Champion Hill Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units[1] and commanders fought in the Battle of Champion Hill of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization,[2] returns of casualties[3] and reports.[4]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana

LTG John C. Pemberton

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Loring's Division
     MG William W. Loring

1st Brigade


   BG Lloyd Tilghman (k)
   Col A. E. Reynolds

  • 1st Confederate Infantry Battalion: Ltc G. H. Forney
  • 6th Mississippi: Col R. Lowry
  • 23rd Mississippi: Col J. M. Wells
  • 26th Mississippi: Col A. E. Reynolds, Maj T. F. Parker
  • Company C, 14th Mississippi Artillery Battalion (4 guns): Lt J. Culbertson
  • Company D, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt J. L. Wofford
  • Company G, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (6 guns): Cpt J. J. Cowan
2nd Brigade


   BG Abraham Buford

3rd Brigade


   BG Winfield S. Featherston

  • 3rd Mississippi: Col T. A. Mellon
  • 22nd Mississippi: Col F. Schaller
  • 31st Mississippi: Col J. A. Orr
  • 33rd Mississippi: Col D. W. Hurst
  • 1st Mississippi Sharpshooter Battalion: Maj W. A. Rayburn
Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Stevenson's Division
     MG Carter L. Stevenson

Division Artillery


Maj Joseph W. Anderson (k)

  • Botetourt (Virginia) Artillery (2 guns): Cpt J. W. Johnston
  • Company A, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt S. J. Ridley (k), Cpt W. T. Ratliff
1st Brigade


   BG Seth M. Barton

  • 40th Georgia: Ltc R. M. Young
  • 41st Georgia: Col W. E. Curtiss
  • 42nd Georgia: Col R. J. Henderson
  • 43rd Georgia: Col S. Harris (k), Cpt M. M. Grantham
  • 52nd Georgia: Col C. D. Phillips (c), Maj J. J. Moore
  • Cherokee Georgia Artillery (4 guns): Cpt Max van den Corput
2nd Brigade


   BG Stephen D. Lee

  • 20th Alabama: Col I. W. Garrott
  • 23rd Alabama: Col F. K. Beck
  • 30th Alabama: Col C. M. Shelley
  • 31st Alabama: Ltc T. M. Arrington
  • 46th Alabama: Col M. L. Woods (c), Cpt G. E. Brewer
  • Waddell's Alabama Battery (6 guns): Cpt J. F. Waddell
3rd Brigade


   BG Alfred Cumming

  • 34th Georgia: Col J. A. W. Johnson
  • 36th Georgia: Col J. A. Glenn
  • 39th Georgia: Col J. T. McConnell (w), Ltc J. F. B. Jackson
  • 56th Georgia: Col E. P. Watkins (w), Ltc J. T. Slaughter
  • 57th Georgia: Col W. Barkuloo
4th Brigade


   Col Alexander W. Reynolds

  • 3rd Tennessee (P.A.): Col N. J. Lillard
  • 31st Tennessee: Col W. M. Bradford
  • 43rd Tennessee: Col J. W. Gillespie
  • 59th Tennessee: Col W. L. Eakin
  • 3rd Maryland Artillery (6 guns): Cpt F. O. Claiborne

Bowen's Division
     BG John S. Bowen

1st Brigade


   BG Francis M. Cockrell

  • 1st Missouri: Col A. C. Riley
  • 2nd Missouri: Ltc P. S. Senteny
  • 3rd Missouri: Col W. R. Gause
  • 5th Missouri: Col J. McCown
  • 6th Missouri: Maj S. Cooper
  • Guibor's (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Lt W. Corkery
  • Landis' (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Lt J. M. Langan
  • Wade's (Missouri) Battery (6 guns): Lt R. C. Walsh
2nd Brigade


   BG Martin E. Green

Cavalry
  • Adams' Mississippi Cavalry: Col Wirt Adams
  • 20th Mississippi Mounted Infantry: Ltc W. N. Brown
Engineers: Maj Samuel H. Lockett

See also

Notes

  1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 3, pages 703-707 (April 1863) and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Order of Battle)
  3. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, page 728
  4. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 725-726 and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Official Reports)

References


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