The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Mill Springs of the American Civil War on January 19, 1862, near present-day Nancy, Kentucky. The Union order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used Military rank MG = Major General BG = Brigadier General Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel Cpt = Captain
Other k = killed w = wounded
District of East Tennessee
MG George Bibb Crittenden
Brigade Regiments and Other First Brigade
BG Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (k) 15th Mississippi: Col Walter Scott Statham (absent), Ltc Edward Cary Walthall (w) 19th Tennessee: Col David Hamilton Cummings 20th Tennessee: Col Joel Allen Battle (w) 25th Tennessee: Col Sidney Smith Stanton (w) Tennessee Battery: Cpt Arthur Middleton Rutledge Tennessee Cavalry Company: Cpt William Scott Bledsoe Tennessee Cavalry Company: Cpt Q. C. "Ned" Sanders (or Saunders) Kentucky Cavalry Company: Cpt B. E. Roberts (attached to Bledsoe & Sanders) Second Brigade
BG William Henry Carroll 16th Alabama: Col William Basil Wood 17th Tennessee: Ltc Thomas C. H. Miller 28th Tennessee: Col John Porry Murray 29th Tennessee: Col Samuel Powel (w), Maj Horace Rice Tennessee Battery (Caswell Artillery): Cpt Hugh L. W. McClung [not engaged] 4th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Benjamin Manasseh Branner 5th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc George Rutledge McClellan
Nearby District Troops Not Engaged
37th Tennessee: Col Moses White (engaged in the defense of Beech Grove) 1st Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Frank Nathaniel McNairy (may have been present at Beech Grove) 3rd Tennessee Cavalry Battalion (2 companies): Ltc William Brazleton Tennessee Battery (Harding Artillery): Cpt George H. Monsarratt, Cpt Edward D. Baxter
References Battle, J. H., et al. Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville, KY: F. A. Battey, 1885). Lindsley, John B. The Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate: First Series (Nashville, TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co.), 1886. The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Ser. I, Vol. 7, pp. 79–116; 824. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers, War 1861–65 Vol. I (Frankfort, KY: State Journal Company, Printers), 1915.
External links Mills Springs Battlefield Association Battle of Mill Springs/Fishing Creek by Geoffrey R. Walden