Battle of Antietam order of battle: Confederate explained

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Antietam of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign,[2] the casualty returns[3] and the reports.[4]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Army of Northern Virginia

See main article: Army of Northern Virginia. Gen Robert E. Lee

Right Wing

MG James Longstreet

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McLaws' Division
    MG Lafayette McLaws
Kershaw's Brigade
  BG Joseph B. Kershaw
Cobb's Brigade
  Ltc Christopher C. Sanders[5]
  Ltc William MacRae
Semmes' Brigade
  BG Paul J. Semmes
  • 10th Georgia: Maj Willis C. Holt (w), Cpt William Johnston (w), Cpt Philologus H. Loud (w)
  • 53rd Georgia: Ltc Thomas Sloan (mw), Cpt Samuel W. Marshborne
  • 15th Virginia: Cpt Emmett M. Morrison (w), Cpt Edward J. Willis
  • 32nd Virginia: Col Edgar B. Montague
Barksdale's Brigade
  BG William Barksdale
Artillery
  Maj Samuel P. Hamilton
  Col Henry C. Cabell[8]
  • Manly's (1st North Carolina, Battery A) Battery: Cpt Basil C. Manly
  • Pulaski (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt John P. W. Read
  • Richmond (Fayette) Artillery: Cpt Miles C. Macon
  • Richmond Howitzers, 1st Company: Cpt Edward S. McCarthy
  • Troup (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt Henry H. Carlton
Anderson's Division
    MG Richard H. Anderson (w)
    BG Roger A. Pryor
Wilcox's Brigade
  Col Alfred Cumming (w)
  Maj Hilary A. Herbert
  Cpt James M. Crow
Mahone's Brigade[9]
  Col William A. Parham
Featherston's Brigade[10]
  Col Carnot Posey
Armistead's Brigade
  BG Lewis A. Armistead (w)
  Col James G. Hodges
Pryor's Brigade
  BG Roger A. Pryor
  Col John C. Hately (w)
Wright's Brigade
  BG Ambrose R. Wright (w)
  Col Robert H. Jones (w)
  Col William Gibson
  • 44th Alabama: Ltc Charles A. Derby (k), Maj William F. Perry
  • 3rd Georgia: Cpt Reuben B. Nisbit (w), Cpt John T. Jones
  • 22nd Georgia: Col Robert H. Jones (w), Cpt Lawrence D. Lallerstedt (w)
  • 48th Georgia: Col William Gibson
Artillery
  Maj John S. Saunders
Jones' Division
    BG David R. Jones
Toombs' Brigade
  BG Robert Toombs (w)[11]
  Col Henry L. Benning
  • 2nd Georgia: Ltc William R. Holmes (k), Maj Skidmore Harris (w), Cpt Abner M. Lewis
  • 15th Georgia: Col William T. Millican (mw), Cpt Thomas H. Jackson
  • 17th Georgia: Cpt John A. McGregor
  • 20th Georgia: Col John B. Cumming
Drayton's Brigade
  BG Thomas F. Drayton
Pickett's Brigade
  BG Richard B. Garnett
Kemper's Brigade
  BG James L. Kemper
Jenkins' Brigade
  Col Joseph Walker
  • 1st South Carolina (Volunteers): Ltc Daniel Livingston (w)
  • 2nd South Carolina Rifles: Col Robert A. Thompson
  • 5th South Carolina: Cpt Thomas C. Beckham
  • 6th South Carolina: Cpt Edward B. Cantey (w)
  • 4th South Carolina Battalion: Lt W. T. Field
  • Palmetto (South Carolina) Sharpshooters: Cpt Alfred H. Foster (w), Cpt Franklin W. Kirkpatrick
Jones' Brigade
  Col George T. Anderson
  • 1st Georgia (Regulars): Col William J. Magill (w), Cpt Richard A. Wayne
  • 7th Georgia: Col George H. Carmical
  • 8th Georgia: Col John R. Towers
  • 9th Georgia: Ltc John C. L. Mounger (w)
  • 11th Georgia: Maj Francis H. Little[16]
Artillery[17]
Walker's Division
    BG John G. Walker
Walker's Brigade
  Col Van H. Manning (w)
  Col Edward D. Hall
Ransom's Brigade
  BG Robert Ransom, Jr.
  • 24th North Carolina: Ltc John L. Harris
  • 25th North Carolina: Col Henry M. Rutledge
  • 35th North Carolina: Col Matt W. Ransom
  • 49th North Carolina: Ltc Leroy M. McAfee
  • Branch's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt James R. Branch
Hood's Division
    BG John B. Hood
Hood's Brigade
  Col William T. Wofford
Whiting's Brigade[18]
  Col Evander M. Law
  • 4th Alabama: Cpt Lawrence H. Scruggs (w), Cpt William M. Robbins
  • 2nd Mississippi: Col John M. Stone (w), Lt William C. Moody
  • 11th Mississippi: Ltc Samuel F. Butler (mw), Maj Taliaferro S. Evans (k)
  • 6th North Carolina: Maj Robert F. Webb (w)
Artillery
  Maj Bushrod W. Frobel
  • German (South Carolina) Artillery: Cpt William K. Bachman
  • Palmetto (South Carolina) Artillery: Cpt Hugh R. Garden
  • Rowan (North Carolina) Artillery: Cpt James Reilly
Reporting directlyEvans' Brigade
  BG Nathan G. Evans
  Col Peter F. Stevens[19] (w)
  • 17th South Carolina: Col Fitz W. McMaster
  • 18th South Carolina: Col William H. Wallace
  • 22nd South Carolina: Maj Miel Hilton
  • 23rd South Carolina: Lt E. R. White
  • Holcombe (South Carolina) Legion: Col Peter F. Stevens
  • Macbeth (South Carolina) Artillery: Cpt Robert Boyce
Reserve ArtilleryWashington (Louisiana) Artillery
  Col James B. Walton
  • 1st Company: Cpt Charles W. Squires
  • 2nd Company: Cpt John B. Richardson
  • 3rd Company: Cpt Merritt B. Miller
  • 4th Company: Cpt Benjamin F. Eshleman
Lee's Battalion
  Col Stephen D. Lee
  • Ashland (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Pichegru Woolfolk, Jr.
  • Bedford (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Tyler C. Jordan
  • Brooks (South Carolina) Artillery (Rhett's Battery): Lt William Elliott
  • Eubank's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt John L. Eubank
  • Madison (Louisiana) Light Artillery: Cpt George V. Moody
  • Parker's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt William W. Parker

Left Wing

MG Thomas J. Jackson

Chief of Artillery: Col Stapleton Crutchfield

Escort:

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Ewell's Division
    BG Alexander Lawton (w)
    BG Jubal A. Early
Lawton's Brigade
  Col Marcellus Douglass (k)
  Maj John H. Lowe
  Col John H. Lamar
  • 13th Georgia: Cpt D. A. Kidd
  • 26th Georgia
  • 31st Georgia: Ltc John T. Crowder (w), Maj John H. Lowe
  • 38th Georgia: Cpt William H. Battey (k), Cpt Peter Brennan
  • 60th Georgia: Maj Waters B. Jones
  • 61st Georgia: Col John H. Lamar, Maj Archibald P. McRae (k)
Early's Brigade
  BG Jubal A. Early
  Col William Smith (w)
Trimble's Brigade
  Col James A. Walker (w)
  • 15th Alabama: Cpt Isaac B. Feagin
  • 12th Georgia: Cpt James G. Rogers (k), Cpt John T. Carson
  • 21st Georgia: Maj Thomas C. Glover (w), Cpt James C. Nisbit
  • 21st North Carolina: Cpt F. P. Miller (k)
  • 1st North Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters[20]
Hays' Brigade
  BG Harry T. Hays
Artillery[21]
  Maj Alfred R. Courtney
A. P. Hill's Light Division[22]
    MG Ambrose P. Hill
Branch's Brigade
  BG Lawrence O. Branch (k)
  Col James H. Lane
Gregg's Brigade
  BG Maxcy Gregg (w)
  • 1st South Carolina (Provisional Army): Col Daniel H. Hamilton, Sr.
  • 1st South Carolina Rifles: Ltc James M. Perrin (w)
  • 12th South Carolina: Col Dixon Barnes (mw), Maj William H. McCorkle
  • 13th South Carolina: Col Oliver E. Edwards
  • 14th South Carolina: Ltc William D. Simpson
Field's Brigade
  Col John M. Brockenbrough
Archer's Brigade
  BG James J. Archer
  Col Peter Turney[23]
  • 5th Alabama Battalion: Cpt Charles M. Hooper
  • 19th Georgia: Maj James H. Neal
  • 1st Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col Peter Turney
  • 7th Tennessee: Lt George A. Howard
  • 14th Tennessee: Col William McComb (w), Ltc James W. Lockert
Pender's Brigade
  BG William D. Pender
  • 16th North Carolina: Ltc William A. Stowe
  • 22nd North Carolina: Maj Christopher C. Cole
  • 34th North Carolina: Ltc John McDowell
  • 38th North Carolina
Artillery[24]
  Ltc R. Lindsay Walker
Jackson's Division
    BG John R. Jones (w)
    BG William E. Starke (k)
    Col Andrew J. Grigsby
Winder's Brigade[25]
  Col Andrew J. Grigsby
  Ltc Robert D. Gardner (w)
  Maj Hazael J. Williams
Taliaferro's Brigade[26]
  Col Edward T. H. Warren
  Col James W. Jackson (w)
  Col James L. Sheffield
  • 47th Alabama: Col James W. Jackson, Maj James M. Campbell
  • 48th Alabama: Col James L. Sheffield
  • 23rd Virginia Ltc Simeon T. Walton (w)
  • 37th Virginia: Ltc John F. Terry (w)
Jones' Brigade
  Cpt John E. Penn (w)
  Cpt A. C. Page (w)
  Cpt Robert W. Withers
Starke's Brigade
  BG William E. Starke
  Col Jesse M. Williams (w)
  Col Leroy A. Stafford (w)
  Col Edmund Pendleton
Artillery
  Maj Lindsay M. Shumaker
D. H. Hill's Division[28]
    MG Daniel H. Hill
Ripley's Brigade
  BG Roswell S. Ripley (w)
  Col George P. Doles
Rodes' Brigade
  BG Robert E. Rodes (w)
Garland's Brigade
  Col Duncan K. McRae (w)
  • 5th North Carolina: Cpt Thomas M. Garrett
  • 12th North Carolina: Cpt Shugan Snow
  • 13th North Carolina: Ltc Thomas Ruffin, Jr. (w), Cpt Joseph H. Hyman
  • 20th North Carolina: Col Alfred Iverson, Jr.
  • 23rd North Carolina: Col Daniel H. Christie
Anderson's Brigade
  BG George B. Anderson (mw)
  Col Risden T. Bennett (w)
Rains' (old) Brigade
  Col Alfred H. Colquitt
  • 13th Alabama: Col Birkett D. Fry (w), Ltc William H. Betts (w)
  • 6th Georgia: Ltc James M. Newton (k), Maj Philemon Tracy (mw), Lt Eugene P. Bennett
  • 23rd Georgia: Col William P. Barclay (k), Ltc Emory F. Best (w), Maj James H. Huggins (w)
  • 27th Georgia: Col Levi B. Smith (k), Ltc Charles T. Zachry (w), Cpt William H. Rentfro
  • 28th Georgia: Maj Tully Graybill (w), Cpt Nehemiah J. Garrison (w), Cpt George W. Warthen
Artillery
  Maj Scipio Pierson
  • Hardaway's (Alabama) Battery: Cpt Robert A. Hardaway
  • Jefferson Davis (Alabama) Artillery: Cpt James W. Bondurant
  • Jones' (Virginia) Battery: Cpt William B. Jones
  • King William (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Thomas H. Carter (w)

Artillery Reserve

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Artillery Reserve[29]
    BG William N. Pendleton
Brown's Battalion[30]
  Col J. Thompson Brown
  • Powhatan (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Willis J. Dance
  • Richmond (Virginia) Howitzers, 2nd company: Cpt David Watson
  • Richmond (Virginia) Howitzers, 3rd company: Cpt Benjamin H. Smith, Jr.
  • Salem (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Abraham Hupp
  • Williamsburg (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt John A. Coke
Cutts' Battalion[31]
  Ltc Allen S. Cutts
  • Blackshears' (Georgia) Battery: Cpt James A. Blackshear
  • Irwin (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt John Lane
  • Lloyd's (North Carolina) Battery: Cpt Whitmel P. Lloyd
  • Patterson's (Georgia) Battery: Cpt George M. Patterson
  • Ross' (Georgia) Battery: Cpt Hugh M. Ross
Jones' Battalion
  Maj Hilary P. Jones
  • Morris (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Richard C. M. Page
  • Orange (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Jefferson Peyton
  • Turner's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt William H. Turner
  • Long Island (Virginia) Battery: Cpt Abram Wimbish
Nelson's Battalion
  Maj William Nelson
  • Amherst (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Thomas J. Kirkpatrick
  • Fluvanna (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt John J. Ancell
  • Huckstep's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt Charles T. Huckstep
  • Johnson's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt. Marmaduke Johnson
  • Milledge (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt John Milledge
Miscellaneous Batteries[32]
  • Cutshaw's (Virginia) Battery
  • Magruder (Virginia) Artillery
  • Rice's (Virginia) Battery:[33] Cpt William H. Rice

Cavalry

See main article: Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

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Stuart's Division
    MG James E.B. Stuart
Hampton's Brigade
  BG Wade Hampton
Lee's Brigade
  BG Fitzhugh Lee
Robertson's Brigade
  Col Thomas T. Munford
Horse Artillery
  Cpt John Pelham
  • Chew's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt R. Preston Chew
  • Hart's (South Carolina) Battery: Cpt James F. Hart
  • Pelham's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt John Pelham

References

Notes and References

  1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. Antietam National Battlefield-Army of Northern Virginia
    Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 803-810; Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, pages 366-372
  3. Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 810-813
  4. Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 1111-1114, 1169-1171; Official Records, Series I, Volume LI, Part 1, pages, 1312, 1391-1392
  5. Turned over command to Lieutenant Colonel MacRae on account of sickness (see: MacRae's report)
  6. Wounded September 15, 1862, but remained in command (see: Barksdale's report)
  7. Reached the field just as the battle was closing (see: Barksdale's report)
  8. Joined during the battle (see: McLaws' report)
  9. Attached to Pryor's brigade (see: Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, page 367)
  10. The Antietam National Battlefield site and the Official Records lists Brigadier General Featherston in command but he is not mentioned in the reports. For Posey in command see Longstreet's report
  11. Commanded the 2nd, 20th and 50th Georgia and the 2nd Company, Washington Artillery. Colonel Benning commanded the remnant of the brigade. (see: Toombs' report; F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 248/Note 47)
  12. Richard M. Coffman & Kurt D. Graham, To Honor These Men: A History of the Phillips Georgia Legion Infantry Battalion
  13. F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 28
  14. Wounded September 14, 1862, but remained in command
  15. Relieved Maj Adam Clement, wia 9/14; Robert T. Bell, 11th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va.): H. E. Howard, Inc., 1985, roster
  16. Detached September 14, 1862, at Hagerstown, five companies reached Sharpsburg on the morning of September 17, 1862, and served with General Toombs (see: Anderson's report)
  17. Stribling's, Rogers' and Leake's batteries left at Leesburg, Virginia
  18. Also called Law's or Third Brigade (see: Longstreet's and Law's report)
  19. Commanded the brigade while General Evans commanded a provisional division
  20. Attached to the 21st North Carolina
  21. Carrington's (Virginia) battery left at Richmond in August, did not rejoin the Army after the Battle of Sharpsburg. Johnson's and D'Aquin batteries were the only ones present with this division at Sharpsburg, Brown's (Maryland), Dement's (Maryland), Latimer's (Virginia) and Balthis' (Virginia) batteries having been left at Harper's Ferry and Shepherdstown
  22. [Joseph R. Anderson|Anderson's]
  23. Commanded the brigade during the march from Harper's Ferry to Sharpsburg and from September 18–19, 1862. Brigadier General Archer retired from the field on account of exhaustion during the march and on September 18, 1862 (see: Archer's report)
  24. Braxton's, Crenshaw's, McIntosh's, and Pegram's batteries engaged at Sharpsburg. Davidson's battery had been left at Harper's Ferry, and Fleet's and Latham's batteries at Leesburg
  25. [2nd Virginia Infantry|2nd Virginia]
  26. [10th Virginia Infantry|10th Virginia]
  27. F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 250/Note 111
  28. On 'field return', Army of Northern Virginia, for September 22, 1862, this division appears as of Jackson's Corps (left wing)
  29. Including all batteries mentioned in the reports or in the reorganization of October 4, 1862, and not elsewhere accounted for. Brooke's, Dearings' and Nelson's batteries joined after the campaign had terminated
  30. First Virginia Artillery
  31. Under D. H. Hill's command
  32. Thomas (Virginia) Artillery (Edwin J. Anderson's Battery) left in Leesburg
  33. Not mentioned between September 1–22, but probably with the army in reserve