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Battle of Byram's Ford
Maj. Gen. Pleasonton's Order of Battle

2nd Provisional Cavalry Division

Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton

Chief of Artillery

Col. Nelson Cole

Escort

Company A, 11th Kansas Cavalry Regiment

Capt. Henry E. Palmer

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1st Brigade

Col. John F. Philips

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1st Missouri State Militia Regiment (mounted)

Lieut. Col. Bazel F. Lazear

4th Missouri State Militia Regiment (mounted)

Maj. George W. Kelly 

7th Missouri State Militia Regiment (mounted)

Lieut. Col. T. T. Crittenden

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2nd Brigade

Brig. Gen. John McNeil

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2nd Missouri Cavalry Regiment (detachment)

Capt. George M. Houston

13th Missouri Cavalry Regiment

Col. E. C. Catherwood

7th Kansas Cavalry Regiment

Maj. F. M. Malone

17th Illinois Cavalry Regiment

Col. John L. Beveridge

3rd Missouri State Militia Regiment (mounted)

Lieut. Col. H. M. Matthews

5th Missouri State Militia Regiment

Lieut. Col. J. A. Epstein 

9th Missouri State Militia Regiment

(mounted)

Lieut. Col. D.. M. Draper

Battery B, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery

2 guns

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5th Missouri State Militia Battery

4 guns (Mountain Howitzers)

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3rd Brigade

Brig. Gen. John B. Sanborn

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2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiement

Col. John E. Phelps

6th Missouri State Militia (mounted)

Maj. William Plumb

8th Missouri State Militia (mounted)

Col. J. J. Gravely

6th Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia

Col. John F. McMahon

7th Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia

Maj. W. B. Mitchell

Battery H, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery

2 guns

Capt. William C. F. Montgomery

Battery L, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery

4 guns

Capt. Charles H. Thurber

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4th Brigade

Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Benteen

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3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment

Maj. Benjamin F. Jones

4th Iowa Cavalry Regiment

Maj. Abiel R. Pierce

10th Missouri Cavalry Regiment

Maj. William L. Lusk

7th Indiana Cavalry Regiment and

4th Missouri Cavalry Regiment

Combined detachment under 

Maj. S. E. W. Simonson

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Unassigned

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2nd New Jersey Cavalry Regiment (detachment)

Capt. Michael Gallagher

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