The Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri was fought on August 10, 1861.
Southern forces
Confederate Western army
Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch
Escort
- Reiff's Arkansas Cavlary Company: Captain V.A. Reiff
McCulloch's Brigade
Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch
Colonel James M. McIntosh
- 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles: Colonel Thomas J. Churchill
- 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles: Colonel James M. McIntosh, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin T. Embry
- McRae's Arkansas Infantry Battalion: Colonel Dandridge McRae
- 3rd Louisiana Infantry: Colonel Louis Hebert
- 3rd Texas Cavalry: Colonel Elkanah Greer
- Attached to the 3rd Texas Cavalry was an Arkansas calvary company, commanded by an officer identified only as "Captain Dalrymple"
- Soon after the battle started, the regiment split into three battalions, which all fought seperately. It was organized as follows:
- Under Greer: five companies plus Dalrymple's company
- Under Major George W. Chilton: Companies G and H
- Under Lieutenant Colonel Walter P. Lane: Companies F, I, and K
Pearce's Brigade, Arkansas State Troops
Brigadier General N.B. Pearce
- Brigade staff
- Adjutant general: Colonel Frank A. Rector
- 3rd Infantry Regiment: Colonel John R. Gratiot
- 4th Infantry Regiment: Colonel Jonathan D. Walker (ill), Colonel Frank A. Rector
- 5th Infantry Regiment: Colonel Tom P. Dockery
- 1st Cavalry Regiment: Colonel DeRosey Carroll
- Carroll's Cavalry Company: Captain Charles A. Carroll
- Fort Smith Light Battery (four guns): Captain John G. Reid
- Pulaski Light Battery (two 12 pounder howitzers, two 6 pounder guns): Captain WIlliam E. Woodruff, Jr.
Missouri State Guard
Major General Sterling Price (wounded but remained in command)
Staff
- Adjutant: Colonel Thomas Snead
- Inspector General: Lieutenant Colonel John H. Price
- Drillmaster: Brigadier General Alexander Steen
- Aide: Captain Colton Greene
2nd Division
Brigadier General James S. Rains
Division staff
- Ordnance officer: Lieutenant Colonel John F. Snyder
Infantry Brigade
Colonel Richard H. Weightman (killed)
Colonel Jonathan Graves
- 1st Infantry Regiment: Colonel Thomas Rosser
- 2nd Infantry Regiment: Colonel Jonathan Graves, Major Ezra H. Brashear
- 3rd Infantry Regiment
- 4th Infantry Regiment: Colonel James Clarkson
Cavalry Brigade
Colonel James Cawthorn
- Hunter's Cavalry Regiment (six companies): Colonel DeWitt C. Hunter
- McCowan's Cavalry Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel James McCown
- Peyton's Cavalry Regiment: Colonel Robert L.Y. Peyton
Artillery
- Bledsoe's Battery: Captain Hiram Bledsoe
3rd Division
Brigadier General Charles Clark
- Division staff
- Judge advocate general: Lieutenant Colonel Richard H. Musser
- Adjutant general: Colonel Casper W. Bell
- Aide: Captain Joseph B. Finks
- 1st Infantry Regiment: Colonel John Q. Burbridge
- Major's Cavalry Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel James P. Major
4th Division
Brigadier General William Y. Slack
- 1st Infantry Regiment: Colonel John T. Hughes
- Thornton's Extra Infantry Battalion: Major C.C. Thornton
- 1st Cavalry Regiment: Colonel Benjamin A. Rives
6th Division
Brigadier General Monroe M. Parson
- Kelly's Infantry Regiment (six companies): Colonel Joseph M. Kelly
- Brown's Cavalry Regiment: Colonel Ben Brown
- The following units were also under Brown's command:
- company of mounted infantry: Captain Charles L. Crews
- two unidentified cavalry battalions commanded by "Captain Stapes" and "Captain Alexander"
- 1st Light Artillery (four 6 pounder guns): Captain Henry Guibor
7th Division
Brigadier General James H. McBride
- 1st Infantry Regiment: Colonel Edmund T. Wingo
- 2nd Infantry Regiment: Colonel Robert A. Foster
- Campbell's Cavalry Regiment: Captain Leonidas S. Campbell
Union Army of the West
Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon (killed)
Major Samuel D. Sturgis
Staff
- Chief of staff and adjutant: Major John Schofield
- Aide: Lieutenant William M. Wherry
Headquarters units
- detachment of pioneers: Captain John Voerster
1st Brigade
Major Samuel D. Sturgis
- Battalion of U.S. Regulars: Captain Joseph B. Plummer (wounded), Captain Daniel Huston
- Company B, 1st U.S. Infantry: Captain Charles C. Gilbert
- Company C, 1st U.S. Infantry: Captain Joseph B. Plummer (wounded)
- Company D, 1st U.S. Infantry: Captain Daniel Huston
- company of recruits: Lieutenant H.C. Wood
- 2nd Missouri Infantry, companies A and B: Major Peter J. Osterhaus
- Company I (mounted), 2nd Kansas Infantry: Captain Samuel N. Wood
- Company D, 1st U.S. Cavalry: Lieutenant Charles W. Canfield
- Battery F, 2nd U.S. Artillery (six guns): Captain James Totten
2nd Brigade
Colonel Franz Sigel
- 3rd Missouri Infantry (eight companies): Lieutenant Colonel Anslem Albert (captured)
- 5th Missouri Infantry (nine companies): Colonel Charles E. Salomon
- Company I, 1st U.S. Cavalry: Captain Eugene A. Carr
- Company C, 2nd U.S. Dragoons: Lieutenant Charles E. Farrand
- Backof's Missouri Light Artillery: Major Franz Beckof
3rd Brigade
Lieutenant Colonel George Andrews (wounded)
Captain Theodore Yates
- Battalion of U.S. Regulars: Captain Frederick Steele
- Company B, 2nd U.S. Infantry: 1st Sergeant William Griffin
- Company E, 2nd U.S. Infantry: 1st Sergeant George H. McLoughlin
- company of Regular Service recruits: Lieutenant Warren Lothrop
- company of Mounted Rifles recruits: Sergeant John Morine
- 1st Missouri Infantry: Lieutenant Colonel George L. Andrews (wounded), Captain Theodore Yates
- Du Bois's Battery: Lieutenant John V. Du Bois
4th Brigade
Colonel George W. Deitzler
- 1st Iowa Infantry: Lieutenant Colonel William H. Merritt
- 1st Kansas Infantry: Colonel George W. Deitzler (wounded), Major John Halderman
- 2nd Kansas Infantry: Colonel Robert B. Mitchell (wounded), Lieutenant Charles Blair
- 13th Illinois Infantry (21 man detachment): Lieutenant James Beardsley
- Dade County Home Guards (mounted): Captain Clark Wright, Captain Theodore A. Switzler
Reserves left in Springfield during the battle
- Company C, 1st U.S. Cavalry: Captain David Stanley
- Company B, 1st U.S. Cavalry: commander unknown
- two gun section, Beckof's Missouri Light Artillery: commander unknown
- Greene and Christian County Home Guards: Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Boyd