Battle of Peachtree Creek order of battle: Confederate

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Peachtree Creek of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

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

Other (w) = wounded (mw) = mortally wounded (k) = killed in action (c) = captured

Army of Tennessee Gen John B. Hood

Stewart’s Corps LTG Alexander P. Stewart Escort Orleans Light Horse - Cpt Leeds Greenleaf

DivisionBrigade Regiments and OthersLoring's Division

MG William W. Loring

Escort Company B, 7th Tennessee Cavalry: Cpt James P. Russell Featherston's Brigade

BG Winfield S. Featherston 1st Mississippi Infantry: Maj Milton S. Alcorn 3rd Mississippi Infantry 22nd Mississippi Infantry 31st Mississippi Infantry 33rd Mississippi Infantry 40th Mississippi Infantry 1st Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj James M. Stigler Adams' Brigade

BG John Adams 6th Mississippi Infantry: Col Robert Lowry 14th Mississippi Infantry: Ltc Washington L. Doss 15th Mississippi Infantry: Col Michael Farrell 20th Mississippi Infantry: Col William N. Brown 23rd Mississippi Infantry 43rd Mississippi Infantry: Col Richard HarrisonScott's Brigade

BG Thomas M. Scott 27th-35th-49th Alabama Infantry: Col Samuel S. Ives 55th Alabama Infantry 57th Alabama Infantry 12th Louisiana InfantryFrench's Division

BG Samuel Gibbs French Ector's Brigade

BG Mathew Ector 29th North Carolina Infantry: Ltc Bacchus S. Proffitt 39th North Carolina Infantry: Col David Coleman 9th Texas Infantry 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Cullen R. Earp 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col John L. Camp 32nd Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Julius A. Andrews Jaques's Cavalry Battalion: Maj J. Jaques Cockrell's Brigade

BG Francis M. Cockrell 1st Missouri Cavalry-3rd Missouri Cavalry Btln. (dismounted) 1st-4th Missouri Infantry 2nd-6th Missouri Infantry: Col Peter C. Flournoy 3rd-5th Missouri Infantry: Col James McCown Sear's Brigade

BG Claudius W. Sears 4th Mississippi Infantry: Col Thomas N. Adair 35th Mississippi Infantry 36th Mississippi Infantry: Col William W. Witherspoon 39th Mississippi Infantry 46th Mississippi Infantry: Col William H. Clark 7th Mississippi Infantry BattalionWalthall's Division

BG Edward C. Walthall Quarles's Brigade

BG William A. Quarles 1st Alabama Infantry: Col Samuel L. Knox 42nd Tennessee Infantry 46th–55th Tennessee Infantry 48th Tennessee Infantry 49th Tennessee Infantry 52nd Tennessee Infantry Reynold's Brigade

BG Daniel H. Reynolds 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 4th Arkansas Infantry 9th Arkansas Infantry 25th Arkansas Infantry Cantey's Brigade

Col Edward A. O'Neal 17th Alabama Infantry 26th Alabama Infantry 29th Alabama Infantry 37th Mississippi InfantryArtillery

Ltc Samuel C. WilliamsWaddell's Battalion Bellamy's Alabama Battery Emery's Alabama Battery: Cpt Winslow D. Emery Missouri Battery Myrick's Battalion

Maj John D. Myrick Bouanchaud's Louisiana Battery Cowan's Mississippi Battery Barry's Lookout Tennessee Battery Storrs's Battalion

Maj George S. Storrs Ward's Alabama Battery Hoskins' Mississippi Battery: Cpt James A. Hoskins Guibor's Missouri Battery Preston's Battalion

Maj William C. Preston Lovelace's Selma, Alabama Battery: Lt Charles W. Lovelace Tarrant's Alabama Battery Mississippi Battery: Cpt James H. Yates

Hardee's Corps LTG William J. Hardee

DivisionBrigade Regiments and OthersCheatham's Division

MG Benjamin F. Cheatham Maney's Brigade

BG George Maney 1st-27th Tennessee Infantry 4th Confederate (34th Tennessee) Infantry: Ltc Oliver A. Bradshaw 6th-9th Tennessee Infantry 19th Tennessee Infantry 50th Tennessee Infantry: Col Stephen H. Colms 24th Tennessee Infantry Battalion: Ltc Oliver A. Bradshaw Wright's Brigade

BG John C. Carter 8th Tennessee Infantry: Col John H. Anderson 16th Tennessee Infantry: Maj Benjamin Randals 28th Tennessee Infantry 38th Tennessee Infantry: Ltc Andrew D. Gwynne, Maj Hamilton W. Cotter 51st-52nd Tennessee Infantry Strahl's Brigade

BG Otho F. Strahl 4th–5th Tennessee Infantry 24th Tennessee Infantry 31st Tennessee Infantry 33rd Tennessee Infantry 41st Tennessee Infantry Vaughn's Brigade

BG Alfred J. Vaughn Jr. 11th Tennessee Infantry 12th–47th Tennessee Infantry 29th Tennessee Infantry: Col Horace Rice 13th–154th Senior Tennessee InfantryCleburne's Division

MG Patrick Cleburne Polk's Brigade

BG Lucius E. Polk 1st-15th Arkansas Infantry 5th Confederate (2nd Tennessee) Infantry 2nd (Robison's) Tennessee Infantry 35th-48th Tennessee Infantry Lowrey's Brigade

BG Mark P. Lowrey 16th Alabama Infantry: Col Frederick A. Ashford 33rd Alabama Infantry 45th Alabama Infantry 32nd Mississippi Infantry: Col William H. H. Tison 45th Mississippi Infantry: Col Aaron B. Hardcastle Govan's Brigade

BG Daniel Govan 2nd-24th Arkansas Infantry 5th-13th Arkansas Infantry 6th-7th Arkansas Infantry 8th-19th Arkansas Infantry 3rd Confederate Infantry: Cpt Mumford H. Dixon Granbury's Brigade

BG Hiram B. Granbury 6th Texas Infantry 7th Texas Infantry 10th Texas Infantry 15th Texas Infantry 17th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 24th Texas Cavalry (dismounted)Walker's Division

MG William H.T. Walker Jackson's Brigade

BG John K. Jackson 65th Georgia Infantry: Cpt William G. Foster 5th Mississippi Infantry 8th Mississippi Infantry: Col John C. Wilkinson 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion: Maj Richard H. Whiteley Gists's Brigade

BG States Rights Gist 46th Georgia Infantry 8th Georgia Infantry Battalion: Ltc Zachariah L. Watters 16th South Carolina Infantry 24th South Carolina Infantry Stevens's Brigade

BG Clement H. Stevens (mw) 1st (Confederate) Georgia Infantry: Col George A. Smith 25th Georgia Infantry 29th Georgia Infantry 30th Georgia Infantry 66th Georgia Infantry 1st Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion 26th Georgia Infantry Battalion: Maj John W. Nisbet Mercer's Brigade

BG Hugh W. Mercer 1st (Olmstead's) Georgia Infantry 5th Georgia Infantry 57th Georgia Infantry 63rd Georgia InfantryBate's Division

MG William B. Bate Lewis's Brigade

BG Joseph H. Lewis 2nd Kentucky Infantry 4th Kentucky Infantry: Col Thomas W. Thompson 5th Kentucky Infantry 6th Kentucky Infantry 9th Kentucky Infantry: Col John W. Caldwell Tyler's Brigade

BG Thomas B. Smith 37th Georgia Infantry: Ltc Joseph T. Smith 10th Tennessee Infantry 15th Tennessee Infantry 20th Tennessee Infantry: Ltc William M. Shy 30th Tennessee: Ltc James J. Turner 4th Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion Finley's Brigade

BG Jesse J. Finley 1st-3rd Florida Infantry 4th Florida Infantry-1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted) 6th Florida Infantry 7th Florida InfantryArtillery

Col Melancthon Smith Hoxton's Battalion

Maj Llewellyn G. Hoxton Alabama Artillery Battery Florida Artillery Battery Mississippi Artillery Battery Hotchkiss's Battalion

Maj Thomas R. Hotchkiss Helena (Arkansas) Artillery: Cpt Thomas J. Key Alabama Artillery Battery: Lt H. Shannon Mississippi Artillery Battery: Lt Henry N. Steele Martin's Battalion Missouri Artillery Battery South Carolina Artillery Battery Georgia Artillery Battery Cobb's Battalion

Maj Robert Cobb Kentucky Artillery Battery: Lt Robert B. Matthews Tennessee Artillery Battery Louisiana Artillery Battery Palmer's Battalion Alabama Artillery Battery: Cpt Charles L. Lumsden Georgia Artillery Battery: Cpt R.W. Anderson Georgia Artillery Battery: Cpt M.W. Havis

Other units

DivisionBrigade Regiments and OthersCavalry Division

BG William H. Jackson Armstrong's Brigade

BG Frank C. Armstrong 1st Mississippi Cavalry: Col Richard A. Pinson 2nd Mississippi Cavalry: Maj John J. Perry 28th Mississippi Cavalry Ballentine's Mississippi Cavalry Company "A" 1st Confederate Cavalry: Cpt James Ruffin Ross's Brigade

BG Lawrence S. Ross 1st Texas Legion: Col Edwin R. Hawkins 3rd Texas Cavalry: Ltc Jiles S. Boggess 6th Texas Cavalry: Ltc Peter F. Ross 9th Texas Cavalry Ferguson's Brigadee

BG Samuel W. Ferguson 2nd Alabama Cavalry: Col John N. Carpenter 56th Alabama Cavalry 9th Mississippi Cavalry: Col Horace H. Miller Perrin's Mississippi Cavalry: Col Robert O. Perrin 12th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Col William M. Inge Artillery

Cpt John Waties Georgia Artillery Battery Missouri Artillery Battery: Cpt Houston King South Carolina Artillery Battery: Lt R.B. Waddell1st Division, Georgia Militia

MG Gustavus W. Smith 1st Brigade

BG R.W. Carswell 1st Regiment State Troops: Col Edward H. Pottle 2nd Regiment State Troops: Col Charles D. Anderson 5th Regiment State Troops: Col S.S. Stanford 1st Battalion State Troops: Ltc H.K. McCay 2nd Brigade

BG Pleasant J. Philips 3rd Regiment State Troops: Col Q.M. Hill 4th Regiment State Troops: Col Robert McMillan 6th Regiment State Troops: Col J.W. Burney 3rd Brigade

BG Charles D. AndersonComposition unknown 4th Brigade

BG H.K. McCayComposition unknown State Artillery Battalion

Col C.W. StilesComposition unknown

Sources Fortune City

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