Battle of Champion Hill order of battle: Confederate explained

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

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• LTG = Lieutenant General
• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other

• w = wounded
• k = killed
• c = captured

Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana

LTG John C. Pemberton

• Chief of Engineers: Maj Samuel H. Lockett

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Loring's Division     MG William W. Loring	1st Brigade   BG Lloyd Tilghman (k)   Col A. E. Reynolds	1st Confederate Infantry Battalion: Ltc G. H. Forney 6th Mississippi: Col Robert Lowry 23rd Mississippi: Col J. M. Wells 26th Mississippi: Col A. E. Reynolds, Maj T. F. Parker Company C, 14th Mississippi Artillery Battalion (4 guns): Lt J. Culbertson Company D, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt J. L. Wofford Company G, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (6 guns): Cpt J. J. Cowan
	2nd Brigade   BG Abraham Buford	27th Alabama: Col J. Jackson 35th Alabama: Col Edward Goodwin 54th Alabama: Col Alpheus Baker (w) 55th Alabama: Col J. Snodgrass 9th Arkansas: Col Isaac L. Dunlop 3rd Kentucky (4 companies): Maj J. H. Bowman 7th Kentucky: Col Edward Crossland 12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott Companies A & C, Pointe Coupee Artillery (8 guns): Cpt Alcide Bouanchaud and Cpt Alexander Chust
	3rd Brigade   BG Winfield S. Featherston	3rd Mississippi: Col T. A. Mellon 22nd Mississippi: Col F. Schaller 31st Mississippi: Col J. A. Orr 33rd Mississippi: Col D. W. Hurst 1st Mississippi Sharpshooter Battalion: Maj W. A. Rayburn

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Stevenson's Division     MG Carter L. Stevenson	1st Brigade   BG Seth M. Barton	40th Georgia: Ltc Robert M. Young 41st Georgia: Col William E. Curtiss 42nd Georgia: Col Robert J. Henderson 43rd Georgia: Col Skidmore Harris (k), Cpt Mathadeas M. Grantham 52nd Georgia: Col C. D. Phillips (c), Maj John J. Moore Cherokee Georgia Artillery (4 guns): Cpt Max van den Corput
	2nd Brigade   BG Stephen D. Lee	20th Alabama: Col Isham W. Garrott 23rd Alabama: Col Franklin K. Beck 30th Alabama: Col C. M. Shelley 31st Alabama: Ltc Thomas M. Arrington 46th Alabama: Col M. L. Woods (c), Cpt George E. Brewer Waddell's Alabama Battery (6 guns): Cpt James F. Waddell
	3rd Brigade   BG Alfred Cumming	34th Georgia: Col J. A. W. Johnson 36th Georgia: Col J. A. Glenn 39th Georgia: Col J. T. McConnell (w), Ltc Joseph F. B. Jackson 56th Georgia: Col E. P. Watkins (w), Ltc John T. Slaughter 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo
	4th Brigade   Col Alexander W. Reynolds	3rd Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col Newton J. Lillard 31st Tennessee: Col William M. Bradford 43rd Tennessee: Col James W. Gillespie 59th Tennessee: Col William L. Eakin 3rd Maryland Artillery (6 guns): Cpt F. O. Claiborne
	Artillery   Maj Joseph W. Anderson (k)	Botetourt (Virginia) Artillery (2 guns): Cpt J. W. Johnston Company A, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt S. J. Ridley (k), Cpt W. T. Ratliff
Bowen's Division     BG John S. Bowen	1st Brigade   BG Francis M. Cockrell	1st Missouri: Col Amos C. Riley 2nd Missouri: Ltc P. S. Senteny 3rd Missouri: Col W. R. Gause 5th Missouri: Col James McCown 6th Missouri: Maj Stephen Cooper Guibor's (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Lt W. Corkery Landis's Missouri Battery (4 guns): Lt John M. Langan Wade's Missouri Battery (6 guns): Lt Richard C. Walsh
	2nd Brigade   BG Martin E. Green	15th Arkansas: Ltc W. W. Reynolds 19th Arkansas: Col Thomas P. Dockery 20th Arkansas: Col Daniel W. Jones 21st Arkansas: Col Jordan E. Cravens 12th Arkansas Sharpshooter Battalion: Lt John S. Bell 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (dismounted): Cpt William S. Catterson 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Col Elijah Gates 3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Ltc D. T. Samuels 3rd Missouri Light Battery (4 guns): Cpt William E. Dawson Lowe's (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Cpt S. Lowe
	Cavalry	Adams' Mississippi Cavalry: Col Wirt Adams 20th Mississippi Mounted Infantry: Ltc W. N. Brown

See also

• Mississippi in the American Civil War

References

• U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 - 1901.
• The Battle of Champion Hill website

Notes and References

1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
2. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 3, pages 703-707 (April 1863) and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Order of Battle)
3. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, page 728
4. Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 725-726 and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Official Reports)