The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of the Crater (July 30, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used Military Rank Gen = 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 in action (c) = captured
Army of Northern Virginia
Gen Robert E. Lee
III Corps
LTG A. P. Hill
Division Brigade Regiments and OthersRichard Anderson's Division
BG William Mahone Mahone's (Virginia) Brigade
Col David A. Weisiger (w)
Col George T. Rogers 6th Virginia: Col George T. Rogers, Ltc Henry W. Williamson 12th Virginia: Cpt Richard W. Jones 16th Virginia: Ltc Richard O. Whitehead 41st Virginia: Maj William H. Etheridge 61st Virginia: Ltc William H. Stewart Wilcox's (Alabama) Brigade
Col John C. C. Sanders 8th Alabama: Cpt William W. Mordecai 9th Alabama: Col J. Horace King 10th Alabama: Cpt Wilson L. Brewster 11th Alabama: Ltc George E. Tayloe 14th Alabama: Cpt Elias Folk (k) Wright's (Georgia) Brigade
Ltc Matthew R. Hall 3rd Georgia: Ltc Claiborne Snead 22nd Georgia: Col George H. Jones 48th Georgia: Ltc Reuben W. Carswell 64th Georgia: Col John W. Evans (w)
Artillery BG William N. Pendleton
First Corps
Ltc Frank Huger Haskell's Battalion
Maj John C. Haskell Branch Battery (North Carolina): Cpt Henry G. Flanner Nelson Battery (Virginia): Cpt James N. Lamkin 13th Battalion Virginia Light Artillery
Maj Wade H. Gibbs (w) Company A, Otey Battery: Cpt David N. Walker Company B, Ringgold Battery: Cpt Crispin Dickenson Company C, Davidson's Battery: Lt John H. Chamberlayne Mortar Battery:manned by soldiers of Otey & Ringgold Batteries Lt Jack LanghorneThird Corps
Col Reuben Lindsay Walker Pegram's Battalion
Ltc William Pegram Crenshaw's Battery (Virginia): Cpt Thomas Ellett Letcher Light Artillery: Cpt Thomas A. Brander
Department of North Carolina And Southern Virginia Gen P.G.T. Beauregard
Division Brigade Regiments and OthersJohnson's Division
BG Bushrod Johnson Ransom's (North Carolina) Brigade
Col Leroy M. McAfee 24th North Carolina: Col William J. Clarke 25th North Carolina: Maj William S. Grady (mw) 35th North Carolina: Col James T. Johnson 49th North Carolina: Ltc John A. Flemming (k), Ltc James T. Davis 56th North Carolina: Cpt Lawson Harrill Elliott's (South Carolina) Brigade
BG Stephen Elliott, Jr. (w)
Col. William H. Wallace 17th South Carolina: Col Fitz W. McMaster, Maj John R. Culp 18th South Carolina: Col William H. Wallace, Lt Col William B. Allison 22nd South Carolina: Col David G. Flemming (k), Cpt James N. Shedd 23rd South Carolina: Col Henry L. Benbow (w) 26th South Carolina: Col Alexander D. Smith Wise's (Virginia) Brigade
Col J. Thomas Goode 26th Virginia: Ltc William K. Perrin 34th Virginia: Maj John R. Bagby 46th Virginia: Ltc John H. Richardson 59th Virginia: Cpt Henry Wood (w)Hoke's Division
MG Robert Hoke Clingman's (North Carolina) Brigade
BG Thomas L. Clingman 61st North Carolina: Col James D. Radcliffe Colquitt's (Georgia) Brigade [temporarily assigned to Johnson's Division]
BG Alfred H. Colquitt 6th Georgia: Col John T. Lofton 19th Georgia: Col James H. Neal 23rd Georgia: Col James H. Huggins 27th Georgia: Maj Hezekiah Bussey 28th Georgia: Cpt John A. JohnsonArtillery
Col Hilary Pollard Jones, Sr. Branch's Battalion
Maj James C. Coit Halifax Battery (Virginia): Cpt Samuel T. Wright Petersburg Battery (Virginia): Cpt Richard G. Pegram
Notes
References Kinard, Jeff. The Battle of the Crater (Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press), 1998.
See also
Virginia in the American Civil War Petersburg National Battlefield