The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Siege of Vicksburg 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 XXIV, Part 2, pages 326-328The commanders are given as indicated by the paroles.
Abbreviations used
Military Officer Rank 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 of Mississippi and East Louisiana
Army of Vicksburg LTG John C. Pemberton, Commanding
Division Brigade Regiments and OthersStevenson'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: Maj John Jay Moore Pettus Flying (Mississippi) Artillery: Lt Milton H. Trantham Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery Co A (section/2 guns): Lt John Yoist Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery, Co C (4 guns): Cpt Alexander Chust 2nd Brigade
BG Alfred Cumming 34th Georgia: Col James A. W. Johnson 36th Georgia: Maj Charles E. Broyles 39th Georgia: Ltc Joseph F. B. Jackson 56th Georgia: Ltc John T. Slaughter 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo Cherokee (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt Max van den Corput 3rd Brigade
BG Stephen D. Lee 20th Alabama: Col Isham W. Garrott (k),17 June 1863; BG as of 28 May 1863} Col Edmund W. Pettus 23rd Alabama: Col Franklin K. Beck 30th Alabama: Cpt John C. Francis 31st Alabama: Ltc Thomas M. Arrington 46th Alabama: Cpt George E. Brewer Alabama Battery: Cpt James F. Waddell 4th Brigade
Col Alexander W. Reynolds 3rd Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col Newton J. Lillard 39th Tennessee:Paroled as the 31st Tennessee Mounted Infantry, and so known prior to June 1863. Col William M. Bradford 43rd Tennessee: Col James W. Gillespie 59th Tennessee: Col William L. Eakin 3rd Maryland Battery: Cpt John B. Rowan Waul's Texas Legion
Col Thomas Neville Waul 1st Battalion (Infantry): Maj Eugene S. Bolling 2nd Battalion (Infantry): Ltc James Wrigley Cavalry Battalion: Lt Thomas J. Cleveland Artillery Company: Cpt John Q. Wall Attached 1st (Carter's) Tennessee Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Richard S. Vandyke Botetourt (Virginia) Artillery:Assignment uncertain. Lt James P. Wright Signal Corps: Lt C. H. BarrotForney's Division
MG John H. Forney Hebert's Brigade
BG Louis Hébert 3rd Louisiana: Maj David Pierson 21st (ex-22nd) Louisiana: Ltc John T. Plattsmier 36th Mississippi: Col William W. Witherspoon 37th Mississippi: Col Orlando S. Holland 38th Mississippi: Cpt Daniel B. Seal 43rd Mississippi: Col Richard Harrison 7th Mississippi Battalion: Cpt Alney M. Dozier 2nd Alabama Artillery Battalion, Company C: Lt John R. Sclater Appeal (Arkansas) Battery: Lt Robert N. Cotten Moore's Brigade
BG John C. Moore 37th Alabama: Col James F. Dowdell 40th Alabama: Col John H. Higley 42nd Alabama: Col John W. Portis 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (6 companies):Batteries A, C, D, E, G, and I. Battery L (Vaiden Artillery) reported in Higgins' command, and Batteries B, F, and K at Port Hudson, La. Col William T. Withers 35th Mississippi: Ltc Charles R. Jordan 40th Mississippi: Col Wallace B. Colbert 2nd Texas: Col Ashbel Smith Co. D, 2nd Alabama Light Artillery Battalion: Cpt. Henry H. Sengstak Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery, Company B: Cpt William A. DavidsonSmith's Division
MG Martin L. Smith Baldwin's Brigade
BG William E. Baldwin 17th Louisiana: Col Robert Richardson 31st Louisiana: Ltc James W. Draughon 4th Mississippi: Cpt Thomas P. Nelson 46th Mississippi: Col Claudius W. Sears Memphis Light (Tennessee) Artillery: Cpt Thomas F. Tobin Vaughn's Brigade
BG John C. Vaughn 60th Tennessee: Cpt Jonathan W. Bachman 61st Tennessee: Ltc James G. Rose 62nd Tennessee: Col John A. Rowan Shoup's Brigade
BG Francis A. Shoup 26th Louisiana: Ltc William C. Crow 27th Louisiana: Cpt Joseph T. Hatch 29th Louisiana: Col Allen Thomas McNally's (Arkansas) Battery: Cpt Francis McNally Mississippi State TroopsUnder Vaughn's command.
BG Jeptha V. Harris 5th Regiment: Col Henry C. Robinson 3rd Battalion: Ltc Thomas A. Burgin Attached 14th Mississippi Light Artillery Battalion: Maj Matthew S. Ward Mississippi Partisan Rangers: Cpt James S. Smyth Signal Corps: Cpt Max. T. DavidsonBowen's Division
MG John S. Bowendied of dysentery on 13 July 1863 1st (Missouri) Brigade
Col Francis Cockrell 1st and 4th Missouri: Col Amos C. Riley 2nd Missouri: Maj Thomas M. Carter 3rd Missouri: Maj James K. McDowell 5th Missouri: Col James McCown 6th Missouri: Maj Stephen Cooper Guibor's (Missouri) Battery: Lt Cornelius Heffernan Landis's Missouri Battery: Lt John M. Langan Wade's (Missouri) Battery: Lt Richard C. Walsh 2nd Brigade
BG Martin E. Green (k)June 27, 1863 Col Thomas P. Dockery 15th Arkansas: Cpt Caleb Davis 19th Arkansas: Col Thomas P. Dockery, Cpt James K. Norwood 20th Arkansas: Col Daniel W. Jones 21st Arkansas: Cpt Augustus Tyler 1st (Stirman's) Arkansas Cavalry Battalion: Cpt John J. Clark 12th Arkansas Battalion (sharpshooters): Lt John S. Bell 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Maj William C. Parker 3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Cpt Felix Lotspeich 3rd Missouri Light Battery: Cpt William E. Dawson Lowe's (Missouri) Battery: Lt Thomas B. Catron Artillery River BatteriesThe troops in this command paroled as of Moore's Brigade.
Col Edward Higgins 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery (8 companies):Bond's, Bruce's, Butler's, Capers', Grayson's, Haynes', Lamon's, and Robertson's Companies. Ltc Daniel Beltzhoover 8th Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion (3 companies):Barrow's, Grandpre's, and McCrory's Companies. Maj Frederick N. Ogden 22nd (ex-23rd) Louisiana (4 companies):P. A. Gomez's, Marks', Morlot's, and Theard's Companies. Cpt Samuel Jones 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery (4 companies):Dismukes', Neyland's, Norman's, and Parks' Companies. Col Andrew Jackson, Jr. Tennessee Battery:Attached to 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Cpt J.B. Caruthers Tennessee Battery: Cpt Thomas N. Johnston Tennessee Battery: Cpt J. Peyton Lynch Vaiden (Mississippi) Battery (1st Mississippi Artillery, Battery L): Cpt Samuel C. Bains Miscellaneous 54th Alabama (detachment): Lt Joel P. Abney City Guards: Cpt E.B. Martin Signal Corps: Cpt C.A. King
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. Civil War Home: Organization of the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, May 19–July 4, 1863. -- The Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Siege of Vicksburg: Confederate order of battle). National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Troops in the Campaign, Siege and Defense of Vicksburg). National Park Service: Vicksburg National Military Park (Campaign, Siege and Defense of Vicksburg -- General summary of Casualties, March 29–July 4).