Stones River Confederate order of battle

Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War. On February 8, 1861, delegates from the seven Deep South states which had already declared their secession from the United States of America adopted the...

units and commanders fought in the Battle of Stones River

Battle of Stones River

The Battle of Stones River or Second Battle of Murfreesboro , was fought from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, in Middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the Stones River Campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War...

. The Union order of battle

Stones River Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Stones River of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately...

is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign, the casualty returns and the reports.

Military rank

Gen = General
General (United States)
In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, general is a four-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. General ranks above lieutenant general and below General of the Army or General of the Air Force; the Marine Corps does not have an...
LTG = Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General (United States)
In the United States Army, the United States Air Force and the United States Marine Corps, lieutenant general is a three-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-9. Lieutenant general ranks above major general and below general...
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
Lt = Lieutenant
Lieutenant
A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

Other

(w) = wounded
Wounded in action
Wounded in action describes soldiers who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during war time, but have not been killed. Typically it implies that they are temporarily or permanently incapable of bearing arms or continuing to fight....
(mw) = mortally wounded
(k) = killed
Killed in action
Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...
(c) = captured
Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...

Polk's Corps
First Corps, Army of Tennessee
The First Corps, Army of Tennessee was a military unit that defended the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. It was an army corps within the Army of Tennessee, officially created in November 1862 and continued in existence until its surrender in April 1865 in North Carolina...

LTG Leonidas Polk

Leonidas Polk

Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk...

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham Benjamin F. Cheatham Benjamin Franklin Cheatham , known also as Frank, was a Tennessee aristocrat, California gold miner, and a General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, serving in many battles of the Western Theater.-Early years:Cheatham was born in Nashville, Tennessee on a plantation...	First (Donelson's) Brigade BG Daniel S. Donelson Daniel Smith Donelson Daniel Smith Donelson was a Tennessee politician and a Confederate general during the American Civil War.-Early life:...	8th Tennessee: Col William L. Moore (k), Ltc John H. Anderson 16th Tennessee: Col John H. Savage 38th Tennessee: Col John C. Carter John C. Carter John Carpenter Carter was a Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:... 51st Tennessee: Col John Chester 84th Tennessee: Col Sidney S. Stanton Carnes' (Tennessee) battery: Cpt William W. Carnes
	Second (Stewart's) Brigade BG Alexander P. Stewart Alexander P. Stewart Alexander Peter Stewart was a career United States Army officer, college professor, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...	4th-5th Tennessee: Col Otho F. Strahl Otho F. Strahl Otho French Strahl was an attorney and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was one of a small number of Southern generals who were born in the North.-Biography:... 19th Tennessee: Col Francis M. Walker 24th Tennessee: Col Hugh L. W. Bratton (mw), Maj Samuel E. Shannon 31st-33rd Tennessee: Col Egbert E. Tansil Stanford's (Mississippi) battery: Cpt Thomas J. Stanford
	Third (Maney's) Brigade BG George Maney George Maney George Earl Maney was an American soldier, politician, railroad executive and diplomat. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum U.S...	1st-27th Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field 4th Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col James A. McMurry 6th-9th Tennessee: Col Charles S. Hurt, Maj John L. Harris Maney's company (Tennessee) Sharpshooters: Cpt Frank Maney Smith's (Mississippi) battery: Lt William B. Turner
	Fourth (Smith's) Brigade Col Alfred J. Vaughan, Jr. BG 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...	12th Tennessee: Maj Josiah N. Wyatt 13th Tennessee: Ltc William E. Morgan (mw), Cpt R. F. Lanier 29th Tennessee: Maj John B. Johnson 47th Tennessee: Cpt William M. Watkins 154th Senior Tennessee: Ltc Michael Magevney, Jr. 9th Texas: Col William H. Young Allin's (Tennessee) Sharpshooters: Lt J. R. J. Creighton (mw), Lt T. F. Pattison Scott's (Tennessee) battery: Cpt William L. Scott
Withers' Division MG Jones M. Withers Jones M. Withers Jones Mitchell Withers was a United States Army officer who fought during the Mexican–American War and later served as a Confederate major general during the American Civil War...	First (Deas') Brigade Col John Q. Loomis (w) Col John Coltart	19th Alabama 22nd Alabama 25th Alabama 26th Alabama 39th Alabama 17th Alabama Battalion Sharpshooters: Cpt Benjamin C. Yancey 1st Louisiana (Regulars): Ltc Frederick H. Farrar, Jr. (mw) Robertson's (Florida) battery: Cpt Felix H. Robertson
	Second (Chalmers') Brigade BG James R. Chalmers James Ronald Chalmers James Ronald Chalmers was an American politician and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:... (w) Col Thomas W. White	7th Mississippi 9th Mississippi: Col Thomas W. White 10th Mississippi 10th Mississippi Infantry The 10th Mississippi Infantry was a regiment of infantry in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought in several campaigns and battles in the Western Theater.-"Old" 10th Mississippi:... 41st Mississippi 9th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Cpt O. F. West Blythe's (Mississippi) regiment Garrity's (Alabama) battery
	Third (Walthall's Edward C. Walthall Edward Cary Walthall was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum United States Senator from Mississippi.-Biography:... ) Brigade BG J. Patton Anderson	45th Alabama: Col James G. Gilchrist 24th Mississippi: Ltc Robert P. McKelvaine 27th Mississippi: Col Thomas M. Jones, Ltc James L. Autry (k), Cpt Edward R. Neilson (w) 29th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley William F. Brantley William Felix Brantley was an American lawyer and soldier. He served as a Confederate general in the American Civil War, mainly serving in the Western Theater during the conflict... (w), Ltc James B. Morgan 30th Mississippi: Ltc Junius I. Scales 39th North Carolina: Cpt Alfred W. Bell Barret's (Missouri) battery: Cpt O. W. Barret
	Fourth (Anderson's) Brigade Col Arthur M. Manigault Arthur Middleton Manigault -External links:...	24th Alabama 28th Alabama 34th Alabama 10th-19th South Carolina: Col Augustus J. Lythgoe (k) Waters' (Alabama) battery: Cpt David D. Waters

Hardee's Corps
Second Corps, Army of Tennessee
The Second Corps, Army of Tennessee was a military formation in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.-Formation:The Corps was originally formed before the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 by combining Daniel Ruggles' Alabama Division and Braxton Bragg's Army of Pensacola. The Corps was...

LTG William J. Hardee

William J. Hardee

William Joseph Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer, serving during the Second Seminole War and fighting in the Mexican-American War...

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Breckinridge's Division MG John C. Breckinridge John C. Breckinridge John Cabell Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States , to date the youngest vice president in U.S...	First (Adams') Brigade BG Daniel W. Adams (w) Col Randall L. Gibson	32nd Alabama: Ltc Henry Maury (w), Col Alexander McKinstry Alexander McKinstry Alexander McKinstry was the third Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. A Republican, McKinstry served under Governor David P. Lewis of the same political party from 1872-1874.... 13th-20th Louisiana: Col Randall L. Gibson Randall L. Gibson -External links:*... , Maj Charles Guillet 16th-25th Louisiana: Col Stewart W. Fisk (k), Maj Francis C. Zacharie 14th Louisiana Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj John E. Austin Washington Artillery, Fifth Company: Lt William C. D. Vaught
	Second (Pillow's) Brigade Col Joseph B. Palmer BG Gideon J. Pillow Gideon Johnson Pillow Gideon Johnson Pillow was an American lawyer, politician, and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his poor performance at the Battle of Fort Donelson.-Early life:...	18th Tennessee: Ltc William R. Butler, Col Joseph B. Palmer (w) 26th Tennessee: Col John M. Lillard 28th Tennessee: Col Preston D. Cunningham (k) 45th Tennessee: Col Anderson Searcy Moses' (Georgia) battery: Lt Ruel W. Anderson
	Third (Preston's) Brigade BG William Preston	1st-3rd Florida: Col William Miller (w) 4th Florida: Col William L. L. Bowen 60th North Carolina: Col Joseph A McDowell 20th Tennessee: Col Thomas B. Smith Thomas Benton Smith Thomas Benton Smith was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:... (w), Ltc Frank M. Lavender, Maj Fred Claybrooke Wright's (Tennessee) Battery: Cpt E. Eldridge Wright (k), Lt John W. Mebane (w)
	Fourth (Hanson's Orphan Brigade The Orphan Brigade was the nickname of the First Kentucky Brigade, a group of military units recruited from the Commonwealth of Kentucky to fight for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during... ) Brigade BG Roger W. Hanson (mw) Col Robert P. Trabue	41st Alabama: Ltc Martin L. Stansel (w) 2nd Kentucky 2nd Kentucky Infantry The 2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was part of the First Kentucky Brigade.-Service:... : Maj James W. Hewitt (w), Cpt James W. Moss 4th Kentucky 4th Kentucky Infantry The 4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was part of the First Kentucky Brigade.-Service:... : Col Robert P. Trabue, Cpt Thomas W. Thompson 6th Kentucky 6th Kentucky Infantry The 6th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was part of the First Kentucky Brigade.-Service:... : Col Joseph H. Lewis 9th Kentucky 9th Kentucky Infantry The 9th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was part of the First Kentucky Brigade.-Service:... : Col Thomas H. Hunt Cobb's (Kentucky) Battery 1st Kentucky Artillery The 1st Kentucky Artillery was an artillery battery that was a member of the Orphan Brigade in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War... : Cpt Robert Cobb
	Jackson's Brigade BG John K. Jackson John K. Jackson John King Jackson was an American lawyer and soldier. He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, mainly in Florida and the Western Theater of the conflict...	5th Georgia: Col William T. Black (k), Maj Charles P. Daniel 2nd Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj Jesse J. Cox 5th Mississippi: Ltc Walter L. Sykes (w) 8th Mississippi: Col John C. Wilkinson (w&c), Ltc Aden McNeill Pritchard's (Georgia) Battery Lumsden's (Alabama) battery: Lt Harvey H. Cribbs
Cleburne's Division MG Patrick R. Cleburne	First (Polk's) Brigade BG Lucius E. Polk Lucius E. Polk -References:* Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 978-0-8071-0823-9.-External links:*...	1st Arkansas 1st Arkansas Infantry The 1st Arkansas Infantry was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War. There were three regiments known as "1st Arkansas" during the war... : Col John W. Colquitt 13th-15th Arkansas 15th Arkansas Infantry The 15th Arkansas Infantry was a regiment of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.The regiment was first formed by Colonel Patrick Ronayne Cleburne in Camden, Arkansas. The regiment consisted primarily of recruits from Ouachita County, Hempstead County, Columbia County, Union County... : Maj Charles H. Carlton (w), Maj Robert A. Duncan (w) 5th Confederate: Col James A. Smith James Argyle Smith James Argyle Smith was an United States Army officer, and a graduate of West Point. He is known for being a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War, his works in the educational system in Mississippi, and in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.-Early life and career:James Smith was born and... 2nd Tennessee: Col William D. Robison 5th Tennessee: Col Benjamin J. Hill Helena (Arkansas) Artillery: Lt Thomas J. Key
	Second (Liddell's) Brigade BG St. John R. Liddell	2nd Arkansas: Col Daniel C. Govan 5th Arkansas 5th Arkansas Infantry The 5th Arkansas Infantry, also called the Fighting Fifth was a Confederate Army infantry regiment organized in Arkansas to serve for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.-Organization:... : Ltc John E. Murray 6th 6th Arkansas Infantry 6th Arkansas Infantry was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War. Organized mainly from Volunteer Companies raised in the southern half of Arkansas, the regiment was among the first transferred to Confederate Service, and virtually the entire war serving in Confederate... -7th Arkansas 7th Arkansas Infantry The 7th Arkansas Infantry, nicknamed The Fighting 7th was a regiment of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.The 7th Arkansas Infantry was formed by newly appointed Confederate Colonel... : Col Samuel G. Smith (w), Ltc F. J. Cameron (w), Maj William F. Douglass 8th Arkansas 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment The 8th Arkansas Infantry was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War from the state of Arkansas.-Organization:... : Col John H. Kelly John H. Kelly John Herbert Kelly was a career United States Army officer. During the American Civil War, he was the youngest brigadier general in the Confederate States Army at the time of his promotion and one of the youngest generals to die during the war at the age of 24... (w), Ltc George F. Baucum Swett's (Mississippi) battery: Lt Harvey Shannon
	Third (Johnson's) Brigade BG Bushrod R. Johnson	17th Tennessee: Col Albert S. Marks (w), Ltc Watt W. Floyd 23rd Tennessee: Ltc Richard H. Keeble 25th Tennessee: Col John M. Hughs (w), Ltc Samuel Davis 37th Tennessee: Col Moses White (w), Maj Joseph T. McReynolds (k), Cpt Charles G. Jarnagin 44th Tennessee: Col John S. Fulton Jefferson (Mississippi) Artillery: Cpt Putnam Darden
	Fourth (Wood's) Brigade BG Sterling A. M. Wood S. A. M. Wood Sterling Alexander Martin Wood commonly referred to as S.A.M. Wood, was an American lawyer and newspaper editor from Alabama...	16th Alabama: Col William B. Wood (w) 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams 3rd Confederate: Maj John F. Cameron 45th Mississippi: Ltc Richard Charlton 15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Cpt A. T. Hawkins Semple's (Alabama) Battery: Cpt Henry C. Semple
McCown's Division MG John P. McCown John P. McCown John Porter McCown was a career officer in the United States Army, fighting in the Mexican–American War and in the Seminole Wars. He also served as a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War....	First (Ector's) Brigade BG Mathew D. Ector	10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Matthew F. Locke 11th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col John C. Burks (mw), Ltc Joseph M. Bounds 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col John L. Camp 15th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Julius A. Andrews Douglas' (Texas) Battery: Cpt James P. Douglas
	Second (Rains's) Brigade BG James E. Rains James Edward Rains James Edward Rains was a lawyer and general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Stones River .-Early life:... (k) Col Robert B. Vance	3rd Georgia Battalion: Ltc Marcellus A. Stovall 9th Georgia Battalion: Maj Joseph T. Smith 29th North Carolina: Col Robert B. Vance Robert B. Vance Robert Brank Vance , nephew of the earlier Congressman Robert Brank Vance and brother of Zebulon Baird Vance, was a North Carolina Democratic politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms . He was chairman of the United States House Committee on Patents... 11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon (w), Ltc William Thedford Eufaula (Alabama) Light Artillery: Lt William A. McDuffie
	Third (McNair's) Brigade BG Evander McNair Evander McNair Evander McNair was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:... Col Robert W. Harper	1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Col Robert W. Harper, Maj Lee M. Ramsaur (w) 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Ltc James A. Williamson 4th Arkansas: Col Henry G. Bunn 30th Arkansas: Maj James J. Franklin (w&c), Cpt William A. Cotter 4th Arkansas Battalion: Maj Jesse A. Ross Humphreys' (Arkansas) Battery: Cpt John T. Humphreys

Cavalry

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cavalry BG Joseph Wheeler Joseph Wheeler Joseph Wheeler was an American military commander and politician. He has the rare distinction of serving as a general during war time for two opposing forces: first as a noted cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War, and later as a general in the...	Wheeler's Brigade BG Joseph Wheeler Joseph Wheeler Joseph Wheeler was an American military commander and politician. He has the rare distinction of serving as a general during war time for two opposing forces: first as a noted cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War, and later as a general in the...	1st Alabama: Col William W. Allen William W. Allen William Wirt Allen was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He rose through the ranks to command the Cavalry Corps of the Army of Tennessee in the last days of the war.... (w) 3rd Alabama: Maj Francis Y. Gaines, Cpt Tyirie H. Mauldin 51st Alabama: Col John T. Morgan, Ltc James D. Webb (w) 8th Confederate: Col William B. Wade 1st Tennessee: Col James E. Carter Douglass' (Tennessee) Battalion: Maj DeWitt C. Douglass Holman's (Tennessee) Battalion: Maj Daniel W. Holman Wiggins' (Arkansas) Battery 2nd Arkansas Light Artillery - External links :* * * * * * * - See also :* List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units* Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State* Confederate Units by State* Arkansas in the American Civil War* Arkansas Militia in the Civil War... : Cpt Jannedens H. Wiggins
	Buford's Brigade BG Abraham Buford Abraham Buford II Brigadier General Abraham "Abe" Buford II was a soldier and Thoroughbred horse breeder. Born in Woodford County, Kentucky, his origins were a Huguenot family named Beaufort who fled persecution in France and settled in England before emigrating to America in 1635.Abraham Buford was the son of...	3rd Kentucky: Col J. R. Butler 5th Kentucky: Col D. H. Smith 6th Kentucky: Col John W. Grigsby
	Pegram's Brigade BG John Pegram John Pegram (general) John Pegram was a career soldier from Virginia who served as an officer in the United States Army and then as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He became the first former U.S...	1st Georgia 1st Louisiana
	Wharton's Brigade BG John A. Wharton John A. Wharton John Austin Wharton was a lawyer, plantation owner, and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is considered one of the Confederacy's best tactical cavalry commanders.-Early life:...	14th Alabama Battalion: Ltc James C. Malone 1st Confederate: Col John T. Cox 3rd Confederate: Ltc William N. Estes 2nd Georgia: Ltc James E. Dunlop, Maj Francis M. Ison 3rd Georgia (detachment): Maj Robert Thompson 2nd Tennessee: Col Henry M. Ashby 4th Tennessee: Col Baxter Smith Davis' (Tennessee) Battalion: Maj John R. Davis 8th Texas: Col Thomas Harrison Murray's (Tennessee) regiment: Maj William S. Bledsoe Escort company: Cpt Paul F. Anderson McCown's escort company: Cpt L. T. Hardy White's (Tennessee) battery: Cpt Benjamin F. White, Jr.

Artillery

Battalions	Batteries
Artillery	Baxter's (Tennessee) battery Byrne's (Kentucky) battery Gibson's (Georgia) battery

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