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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 [ edit ]
Military rank [ edit ]
w = wounded
k = killed
c = captured
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana [ edit ]
LTG John C. Pemberton
Chief of Engineers: Maj Samuel H. Lockett
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 Robert 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
1st Brigade
BG Seth M. Barton
40th Georgia: Ltc Robert M. Young
41st Georgia: Col William E. Curtiss
42nd Georgia: Col Robert J. Henderson
43rd Georgia : Col Skidmore Harris (k ), Cpt Mathadeas M. Grantham
52nd Georgia: Col C. D. Phillips (c ), Maj John J. Moore
Cherokee Georgia Artillery (4 guns): Cpt Max van den Corput
2nd Brigade
BG Stephen D. Lee
20th Alabama: Col Isham W. Garrott
23rd Alabama: Col Franklin K. Beck
30th Alabama: Col C. M. Shelley
31st Alabama: Ltc Thomas M. Arrington
46th Alabama: Col M. L. Woods (c ), Cpt George E. Brewer
Waddell's Alabama Battery (6 guns): Cpt James 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 Joseph F. B. Jackson
56th Georgia: Col E. P. Watkins (w ), Ltc John T. Slaughter
57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo
4th Brigade
Col Alexander W. Reynolds
3rd Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col Newton J. Lillard
31st Tennessee: Col William M. Bradford
43rd Tennessee: Col James W. Gillespie
59th Tennessee: Col William L. Eakin
3rd Maryland Artillery (6 guns): Cpt F. O. Claiborne
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
Bowen's Division
BG John S. Bowen
1st Brigade
BG Francis M. Cockrell
2nd Brigade
BG Martin E. Green
Cavalry
Adams' Mississippi Cavalry: Col Wirt Adams
20th Mississippi Mounted Infantry: Ltc W. N. Brown
See also [ edit ]
^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 3, pages 703-707 (April 1863) and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Order of Battle)
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, page 728
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 725-726 and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Official Reports)
References [ edit ]