Belmont Union order of battle


The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Belmont of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Grant's Expeditionary Command, District of Southeast Missouri

BG Ulysses S. Grant

BrigadeRegiments and Other
McClernand's Brigade

BG John A. McClernand
Dougherty's Brigade
Col Henry Dougherty
Cavalry
  • Dollin's Company: Cpt James J. Dollins
  • Delano's Adams County Company: Lt James K. Catlin
    • Artillery
  • Chicago Light Battery: Cpt Ezra Taylor
    • Gunboats
  • U.S.S. Lexington: Commander Roger N. Stembel
  • U.S.S. Tyler: Commander Henry A. Walke
    • Steamers
  • Aleck Scott: Captain Robert A. Reilly
  • Chancellor
  • Keystone State
  • Belle Memphis: Captain ___ Turner, Pilot Charles M. Scott
  • James Montgomery
  • Rob Roy

    • Units subject to Grant's command

    BrigadeRegiments and Other
    from Bird's Point toward Bloomfield
    Oglesby's Brigade
    Col Richard James Oglesby
    Cavalry
  • Langen's MCompany: Lt Ferdinand Hansen
  • Pfaff's Company: Cpt Ernest Pfaff
  • Noleman's Centralia Company: Lt Samuel P. Tufts
    • Artillery
  • Campbell's Battery
  • Schwartz's Battery : Lt George C. Gumbart
    • Plummer's Brigade

    Col Joseph B. Plummer


    from Cape Girardeau to Charleston
  • 20th Illinois: Col C. Carroll Marsh
    • Cook's Brigade

    Col John Cook


    From Paducah, Kentucky

    BG Charles Ferguson Smith
    BrigadeRegiments and Others
    1st Brigade


    BG Eleazer A. Paine
    2nd Brigade
  • 23rd Indiana: Col William L. Sanderson
    • Cooperating unit not subject to Grant's command, from Ironton to St. Francis River