Battle of Chickamauga order of battle: Confederate

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chickamauga of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Gen = GeneralLTG = Lieutenant GeneralMG = Major GeneralBG = Brigadier GeneralCol = ColonelLtc = Lieutenant ColonelMaj = MajorCpt = CaptainLt = Lieutenant

Other

w = woundedmw = mortally woundedk = killedc = captured

[Army of Tennessee] (September 19, 1863)

Gen Braxton Bragg, Commanding
Escort: Cpt Guy Dreux

Dreux's Company, Louisiana Cavalry: Lt O. De Buis
Holloway's Company, Alabama Cavalry: Cpt E. M. Holloway

Polk's Corps

LTG Leonidas Polk
Escort:

Greenleaf's Company, Louisiana Cavalry: Cpt Leeds Greenleaf
Company G, 2nd Georgia Cavalry: Cpt Thomas M. Merritt
Lenoir's Company, Alabama Cavalry: Cpt T.M. Lenoir

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Jackson's Brigade BG John K. Jackson	2nd Battalion, 1st Georgia: Maj James C. Gordon 5th Georgia: Col Charles P. Daniel 2nd Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj Richard H. Whiteley 5th Mississippi: Ltc W. L. Sykes, Maj John B. Herring 8th Mississippi: Col John C. Wilkinson
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Smith's Brigade BG Preston Smith Col Alfred J. Vaughan, Jr.	11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon 12th-47th Tennessee Col William M. Watkins 13th-154th Tennessee: Col A. J. Vaughan, Ltc R.W. Pitman 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice Dawson's Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj J.W. Dawson, Maj William Green, Maj James Purl
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Maney's Brigade BG George Maney	1st-27th Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field 4th Tennessee : Col James A. McMurry, Ltc Robert N. Lewis, Maj Oliver A. Bradshaw, Cpt Joseph Bostick 6th-9th Tennessee: Col George C. Porter 24th Tennessee Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj Frank Maney
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Wright's Brigade BG Marcus J. Wright	8th Tennessee: Col John H. Anderson 16th Tennessee: Col D. M. Donnell 28th Tennessee: Col Sidney S. Stanton 38th Tennessee: Col John C. Carter 51st-52nd Tennessee: Ltc John G. Hall 22nd Tennessee Battalion: Maj Thomas B. Murray
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Strahl's Brigade BG Otho F. Strahl	4th-5th Tennessee: Col Jonathan J. Lamb 19th Tennessee: Col Francis Marion Walker 24th Tennessee: Col John A. Wilson 31st Tennessee: Col Egbert E. Tansil 33rd Tennessee: Col Warner P. Jones
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Artillery Maj Melancthon Smith	Carnes' Battery: Cpt William W. Carnes Scogin's Battery: Cpt John Scogin Scott's Battery: Lt John H. Marsh, Lt A. T. Watson, Cpt William L. Scott Smith's Battery: Lt William B. Turner Stanford's Battery: Cpt Thomas J. Stanford
Hindman's Division BG Patton Anderson MG Thomas C. Hindman	Anderson's Brigade Col Jacob H. Sharp BG Patton Anderson	7th Mississippi: Col W. H. Bishop 9th Mississippi: Maj T. H. Lynam 10th Mississippi: Ltc James Barr 41st Mississippi: Col. W. F. Tucker 44th Mississippi: Col J. H. Sharp, Ltc R. G. Kelsey 9th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj W. C. Richards Garrity's Battery: Cpt James Garrity
Hindman's Division BG Patton Anderson MG Thomas C. Hindman	Deas' Brigade BG Zach C. Deas	19th Alabama: Col Samuel K. McSpadden 22nd Alabama: Ltc John Weedon, Cpt Harry T. Toulmin 25th Alabama: Col George D. Johnston 39th Alabama: Col Whitfield Clark 50th Alabama: Col John G. Coltart 17th Alabama Battalion Sharpshooters: Cpt James F. Nabers Dent's Battery: Cpt S. H. Dent
Hindman's Division BG Patton Anderson MG Thomas C. Hindman	Manigault's Brigade BG Arthur M. Manigault	24th Alabama: Col N. N. Davis 28th Alabama: Col John C. Reid 34th Alabama: Maj John N. Slaughter 10th-19th South Carolina: Col James F. Pressley Waters' Battery: Lt Charles W. Watkins

Hill's Corps

LTG Daniel H. Hill
Escort:

Sanders' Company Tennessee Cavalry: Cpt C. F. Sanders
Foules' Company, Mississippi Cavalry: Cpt H. L. Foules

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cleburne's Division MG Patrick Cleburne	Wood's Brigade BG Sterling A. M. Wood	16th Alabama: Maj John H. McGaughy, Cpt Frederick A. Ashford 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams 45th Alabama: Col E. B. Breedlove Gibson's Alabama Battalion: Maj John H. Gibson 32nd-45th Mississippi: Col Mark P. Lowrey 15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj A. T. Hawkins, Cpt Daniel Coleman
Cleburne's Division MG Patrick Cleburne	Polk's Brigade BG Lucius E. Polk	1st Arkansas: Col John W. Colquitt 3rd-5th Confederate: Col James A. Smith 2nd Tennessee: Col William D. Robison 35th Tennessee: Col Benjamin J. Hill 48th Tennessee: Col George H. Nixon
Cleburne's Division MG Patrick Cleburne	Deshler's Brigade BG James Deshler	19th-24th Arkansas: Ltc A. S. Hutchison 6th-10th Texas Infantry-15th Texas Cavalry : Col Roger Q. Mills, Ltc T. Scott Anderson 17th-18th-24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col F. C. Wilkes, Ltc John T. Coit, Maj William A. Ryan
Cleburne's Division MG Patrick Cleburne	Artillery Maj Thomas R. Hotchkiss Cpt Henry C. Semple	Calvert's (Arkansas) Battery: Lt Thomas J. Key Douglas's Texas Battery: Cpt James P. Douglas Semple's Battery: Cpt Henry C. Semple, Lt R. W. Goldthwaite
Breckinridge's Division MG John C. Breckinridge	-	-
Breckinridge's Division MG John C. Breckinridge	Helm's Brigade BG Benjamin Helm	41st Alabama: Col Martin L. Stansel 2nd Kentucky: Ltc James W. Hewitt, Ltc James W. Moss 4th Kentucky: Col Joseph P. Nuckols, Maj Thomas W. Thompson 6th Kentucky: Col Joseph H. Lewis, Ltc Martin H. Cofer 9th Kentucky: Col John W. Caldwell, Ltc John C. Wickliffe
Breckinridge's Division MG John C. Breckinridge	Adams' Brigade BG Daniel W. Adams	32nd Alabama: Maj John C. Kimbell, Col Randall L. Gibson 13th-20th Louisiana: Col Leon von Zinken, Cpt E. M. Dubroca 16th-25th Louisiana: Col Daniel Gober 19th Louisiana: Ltc Richard W. Turner, Maj Loudon Butler, Cpt H. A. Kennedy 14th Louisiana Battalion: Maj J. E. Austin
Breckinridge's Division MG John C. Breckinridge	Stovall's Brigade BG Marcellus A. Stovall	1st-3rd Florida: Col William S. Dilworth 4th Florida: Col W. L. L. Bowen 47th Georgia: Cpt William S. Phillips, Cpt Joseph S. Cone 60th North Carolina: Ltc James M. Ray, Cpt James Thomas Weaver
Breckinridge's Division MG John C. Breckinridge	Artillery Maj Rice E. Graves	Cobb's (Kentucky) Battery: Cpt Robert Cobb Graves' Battery: Lt S. M. Spencer Mebane's Battery: Cpt John W. Mebane Slocomb's Battery: Cpt C. H. Slocomb

Buckner's Corps

MG Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
Escort:

Clark's Company, Tennessee Cavalry: Cpt J. W. Clark

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Stewart's Division MG Alexander P. Stewart	Bate's Brigade BG William B. Bate	58th Alabama: Col Bushrod Jones 37th Georgia: Col A. F. Rudler, Ltc Joseph T. Smith 4th Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj T. D. Caswell, Cpt B. M. Turner, Lt Joel Towers 15th-37th Tennessee: Col Robert C. Tyler, Ltc R. Dudley Frayser, Cpt R. M. Tankesley 20th Tennessee: Col Thomas B. Smith, Maj W. M. Shy
Stewart's Division MG Alexander P. Stewart	Brown's Brigade BG John C. Brown	18th Tennessee: Col Joseph B. Palmer, Ltc William R. Butler, Cpt Gideon H. Lowe 26th Tennessee: Col John M. Lillard, Maj Richard M. Saffell 32nd Tennessee: Col Edmund C. Cook, Cpt Calaway G. Tucker 45th Tennessee: Col Anderson Searcy 23rd Tennessee Battalion: Maj Tazewell W. Newman, Cpt W. P. Simpson
Stewart's Division MG Alexander P. Stewart	Clayton's Brigade BG Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr.	18th Alabama: Col James T. Holtzclaw, Ltc R. F. Inge, Maj P. F. Hunley 36th Alabama: Col Lewis T. Woodruff 38th Alabama: Ltc A. R. Lankford
Stewart's Division MG Alexander P. Stewart	Artillery Maj John W. Eldridge	1st Arkansas Battery: Cpt John T. Humphreys T. H. Dawson's Battery: Lt R. W. Anderson Eufaula Artillery : Cpt McDonald Oliver
Preston's Division BG William Preston	Gracie's Brigade BG Archibald Gracie, Jr.	43rd Alabama: Col Young M. Moody 1st Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion: Ltc John H. Holt, Cpt George W. Huguley 2nd Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion: Ltc Bolling Hall, Jr., Cpt W. D. Walden 3rd Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion: Ltc John W. A. Sanford 4th Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion: Maj John D. McLennan 63rd Tennessee: Ltc Abraham Fulkerson, Maj John A. Aiken
Preston's Division BG William Preston	3rd Brigade Col John H. Kelly	65th Georgia: Col R. H. Moore 5th Kentucky: Col Hiram Hawkins 58th North Carolina: Col John B. Palmer 63rd Virginia: Maj James M. French
Preston's Division BG William Preston	Trigg's Brigade Col Robert C. Trigg	1st Florida Cavalry : Col G. Troup Maxwell 6th Florida: Col J. J. Finley 7th Florida: Col Robert Bullock 54th Virginia: Ltc John J. Wade
Preston's Division BG William Preston	9th Georgia Artillery Battalion Maj William A. Leyden	Company C: Cpt Andrew M. Wolihin Company D: Cpt Tyler M. Peeples Jeffress' Battery: Cpt William C. Jeffress
	Corps Reserve Artillery Maj Samuel C. Williams	Kolb's Battery: Cpt R. F. Kolb McCants' Battery: Cpt Robert P. McCants Darden's Battery: Cpt Putnam Darden Baxter's Battery: Cpt Edmund D. Baxter

Reserve Corps

MG William H. T. Walker

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Walker's Division MG William H. T. Walker	Ector's Brigade BG Matthew D. Ector	Stone's Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj T. O. Stone Pound's Battalion Sharpshooters: Cpt M. Pound 29th North Carolina: Col William B. Creasman 9th Texas: Col William Hugh Young 10th Texas Cavalry : Ltc C. R. Earp 14th Texas Cavalry : Col John L. Camp 32nd Texas Cavalry : Col Julius A. Andrews
Walker's Division MG William H. T. Walker	Wilson's Brigade Col Claudius C. Wilson	25th Georgia: Ltc A. J. Williams 29th Georgia: Ltc George R. McRae 30th Georgia: Ltc James S. Boynton 1st Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj Arthur Shaaff 4th Louisiana Battalion: Ltc John McEnery
Walker's Division MG William H. T. Walker	Artillery	Howell's Battery: Cpt Evan Howell
Liddell's Division BG St. John R. Liddell	Liddell's Brigade Col Daniel C. Govan	2nd-15th Arkansas: Ltc Reuben F. Harvey, Cpt A. T. Meek 5th-13th Arkansas: Col L. Featherston, Ltc John E. Murray 6th-7th Arkansas: Col D. A. Gillespie, Ltc Peter Snyder 8th Arkansas: Ltc George F. Baucum, Maj A. Watkins 1st Louisiana (Regulars)
Liddell's Division BG St. John R. Liddell	Walthall's Brigade BG Edward C. Walthall	24th Mississippi: Ltc R. P. McKelvaine, Maj W. C. Staples, Cpt B. F. Toomer, Cpt J. D. Smith 27th Mississippi: Col James A. Campbell 29th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley 30th Mississippi: Col Junius I. Scales, Ltc Hugh A. Reynolds, Maj James M. Johnson 34th Mississippi: Maj William G. Pegram, Cpt H. J. Bowen
Liddell's Division BG St. John R. Liddell	Artillery Cpt Charles Swett	Fowler's Battery: Cpt William H. Fowler Warren Light Artillery : Lt H. Shannon

Longstreet's Corps

MG John B. Hood

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Johnson's Provisional Division BG Bushrod R. Johnson	Johnson's Brigade Col John S. Fulton	17th Tennessee: Ltc Watt W. Floyd 23rd Tennessee: Col R. H. Keeble 25th Tennessee: Ltc R. B. Snowden 44th Tennessee: Ltc John L. McEwen, Jr., Maj G. M. Crawford Company E, 9th Georgia Artillery Battalion: Lt William S. Everett
Johnson's Provisional Division BG Bushrod R. Johnson	Gregg's Brigade BG John Gregg	3rd Tennessee: Col Calvin H. Walker 10th Tennessee: Col William Grace 30th Tennessee: Ltc James J. Turner, Cpt Charles S. Douglass 41st Tennessee: Ltc James D. Tillman 50th Tennessee: Col Cyrus A. Sugg, Ltc Thomas W. Beaumont, Maj Christopher W. Robertson, Col Calvin H. Walker 1st Tennessee Battalion: Maj Stephen H. Colms, Maj Christopher W. Robertson 7th Texas: Col Hiram B. Granbury, Maj K. M. Vanzandt Bledsoe's Battery: Lt R. L. Wood
Johnson's Provisional Division BG Bushrod R. Johnson	McNair's Brigade BG Evander McNair	1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles: Col Robert W. Harper 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles : Col James A. Williamson 25th Arkansas: Ltc Eli Hufstedler 4th-31st-4th Arkansas Battalion : Maj J. A. Ross 39th North Carolina: Col David Coleman Culpeper's Battery: Cpt James F. Culpeper
Hood's Division BG Evander M. Law	Robertson's Brigade BG Jerome B. Robertson	3rd Arkansas: Col Van H. Manning 1st Texas: Cpt R. J. Harding 4th Texas: Ltc John P. Bane, Cpt R. H. Bassett 5th Texas: Maj J. C. Rogers, Cpt J. S. Cleveland, Cpt T. T. Clay
Hood's Division BG Evander M. Law	Law's Brigade Col James Sheffield	4th Alabama: Col Pinckney D. Bowles 15th Alabama: Col William C. Oates 44th Alabama: Col William F. Perry 47th Alabama: Maj James M. Campbell 48th Alabama: Ltc William M. Hardwick
Hood's Division BG Evander M. Law	Benning's Brigade BG Henry L. Benning	2nd Georgia: Ltc William S. Shepherd, Maj W. W. Charlton 15th Georgia: Col Dudley M. Du Bose, Maj P. J. Shannon 17th Georgia: Ltc Charles W. Matthews 20th Georgia: Col J. D. Waddell

Wheeler's Cavalry Corps

MG Joseph Wheeler

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Wharton's Division BG John A. Wharton	1st Brigade Col Charles C. Crews	Malone's Regiment: Col J. C. Malone, Jr. 2nd Georgia: Ltc F. M. Ison 3rd Georgia: Col R. Thompson 4th Georgia: Col Isaac W. Avery
Wharton's Division BG John A. Wharton	2nd Brigade Col Thomas Harrison	3rd Confederate: Col W. N. Estes 3rd Kentucky: Ltc J. W. Griffith 4th Tennessee: Ltc Paul F. Anderson 8th Texas: Ltc Gustave Cook 11th Texas: Col George R. Reeves White's Battery: Cpt B. F. White, Jr.
Martin's Division BG William T. Martin	1st Brigade Col John T. Morgan	1st Alabama: Ltc D. T. Blakey 3rd Alabama: Ltc T. H. Mauldin 51st Alabama: Ltc M. L. Kirkpatrick 8th Confederate: Ltc John S. Prather
Martin's Division BG William T. Martin	2nd Brigade Col Alfred A. Russell	4th Alabama : Ltc J. M. Hambrick 1st Confederate: Cpt C. H. Conner Wiggins' (Arkansas) Battery: Lt J.P. Bryant

Forrest's Cavalry Corps

BG Nathan B. Forrest
Escort:

Jackson's Company, Tennessee Cavalry: Cpt J. C. Jackson

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Armstrong's Division BG Frank C. Armstrong	Armstrong's Brigade Col James T. Wheeler	3rd Arkansas: Col A. W. Hobson 2nd Kentucky: Ltc Thomas G. Woodward 6th Tennessee: Ltc James H. Lewis 18th Tennessee Battalion: Maj Charles McDonald
Armstrong's Division BG Frank C. Armstrong	Forrest's Brigade Col George G. Dibrell	4th Tennessee: Col. William S. McLemore 8th Tennessee: Cpt Hamilton McGinnis 9th Tennessee: Col Jacob B. Biffle 10th Tennessee: Col Nicholas Nickleby Cox 11th Tennessee: Col Daniel Wilson Holman Shaw's Battalion, O. P. Hamilton's Battalion, and R. D. Allison's Squadron : Maj Joseph Shaw Huggins' Battery: Cpt A. L. Huggins Morton's Battery: Cpt John W. Morton, Jr.
Pegram's Division BG John Pegram	Davidson's Brigade BG Henry B. Davidson	1st Georgia: Col J. J. Morrison 6th Georgia: Col John R. Hart 6th North Carolina: Col George N. Folk Rucker's Tennessee Legion: Col Edmund W. Rucker 12th Tennessee Battalion: Maj G. W. Day 16th Tennessee Battalion: Cpt John Q. Arnold 10th Confederate: Col C. T. Goode Huwald's Battery: Cpt Gustave A. Huwald
Pegram's Division BG John Pegram	Scott's Brigade Col John S. Scott	Detachment of John H. Morgan's command: Ltc R. M. Martin 1st Louisiana: Ltc James O. Nixon 2nd Tennessee: Col Henry M. Ashby 5th Tennessee: Col George W. McKenzie Robinson's Battery : Lt Winslow Robinson

[Army of Tennessee] (September 20, 1863)

Gen Braxton Bragg, Commanding
Escort: Cpt Guy Dreux

Dreux's Company, Louisiana Cavalry: Lt O. De Buis
Holloway's Company, Alabama Cavalry: Cpt E. M. Holloway

Right Wing

LTG Leonidas Polk
Escort:

Greenleaf's Company, Louisiana Cavalry: Cpt Leeds Greenleaf

Cheatham's Division

Escort:

Company G, 2nd Georgia Cavalry: Cpt Thomas M. Merritt

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Jackson's Brigade BG John K. Jackson	2nd Battalion, 1st Georgia: Maj James C. Gordon 5th Georgia: Col Charles P. Daniel 2nd Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj Richard H. Whiteley 5th Mississippi: Ltc W. L. Sykes, Maj John B. Herring 8th Mississippi: Col John C. Wilkinson
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Smith's Brigade Col Alfred J. Vaughan, Jr.	11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon 12th-47th Tennessee Col William M. Watkins 13th-154th Tennessee: Col A. J. Vaughan, Ltc R.W. Pitman 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice Dawson's Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj J.W. Dawson, Maj William Green, Maj James Purl
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Maney's Brigade BG George Maney	1st-27th Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field 4th Tennessee : Col James A. McMurry, Ltc Robert N. Lewis, Maj Oliver A. Bradshaw, Cpt Joseph Bostick 6th-9th Tennessee: Col George C. Porter 24th Tennessee Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj Frank Maney
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Wright's Brigade BG Marcus J. Wright	8th Tennessee: Col John H. Anderson 16th Tennessee: Col D. M. Donnell 28th Tennessee: Col Sidney S. Stanton 38th Tennessee: Col John C. Carter 51st-52nd Tennessee: Ltc John G. Hall 22nd Tennessee Battalion: Maj Thomas B. Murray
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Strahl's Brigade BG Otho F. Strahl	4th-5th Tennessee: Col Jonathan J. Lamb 19th Tennessee: Col Francis M. Walker 24th Tennessee: Col John A. Wilson 31st Tennessee: Col Egbert E. Tansil 33rd Tennessee: Col Warner P. Jones
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Artillery Maj Melancthon Smith	Carnes' Battery: Cpt William W. Carnes Scogin's Battery: Cpt John Scogin Scott's Battery: Lt John H. Marsh, Lt A. T. Watson, Cpt William L. Scott Smith's Battery: Lt William B. Turner Stanford's Battery: Cpt Thomas J. Stanford