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 R. M. Russell	12th Tennessee 13th Tennessee 47th Tennessee 154th Tennessee Bankhead's Battery
	2nd Brigade    BG Alexander P. Stewart	13th Arkansas 4th Tennessee 5th Tennessee 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee Stanford's Battery
Second Division      BG Benjamin F. Cheatham	1st Brigade    BG Daniel S. Donelson	8th Tennessee 15th Tennessee 16th Tennessee 51st Tennessee Carnes' 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 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 Slocomb's Battery
2nd Brigade    Col A. Reichard	45th Alabama 11th Louisiana 16th Louisiana 18th Louisiana 19th Louisiana 20th Louisiana Burnett's Battery
3rd Brigade    BG Lucius Walker	1st Arkansas 21st Louisiana 13th Louisiana 38th Louisiana Lumsden's Battery Barret's 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 Pioneer Company Roberts' Battery
2nd Brigade    BG Patrick Cleburne	15th Arkansas 2nd Tennessee 5th Tennessee 24th Tennessee 48th Tennessee Calvert's Battery
3rd Brigade    BG S. A. M. Wood	16th Alabama 32nd Mississippi 33rd Mississippi 44th Tennessee Baxter's Battery
4th Brigade    BG John S. Marmaduke	3rd Confederate 25th Tennessee 29th Tennessee 37th Tennessee Swett's Battery
5th Brigade    Col A. T. Hawthorn	33rd Alabama 17th Tennessee 21st Tennessee 23rd Tennessee Austin's 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 Battery
2nd Brigade    BG James R. Chalmers	5th Mississippi 7th Mississippi 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 29th Mississippi Blythe's Mississippi Ketchum's Battery
3rd Brigade    BG John K. Jackson	17th Alabama 18th Alabama 21st Alabama 24th Alabama 5th Georgia Burtwell's Battery
4th Brigade    Col Arthur Manigault	28th Alabama 34th Alabama 1st Louisiana 10th South Carolina 19th South Carolina Waters' 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 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) 2nd Missouri Infantry 3rd Missouri Infantry Battalion of Missouri Infantry Wade’s Battery
	2nd Brigade    BG Louis Hébert[7]	14th Arkansas Infantry 17th Arkansas Infantry 3rd Louisiana Infantry Whitfield’s Texas Legion Cavalry (dismounted) Greer’s Texas Cavalry (dismounted) MacDonald’s Battery
	3rd Brigade    BG Martin E. Green	4th Missouri Infantry Battalion Missouri Infantry Battalion Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) Confederate Rangers (dismounted) King’s Battery
Second Division      BG Sterling Price      BG John P. McCown	1st Brigade    BG William L. Cabell	McCray’s Arkansas Infantry 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 11th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Andrews’ Texas Infantry Good’s Battery
	2nd Brigade    BG Thomas J. Churchill	4th Arkansas Infantry 1st Arkansas Riflemen (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Riflemen (dismounted) 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion Turnbull’s Arkansas Infantry Battalion Reves’ Missouri Scouts Humphrey’s Battery
Third Division      BG Dabney H. Maury	1st Brigade    Col T. 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 Battery
	3rd Brigade    Col Charles Pfifer	3rd Arkansas Cavalry (dismounted) 6th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 9th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Brooks’ Battalion McNally’s Battery

References

1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
2. Official Records, Series I, Volume X, Part 1, page 787
3. Eicher p.297
4. Eicher p.325
5. Eicher p.350
6. Eicher p.395
7. Eicher p.291

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.