Battle of Iuka order of battle

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The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Iuka of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization, return of casualties^[1] and reports.^[2]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

k = killed
w = wounded

Union

Army of the Mississippi
MG William S. Rosecrans

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Second Division BG David S. Stanley	1st Brigade Col John W. Fuller	27th Ohio: Maj Zephaniah S. Spaulding 39th Ohio: Col Alfred W. Gilbert 43rd Ohio: Col J. L. Kirby Smith 63rd Ohio: Col John W. Sprague 1st Missouri, Battery M: Cpt Albert M. Powell 2nd United States, Battery F: Cpt Thomas D. Maurice
Second Division BG David S. Stanley	2nd Brigade Col Joseph A. Mower	26th Illinois: Maj Robert A. Gillmore 47th Illinois: Ltc William A. Thrush 11th Missouri: Maj Andrew J. Weber 8th Wisconsin: Ltc George W. Robbins Iowa Light Artillery, 2nd Battery: Cpt Nelson T. Spoor Michigan Light Artillery, 3rd Battery: Cpt Alexander W. Dees
Third Division BG Charles S. Hamilton	1st Brigade Col John B. Sanborn	48th Indiana: Col Norman Eddy (w) 5th Iowa: Col Charles L. Matthies 16th Iowa: Col Alexander Chambers 4th Minnesota: Cpt Ebenezer LeGro 26th Missouri: Col George B. Boomer Ohio Light Artillery, 11th Battery: Lt Cyrus Sears (w)
Third Division BG Charles S. Hamilton	2nd Brigade BG Jeremiah C. Sullivan	10th Iowa: Col Nicholas Perczel 17th Iowa: Col John W. Rankin 10th Missouri: Col Samuel A. Holmes 80th Ohio: Ltc H. M. Bartilson Wisconsin Light Artillery, 12th Battery: Lt Lorenzo D. Immell
Cavalry Division Col John K. Mizner		2nd Iowa Cavalry: Col Edward Hatch 3rd Michigan Cavalry: Cpt Lyman Wilcox 7th Kansas Cavalry, Companies B and E: Cpt Frederick Swoyer
	Unattached	Jenks's Company, Illinois Cavalry: Cpt Albert Jenks Western Sharpshooters-14th Missouri Volunteers, Companies D, F and K: Cpt Michael Piggot^[3]

Confederate

Army of the West
MG Sterling Price

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division BG Henry Little (k) BG Louis Hébert	1st Brigade Col Elijah Gates	16th Arkansas 2nd Missouri 3rd Missouri 1st Missouri Dismounted Cavalry Wade's (Missouri) Battery
	2nd Brigade BG Louis Hébert	14th Arkansas 17th Arkansas 3rd Louisiana 40th Mississippi 1st Texas Legion 3rd Texas Dismounted Cavalry Dawson's St. Louis Battery Clark Missouri Battery
	3rd Brigade BG Martin E. Green	43rd Mississippi 7th Mississippi Battalion 4th Missouri 6th Missouri 3rd Missouri Dismounted Cavalry Guibor's (Missouri) Battery Landis's (Missouri) Battery
	4th Brigade Col John D. Martin	37th Alabama 36th Mississippi 37th Mississippi 38th Mississippi
	Cavalry BG Frank C. Armstrong	2nd Arkansas Cavalry 2nd Missouri Cavalry Wirt Adams' Cavalry Regiment 2nd Mississippi Cavalry Regiment 1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers

Notes

↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 77-78 (Union) and page 822 (Confederate)
↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 62-63 (Union) and page 63 (Confederate)
↑ Letter to the editor of the (St. Louis) MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, dated Sept 22, 1862.

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References

U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
Cozzens, Peter. The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8078-2320-1

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[1] Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 77-78 (Union) and page 822 (Confederate)

[2] Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 62-63 (Union) and page 63 (Confederate)

[3] Letter to the editor of the (St. Louis) MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, dated Sept 22, 1862.

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