Battle of Atlanta order of battle: Confederate explained

The following units and commanders fought in the Confederate Army of Tennessee during the Battle of Atlanta on July 22, 1864. The Union order of battle is listed separately. The orders of battle for the first and second phases of the campaign are listed separately as well.

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
• (c) = captured

Army of Tennessee

Gen John B. Hood

Hardee's Corps

See main article: First Corps, Army of Tennessee. LTG William J. Hardee

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Bate's Division     MG William B. Bate	Orphan Brigade   BG Joseph H. Lewis	2nd Kentucky: Col James W. Moss 4th Kentucky: Ltc Thomas W. Thompson 5th Kentucky: Ltc Hiram Hawkins 6th Kentucky: Col Martin H. Cofer 9th Kentucky: John W. Caldwell
	Florida Brigade   BG Jesse J. Finley	1st-3rd Florida: Cpt Matthew Strain 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted)-4th Florida Infantry: Ltc Edward Badger 6th Florida: Ltc Daniel L. Kenan 7th Florida: Ltc Robert Bullock
	Tyler's Brigade   BG Thomas B. Smith	37th Georgia: Ltc Joseph T. Smith 4th Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion: Maj Theodore D. Caswell 15th-37th Tennessee: Ltc R. Dudley Frayser (w), Cpt Matthew Dwyer 20th Tennessee: Ltc William M. Shy 30th Tennessee: Ltc James J. Turner
Walker's Division     MG William H.T. Walker (k)     BG Hugh W. Mercer	Gist's Brigade   BG States Rights Gist (w)   Col James McCullough	46th Georgia: Maj Samuel J.C. Dunlop 8th Georgia Battalion: Ltc Zachariah L. Watters 16th South Carolina: Col James McCullough, Cpt John W. Boling 24th South Carolina: Col Ellison Capers (w), Ltc Jesse S. Jones
	Mercer's Brigade   BG Hugh W. Mercer   Col William Barkuloo   Ltc Morgan Rawls (w)   Ltc Cincinnatus S. Guyton	1st Georgia Volunteers: Col Charles H. Olmstead (w), Maj Martin J. Ford 54th Georgia: Ltc Morgan Rawls, Cpt Thomas W. Brantley 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo, Ltc Cincinnatus S. Guyton 63rd Georgia: Maj Joseph V. H. Allen
	Stevens's Brigade   Col George A. Smith (w)   Col J. Cooper Nisbet (c)   Col William J. Winn	1st Georgia: Cpt William J. Whitsitt 25th Georgia: Col William J. Winn, Maj A. W. Smith 29th Georgia: Cpt John W. Turner 30th Georgia: Ltc James S. Boynton 66th Georgia: Col J. Cooper Nisbet, Cpt Thomas L. Langston 1st Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion: Maj Arthur Shaaf
Cleburne's Division     MG Patrick R. Cleburne	Govan's Brigade   BG Daniel C. Govan	1st-15th Arkansas: Ltc William H. Martin (w), Cpt Felix G. Lusk 2nd-24th Arkansas: Col Elisha Warfield (w), Ltc Eldridge G. Brasher (w), Maj Amzi T. Meek 5th-13th Arkansas: Col John E. Murray (k), Col Peter V. Green 6th-7th Arkansas: Col Samuel G. Smith (w) Ltc Fester J. Cameron (w), Maj William F. Douglass (w), Cpt J. T. Robinson 8th-19th Arkansas: Col George F. Baucum (w), Ltc Anderson Watkins (k), Ltc Augustus S. Hutchinson (w), Maj David H. Hamiter 3rd Confederate: Cpt Mumford H. Dixon
	Granbury's Brigade   BG James A. Smith (w)   Ltc Robert B. Young	7th Texas: Cpt J. William Brown 10th Texas: Col Roger Q. Mills (w), Ltc Robert B. Young, Cpt John A. Formwalt 6th Texas-15th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Cpt Steven E. Rice (c), Lt Thomas L. Flynt 17th-18th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Cpt George D. Manion (w), Cpt William H. Perry 24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Maj William A. Taylor 5th Confederate: Maj Richard J. Person (c), Cpt Aaron A. Cox
	Lowrey's Brigade   BG Mark P. Lowrey	5th Mississippi: Ltc John B. Herring 8th Mississippi: Col John C. Wilkinson (k), Capt H. W. Crook (w) 32nd Mississippi: Col William H. H. Tison (w) 3rd Mississippi Battalion: Ltc John D. Williams (c), Cpt Thomas P. Connor 16th Alabama: Ltc Frederick A. Ashford 33rd Alabama: Ltc Robert F. Crittenden 45th Alabama: Col Harris D. Lampley (w&c) Ltc Robert H. Abercrombie
Cheatham's Division     BG George E. Maney	Maney's Brigade   Col Francis M. Walker (k)	1st-27th Tennessee: Ltc John L. House 6th-9th Tennessee: Col George C. Portor 19th Tennessee: Maj James G. Deadrick 50th Tennessee: Col Stephen H. Colms 4th Confederate (Tennessee): Ltc Oliver A. Bradshaw
	Strahl's Brigade   BG Otho F. Strahl (w)   Ltc James D. Tillman	4th-5th Tennessee: Maj Henry Hampton 24th Tennessee: Col John A. Wilson (w), Ltc Samuel E. Shannon 31st Tennessee: Ltc Fountain E. P. Stafford 33rd Tennessee: Ltc Henry C. McNeill 41st Tennessee: Ltc James D. Tillman, Maj T.G. Miller (w), Cpt A. M. Keith
	Vaughan's Brigade   Col Michael Magevney, Jr.	11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon 12th-47th Tennessee: Col William M. Watkins 13th-154th (Senior) Tennessee: Maj William J. Crook 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice
	Wright's Brigade   Col John C. Carter	8th Tennessee: Col John H. Anderson 16th Tennessee: Cpt Benjamin Randals 28th Tennessee: Ltc David C. Crook 38th Tennessee: Ltc Andrew D. Gwynne (c), Maj Hamilton W. Cotter 51st-52nd Tennessee: Ltc John W. Estes

Hood's Corps

See main article: Second Corps, Army of Tennessee. MG Benjamin F. Cheatham

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Stevenson's Division     MG Carter L. Stevenson	Brown's Brigade   Col Joseph B. Palmer	3rd Tennessee: Ltc Calvin J. Clack 18th Tennessee: Ltc William R. Butler 26th Tennessee: Col Richard M. Saffell 32nd Tennessee: Cpt Thomas D. Deavenport 45th Tennessee-23rd Tennessee Battalion: Col Anderson Searcy
	Cumming's Brigade   BG Alfred Cumming	2nd Georgia State Troops: Col James Wilson 34th Georgia: Maj John M. Jackson 36th Georgia: Maj Charles E. Broyles 39th Georgia: Cpt J. W. Cureton 56th Georgia: Col E. P. Watkins
	Pettus's Brigade   BG Edmund W. Pettus	20th Alabama: Col James M. Dedman 23rd Alabama: Ltc Joseph B. Bibb 30th Alabama: Col Charles M. Shelley 31st Alabama: Maj George W. Mattison 46th Alabama: Maj George E. Brewer
	Reynold's Brigade   BG Alexander W. Reynolds	58th North Carolina: Cpt Alfred T. Stewart 60th North Carolina: Col Washington M. Hardy 54th Virginia: Ltc John J. Wade 63rd Virginia: Cpt David O. Rush
Hindman's Division     BG John C. Brown	Deas's Brigade   Col John G. Coltart	19th Alabama: Ltc George R. Kimbrough 22nd Alabama: Col Benjamin R. Hart 25th Alabama: Cpt Napoleon B. Rouse 39th Alabama: Ltc William C. Clifton (w), Cpt T. J. Branon 50th Alabama: Cpt George W. Arnold 17th Alabama Sharpshooters Battalion: Cpt James F. Nabors
	Manigault's Brigade   BG Arthur Middleton Manigault	10th South Carolina: Col James F. Pressley 19th South Carolina: Maj James L. White (w), Cpt Elijah W. Horne 24th Alabama: Col Newton N. Davis 28th Alabama: Ltc William L. Butler 34th Alabama: Col Julius C. B. Mitchell
	Tucker's Brigade   Col Jacob H. Sharp	7th Mississippi: Col William H. Bishop 9th Mississippi: Ltc Benjamin F. Johns 10th Mississippi: Ltc George B. Myers 41st Mississippi: Col J. Byrd Williams 44th Mississippi: Ltc R. G. Kelsey 9th Mississippi Sharpshooters Battalion: Maj William C. Richards
	Walthall's Brigade   Col Samuel Benton (mw)   Col William F. Brantley	24th-27th Mississippi: Col Robert P. McKelvaine 29th-30th Mississippi: Ltc James M. Johnson 34th Mississippi: Cpt T. S. Hubbard
Clayton's Division     MG Henry D. Clayton	Baker's Brigade   Col John H. Higley	37th Alabama: Ltc Alexander A. Greene 40th Alabama: Maj Ezekiah S. Gulley 42nd Alabama: Cpt Robert K. Wells 54th Alabama: Ltc John A. Minter
	Holtzclaw's Brigade   Col Bush Jones	18th Alabama: Ltc Peter F. Hunley 32nd-58th Alabama: Cpt John A. Avirett 36th Alabama: Ltc Thomas H. Herndon 38th Alabama: Maj Shep Ruffin (w), Lt John C. Dumas
	Gibson's Brigade   BG Randall L. Gibson	1st Louisiana Regulars: Cpt W. H. Sparks 4th Louisiana: 13th Louisiana: Col Francis L. Campbell 16th-25th Louisiana: Ltc Robert H. Lindsay 19th Louisiana: Col Richard W. Turner 20th Louisiana: Col Leon Von Zinken 30th Louisiana: 14th Louisiana (Austin's) Sharpshooters Battalion: Maj Duncan Buie
	Stovall's Brigade   Col Abda Johnson	1st Georgia State Line: Ltc John M. Brown (mw), Cpt Albert Howell 40th Georgia: Cpt John F. Groover 41st Georgia: Maj Mark S. Nall 42nd Georgia: Cpt Lovick P. Thomas 43rd Georgia: Maj William C. Lester 52nd Georgia: Cpt Rufus R. Asbury

Georgia State Militia

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1st Division, Georgia State Militia     MG Gustavus W. Smith	1st Brigade   BG Reuben W. Carswell	1st Georgia Militia: Col Edward H. Pottle 2nd Georgia Militia: Col James Stapleton 3rd Georgia Militia: Col Q. M. Hill
	2nd Brigade   BG Pleasant J. Philips	4th Georgia Militia: Col James N. Mann 5th Georgia Militia: Col S. S. Stafford 6th Georgia Militia: Col J. W. Burney
	3rd Brigade   BG Charles D. Anderson	7th Georgia Militia: Col Abner Redding 8th Georgia Militia: Col William B. Scott 9th Georgia Militia: Col J. M. Hill
	4th Brigade   BG Henry K. McCay	10th Georgia Militia: Col C. M. Davis 11th Georgia Militia: Col William T. Toole 12th Georgia Militia: Col Richard Sims

Cavalry Corps

MG Joseph Wheeler

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Martin's Division     MG William T. Martin	Allen's Brigade   BG William Wirt Allen	1st Alabama Cavalry: Ltc D. T. Blakely 3rd Alabama Cavalry: Col James Hagan 4th Alabama Cavalry: Col Alfred A. Russell 7th Alabama Cavalry: Cpt George Mason 51st Alabama Cavalry: Col M. L. Kirkpatrick 12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion: Cpt Warren S. Reese
	Iverson's Brigade   BG Alfred Iverson	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
	Ferguson's Brigade   BG Samuel W. Ferguson	2nd Alabama Cavalry: Ltc John N. Carpenter 53rd Alabama Cavalry: Col William Boyles 9th Mississippi Cavalry: Col Horace H. Miller Perrin's Mississippi Cavalry: Col Robert O. Perrin 12th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Col William M. Inge

Bibliography

• Book: Ecelbarger, Gary . 2010 . The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta . St. Martin's Press . 978-0-312-56399-8.