Battle of Moore's Mill - Order of Battle

Order of Battle

Union

Guitar’s Column
  • 9th Missouri State Militia Cavalry (Cos. E, F, G, H) – Colonel Odon Guitar (~100 men)
  • 3rd Indiana Battery (1 section: two 6-pounder guns) – Lt. Adolphus G. Armington (32 men)
  • 3rd Iowa Cavalry (Co. E, F, G, H) – Maj. Henry C. Caldwell (133 men)
Shaffer’s Column
  • 2nd Missouri Cavalry "Merrill's Horse" (Cos. A, C, E, F, G, H, I, K) – Lt. Col. W.F. Shaffer (306 men)
  • 10th Missouri State Militia Cavalry (Cos. B, D) – (120 men)
  • Independent Cavalry Co. "Red Rovers" – Capt. Hiram A. Rice (38 men) (later Co. I, 10th MSM Cavalry)

Confederate

  • 1st Northeast Missouri Cavalry – Col. Joseph C. Porter (~125 men)
  • Blackfoot Rangers – Lt. John Bowles (65 men)
  • Cobb’s Guerrillas – Capt. Alvin Cobb (75 men)

Order of battle and strengths tabulated from text of Michael Banasik's Embattled Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862.

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