st Regiment: Ltc James Riley 2nd Regiment: Col Simpson W. FolsomWalkers's DivisionArrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.
MG John G. Walker (w) Waul's Brigade
BG Thomas N. Waul 12th Texas: - 18th Texas: - 22nd Texas: - 13th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): - Scurry's Brigade
BG William R. 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): - 6th Texas (Gould's) Cavalry Battalion (dismounted): -Arkansas DivisionArrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.
BG Thomas J. Churchill Tappan's Brigade
BG James C. Tappan Dawson's and Portlock's Consolidated Arkansas Infantry: Ltc William R. Hardy Shaver's and Gaither's Consolidated Arkansas Infantry: Col Robert G. Shaver Grinsted's Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col Hiram L. Grinsted (k) 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. HawthornOfficial Records, Series I, Vol. XXXXI, Part 3 Based in September 1864 organization 34th Arkansas Infantry: - 35th Arkansas Infantry: - 37th Arkansas Infantry: - Cocke's Arkansas Infantry: Col John B. Cocke (k)Missouri DivisionArrived April 20; attached to Price's command April 26.
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 Battery: Cpt Samuel T. Ruffner 2nd Brigade
Col Simon P. Burns 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment: 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
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.