Helena order of battle

The following Union and Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Helena of the American Civil War on July 4, 1863.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed

Union

District of East Arkansas

MG Benjamin M. Prentiss[1]

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
District of East Arkansas	Cavalry Brigade K-5, W-18, M-1 = 24    Col Powell Clayton	1st Indiana Cavalry and Battery - Ltc Thomas Pace 5th Kansas Cavalry - Ltc Wilton A. Jenkins
	Artillery K-0, W-1, M-0 = 1	3rd Battery, Iowa Light Artillery - Lt Melvin Wright Battery K, 1st Missouri Light Artillery - Lt John O'Connell
	Unattached K-0, W-0, M-0 = 0	2nd Arkansas Colored Infantry - Maj George W. Burchard
1st Division (XIII Corps)[2]      BG Frederick Salomon	1st Brigade K-9, W-28, M-5 = 42    Col William E. McLean	43rd Indiana - Ltc John C. Major 35th Missouri - Ltc Horace Fitch 28th Wisconsin - Ltc Edmund B. Gray
	2nd Brigade K-43, W-99, M-30 = 172    Col Samuel A. Rice	29th Iowa - Col Thomas Hart Benton II 33rd Iowa - Ltc Cyrus H. Mackey 36th Iowa - Col Charles W. Kittredge 33rd Missouri - Ltc William H. Heath

Confederate

District of Arkansas

LTG Theophilus H. Holmes

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Price's Division      MG Sterling Price	First Brigade K-46, W-168, M-133 = 347    BG Dandridge McRae	32nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col Lucien C. Gause 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col John E. Glenn 39th (30th) Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col Robert A. Hart (w) Arkansas Artillery Battery - Cpt John G. Marshall
	Second Brigade K-47, W-115, M-273 = 435    BG James F. Fagan	Hawthorn's Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col A. T. Hawthorn 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col William H. Brooks 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col James P. King 37th Arkansas Infantry Regiment - Col Samuel S. Bell (w & c) Denson's Cavalry - Cpt William B. Denson Arkansas Battery - Cpt William D. Blocker
	Fourth Brigade K-59, W-326, M-368 = 753    BG Mosby M. Parsons	7th Missouri Infantry Regiment - Col Levin M. Lewis 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment - Col Simon P. Burns 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment - Col James D. White 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment - Col Alexander C. Pickett 1st Battalion, Missouri Sharpshooters - Maj Lebbeus A. Pindall 3rd Field Battery Missouri Light Artillery - Cpt Charles B. Tilden
Marmaduke's Division      BG John S. Marmaduke	First Brigade K-8, W-37, M-10 = 55    BG Joseph O. Shelby	5th Missouri Cavalry Regiment - Ltc B. Frank Gordon 6th Missouri Cavalry Regiment - Col Gideon W. Thompson Jeans' Cavalry - Col Beal G. Jeans 1st Missouri Cavalry Battalion - Maj Benjamin Elliott Bledsoe's Missouri Battery - Cpt Joseph Bledsoe
	Second Brigade K-5, W-7, M-0 = 12    Col Colton Greene	3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment - Ltc Leonidas C. Campbell 8th Missouri Cavalry Regiment - Col William L. Jeffers Young's Cavalry Battalion - Ltc Merritt L. Young Bell's Missouri Battery - Cpt Charlie O. Bell
Walker's Division      BG Lucius M. Walker	K-4, W-8, M-0 = 12	5th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment - Col Robert C. Newton 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment- Col Archibald S. Dobbins

See also

• List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units
• Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
• Confederate Units by State
• Arkansas in the American Civil War
• Arkansas Militia in the Civil War

References

1. 28th Wisconsin Regimental History
2. Salomon's division was attached to the Dist of Eastern Arkansas from the XIII Corps. The rest of the XIII Corps, under General E.O.C. Ord, was engaged at Vicksburg.

External links

• Community & Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War In the Ozarks
• Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page
• The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
• The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
• The Arkansas History Commission, State Archives, Civil War in Arkansas