Perryville Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units and commanders[1] fought in the Battle of Perryville of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Artillery

Other
  • w = wounded
  • mw = mortally wounded
  • k = killed

Army of the Mississippi

16,000 men, 56 guns (k-532, w-2652, m-236 = 3,420)

Gen Braxton Bragg, Commanding

Escort:

  • 3rd Tennessee Cavalry (4 companies): Cpt W. C. Bacot

k-1, w-0, m-0 = 1

  • 13th Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, Company I: Cpt William W. Lillard

Right Wing

7,000 men, 16 guns (k-306, w-1153, m-87 = 1,546)

MG Leonidas Polk

Escort:

  • Orleans Light Horse Company: Cpt Leeds Greenleaf
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
16 guns, k-305, w-1153, m-87 = 1,545


     MG Benjamin Franklin Cheatham

 1st Brigade
k-71, w-300, m-3 = 374


   BG Daniel Smith Donelson
2nd Brigade
k-62, w-336, m-25 = 423


   BG Alexander Peter Stewart
3rd Brigade
k-107, w-515, m-58 = 743


   BG George Earl Maney
  • 41st Georgia: Col Charles Addison McDaniel (mw)
  • 1st Tennessee: Col Hume R. Feild
  • 6th Tennessee: Col George Camp Porter
  • 9th Tennessee: Ltc John W. Buford (w)
  • 27th Tennessee: Ltc William Frierson (w), Maj Alexander C. Allen
  • Turner's Battery (aka Smith's Battery) (Mississippi) [2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr iron SB]: Lt William B. Turner
4th Brigade
k-2, w-2, m-1 = 5


   BG Preston Smith
1st Cavalry Brigade
k-1, w-2, m-0 = 3


   Col John Austin Wharton
  • 2nd Georgia Cavalry (5 companies): Ltc Arthur Hood
  • 1st Kentucky Cavalry (Companies C, D, I, & K): Cpt Thomas A. Ireland
  • 4th Tennessee Cavalry (5 companies): Maj Baxter Smith
  • Davis' Cavalry Battalion (4 companies) (Tennessee): Maj John R. Davis
  • 8th Texas Cavalry (aka Terry's Texas Rangers): Ltc Thomas Harrison

Left Wing

9,000 men, 40 guns (k-225, w-1499, m-149 = 1,873)

MG William Joseph Hardee

Escort:

  • Raum's Cavalry Company (Mississippi): Cpt William Cyrus Rippey Raum
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Second Division
18 guns, k-109, w-406, m-70 = 585


     BG James Patton Anderson

 1st Brigade
k-47, w-190, m-2 = 239


   BG John Calvin Brown (w)
2nd Brigade
k-7, w-78, m-67 = 152


   BG Daniel Weisiger Adams
  • 13th Louisiana: Col Randall Lee Gibson
  • Austin's Battalion, Sharpshooters (aka 14th Battalion): Maj John Edward Austin
  • 16th Louisiana: Col Daniel C. Gober
  • 20th Louisiana: Col August Reichard
  • 25th Louisiana: Col Stewart W. Fisk
  • 5th Company, Washington Artillery (Louisiana) [2 6-pdr SB, 2 3" R, 2 12-pdr How] : Cpt Cuthbert Harrison Slocomb
3rd Brigade
k-13, w-13, m-0 = 26


   Col Samuel Powel
  • 45th Alabama: Col James Graham Gilchrist
  • 1st Arkansas: Col John W. Colquitt
  • 24th Mississippi: Col William Frances Dowd
  • 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice
  • Barret's Battery (Missouri) [2 6-pdr SB, 2 12-pdr How]: Cpt Overton W. Barret
4th Brigade
k-42, w-125, m-1 = 168


   Col Thomas Marshall Jones
  • 27th Mississippi: Ltc James Lockhart Autry
  • 30th Mississippi: Col George G. Falls Neill
  • 34th Mississippi: Col Samuel Benton (w)
  • 2nd Alabama Battalion Light Artillery, Battery "F" [4 12-pdr Nap]: Cpt Charles L. Lumsden

Third Division
20 guns, k-113, w-709, m-10 = 832


     MG Simon Bolivar Buckner

 1st Brigade
k-15, w-57, m-0 = 72


   BG St. John Richardson Liddell
  • 2nd Arkansas: Col Daniel Govan
  • 5th Arkansas: Col Lucius P. Featherston
  • 6th Arkansas: Col Alexander Travis Hawthorn
  • 7th Arkansas: Col David A. Gillispie
  • 8th Arkansas: Col John Herbert Kelly
  • Swett's Battery (Mississippi) [4 6-pdr SB, 2 12-pdr How]: 2Lt Thomas Havern
2nd Brigade
k-25, w-325, m-0 = 350


   BG Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
3rd Brigade
k-32, w-164, m-9 = 205


   BG Bushrod Rust Johnson
  • 5th Confederate (8 companies): Col James A. Smith
  • 17th Tennessee: Col Albert Smith Marks
  • 23rd Tennessee (8 companies): Ltc Richard Hudson Keeble
  • 25th Tennessee: Col John M. Hughes
  • 37th Tennessee: Col Moses White
  • 44th Tennessee: Col John S. Fulton
  • Darden's Battery (Mississippi) [2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr SB]: Cpt Putnam Darden
4th Brigade
k-41, w-163, m-1 = 205


   BG Sterling Alexander Martin Wood (w)

Escort:

  • 3rd Georgia Cavalry (Companies G & F): Cpt Reuben L. Hill
  • 16th Alabama: Col William Basis Wood
  • 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams (w), Ltc Robert F. Crittenden
  • 3rd Confederate: Ltc Henry Virtner Keep
  • 15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters (Companies A & B): Maj A. T. Hawkins
  • 32nd Mississippi: Col Mark Perrin Lowrey (w)
  • 33rd Mississippi: Ltc Richard Charlton
  • Semple's Battery (Alabama) [4 12-pdr Nap, 2 6-pdr M1841 R]: Cpt Henry Churchill Semple
2nd Cavalry Brigade
k-3, w-1, m-0 = 3


   Col Joseph Wheeler
  • 1st Alabama Cavalry: Col William Wirt Allen (w)
  • 3rd Alabama Cavalry: Col James Hagan
  • 1st CS Cavalry: Ltc Charles S. Robertson
  • 6th CS Cavalry: Ltc James Pell
  • 8th CS Cavalry: Col William B. Wade
  • 2nd Georgia Cavalry (5 companies): Maj Caleb A. Whaley
  • Smith's Cavalry Battalion (Georgia): Col John R. Hart
  • 1st Kentucky Cavalry (Companies A, B, E, F, & H): Maj John William Caldwell
  • 6th Kentucky Cavalry (Companies A, B, & D): Col J. Warren Grigsby
  • 9th Tennessee Cavalry: Col James D. Bennett
  • 12th Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc Thomas W. Adrian
  • Calvert's Battery (Arkansas) [1 section; 2 12-pdr How]: 2Lt Sylvanus G. Hanley
gollark: Aaaand gone.
gollark: Anyone want it?
gollark: There's a nebula in the AP.
gollark: Well, ignore, not abandon, it's already abandoned.
gollark: Due to the ongoing Nocturnepocalypse, it may die when people decide that they don't like nocturnes and abandon it to die.

See also

Notes
  1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.

References
  • Holman, Kurt. Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised July 1, 2012) unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
  • Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky), 2001. ISBN 978-0-8131-2209-0
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.