Atlanta campaign order of battle: Second 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 second phase of the campaign, July 17 – September 8, 1864. The period May 1 – July 17, 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 John B. Hood^[2]

• Chief of Staff: BG William Mackall,^[3] BG Francis Shoup^[4]
• Chief of Artillery: BG Francis Shoup,^[5] Col Robert Beckham

Hardee's Corps

LTG William J. Hardee

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Cheatham's Division     BG George E. Maney	Maney's Brigade   Col Francis M. Walker (k July 22)   Col George C. Porter	4th Confederate (34th Tennessee) 1st-27th Tennessee 6th-9th Tennessee: Col George C. Porter 19th Tennessee 50th Tennessee: Col Stephen H. Colms
	Strahl's Brigade   BG Otho F. Strahl (w July 22)   Ltc James D. Tillman	4th-5th Tennessee 24th Tennessee: Col John A. Wilson (w July 22), Ltc Samuel E. Shannon 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee 41st Tennessee: Ltc James D. Tillman, Maj T.G. Miller (w July 22), Cpt A.M. Keith
	Wright's Brigade   BG John C. Carter	8th Tennessee 16th Tennessee 28th Tennessee 38th Tennessee: Ltc Andrew D. Gwynne (c July 22), Maj Hamilton W. Cotter 51st-52nd Tennessee
	Vaughn's Brigade   Col Michael Magevney	11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon 12th-47th Tennessee:^[6] Col William M. Watkins 13th-154th (Senior) Tennessee: Maj William J. Crook 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice
Cleburne's Division     MG Patrick R. Cleburne	Govan's Brigade   BG Daniel C. Govan	1st-15th Arkansas:^[7] Ltc William H. Martin (w July 22), Cpt Felix G. Lusk 2nd-24th Arkansas: Col Elisha Warfield (w July 22), Ltc Eldridge G. Brasher (w July 22), Maj Amzi T. Meek 5th-13th Arkansas: Col John E. Murray (k July 22), Col Peter V. Green 6th-7th Arkansas: Col Samuel G. Smith (w July 22) Ltc Fester J. Cameron (w July 22), Maj William F. Douglass (w July 22), Cpt J.T. Robinson 8th-19th Arkansas: Col George F. Baucum (w July 22), Ltc Anderson Watkins (k July 22), Ltc Augustus S. Hutchinson (w July 22), Maj David H. Hamiter 3rd Confederate (Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas)
	Lowrey's Brigade   BG Mark P. Lowrey	16th Alabama 33rd Alabama 45th Alabama: Col Harris D. Lampley (w&c July 22) Ltc Robert H. Abercrombie 5th Mississippi (from July 24) 8th Mississippi (from July 24)^[8] i: Col John C. Wilkinson (k July 22), Capt H.W. Crook (w July 22) 32nd Mississippi: Col William H. H. Tison (w July 22) 3rd Mississippi Battalion: Ltc John D. Williams (c July 22), Cpt Thomas P. Connor
	Smith's Brigade^[9]   BG James A. Smith (w July 22)   Ltc Robert B. Young   BG Hiram B. Granbury^[10]	5th Confederate (Tennessee)^[11] 6th Texas Infantry-15th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 7th Texas 10th Texas: Col Roger Q. Mills (w July 22), Ltc Robert B. Young, Cpt John A. Formwalt 17th-18th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted)
Bate's Division     MG William B. Bate (w August 10)     MG John C. Brown^[12]	Tyler's Brigade   BG Thomas Benton Smith	37th Georgia 2nd Tennessee (Provisional Army)^[13] 10th Tennessee 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   Col Angus D. McLean   Ltc Daniel Kenan^[14]	1st-3rd Florida 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted)-4th Florida Infantry 6th Florida: Ltc Daniel Kenan 7th Florida
Walker's Division^[15]     MG William H. T. Walker (k July 22)     BG Hugh W. Mercer	Mercer's Brigade^[16]   BG Hugh W. Mercer   Col William Barkuloo   Ltc Morgan Rawls (w July 22)   Ltc Cincinnatus S. Guyton   Col Charles H. Olmstead^[17]	1st (Olmstead's) Georgia Volunteers: Col Charles H. Olmstead (w July 22), Maj Martin J. Ford 54th Georgia: Ltc Morgan Rawls, Cpt Thomas W. Brantley 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo, Ltc Cincinnatus S. Guyton 63rd Georgia
	Gist's Brigade^[18]   BG States Rights Gist (w July 22)   Col James McCullough   Col Ellison Capers^[19]	46th Georgia 65th Georgia 5th Mississippi (until July 24)^[20] 8th Mississippi (until July 24)^[21] 16th South Carolina: Col James McCullough, Cpt John W. Boling 24th South Carolina: Col Ellison Capers (w July 22), Ltc Jesse S. Jones 8th Georgia Battalion: Ltc Zachariah L. Watters 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters
	Stevens' Brigade^[22]   BG Clement H. Stevens (mw July 20)   Col George A. Smith (w July 22)   Col J. Cooper Nisbet (c July 22)   Col William J. Winn   BG Henry R. Jackson^[23]	1st Confederate (Georgia Volunteers) 25th Georgia: Col William J. Winn, Maj A.W. Smith 29th Georgia 30th Georgia 66th Georgia: Col J. Cooper Nisbet, Cpt Thomas L. Langston 1st Georgia Sharpshooters
Hardee's Corps Artillery     Col Melancthon Smith	Palmer's Battalion   Maj Joseph Palmer	Lumsden's (Alabama) Battery Anderson's (Georgia) Battery Havis' (Georgia) Battery
	Hoxton's Battalion   Maj Llewelyn Hoxton	Phelan's (Alabama) Battery Marion (Florida) Light Artillery Turner's (Mississippi) Battery
	Hotchkiss' Battalion^[24]   Maj Thomas R. Hotchkiss   Cpt Thomas Key^[25]	Semple's (Alabama) Battery Key's (Arkansas) Battery: Cpt Thomas Key Warren (Mississippi) Light Artillery
	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

Lee's Corps

MG Carter L. Stevenson^[26]
MG Benjamin F. Cheatham^[27]
LTG Stephen D. Lee^[28]

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Anderson's Division^[29]     MG Patton Anderson^[30]	Deas' Brigade   Col John G. Coltart   BG Zachariah C. Deas^[31]	19th Alabama 22nd Alabama: Col Benjamin R. Hart 25th Alabama 39th Alabama: Ltc William C. Clifton (w July 22), Cpt T. J. Branon 50th Alabama: Col John G. Coltart, Cpt George W. Arnold 17th Alabama Sharpshooters (until mid-August)
	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: Maj James L. White (w July 22), Cpt Elijah W. Horne
	Brantley's Brigade   Col Samuel Benton (mw July 22)   Col William F. Brantley^[32]	24th-27th Mississippi: Col Robert P. McKelvaine 29th-30th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley, Ltc James M. Johnson 34th Mississippi: Cpt T. S. Hubbard
	Sharp's Brigade^[33]   BG Jacob H. Sharp^[34]	7th Mississippi:^[35] Col William H. Bishop 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi^[36] 41st Mississippi: Col J. Byrd Williams 44th Mississippi 9th Mississippi Sharpshooters
Stevenson's Division     MG Carter L. Stevenson	Brown's Brigade   BG John C. Brown^[37]   Col Joseph B. Palmer^[38] (w September 1)	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: Col James Wilson
	Reynold's Brigade   Col Washington M. Hardy	58th North Carolina 60th North Carolina 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
Clayton's Division^[39]     MG Henry D. Clayton	Stovall's Brigade   BG Marcellus A. Stovall	40th Georgia 41st Georgia 42nd Georgia 43rd Georgia 52nd Georgia 1st Georgia State: Ltc John M. Brown (mw July 22), Cpt Albert Howell
	Holtzclaw's Brigade   BG James T. Holtzclaw	18th Alabama 32nd-58th Alabama 36th Alabama 38th Alabama: Maj Shep Ruffin (w July 22), Lt John C. Dumas
	Gibson's Brigade   BG Randall L. Gibson	1st Louisiana (Regulars) 4th Louisiana^[40] 13th-20th Louisiana: Col Leon Von Zinken 16th-25th Louisiana 19th Louisiana: Col Richard W. Turner 30th Louisiana^[41] 4th Louisiana Battalion 14th Louisiana Sharpshooters
	Baker's Brigade   BG Alpheus Baker	37th Alabama 40th Alabama 42nd Alabama 54th Alabama
Lee's Corps Artillery     Ltc James H. Hallonquist	William's Battalion   Ltc Samuel C. Williams   Cpt Reuben Kolb^[42]	Barbour (Alabama) Artillery: Cpt Reuben Kolb Jefferson (Mississippi) Artillery Nottoway (Virginia) Artillery
	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   Cpt John B. Rowan^[43]	Cherokee (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt Max van den Corput Stephens (Georgia) Light Artillery: John B. Rowan Marshall's (Tennessee) Battery

^[44]

Stewart's Corps

LTG Alexander P. Stewart (w July 28)
MG Benjamin F. Cheatham^[45]

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Loring's Division     MG William W. Loring (w July 28)     BG Winfield S. Featherston^[46]	Featherston's Brigade   BG Winfield S. Featherston   Col Robert Lowry^[47]   Col Marcus Stephens^[48]	1st Mississippi^[49] 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-35th-49th Alabama 55th Alabama 57th Alabama 12th Louisiana
French's Division     MG Samuel G. French	Ector's Brigade   Col William H. Young	29th North Carolina 39th North Carolina 9th Texas 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 32nd Texas Cavalry (dismounted)
	Cockrell's (First Missouri) Brigade   Col Elijah Gates	1st-4th Missouri 2nd-6th Missouri 3rd-5th Missouri 1st-3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted)
	Sears' Brigade   Col William T.S. Barry   BG Claudius W. Sears^[50]	4th Mississippi 35th Mississippi: Col William T.S. Barry 36th Mississippi 39th Mississippi 46th Mississippi 7th Mississippi Battalion
Walthall's Division     MG Edward C. Walthall	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   Col Edward A. O'Neal	17th Alabama: Col Virgil Murphey 26th Alabama 29th Alabama 37th Mississippi
	Quarles' Brigade   BG William A. Quarles	1st Alabama 42nd Tennessee 48th Tennessee 49th Tennessee 53rd Tennessee 56th (46th-55th) Tennessee
Stewart's Corps Artillery     Ltc Samuel C. Williams	Myrick's Battalion^[51]   Maj John D. Myrick	Bouanchaud's (Louisiana) Battery: Cpt Alcide Bouanchaud Cowan's (Mississippi) Battery Barry's Lookout (Tennessee) Battery
	Storrs' Battalion^[52]   Maj George S. Storrs	Ward's (Alabama) Battery Hoskins' (Mississippi) Battery Guibor's (Missouri) Battery
	Preston's Battalion^[53]   Maj William C. Preston	Tarrant's (Alabama) Battery Selden's (Alabama) Battery Yates' (Mississippi) Battery
	Waddell's Battalion   Maj James F. Waddell   Cpt Overton Barret^[54]	Bellamy's (Alabama) Battery Emery's (Alabama) Battery Barret's (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Overton Barret

Cavalry Corps

MG Joseph Wheeler

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Martin's Division     MG William T. Martin	Allen's Brigade   BG William Allen	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
	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	Anderson's Brigade   BG Robert H. Anderson^[55]	3rd Confederate Cavalry 8th Confederate Cavalry 10th Confederate Cavalry 12th Confederate Cavalry 5th Georgia Cavalry
	Dibrell's Brigade   Col George G. Dibrell	4th (McLemore's) Tennessee Cavalry 8th Tennessee Cavalry 9th Tennessee Cavalry 10th Tennessee Cavalry 11th Tennessee Cavalry
	Hannon's Brigade   Col Moses W. Hannon	53rd Alabama Cavalry 24th Alabama Cavalry Battalion
	Williams' Brigade^[56]   BG John S. Williams	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
Humes' Division     BG William Y.C. Humes	Ashby's Brigade   Col Henry M. Ashby (from mid-June)	1st (6th) Tennessee Cavalry: Col James T. Wheeler 2nd (Ashby's) Tennessee Cavalry 5th Tennessee Cavalry 9th Tennessee Cavalry
	Harrison's Brigade   Col Thomas H. Harrison	3rd Arkansas Cavalry 4th (Murray's) Tennessee Cavalry 8th Texas Cavalry 11th Texas Cavalry
Jackson's Division     BG William Hicks Jackson	Armstrong's Brigade   BG Frank C. Armstrong	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^[57]   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 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.^[58]

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	- ^[59]	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. Replaced General Joseph E. Johnston as army commander, and promoted to temporary full general July 18
3. To July 24
4. From July 25
5. To July 25
6. Consolidated into a single regiment with the 13th and 154th during August
7. Transferred from Polk's Brigade
8. Consolidated with the 32nd Mississippi during August
9. also known as Granbury's Brigade when Granbury resumed command
10. from July 22
11. Transferred from Polk's Brigade
12. From mid-August
13. Transferred from Polk's Brigade
14. From August
15. Broken up July 24 and brigades reassigned to the other divisions of the corps
16. Transferred to Cleburne's Division July 24
17. From end of July
18. Transferred to Cheatham's Division July 24
19. until the end of August
20. Transferred to Lowrey's Brigade July 24
21. Transferred to Lowrey's Brigade July 24
22. Transferred to Bate's Division July 24, and subsequently renamed Jackson's Brigade
23. In command July 29
24. Usually assigned to Cleburne's Division
25. from mid-August
26. In command July 18 to July 19
27. In command July 19 to July 26
28. In command from July 26
29. Formerly Hindman's Division
30. From July 29
31. Resumed command in August
32. Promoted Brigadier General July 26
33. Formerly Tucker's Brigade
34. Promoted Brigadier General July 24
35. Consolidated with the 9th
36. Consolidated with the 44th
37. Promoted Major General and assigned to command of Bate's Division mid-August
38. From mid-August
39. Formerly Stewart's Division
40. Transferred from Quarles' Brigade
41. Transferred from Quarles' Brigade
42. from late July
43. from mid-August
44. Formerly Hood's Corps
45. In command from July 29 until mid-August
46. In command from July 28
47. From July 28 until mid-August
48. From mid-August
49. Only appears on return for July 31, possibly a typo for 1st Miss. Sharpshooters
50. Resumed command late August
51. Usually assigned to Loring's Division
52. Usually assigned to French's Division
53. Usually assigned to Walthall's Division
54. From mid-August
55. Promoted Brigadier General on July 26
56. Occasionally attached to Humes' Division
57. Last appears on return of July 10, status unknown after this point
58. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 3, pages 675-683
59. Not present