The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Belmont of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used
Military Rank BG = Brigadier General Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel Cpt = Captain Lt = 1st Lieutenant
Union Forces
Grant's Expeditionary Command, District of Southeast Missouri BG Ulysses S. Grant
Brigade Regiments and Other McClernand's Brigade
BG John A. McClernand 27th Illinois: Col Napoleon Bonaparte Buford 30th Illinois: Col Philip B. Fouke 31st Illinois: Col John A. Logan Dougherty's Brigade
Col Henry Dougherty 7th Iowa: Col Jacob Gartner Lauman 22nd Illinois: Ltc Harrison E. Hart Cavalry Dollin's (Illinois) Company: Cpt James J. Dollins Delano's Adams County (Illinois) Company: Lt James K. Catlin Artillery Chicago Light Battery: Cpt Ezra Taylor Gunboats U.S.S. Lexington: Commander Roger N. Stembel U.S.S. Tyler: Commander Henry A. Walke Steamers Aleck Scott: Captain Robert A. Reilly Chancellor Keystone State Belle Memphis: Captain ___ Turner, Pilot Charles M. Scott James Montgomery Rob Roy
Units subject to Grant's command
Brigade Regiments and Other from Bird's Point toward Bloomfield 11th Illinois (1 battalion): Col William H. L. Wallace Oglesby's Brigade
Col Richard James Oglesby 10th Iowa: Col Nicholas Perczel 8th Illinois: Ltc Frank L. Rhoads 11th Illinois (1 battalion): Ltc Thomas E. G. Ransom 18th Illinois: Col Michael Kelly Lawler 29th Illinois: Col James Reardon Cavalry Langen's (Missouri) MCompany: Lt Ferdinand Hansen Pfaff's (Missouri) Company: Cpt Ernest Pfaff Noleman's Centralia (Illinois) Company: Lt Samuel P. Tufts Artillery Campbell's Battery (1 section) Schwartz's Battery (1 section): Lt George C. Gumbart Plummer's Brigade
Col Joseph B. Plummer [from Cape Girardeau to Bloomfield] 11th Missouri: Col Joseph B. Plummer 17th Illinois: Col Leonard Fulton Ross from Cape Girardeau to Charleston 20th Illinois: Col C. Carroll Marsh Cook's Brigade
Col John Cook [from Fort Holt, Kentucky to Columbus] 7th Illinois: Ltc A.J. Babcock 28th Illinois Col Amory K. Johnson
From Paducah, Kentucky BG Charles Ferguson Smith
Brigade Regiments and Others 1st Brigade
BG Eleazer A. Paine 9th Illinois 12th Illinois 40th Illinois 41st Illinois Thielemann's (Illinois) Dragoons: Cpt Christian Thielemann Buel's (Missouri) Battery 2nd Brigade 23rd Indiana: Col William L. Sanderson
Cooperating unit not subject to Grant's command, from Ironton to St. Francis River 38th Illinois: Col William P. Carlin
See also
Missouri in the American Civil War Kentucky in the American Civil War
References Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press), 1991.