The following units and commanders fought in the Chattanooga–Ringgold campaign of the American Civil War on the Confederate side. The Union order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organizationMultiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign. on November 20, 1863Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 657-664 and the reports.Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 808-812
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 Sgt = Sergeant Cpl = Corporal
Other (w) = wounded (mw) = mortally wounded (k) = killed in action (c) = captured
Army of Tennessee
Gen Braxton Bragg
Escort: 1st Louisiana (Regulars) 1st Louisiana Cavalry
Hardee's Corps
LTG William J. Hardee
Division Brigade Regiments and othersCheatham's Division
MG Benjamin F. Cheatham
BG John K. Jackson Jackson's Brigade BG John K. Jackson
Col John C. Wilkinson 1st Georgia (Confederate) 5th Georgia 47th Georgia: Ltc Aaron C. Edwards 65th Georgia 2nd Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters 5th Mississippi 8th Mississippi: Col John C. Wilkinson Moore's Brigade BG John C. Moore 37th Alabama: Ltc Alexander A. Greene 40th Alabama: Col John H. Higley 42nd Alabama: Ltc Thomas C. Lanier Walthall's Brigade BG Edward C. Walthall (w) 24th Mississippi: Col William F. Dowd 27th Mississippi: Col James A. Campbell (c), Ltc Andrew J. Jones 29th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley 30th Mississippi: Maj James M. Johnson 34th Mississippi: Col Samuel Benton, Cpt Jerome H. Bowen Wright's BrigadeThe 38th Tennessee was left at Charleston, Tennessee (see: Wright's report) BG Marcus J. Wright
Col John H. Anderson 8th Tennessee: Col John H. Anderson, Ltc Chris C. McKinney 16th Tennessee: Col David McM. Donnell, Cpt Benjamin Randals 28th Tennessee: Col Sidney S. Stanton 51st-52nd Tennessee: Ltc John G. Hall Artillery Battalion Maj Melancthon Smith Fowler's (Alabama) Battery McCants' (Florida) Battery Scogin's (Georgia) Battery Smith's (Mississippi) BatteryHindman's Division
BG Patton Anderson Anderson's Brigade Col William F. Tucker 7th Mississippi 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 41st Mississippi 44th Mississippi 9th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters Manigault's Brigade BG Arthur M. Manigault 24th Alabama 28th Alabama 34th Alabama 10th-19th South Carolina Deas' Brigade BG Zach C. Deas 19th Alabama 22nd Alabama 25th Alabama 39th Alabama 50th Alabama 17th Alabama Battalion Sharpshooters Vaughan's Brigade BG Alfred J. Vaughan, Jr. 11th Tennessee 12th-47th Tennessee 13th-154th Tennessee 29th Tennessee Artillery Battalion Maj Alfred R. Courtney Dent's (Alabama) Battery Garrity's (Alabama) Battery Scott's (Tennessee) Battery Waters' (Alabama) BatteryBuckner's DivisionDetached November 22 for operations in East Tennessee. Reynolds' brigade and the artillery were recalled
BG Bushrod R. Johnson Johnson's Brigade Col John S. Fulton 17th-23rd Tennessee 25th-44th Tennessee 63rd Tennessee Gracie's Brigade BG Archibald Gracie, Jr. 41st Alabama 43rd Alabama 1st Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion 2nd Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion 3rd Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion 4th Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion Reynolds' Brigade BG Alexander W. Reynolds 58th North Carolina 60th North Carolina: Maj James T. Weaver 54th Virginia 63rd Virginia Artillery Battalion Maj Samuel C. Williams Darden's (Mississippi) Battery Jeffress' (Virginia) Battery Kolb's (Alabama) Battery: Cpt Reuben F. KolbWalker's Division
BG States R. Gist Maney's Brigade BG George Maney (w) 1st-27th Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field 4th Tennessee (Provisional Army) 6th-9th Tennessee 41st Tennessee 50th Tennessee: Col Cyrus A. Sugg (w) 24th Tennessee Battalion Sharpshooters Gist's BrigadeBrigade commander unknown 46th Georgia 8th Georgia Battalion 16th South Carolina 24th South Carolina Wilson's BrigadeCol James C. Nisbet from the 66th Georgia was probably in command 25th Georgia 29th Georgia 30th Georgia 66th Georgia 26th Georgia Battalion 1st Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters Artillery Battalion Maj Robert Martin Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery Howell's (Georgia) Battery: Lt R. T. Gibson
Breckinridge's Corps
MG John C. Breckinridge
Division Brigade Regiments and othersCleburne's Division
MG Patrick Cleburne Liddell's Brigade Col Daniel C. Govan 2nd-15th-24th Arkansas: Maj Elisha Warfield 5th-13th Arkansas: Col John E. Murray 6th-7th Arkansas: Ltc Peter Snyder 8th-19th Arkansas: Ltc Augustus S. Hutchison Smith's Brigade BG James A. Smith (w)
Col Hiram B. Granbury 6th-10th Texas-15th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Roger Q. Mills (w), Cpt John R. Kennard 7th Texas: Col Hiram B. Granbury, Cpt Charles E. Talley 17th-18th-24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Maj William A. Taylor Polk's Brigade BG Lucius E. Polk 1st Arkansas: Col John W. Colquitt, Ltc William H. Martin (w) 3rd-5th Confederate: Ltc James C. Cole (w), Cpt W. A. Brown, Cpt Mumford H. Dixon 2nd Tennessee: Col William D. Robison (w), Ltc William J. Hale 35th-48thTennessee Lowrey's Brigade BG Mark P. Lowrey 16th Alabama: Maj Frederick A. Ashford 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams 45th Alabama: Ltc Harris D. Lampley 32nd-45th Mississippi: Col Aaron B. Hardcastle 15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Cpt Thomas M. Steger Artillery Battalion Maj Thomas R. Hotchkiss
Cpt James P. Douglas Calvert's (Arkansas) Battery: Lt Thomas J. Key Douglas' (Texas) Battery: Cpt James P. Douglas, Lt John H. Bingham Semple's (Alabama) Battery: Lt Richard W. Goldthwaite Swett's (Mississippi) Battery: Lt Harvey Shannon (w), Lt Joseph Ashton (mw), Cpl F. M. WilliamsSo many non-commissioned officers and men had been killed and disabled in the battery that Col Granbury was forced to make a detail from the infantry to work the guns (see: Cleburne's report)Stewart's Division
MG Alexander P. Stewart Adams' Brigade Col Randall L. Gibson 13th-20th Louisiana 16th-25th Louisiana 19th Louisiana 4th Louisiana Battalion 14th Louisiana Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj John E. Austin Strahl's Brigade BG Otho F. Strahl 4th-5th Tennessee 19th Tennessee 24th Tennessee 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee Clayton's BrigadeThe 32nd Alabama and 58th Alabama were consolidated just prior to the Battle of Missionary Ridge (see: Peter Cozzens, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga, page 412) Col James T. Holtzclaw 18th Alabama 32nd-58th Alabama 36th Alabama 38th Alabama Stovall's Brigade BG Marcellus A. Stovall 40th Georgia 41st Georgia 42nd Georgia 43rd Georgia 52nd Georgia Artillery Battalion Cpt Henry C. Semple Dawson's (Georgia) Battery Humphreys' (Arkansas) Battery Oliver's (Alabama) Battery Stanford's (Mississippi) BatteryBreckinridge's Division
BG William B. Bate Lewis' Brigade BG Joseph H. Lewis 2nd Kentucky 4th Kentucky 5th Kentucky 6th Kentucky 9th Kentucky Provisional Cavalry Battalion (dismounted)Made up of dismounted cavalry troopers returning from Morgan's Raid. Bate's Brigade Col Robert C. Tyler (w)
Col Anthony F. Rudler (w)
Ltc James J. Turner 37th Georgia: Col Anthony F. Rudler, Ltc Joseph T. Smith 4th Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters 10th Tennessee: Maj John O'Neill 15th-37th Tennessee: Maj John M. Wall 20th Tennessee 30th Tennessee: Ltc James J. Turner 1st Tennessee Battalion Florida (Finley's) BrigadeOrganized on November 12 BG Jesse J. Finley 1st-3rd Florida: Ltc Elisha Mashburn 4th Florida: Ltc Edward Badger 6th Florida: Ltc Angus D. McLean 7th Florida 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted) Artillery Battalion Cpt Cuthbert H. Slocomb Cobb's (Kentucky) Battery Mebane's (Tennessee) Battery Slocomb's (Louisiana) BatteryStevenson's Division
MG Carter L. Stevenson
BG John C. Brown Brown's Brigade BG John C. Brown 3rd Tennessee 18th-26th Tennessee: Ltc William R. Butler, Maj William H. Joyner (w) 32nd Tennessee: Maj John P. McGuire 45th Tennessee-23rd Tennessee Battalion: Col Anderson Searcy Cumming's Brigade BG Alfred Cumming 34th Georgia: Col James A. W. Johnson (w), Ltc Joseph W. Bradley 36th Georgia: Ltc Alexander M. Wallace (w), Cpt Jacob L. Morgan 39th Georgia: Col Joseph T. McConnell (mw) 56th Georgia: Ltc John T. Slaughter (w), Cpt John A. Grice Pettus's Brigade BG Edmund W. Pettus 20th Alabama: Cpt John W. Davis 23rd Alabama 30th Alabama: Col Charles M. Shelley 31st Alabama: Col Daniel R. Hundley 46th Alabama Artillery BattalionAccording to Stevenson's return from November 20, 1863 his artillery battalion consisted of Carnes's, Corput's and Rowan's batteries and the 20th Alabama Battalion viz: Company A, Cpt Winslow D. Emery; Company B, Richard H. Bellamy and Company C, Cpt Thomas J. Key Cpt William W. CarnesPeter Cozzens, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga, page 413 Baxter's (Tennessee) Battery Carnes's (Tennessee) Battery Corput's (Georgia) Battery: Cpt Max van den Corput Rowan's (Georgia) Battery
Wheeler's Cavalry Corps MG Joseph WheelerArmy organization from November 20, 1863 shows that the First Brigade of Wharton's Division, Martin's Division, Armstrong's Division (the 5th Tennessee excepted) and all the Artillery (excepted Huwald's Battery) was detached under Wheeler's command
Division Brigade Regiments and othersWharton's Division
MG John A. Wharton First Brigade Col Thomas Harrison 3rd Arkansas 6th North Carolina 8th Texas 11th Texas Second Brigade BG Henry B. Davidson 1st Tennessee 2nd Tennessee 4th Tennessee 6th Tennessee 11th TennesseeMartin's Division
BG William T. Martin First Brigade BG John T. Morgan 1st Alabama 3rd Alabama 4th (Russell's) Alabama Malone's (Alabama) Regiment 51st Alabama Second Brigade Col James J. Morrison 1st Georgia 2nd Georgia 3rd Georgia 4th Georgia 6th GeorgiaArmstrong's Division
BG Frank C. Armstrong First Brigade BG William Y.C. Humes 4th (Baxter Smith's) Tennessee 5th Tennessee 8th (Dibrell's) Tennessee 9th Tennessee 10th Tennessee Second Brigade Col Charles H. Tyler Clay's (Kentucky) Battalion Edmundson's (Virginia) Battalion Jessee's (Kentucky) Battalion Johnson's (Kentucky) BattalionKelly's Division
BG John H. Kelly First Brigade Col William B. Wade 1st Confederate 3rd Confederate 8th Confederate 10th Confederate Second Brigade Col John W. Grigsby 2nd Kentucky 3rd Kentucky 9th Kentucky Allison's Tennessee Squadron Hamilton's Tennessee Battalion Rucker's Tennessee Legion: Col Edmund W. Rucker Artillery Huggins' (Tennessee) Battery Huwald's (Tennessee) Battery White's (Tennessee) Battery Wiggins' (Arkansas) Battery
Reserve artillery Battalions Batteries Robertson's BattalionSengstak's (Alabama) Battery, assigned November 19, not accounted for Maj Felix H. Robertson Barret's (Missouri) Battery Havis' (Georgia) Battery Lumsden's (Alabama) Battery Massenburg's (Georgia) Battery
Notes
References Cozzens, Peter. The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. . 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.