The following is the organization of the Confederate forces engaged at the Siege of Port Hudson, during the American Civil War in 1863. The Union order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used Military rank MG = Major General BG = Brigadier General Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel Maj = Major Cpt = Captain Lt = 1st Lieutenant Sgt Maj = Sergeant Major
Department of Mississippi & East Louisiana
Division Brigade Regiments and OthersDistrict of East LouisianaEicher p.248Port Hudson Confederate Forces
MG Franklin Gardner Left Wing
Col Isaiah G. W. Steedman 1st Alabama: Col I.G.W. Steedman 1st Mississippi: Maj Thomas H. Johnston 39th Mississippi: Col W.B. Shelby 10th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Ltc E.L. Vaughan 15th Arkansas: Col Benjamin Johnson 18th Arkansas: Col W.N. Parish Claiborne's Mississippi Light Infantry: Cpt A.J. Lewis 9th Louisiana Partisan Rangers Battalion: Ltc J.H. Wingfield 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (Bradford´s and Herod´s batteries) Watson's Louisiana Battery: Lt E.A. Toledano English's Mississippi Battery: Lt P.J. Noland Center
BG William Beall 1st Alabama Infantry: Cpt J.F. Whitfield 49th Alabama: Col Jeptha Edwards 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion: Ltc Batt L. Jones 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col T.J. Reid, Jr. 14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Powers'): Ltc Pleasant Fowler 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col David Provence 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col O.P. Lyles 1st Mississippi Infantry: Ltc A.S. Hamilton 12th Louisiana Artillery Battalion: Ltc P.F. Gournay 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (Abbay´s battery): George Abbay 1st Tennessee Light Artillery: Lt Oswald Tilghman Watson's Louisiana Battery: Sgt Maj H.L. Nichols 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery: Cpt James A. Fisher Right Wing
Col William R. Miles 9th Louisiana Battalion, Infantry: Cpt Bolling R. Chinn Miles’ Louisiana Legion: Ltc Frederick Brand 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col O.P. Lyles Maxey's Brigade (provisional battalion): Col S.A. Whiteside Boone’s Louisiana Battery: Cpt R.M. Boone Seven Stars Mississippi Artillery: Cpt Calvit Roberts DeGournay's Battery: Maj A. Merchant CavalryOperated outside the post during the siege
Col John L. Logan 11th and 17th Arkansas (detachment): Col John Griffith 9th Tennessee Battalion: Maj James H. Aiken Cochran's Battalion Garland's Battalion: Maj W.H. Garland Hughes's Battalion: Ltc C.C. Wilbourn Stockdale's Battalion: Ltc Thomas R. Stockdale 7 Stars Mississippi Artillery (Robert's battery): Cpt Calvin Roberts
See also
Louisiana in the American Civil War
Notes
References Port Hudson, Louisiana Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001,