Siege of Corinth Confederate order of battle

The following units^[1] and commanders of the Confederate Army fought at the Siege of Corinth (29 Apr-30 May 1862) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the Official Records of the American Civil War as they appeared in June 1862.^[2]

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Gen = General
LTG = Lieutenant 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

Department Number Two

Gen Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Army of Tennessee

Gen Braxton Bragg

I Corps

MG Leonidas Polk

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division BG Charles Clark	1st Brigade Col Robert M. Russell	12th Tennessee 13th Tennessee 47th Tennessee 154th Tennessee Bankhead's (Tennessee) Battery
First Division BG Charles Clark	2nd Brigade BG Alexander P. Stewart	13th Arkansas 4th Tennessee 5th Tennessee 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee Stanford's (Mississippi) Battery
Second Division BG Benjamin F. Cheatham	1st Brigade BG Daniel S. Donelson	8th Tennessee 15th Tennessee 16th Tennessee 51st Tennessee Carnes' (Alabama) Battery
	2nd Brigade BG George Maney	1st Tennessee 6th Tennessee 9th Tennessee 27th Tennessee Smith's Battery
	Detached Brigade BG Samuel B. Maxey	41st Georgia 24th Mississippi 9th Texas Eldridge's (Tennessee) Battery

II Corps

MG Thomas C. Hindman until 2 June^[3]
MG Samuel Jones^[4]

Brigade	Regiments and Other
1st Brigade BG J. Patton Anderson	25th Louisiana 30th Mississippi 37th Mississippi 41st Mississippi Florida & Confederate Battalion: Cpt William C. Beard Slocomb's (Louisiana) Battery
2nd Brigade Col Augustus Reichard	45th Alabama 11th Louisiana 16th Louisiana 18th Louisiana 19th Louisiana 20th Louisiana Burnett's (Alabama) Battery
3rd Brigade BG Lucius Walker	1st Arkansas 13th Louisiana 21st Louisiana 38th Louisiana Lumsden's (Alabama) Battery Barret's (Missouri) Battery

III Corps

MG William J. Hardee

Brigade	Regiments and Other
1st Brigade BG St. John R. Liddell	2nd Arkansas 5th Arkansas 6th Arkansas 7th Arkansas 8th Arkansas Roberts' (Arkansas) Battery Pioneer Company
2nd Brigade BG Patrick Cleburne	15th Arkansas 2nd Tennessee 5th Tennessee 24th Tennessee 48th Tennessee Calvert's (Arkansas) Battery
3rd Brigade BG S. A. M. Wood	16th Alabama 32nd Mississippi 33rd Mississippi 44th Tennessee Baxter's (Tennessee) Battery
4th Brigade BG John S. Marmaduke	3rd Confederate 25th Tennessee 29th Tennessee 37th Tennessee Swett's (Mississippi) Battery
5th Brigade Col Alexander T. Hawthorn	33rd Alabama 17th Tennessee 21st Tennessee 23rd Tennessee Austin's (Arkansas) Battery

Reserve Corps

MG John C. Breckenridge

Brigade	Regiments and Other
1st Brigade BG Franklin Gardner	19th Alabama 22nd Alabama 25th Alabama 26th Alabama 39th Alabama Sharpshooters Robertson's (Alabama) Battery
2nd Brigade BG James R. Chalmers	5th Mississippi 7th Mississippi 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 29th Mississippi Blythe's (1st) Mississippi Battalion Ketchum's (Alabama) Battery
3rd Brigade BG John K. Jackson	17th Alabama 18th Alabama 21st Alabama 24th Alabama 5th Georgia Burtwell's (Alabama) Battery
4th Brigade Col Arthur Manigault	28th Alabama 34th Alabama 1st Louisiana 10th South Carolina 19th South Carolina Waters' (Alabama) Battery

Army of the West

MG Earl Van Dorn

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division BG Samuel Jones BG Lewis H. Little	1st Brigade BG Lewis H. Little^[5] BG John C. Moore^[6]	16th Arkansas Infantry: Col David Provence 2nd Missouri Infantry 3rd Missouri Infantry Battalion of Missouri Infantry 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Col Elijah Gates Wade’s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt William Wade
	2nd Brigade BG Louis Hébert^[7] Col John W. Whitfield	14th Arkansas Infantry 17th Arkansas Infantry 3rd Louisiana Infantry Whitfield’s Texas Legion (dismounted): Col John W. Whitfield Greer’s Texas Cavalry (dismounted) MacDonald’s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Emmett McDonald
	3rd Brigade BG Martin E. Green	4th Missouri Infantry Battalion Missouri Infantry Battalion Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) Confederate Rangers (dismounted) Clark’s Battery:^[8] Cpt Houston King Kneisley′s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt James Kneisley
Second Division BG Sterling Price BG John P. McCown	1st Brigade BG Joseph L. Hogg (died May 16) BG William L. Cabell	McCray’s Arkansas Infantry 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 11th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Andrews’ Texas Infantry (32nd Cavalry) Goode’s (Texas) Battery: Cpt John Goode
Second Division BG Sterling Price BG John P. McCown	2nd Brigade BG Thomas J. Churchill	4th Arkansas Infantry 1st Arkansas Riflemen (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Riflemen (dismounted) 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion Turnbull’s (11th) Arkansas Infantry Battalion Reves’ Missouri Scouts 1st Arkansas Battery: Cpt David Provence (until 6 May), Lt John T. Humphreys
Third Division BG Dabney H. Maury	1st Brigade Col Thomas P. Dockery	18th Arkansas Infantry 19th Arkansas Infantry 20th Arkansas Infantry McCairns’ Arkansas Battalion Unknown battery
	2nd Brigade BG John C. Moore	Hobbs’ Arkansas Infantry Adams’ Arkansas Infantry 25th Missouri Infantry 2nd Texas Infantry Bledsoe’s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Hiram Bledsoe
	3rd Brigade Col Charles Pfifer	3rd Arkansas Cavalry (dismounted) 6th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 9th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Brooks’ (1st) Arkansas Cavalry Battalion McNally’s (Arkansas) Battery
Artillery Brigade	Clark′s Battalion Maj Meriwether Lewis Clark	Clarks′s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Houston King Kneisley′s (Missouri) Battery:^[9] Cpt James Kneisley Landis′s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt John C. Landis

References

↑ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume X, Part 1, page 787
↑ Eicher p.297
↑ Eicher p.325
↑ Eicher p.350
↑ Eicher p.395
↑ Eicher p.291
↑ transferred to Clark′s Brigade
↑ transferred to Green′s Brigade

Sources

U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

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