Battle of Stones River order of battle: Confederate

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Stones River of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organizationMultiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign. during the campaign,Official Records, Series I, Volume XX, Part 1, pages 658-661 the casualty returnsOfficial Records, Series I, Volume XX, Part 1, pages 676-681 and the reports.Official Records, Series I, Volume XX, Part 1, pages 1093-1099

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 (c) = captured

Army of Tennessee

Gen Braxton Bragg, Commanding

Polk's Corps

LTG Leonidas Polk

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersCheatham's Division

MG Benjamin F. Cheatham First (Donelson's) Brigade

BG Daniel S. Donelson 8th Tennessee: Col William L. Moore (k), Ltc John H. Anderson 16th Tennessee: Col John H. Savage 38th Tennessee: Col John C. Carter 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 4th-5th Tennessee: Col Otho F. Strahl 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 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 SmithAssumed command January 2, 1863 (see: Vaughan's report) 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. ScottWithers' Division

MG Jones M. Withers First (Deas') Brigade

Col John Q. Loomis (w)

Col John G. Coltart 19th Alabama 22nd Alabama 25th Alabama 26th Alabama:Not to be confused with the other 26th Alabama(O'Neill's) that served in the Army of Northern Virginia and later Army of Tennessee. Coltart's 26th Alabama was renamed 50th Alabama on June 6, 1863. Col John G. Coltart 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 (w)

Col Thomas W. White 7th Mississippi 9th Mississippi: Col Thomas W. White 10th Mississippi 41st Mississippi 9th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Cpt O. F. West Blythe's (Mississippi) regiment Garrity's (Alabama) battery Third (Walthall's) BrigadeBrigadier General Walthall was absent on sick leave (see: Anderson's report)

BG J. Patton Anderson 45th Alabama: Col James G. Gilchrist 24th Mississippi: Ltc Robert P. McKelvaine 27th Mississippi: Col Thomas M. Jones,Turned over command to Lieutenant Colonel Autry on December 30, 1862 (see: Anderson's report) Ltc James L. Autry (k), Cpt Edward R. Neilson (w) 29th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley (w), Ltc James B. Morgan 30th Mississippi: Ltc Junius I. Scales 39th North Carolina:Joined Brigade December 31st, 1862; transferred, January 2, 1863 to Anderson's Brigade Cpt Alfred W. Bell Barret's (Missouri) battery: Cpt O. W. Barret Fourth (Anderson's) Brigade

Col Arthur M. Manigault 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

LTG William J. Hardee

Division Brigade Regiments and OthersBreckinridge's Division

MG John C. Breckinridge First (Adams') Brigade

BG Daniel W. Adams (w)

Col Randall L. Gibson 32nd Alabama: Ltc Henry Maury (w), Col Alexander McKinstry 13th-20th Louisiana: Col Randall L. Gibson, 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) Brigade32nd Tennessee was on detached service near Wartrace, Tennessee (see: Palmer's and Pillow's reports)

Col Joseph B. Palmer

BG Gideon J. PillowAssumed command January 2, 1863 (see: Breckinridge's and Pillow's report) 18th Tennessee: Ltc William R. Butler, Col Joseph B. PalmerWounded but did not relinquish the command (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 (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) Brigade

BG Roger W. Hanson (mw)

Col Robert P. Trabue 41st Alabama: Ltc Martin L. Stansel (w) 2nd Kentucky: Maj James W. Hewitt (w), Cpt James W. Moss 4th Kentucky: Col Robert P. Trabue, Cpt Thomas W. Thompson 6th Kentucky: Col Joseph H. Lewis 9th Kentucky: Col Thomas H. Hunt Cobb's (Kentucky) Battery: Cpt Robert Cobb Jackson's BrigadeTemporarily assigned to Breckinridge's Division

BG John K. Jackson 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. CribbsCleburne's Division

MG Patrick R. Cleburne First (Polk's) Brigade

BG Lucius E. Polk 1st Arkansas: Col John W. Colquitt 13th-15th Arkansas: Maj Charles H. Carlton (w), Maj Robert A. Duncan (w) 5th Confederate: Col James A. Smith 2nd Tennessee: Col William D. Robison 35th 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: Ltc John E. Murray 6th-7th Arkansas: Col Samuel G. Smith (w), Ltc F. J. Cameron (w), Maj William F. Douglass 8th Arkansas: Col John H. Kelly (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 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. SempleServed with Hanson's Brigade, Breckinridge's Division until January 1, 1863 (see: Cleburne's and Semple's report)McCown's DivisionOf Smith's Corps, served with Hardee's Corps

MG John P. McCown 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 32nd (15th) Texas Cavalry (dismounted):This regiment appears subsequently on Texas register as the 32nd Texas Cavalry (see: Official Records, Series I, Volume XX, Part 1, page 936/footnote) Col Julius A. Andrews Douglas's Texas Battery: Cpt James P. Douglas Second (Rains's) Brigade

BG James E. Rains (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 11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon (w), Ltc William Thedford Eufaula (Alabama) Light Artillery: Lt William A. McDuffie Third (McNair's) Brigade

BG Evander McNairTurned over command to Colonel Harper on account of sickness on December 31, 1862 (see: McCown's and McNair's report)

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 (25th) 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 OthersCavalryForrest's and Morgan's commands on detached service

BG Joseph WheelerChief of Cavalry Wheeler's Brigade

BG Joseph Wheeler 1st Alabama: Col William W. Allen (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: Cpt Jannedens H. Wiggins Buford's Brigade

BG Abraham Buford 3rd Kentucky: Col J. Russell Butler 5th Kentucky: Col D. H. Smith 6th Kentucky: Col John W. Grigsby Pegram's BrigadeProbably incomplete

BG John Pegram 1st Georgia 1st Louisiana Wharton's Brigade

BG John A. Wharton 14th Alabama Battalion: Ltc James C. Malone 1st Confederate: Col John T. CoxCommanded 1st Confederate, Davis' (Tennessee) Battalion, 14th Alabama Battalion and Murray's (Tennessee) regiment (see: Wharton's report) 3rd Confederate: Ltc William N. Estes 2nd Georgia: Ltc James E. Dunlop, Maj Francis M. Ison 3rd Georgia (detachment): Maj Robert Thompson 2nd Tennessee:transferred, January 1, 1863 to Pegram's Brigade (see: Wharton's report) Col Henry M. Ashby 4th Tennessee: Col Baxter Smith Davis' (Tennessee) Battalion: Maj John R. Davis 8th Texas: Col Thomas HarrisonCommanded 8th Texas, 3rd Confederate and 2nd Georgia (see: Wharton's report) 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 ArtilleryByrne's battery mentioned in Breckenridge's report. The others do not appear to have been engaged in the campaign. Baxter's battery reported as at Shelbyville, December 31, and Gibson's was ordered, December 1, 1862, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to be fitted for the field Baxter's (Tennessee) battery Byrne's (Kentucky) battery Gibson's (Georgia) battery

Notes

References 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.