Richmond Confederate order of battle
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The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Richmond of the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

. The Union order of battle
Richmond Union order of battle
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Richmond of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.-Military rank:* MG = Major General* BG = Brigadier General* Col = Colonel...

 is listed separately.

Military rank

  • MG = Major General
  • BG = Brigadier General
  • Col = Colonel
    Colonel (United States)
    In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, colonel is a senior field grade military officer rank just above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general...

  • Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
    Lieutenant Colonel (United States)
    In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of major and just below the rank of colonel. It is equivalent to the naval rank of commander in the other uniformed services.The pay...

  • Maj = Major
    Major (United States)
    In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, major is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel...

  • Cpt = Captain

Confederate Army of Kentucky

MG Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith was a career United States Army officer and educator. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg.After the conflict ended Smith...



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  • 1st Florida Cavalry, Companies A, E, & F: Cpt Footman
  • Georgia Cavalry: Cpt Nelson

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Third Division

    
BG Thomas James Churchill
Thomas James Churchill
Thomas James Churchill was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War and the 13th Governor of the state of Arkansas.-Early life:...


1st Brigade

  
Col Thomas H. McCray
  • 31st Arkansas Sharpshooters: Maj J. W. Clark
  • 10th Texas Dismounted Cavalry: Col C. R. Earp
  • 11th Texas Dismounted Cavalry: Col J. C. Burks
  • 14th Texas Dismounted Cavalry: Col Matthew Duncan Ector
  • 15th Texas Dismounted Cavalry: Ltc James A. Weaver
2nd Brigade

  
Col Evander McNair
Evander McNair
Evander McNair was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

  • 1st Arkansas Dismounted Rifles
    1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles
    1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles was a Confederate Army cavalry regiment during the American Civil War. Of the Arkansas Confederate units formed during the war, only the 3rd Arkansas saw more combat action than the 1st Mounted Rifles.-Formation:...

    : Col Daniel Harris Reynolds
  • 2nd Arkansas Dismounted Rifles: Col Harris Flanagin
  • 4th Arkansas
    4th Arkansas Infantry
    4th Arkansas Infantry was a Confederate Army infantry regiment from the state of Arkansas during the American Civil War. There was also a 4th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops which participated in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, but was never transferred to Confederate Service...

    : Ltc Henry C. Bunn
  • 4th Arkansas Battalion: Maj Jesse A. Ross
  • 30th Arkansas: Col Charles J. Turnbull
  • Humphrey's Battery: Cpt John T. Humphreys

Fourth Division

    
BG Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (w)
    
Col Preston Smith
Preston Smith (general)
Preston Smith was a lawyer and soldier from the state of Tennessee who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action during a night attack during the Battle of Chickamauga in northern Georgia.-Biography:Preston Smith was born in Giles...

1st Brigade

  
Col Preston Smith
  
Col Alfred Jefferson Vaughan
  • 12th/47th Tennessee: Col Lipscomb P. McMurray
  • 13th Tennessee: Col Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Ltc William E. Morgan
  • 154th Senior Tennessee: Col Edward Fitzgerald (k), Ltc Michael Mageveney, Jr
  • Marion (Florida) Light Artillery: Cpt John M. Martin
2nd Brigade

  
Col Benjamin Jefferson Hill
  • 13th/15th Arkansas: Col Lucius Eugene Polk (w)
  • 2nd Tennessee: Ltc John A. Butler (k), Cpt Charles W. Moore
  • 35th Tennessee: Ltc Joseph A. Smith
  • 48th Tennessee: Col George H. Nixon, Ltc T. R. Hughes
  • Sharpshooter company
  • Battery 1st Texas Artillery: Cpt James Postell Douglas

Brigade Regiments and Others
Cavalry Brigade
  
Col John S. Scott
  • 1st Georgia Cavalry: Col James Jefferson Morrison
  • Company Kentucky Buckner Guards: Cpt Garnett
  • 1st Louisiana Cavalry: Ltc James O. Nixon
  • 3rd Tennessee Cavalry (detachment): Col James W. Starnes

Troops Attached to Smith's Command [Not Present]

  • 2nd Kentucky Cavalry: Col John Hunt Morgan
    John Hunt Morgan
    John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general and cavalry officer in the American Civil War.Morgan is best known for Morgan's Raid when, in 1863, he and his men rode over 1,000 miles covering a region from Tennessee, up through Kentucky, into Indiana and on to southern Ohio...

  • First Infantry Division: BG Carter L. Stevenson
    Carter L. Stevenson
    Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Jr. was a career military officer, serving in the United States Army in several antebellum wars and then in the Confederate States Army as a general in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.-Early life and career:Stevenson was born to a prominent family in...

    • Left in Powell Valley, Virginia against Federal forces at Cumberland Gap
  • Second Infantry Division: BG Henry Heth
    Henry Heth
    Henry "Harry" Heth was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He is best remembered for inadvertently precipitating the Battle of Gettysburg, when he sent some of his troops of the Army of Northern Virginia to the small Pennsylvania village,...

    • En route from Barbourville, Kentucky
      Barbourville, Kentucky
      Each year in early October, Barbourville hosts the Daniel Boone Festival commemorating the American pioneer Daniel Boone who explored the area in 1775. The festival features open air concerts, carnival attractions, a beauty pageant, a parade, and other events....

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