title: Wilson's Creek Confederate order of battle
text: # Wilson's Creek Confederate order of battle
  
  The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek of the American Civil War, fought on August 10, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. Though identified with the Confederates, the Missouri State Guard were technically an independent army, as Missouri had not yet seceded, and were not folded into the Confederate Army of the West until March 17, 1862. Though identified with the Confederates, the Arkansas State Troops were technically not yet Confederate troops. Arkansas had seceded on May 6, 1861, and been recognized as a Confederate State, but Brigadier General Nichols Pearce's troops had not been transferred from the State of Arkansas to the Confederate Government and had not been sworn into Confederate Service. After the battle, Pearce's troops voted to disband rather than enter Confederate Service.
  
  The Union order of battle is shown separately.
  
  ## Abbreviations used
  
  ### Military rank
  
  * BG = Brigadier General
  * Col = Colonel
  * Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
  * Maj = Major
  * Cpt = Captain
  
  ### Other
  
  * k = killed
  * w = wounded
  
  ## Confederate Forces at Wilson’s Creek
  
  BG Benjamin McCulloch
  
  ### Western Army
  
  BG Benjamin McCulloch
  
  | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
  | - | - |
  | McCulloch's Brigade   BG Benjamin McCulloch   Col James M. McIntosh | 3rd Louisiana Infantry: Col Louis Hebert 3rd Arkansas Infantry Battalion: Ltc Dandridge McRae 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles: Col Thomas J. Churchill 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles: Col James M. McIntosh, Ltc Benjamin T. Embry South Kansas-Texas Mounted Regiment (3rd Texas Cavalry): Col Elkanah Greer |
  | Pearce's Division, Arkansas State Troops   BG Nicholas Bartlett Pearce | 1st Arkansas Cavalry: Col De Rosey Carroll Carroll's Cavalry: Cpt Charles Carroll 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops: Col John R. Gratiot 4th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops: Col James D. Walker (ill), Col Frank A. Rector 5th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops: Col Thomas P. Dockery Woodruff's Battery: Cpt William E. Woodruff, Jr. Reid's Battery: Cpt John G. Reid |
  
  ### Missouri State Guard
  
  MG Sterling Price (w)
  
  | Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
  | - | - | - |
  | Second Division   BG James S. Rains | Infantry Brigade   Col Richard Hanson Weightman (k) | 1st Missouri State Guard Infantry 2nd Missouri State Guard Infantry 3rd Missouri State Guard Infantry 4th Missouri State Guard Infantry |
  | Second Division   BG James S. Rains | Cavalry Brigade   Col James Cawthorn | Peyton's Cavalry McCowen's Cavalry Hunter's Cavalry |
  | Second Division   BG James S. Rains | Artillery | Bledsoe's Battery: Cpt Hiram Bledsoe |
  | Third Division   BG John Bullock Clark, Jr. | commanded directly | Burbridge's Infantry: Col John Q. Burbridge Major's Cavalry: Ltc James P. Major |
  | Fourth Division   BG William Y. Slack | commanded directly | Hughes’ Infantry: Col John T. Hughes Thornton's Infantry: Maj John C.C. Thornton Rives’ Cavalry: Col Benjamin A. Rives |
  | Sixth Division   BG Mosby M. Parsons | commanded directly | Kelly's Infantry: Col Joseph M. Kelly Brown's Cavalry: Col Ben Browne Guibor's Battery: Cpt Henry Guibor, Lt William P. Barlow |
  | Seventh Division   BG James H. McBride | commanded directly | Wingo's Infantry: Col Edmund T. Wingo Foster's Infantry: Col John A. Foster Campbell's Cavalry: Cpt A.J. Campbell |
  