The 13th Missouri Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The unit originated in early April 1863, when Captain Robert C. Wood, aide-de-camp to Confederate Major General Sterling Price, was detached to form an artillery unit from some of the men of Price's escort. Wood continued recruiting for the unit, which was armed with four Williams guns, and had 275 men by the end of September. The next month, the unit participated in the Battle of Pine Bluff, where it drove back Union Army troops into a barricaded defensive position, from which the Union soldiers could not be dislodged. By November, the unit, which was known as Wood's Missouri Cavalry Battalion, had grown to 400 men but no longer had the Williams guns. In Apri