Atlanta campaign order of battle: First phase, Confederate explained

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.^[1]

This order of battle covers the period of May 7  - July 17, 1864. The period July 17  - September 8, 1864 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
• k = killed

Army of Tennessee

Gen Joseph E. Johnston

Hardee's Corps

LTG William J. Hardee

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Cheatham's Division     MG Benjamin F. Cheatham	Maney's Brigade   BG George E. Maney   Col Francis M. Walker^[2]	4th Confederate (Tennessee) 1st-27th Tennessee 6th-9th Tennessee: Col George C. Porter 19th Tennessee (from mid-June):^[3] Col Francis M. Walker 41st Tennessee (until mid-June) 50th Tennessee: Col Stephen H. Colms 24th Tennessee Battalion (until early July)
	Strahl's Brigade   BG Otho F. Strahl	4th-5th Tennessee 19th Tennessee (until mid-June) 24th Tennessee: Col John A. Wilson 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee 41st Tennessee (from mid-June): Col James D. Tillman
	Wright's Brigade   Col John C. Carter	8th Tennessee 16th Tennessee 28th Tennessee 38th Tennessee 51st-52nd Tennessee
	Vaughn's Brigade   BG Alfred J. Vaughn (w July 4)   Col Michael Magevney^[4]	11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon 12th-47th Tennessee: Col William M. Watkins 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice 13th-154th (Senior) Tennessee: Col Michael Magevney
Cleburne's Division     MG Patrick R. Cleburne	Polk's Brigade   BG Lucius E. Polk	1st-15th Arkansas: Col J. W. Colquitt 5th Confederate (Tennessee): Cpt W. A. Brown 2nd Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col W. D. Robison 35th Tennessee^[5] 48th Tennessee
	Govan's Brigade   BG Daniel C. Govan	2nd-24th Arkansas: Col Elisha Warfield 5th-13th Arkansas: Col John E. Murray 6th-7th Arkansas: Col Samuel G. Smith 8th-19th Arkansas: Col George F. Baucum 3rd Confederate (Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas): Cpt M. H. Dixon
	Lowrey's Brigade   BG Mark P. Lowrey	16th Alabama 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams 45th Alabama: Col Harris D. Lampley 32nd Mississippi: Col William H. H. Tison 45th Mississippi
	Granbury's Brigade^[6]   BG Hiram B. Granbury   BG James A. Smith^[7]	6th Texas Infantry-15th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Cpt R. Fisher 7th Texas: Cpt J. H. Collet 10th Texas: Col Roger Q. Mills 17th-18th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Cpt G. D. Manion 24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col F. C. Wilkes
Bate's Division     MG William B. Bate	Tyler's Brigade   BG Thomas Benton Smith	37th Georgia 10th Tennessee (until mid-June) 15th-37th Tennessee: Ltc R. Dudley Frayser (w July 22), Cpt Matthew Dwyer 20th Tennessee 30th Tennessee 4th Georgia Sharpshooters
	Lewis' (Orphan) Brigade   BG Joseph Horace Lewis	2nd Kentucky: Col James W. Moss 4th Kentucky 5th Kentucky 6th Kentucky: Col Martin H. Cofer 9th Kentucky
	Finley's Brigade   BG Jesse J. Finley (w May 14)   Col Angus D. McLean	1st-3rd Florida 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted)-4th Florida Infantry 6th Florida: Col Angus D. McLean 7th Florida
Walker's Division     MG William H. T. Walker	Mercer's Brigade^[8]   BG Hugh W. Mercer	1st (Olmstead's) Georgia Volunteers: Col Charles H. Olmstead 54th Georgia 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo 63rd Georgia
	Gist's Brigade   BG States Rights Gist	46th Georgia 16th South Carolina: Col James McCullough 24th South Carolina: Col Ellison Capers 8th Georgia Battalion: Ltc Zachariah L. Watters
	Jackson's Brigade^[9]   BG John K. Jackson	1st Confederate (Georgia Volunteers) (until mid-June)^[10] 5th Georgia (until mid-June) 47th Georgia 65th Georgia 5th Mississippi 8th Mississippi: Col John C. Wilkinson 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters
	Stevens' Brigade   BG Clement H. Stevens	1st Confederate (Georgia Volunteers) (from mid-June) 25th Georgia: Col William J. Winn 29th Georgia 30th Georgia Volunteer Infantry 66th Georgia: Col J. Cooper Nisbet 26th Georgia Battalion (until mid-June) 1st Georgia Sharpshooters
Hardee's Corps Artillery     Col Melancthon Smith	Hoxton's Battalion   Maj Llewelyn Hoxton	Phelan's (Alabama) Battery Marion (Florida) Light Artillery Turner's (Mississippi) Battery
	Hotchkiss' Battalion^[11]   Maj Thomas R. Hotchkiss	Semple's (Alabama) Battery Key's (Arkansas) Battery: Cpt Thomas Key Goldwaite's Alabama Battery
	Martin's Battalion   Maj Robert Martin	Howell's (Georgia) Battery Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery
	Cobb's Battalion   Maj Robert Cobb	Cobb's (Kentucky) Battery 5th Company, Washington (Louisiana) Light Artillery Johnston (Tennessee) Light Artillery

Hood's Corps

LTG John B. Hood

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Hindman's Division     MG Thomas C. Hindman (w July 4)     BG John C. Brown^[12]	Deas' Brigade   BG Zachariah C. Deas   Col John G. Coltart^[13]	19th Alabama 22nd Alabama: Col Benjamin R. Hart 25th Alabama 39th Alabama 50th Alabama: Col John G. Coltart 17th Alabama Sharpshooters
	Manigault's Brigade   BG Arthur Middleton Manigault	24th Alabama: Col Newton N. Davis 28th Alabama 34th Alabama: Col Julius C. B. Mitchell 10th South Carolina: Col James F. Pressley 19th South Carolina
	Walthall's Brigade   BG Edward C. Walthall (w May 15)   Col Samuel Benton^[14]	24th-27th Mississippi: Col Robert P. McKelvaine 29th-30th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley 34th Mississippi: Col Samuel Benton, Cpt T. S. Hubbard
	Tucker's Brigade   BG William F. Tucker (w May)   Col Jacob H. Sharp^[15]	7th Mississippi: Col William H. Bishop 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 41st Mississippi: Col J. Byrd Williams 44th Mississippi: Col Jacob H. Sharp 9th Mississippi Sharpshooters
Stevenson's Division     MG Carter L. Stevenson	Brown's Brigade   BG John C. Brown   Col Joseph B. Palmer^[16]	3rd Tennessee (Volunteers) 18th Tennessee: Col Joseph B. Palmer 26th Tennessee: Col Richard M. Saffell 32nd Tennessee 45th Tennessee-23rd Tennessee Battalion: Col Anderson Searcy
	Cumming's Brigade   BG Alfred Cumming	34th Georgia 36th Georgia 39th Georgia 56th Georgia: Col E. P. Watkins 2nd Georgia State (from mid-June): Col James Wilson
	Reynold's Brigade   BG Alexander W. Reynolds (w May 27)   Col Washington M. Hardy	58th North Carolina 60th North Carolina: Col Washington M. Hardy 54th Virginia 63rd Virginia
	Pettus' Brigade   BG Edmund W. Pettus	20th Alabama: Col James M. Dedman 23rd Alabama 30th Alabama: Col Charles M. Shelley 31st Alabama 46th Alabama
Stewart's Division^[17]     MG Alexander P. Stewart^[18]     MG Henry D. Clayton^[19]	Stovall's Brigade   BG Marcellus A. Stovall	40th Georgia 41st Georgia 42nd Georgia 43rd Georgia Capt. Homer Howard 52nd Georgia 1st Georgia State (from mid-June)
	Clayton's Brigade^[20]   BG Henry D. Clayton   BG James T. Holtzclaw^[21]	18th Alabama 32nd-58th Alabama 36th Alabama 38th Alabama
	Gibson's Brigade   BG Randall L. Gibson	1st Louisiana (Regulars) 13th-20th Louisiana Consolidated: Col Leon Von Zinken 16th-25th Louisiana Consolidated 19th Louisiana: Col Richard W. Turner 4th Louisiana Battalion 14th Louisiana Sharpshooters
	Baker's Brigade   BG Alpheus Baker	37th Alabama 40th Alabama 42nd Alabama 54th Alabama (from mid-June)
Hood's Corps Artillery     Col Robert F. Beckham	Courtney's Battalion   Maj Alfred R. Courtney	Dent's (Alabama) Battery Garrity's (Alabama) Battery Douglas's Texas Battery
	Eldridge's Battalion   Maj John W. Eldridge	Eufala (Alabama) Artillery Fenner's (Louisiana) Battery Stanford's (Mississippi) Battery
	Johnston's Battalion   Maj John W. Johnston	Cherokee (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt Max van den Corput Stephens (Georgia) Light Artillery: Cpt John B. Rowan Marshall's (Tennessee) Battery

Polk's Corps (Army of Mississippi)

LTG Leonidas Polk (k June 14)
MG William W. Loring^[22]
LTG Alexander P. Stewart^[23]

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Loring's Division     MG William W. Loring^[24]     BG Winfield S. Featherston^[25]	Featherston's Brigade   BG Winfield S. Featherston^[26]	3rd Mississippi 22nd Mississippi 31st Mississippi: Col Marcus Stephens 33rd Mississippi: Col Jabez Drake 40th Mississippi 1st Mississippi Sharpshooters
	Adams' Brigade   BG John Adams	6th Mississippi: Col Robert Lowry 14th Mississippi 15th Mississippi 20th Mississippi 23rd Mississippi 43rd Mississippi
	Scott's Brigade   BG Thomas M. Scott	27th Alabama 35th Alabama 49th Alabama 55th Alabama 57th Alabama 12th Louisiana
French's Division     MG Samuel G. French	Ector's Brigade   BG Matthew D. Ector (w July 27)	29th North Carolina 39th North Carolina 9th Texas: Col William Hugh Young (w) 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 32nd Texas Cavalry (dismounted)
	Cockrell's Brigade   BG Francis M. Cockrell	1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) 2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) 3rd and 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) 1st-3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Col Elijah Gates
	Sears' Brigade   BG Claudius W. Sears (w May 19)   Col William T.S. Barry	4th Mississippi 35th Mississippi: Col William T.S. Barry 36th Mississippi 39th Mississippi 46th Mississippi 7th Mississippi Battalion
Walthall's Division^[27]     BG James Cantey^[28]     BG Edward C. Walthall^[29]	Reynolds' Brigade   BG Daniel H. Reynolds	1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 4th Arkansas 9th Arkansas 25th Arkansas
	Cantey's Brigade^[30]   BG James Cantey^[31]   Col Virgil Murphey^[32]	1st Alabama (from early June to mid-June)^[33] 17th Alabama: Col Virgil Murphey 26th Alabama (from early June):Col Edward A. O'Neal 29th Alabama 37th Mississippi
	Quarles' Brigade^[34]   BG William A. Quarles	1st Alabama^[35] 4th Louisiana 30th Louisiana 42nd Tennessee 48th Tennessee 49th Tennessee 53rd Tennessee 56th (46th-55th) Tennessee
Polk's Corps Artillery     Ltc Samuel C. Williams	Myrick's Battalion^[36]   Maj John D. Myrick	Bouanchaud's (Louisiana) Battery: Cpt Alcide Bouanchaud Cowan's (Mississippi) Battery; Cpt James J. Cowan Barry's Lookout (Tennessee) Battery; Cpt Robert L. Barry
	Storrs' Battalion^[37]   Maj George S. Storrs	Ward's (Alabama) Battery Hoskins' (Mississippi) Battery Guibor's (Missouri) Battery
	Preston's Battalion^[38]   Maj William C. Preston (k July 20)	Tarrant's (Alabama) Battery Selden's (Alabama) Battery Yates' (Mississippi) Battery

Artillery Reserve

Chief of Artillery: BG Francis A. Shoup

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Artillery Reserve     Ltc James H. Hallonquist	Palmer's Battalion   Maj Joseph Palmer	Lumsden's (Alabama) Battery Anderson's (Georgia) Battery^[39] Havis' (Georgia) Battery
	Williams' Battalion   Ltc Samuel C. Williams	Barbour (Alabama) Artillery: Cpt Reuben Kolb Jefferson (Mississippi) Artillery: Cpt Put Darden Nottoway (Virginia) Artillery
	Waddell's Battalion   Maj James F. Waddell	Bellamy's (Alabama) Battery Emery's (Alabama) Battery Barret's (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Overton Barret

Cavalry Corps

MG Joseph Wheeler

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Martin's Division     MG William T. Martin	Morgan's Brigade^[40]   BG John T. Morgan   BG William Allen (from mid-June)	1st Alabama Cavalry 3rd Alabama Cavalry: Col James Hagan 4th Alabama Cavalry: Col Alfred A. Russell 7th Alabama Cavalry 51st Alabama Cavalry: Col Milton L. Kirkpatrick 12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion (from mid-June)
	Iverson's Brigade   BG Alfred Iverson, Jr.	1st Georgia Cavalry: Col Samuel W. Davitte 2nd Georgia Cavalry: Col Charles C. Crews 3rd Georgia Cavalry: Col Robert Thompson 4th Georgia Cavalry: Col Isaac W. Avery 6th Georgia Cavalry: Col John R. Hart
Kelly's Division     BG John H. Kelly	Allen's Brigade^[41]   BG William Allen (until mid-June)^[42]   Col Robert H. Anderson (from mid-June)	3rd Confederate Cavalry 8th Confederate Cavalry 10th Confederate Cavalry 12th Confederate Cavalry 5th Georgia Cavalry (from mid-June): Col Robert H. Anderson
	Dibrell's Brigade   Col George G. Dibrell	4th (McLemore's) Tennessee Cavalry 8th Tennessee Cavalry 9th Tennessee Cavalry 10th Tennessee Cavalry 11th Tennessee Cavalry (until mid-June)
Humes' Division     BG William Y.C. Humes	Humes' Brigade^[43]   Col James T. Wheeler   Col Henry M. Ashby (from mid-June)	1st (6th) Tennessee Cavalry: Col James T. Wheeler 2nd (Ashby's) Tennessee Cavalry: Col Henry M. Ashby 4th (Murray's) Tennessee Cavalry (until mid-June)^[44] 5th Tennessee Cavalry 9th Tennessee Cavalry
	Grigsby's Brigade^[45]   Col J. Warren Grigsby   BG John S. Williams (from mid-June)	1st (3rd) Kentucky Cavalry 2nd Kentucky Cavalry 9th Kentucky Cavalry 2nd (Dortch's) Kentucky Cavalry Battalion Hamilton's Tennessee Cavalry Battalion Allison's Tennessee Squadron
	Harrison's Brigade   Col Thomas H. Harrison	3rd Arkansas Cavalry 4th (Murray's) Tennessee Cavalry (from mid-June) 8th Texas Cavalry 11th Texas Cavalry
	Hannon's Brigade^[46]   Col Moses W. Hannon	53rd Alabama Cavalry 24th Alabama Cavalry Battalion
Jackson's Division^[47]     BG William Hicks Jackson	Armstrong's Brigade   BG Frank C. Armstrong	6th Alabama Cavalry (until mid-June)^[48] 1st Mississippi Cavalry 2nd Mississippi Cavalry 28th Mississippi Cavalry Ballentine's Mississippi Cavalry
	Ross' Brigade   BG Lawrence Sullivan Ross	3rd Texas Cavalry 6th Texas Cavalry 9th Texas Cavalry 27th Texas Cavalry (1st Texas Legion)
	Ferguson's Brigade   BG Samuel W. Ferguson	2nd Alabama Cavalry 56th Alabama Cavalry: Col William Boyles 9th Mississippi Cavalry: Col Horace H. Miller Perrin's Mississippi Cavalry: Col Robert O. Perrin 12th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion
	Waties' Battalion   Cpt John Waties	Columbus (Georgia) Artillery King's (Missouri) Battery Waties' (South Carolina) Battery
Corps Artillery Reserve	Wheeler's Horse Artillery   Ltc Felix H. Robertson	Wiggin's (Arkansas) Battery: Lt J.P. Bryant Ferrell's (Georgia) Battery (1 section) Huggin's (Tennessee) Battery (from mid-June) Huwald's (Tennessee) Battery White's (Tennessee) Battery

Strengths

The following table shows total strengths of each of the major formations at several stages throughout the campaign.^[49]

Corps	width=80px; style="text-align: right;"	April 30	width=80px; style="text-align: right;"	June 10	width=80px; style="text-align: right;"	June 30	width=80px; style="text-align: right;"	July 10	width=80px; style="text-align: right;"	July 31	width=80px; style="text-align: right;"	August 10	width=80px; style="text-align: right;"	August 31
Hardee's Corps	21,946	20,741	18,107	16,567	13,369	14,013	14,160
Hood's/Lee's Corps	21,385	17,379	15,970	15,492	13,553	13,005	11,633
Polk's/Stewart's Corps	- ^[50]	16,538	14,380	13,354	11,850	11,551	11,457
Cavalry Corps	8,062	13,546	12,889	12,379	12,523	12,803	13,244
Total	52,931	69,946	62,747	59,196	51,843	51,946	51,141

References

• U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 - 1901.
• Luvaas, Jay & Harold W. Nelson (eds.). Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas), 2008.

Notes and References

1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 3, pages 638-675
2. From early July
3. 19th and 41st Tennessee swapped places mid-June
4. From early July
5. Detached to provost-marshal-general duty. Consolidated with 45th Tennessee mid-June
6. Known as Smith's Brigade from mid-June
7. from mid-June
8. Joined mid-June
9. Broken up early July, remaining units transferred to Gist's and Lowrey's brigades. 47th Georgia consolidated with 65th Georgia
10. Transferred to Steven's Brigade
11. Usually assigned to Cleburne's Division
12. Temporarily in command during July
13. From mid-June
14. From mid-June
15. From mid-June
16. During July while Brown is in command of Hindman's division
17. Known as Clayton's Division from July 7
18. Took command of Polk's Corps from July 7
19. From July 7, promoted to Major General on that date
20. Known as Holtzclaw's Brigade from July 7
21. From July 7, promoted to Brigadier General on that date
22. from June 14 to July 7
23. From July 7
24. Resumed command July 7
25. From June 14 until July 7
26. Brigade commander while Featherston in temporary command of the division not known, but likely either Col Stephens or Col Drake
27. Known as Cantey's Division in May and mid-June
28. Temporarily during May and early June
29. from mid-June
30. Originally an independent brigade reporting to army command, subsequently combined into a division with Reynolds' brigade
31. Temporarily in command of the division until mid-June, then resumed command of his brigade
32. Temporarily in command of the brigade during May and June, while Cantey in command of the division
33. Transferred to Quarles' Brigade mid-June
34. Joined mid-June
35. Transferred from Cantey' Brigade mid-June
36. Usually assigned to Loring's Division
37. Usually assigned to French's Division
38. Usually assigned to Cantey's Division
39. Transferred to Georgia state troops mid-June, returned early July
40. Known as Allen's Brigade from mid-June
41. Known as Anderson's Brigade from mid-June
42. Transferred to Martin's Division and took command of Morgan's Brigade mid-June
43. Known as Ashby's Brigade from mid-June
44. Transferred to Harrison's Brigade mid-June
45. Known as Williams' Brigade from mid-June. Transferred to Kelly's Division early July.
46. Transferred to Kelly's Division mid-June
47. Attached to Polk's Corps/Army of Mississippi
48. Temporarily attached from Clanton's Brigade during May and June
49. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 3, pages 675-683
50. Not present