Confederate Trans-Mississippi Units at Chickamauga

By contrast to the rather small number of trans-Mississippi units in the Union army at the battle of Chickamauga, there was a strong contingent of Confederate troops from west of the Mississippi. The following list is drawn from the Official Records.

1^st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (Buckner’s Corps, McNair’s Brigade)

2^nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (Buckner’s Corps, McNair’s Brigade)

1^st Arkansas Infantry (Hill’s Corps, Polk’s Brigade)

2^nd-15^th Arkansas Infantry (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Liddell’s Brigade)

3^rd Arkansas Infantry (Longstreet’s Corps, Robertson’s Brigade)

4^th-31^st and 4^th Arkansas Battalion (Buckner’s Corps, McNair’s Brigade)

5^th-13^th Arkansas Infantry (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Liddell’s Brigade)

6^th-7^th Arkansas Infantry (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Liddell’s Brigade)

8^th Arkansas Infantry (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Liddell’s Brigade)

9^th and 24^th Arkansas Infantry (Hill’s Corps, Deshler’s Brigade)

25^th Arkansas Infantry (Buckner’s Corps, McNair’s Brigade)

Calvert’s (Arkansas) Battery-Lt. Thomas J. Key (Hill’s Corps, Cleburne’s Division)

1^st Arkansas Battery, Capt. John T. Humphreys (Buckner’s Corps, Stewart’s Division)

J. H. Wiggins’ Arkansas Battery, Lt. J. P. Bryant (Cavalry Corps, Martin’s Division)

3^rd Arkansas Cavalry (Forrest’s Corps, Wheeler’s Brigade)

1^st Louisiana Regulars (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Liddell’s Brigade)

4^th Louisiana Battalion (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Wilson’s Brigade)

13^th-20^th Louisiana Infantry (Hill’s Corps, Adams’s Brigade)

16^th-25^th Louisiana Infantry (Hill’s Corps, Adams’ Brigade)

19^th Louisiana Infantry (Hill’s Corps, Adams’ Brigade)

14^th Louisiana Infantry Battalion (Hill’s Corps, Adams’ Brigade)

Le Gardeur’s Louisiana Battery, Capt. G. Le Gardeur, Jr. (Reserve Artillery)

Moody’s Louisiana Battery (Longstreet’s Corps)

N. T. N. Robinson’s Louisiana Battery (one section), Lt. Winslow Robinson (Forrest’s Corps, Scott’s Brigade)

Slocomb’s Battery (Washington Artillery-5^th Company) (Hill’s Corps, Breckinridge’s Division)

1^st Louisiana Cavalry (Forrest’s Corps, Scott’s Brigade)

Barret’s Missouri Battery, Capt. Overton W. Barret (Reserve Artillery)

Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery, Lt. R. L. Wood (Buckner’s Corps, Johnson’s Division)

1^st Texas Infantry (Longstreet’s Corps, Robertson’s Brigade)

4^th Texas Infantry (Longstreet’s Corps, Robertson’s Brigade)

5^th Texas Infantry (Longstreet’s Corps, Robertson’s Brigade)

6^th-10^th-15^th Texas (Hill’s Corps, Deshler’s Brigade)

7^th Texas Infantry (Buckner’s Corps, Gregg’s Brigade)

9^th Texas Infantry (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Ector’s Brigade)

10^th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Ector’s Brigade)

14^th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Ector’s Brigade)

17^th-18^th-24^th-25^th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) (Hill’s Corps, Deshler’s Brigade)

32^nd Texas Cavalry (dismounted) (Walker’s Reserve Corps, Ector’s Brigade)

Douglas’ Texas Battery, Capt. Henry C. Semple and Lt. R. W. Goldthwaite (Hill’s Corps, Cleburne’s Division)

8^th Texas Cavalry (Wharton’s Division, Harrison’s Brigade)

11^th Texas Cavalry (Wharton’s Division, Harrison’s Brigade)

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.