Union Trans-Mississippi Units at Chickamauga

It’s possible to learn a lot of interesting facts from studying an Order of Battle along with casualty reports. Did you know that the 8th Kansas Infantry and the 2nd Minnesota Infantry were among the regiments that suffered some of the highest casualty rates among Union troops at the battle of Chickamauga? The following list of Union trans-Mississippi units that served at the battle of Chickamauga is taken from the Official Records:

8^th Kansas Infantry (20^th Army Corps, Heg’s Brigade: 30 KIA, 165 WIA, 25 captured or missing)

2^nd Minnesota Battery (20^th Army Corps, 1^st Division: 2 WIA)

2^nd Minnesota Infantry (14^th Army Corps, Van Derveer’s Brigade: 35 KIA, 113 WIA, 14 captured or missing)

1^st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery G (20^th Army Corps, Laiboldt’s Brigade: 4 WIA)

2^nd Missouri Infantry (20^th Army Corps, Laiboldt’s Brigade: 7 KIA, 56 WIA, 29 captured or missing)

15^th Missouri Infantry (20^th Army Corps, Laiboldt’s Brigade: 11 KIA, 67 WIA, 22 captured or missing)

Veterans of Trans-Mississippi Actions at Chickamauga

Recently, I’ve been reading a history of the Chickamauga campaign, and while perusing the Order of Battle I noticed some familiar regiments. As far as I can determine, there were fourteen units that fought at the battle of Chickamauga that had campaigned earlier in the trans-Mississippi. Here is the list of units:

Union units:

1st Illinois Light Artillery, Battery C (New Madrid, Missouri)
21st Illinois (Campaigning in southeastern Missouri, fall 1861-early 1862)
22nd Illinois (Belmont)
25^th Illinois (Pea Ridge)
27th Illinois (Belmont)

35^th Illinois (Pea Ridge)

36^th Illinois (Pea Ridge)
42nd Illinois (Fremont's Missouri campaign-1861)

44^th Illinois (Pea Ridge)
51st Illinois (New Madrid, Missouri)

59^th Illinois (Pea Ridge)

22nd Indiana Infantry (Pea Ridge)

2^nd Missouri Infantry (Pea Ridge)

15^th Missouri Infantry (Pea Ridge)
1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery G (Fremont's Missouri Campaign-1861)

Confederate units:

1^st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge)

2^nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge)

5^th-13^th Arkansas Infantry (Belmont)

Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery (Carthage, Wilson’s Creek, Dry Wood, Lexington, Pea Ridge)

6^th-10^th-15^th Texas (Arkansas Post)

17^th-18^th-24^th-25^th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) (Arkansas Post)

Good-Douglas Texas Battery (Pea Ridge)

A further comment…I hope that there is a scholar working on a book about Arkansas units similar to those written by Art Bergeron, James L. McGhee, Ralph Wooster about Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas troops respectively. Arkansas troops are well deserving of such a reference source.