Crater Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of the Crater (July 30, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

• Gen = General
• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = Lieutenant

Other

• (w) = wounded
• (mw) = mortally wounded
• (k) = killed in action
• (c) = captured

Army of Northern Virginia

Gen Robert E. Lee

III Corps

LTG A. P. Hill

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Richard Anderson's Division      BG William Mahone	Mahone's (Virginia) Brigade    Col David A. Weisiger (w)    Col George T. Rogers	6th Virginia: Col George T. Rogers, Ltc Henry W. Williamson 12th Virginia: Cpt Richard W. Jones 16th Virginia: Ltc Richard O. Whitehead 41st Virginia: Maj William H. Etheridge 61st Virginia: Ltc William H. Stewart
	Wilcox's (Alabama) Brigade    Col John C. C. Sanders	8th Alabama: Cpt William W. Mordecai 9th Alabama: Col J. Horace King 10th Alabama: Cpt Wilson L. Brewster 11th Alabama: Ltc George E. Tayloe 14th Alabama: Cpt Elias Folk (k)
	Wright's (Georgia) Brigade    Ltc Matthew R. Hall	3rd Georgia: Ltc Claiborne Snead 22nd Georgia: Col George H. Jones 48th Georgia: Ltc Reuben W. Carswell 64th Georgia: Col John W. Evans (w)

Artillery

BG William N. Pendleton

First Corps      Ltc Frank Huger	Haskell's Battalion    Maj John C. Haskell	Branch Battery (North Carolina): Cpt Henry G. Flanner Nelson Battery (Virginia): Cpt James N. Lamkin
	13th Battalion Virginia Light Artillery    Maj Wade H. Gibbs (w)	Company A, Otey Battery: Cpt David N. Walker Company B, Ringgold Battery: Cpt Crispin Dickenson Company C, Davidson's Battery: Lt John H. Chamberlayne Mortar Battery:[1] Lt Jack Langhorne
Third Corps      Col Reuben Lindsay Walker	Pegram's Battalion    Ltc William Pegram	Crenshaw's Battery (Virginia): Cpt Thomas Ellett Letcher Light Artillery: Cpt Thomas A. Brander

Department of North Carolina And Southern Virginia

Gen P.G.T. Beauregard

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Johnson's Division      BG Bushrod Johnson	Ransom's (North Carolina) Brigade    Col Leroy M. McAfee	24th North Carolina: Col William J. Clarke 25th North Carolina: Maj William S. Grady (mw) 35th North Carolina: Col James T. Johnson 49th North Carolina: Ltc John A. Flemming (k), Ltc James T. Davis 56th North Carolina: Cpt Lawson Harrill
	Elliott's (South Carolina) Brigade    BG Stephen Elliott, Jr. (w)    Col. Fitz W. McMaster	17th South Carolina: Col Fitz W. McMaster, Maj John R. Culp 18th South Carolina: Cpt Robert H. Glenn 22nd South Carolina: Col David G. Flemming (k), Cpt James N. Shedd 23rd South Carolina: Cpt Edwin R. White (w) 26th South Carolina: Col Alexander D. Smith
	Wise's (Virginia) Brigade    Col J. Thomas Goode	26th Virginia: Cpt Napoleon B. Street 34th Virginia: Maj John R. Bagby 46th Virginia: Cpt George Norris 59th Virginia: Cpt Henry Wood (w)
Hoke's Division      MG Robert Hoke	Clingman's (North Carolina) Brigade    BG Thomas L. Clingman	61st North Carolina: Col James D. Radcliffe
	Colquitt's (Georgia) Brigade [temporarily assigned to Johnson's Division]    BG Alfred H. Colquitt	6th Georgia: Col John T. Lofton 19th Georgia: Col James H. Neal 23rd Georgia: Col James H. Huggins 27th Georgia: Maj Hezekiah Bussey 28th Georgia: Cpt John A. Johnson
Artillery      Col Hilary Pollard Jones, Sr.	Branch's Battalion    Maj James C. Coit	Halifax Battery (Virginia): Cpt Samuel T. Wright Petersburg Battery (Virginia): Cpt Richard G. Pegram

Notes

1. manned by soldiers of Otey & Ringgold Batteries

References

• Kinard, Jeff. The Battle of the Crater (Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press), 1998. ISBN 1-886661-06-5

See also

• Virginia in the American Civil War
• Petersburg National Battlefield