Battle of Fort Donelson order of battle: Confederate explained

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

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain

Army of Central Kentucky

See main article: Army of Central Kentucky. General Albert Sidney Johnston Not present at battle

Fort Donelson

BG Bushrod Johnson Feb 9
BG Gideon J. Pillow Feb 9-13
BG John B. Floyd Feb 13-16
BG Gideon J. Pillow Feb 16
BG Simon B. Buckner, Sr. Feb 16

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Right Wing	2nd Brigade (attached to 3rd Brigade)	2nd Kentucky: Col Roger Hanson 14th Mississippi: Maj Washington Doss 41st Tennessee: Col Robert Farquharson
Right Wing	3rd Brigade Col John C. Brown	3rd Tennessee: Ltc Thomas Gordon (w), Maj N. F. Cheairs 18th Tennessee: Col Joseph B. Palmer 32nd Tennessee: Col Edmond Cook
Left Wing BG Gideon Johnson Pillow BG Bushrod Johnson^[3]	1st Brigade Col Adolphus Heiman	27th Alabama: Col Adolphus Hughes 10th Tennessee: Ltc Randal W. McGavock 42nd Tennessee: Col William A. Quarles 48th Tennessee: Col William Voorhies 53rd Tennessee: Col Alfred Abernathy, Ltc Thomas F. Winston
	2nd Brigade Col Thomas J. Davidson Col John M. Simonton Col John Gregg	8th Kentucky: Ltc Hylan B. Lyon 1st Mississippi: Col John M. Simonton, Ltc A. S. Hamilton 23rd Mississippi: Ltc Joseph Wells 7th Texas: Col John Gregg
	3rd Brigade Col Joseph Drake	3rd Alabama Battalion: Maj John Garvin 15th Arkansas: Col James M. Gee 4th Mississippi: Maj Thomas Adaire
	4th Brigade (Fort Donelson Garrison)^[4] Col John W. Head	30th Tennessee: Col John W. Head 49th Tennessee: Col James Bailey 50th Tennessee: Col Cyrus Sugg 1st Tennessee Battalion: Maj Steven Colms Stankiewicz's Tennessee Battery: Lt Peter Stankiewicz
	5th Brigade Col Gabriel C. Wharton	51st Virginia Infantry: Ltc James Massie 56th Virginia Infantry: Col Phillip Slaughter
	6th Brigade Col John McCausland	20th Mississippi: Maj William Brown 36th Virginia Infantry: Ltc Leigh Reid 50th Virginia Infantry: Maj Charles Thorburn
	7th Brigade Col William E. Baldwin^[5]	26th Mississippi: Col Arthur Reynolds 26th Tennessee: Col John Lillard
Attached Units	Cavalry Brigade Lt Col Nathan B. Forrest	3rd Tennessee Cavalry Ltc Nathan Bedford Forrest 9th Tennessee Cavalry Ltc George Gantt 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company D: Cpt S.B. Williams 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company G: Cpt M.D. Willcox 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company K: Cpt James Huey Melton's Kentucky Cavalry Company : Cpt James Melton
Attached Units	Artillery Lt Col Milton Haynes	French's Mercer (VA) Battery: Cpt Napoleon B. French^[6] Gauley (VA) Artillery: Cpt Stephen Adams Goochland (VA) Battery: Cpt John Guy Kanawha (VA) Artillery: Cpt Thomas E. Jackson Graves' Kentucky Battery: Cpt Rice E. Graves Green's Kentucky Battery: Cpt Henry Green Maney's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Frank Maney (w) Porter's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Thomas Porter (w), Lt John W. Morton Ross' Tennessee Battery: Cpt Ruben Ross Culbertson's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Jacob Culbertson 51st Tennessee: Col. B.M. Browder

References

Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, The Campaign for Fort Donelson, U.S. National Park Service and Eastern National, 1999, .
Gott, Kendall D., Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry - Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862, Stackpole books, 2003, .
Knight, James R., The Battle Of Fort Donelson: No Terms but Unconditional Surrender, The History Press, 2011ISBN 978-160949129-1.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles, Volume 1 (Pdf), New York: The Century Co., 1887.
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.

Notes and References

Official Records, Series I, Volume VII, page 852
Official Records, Series I, Volume VII, page 158
Bushrod Johnson appears to have been neglected more than once during the Fort Donelson campaign (Cooling, pp 128, 164). Johnson originally commanded the fort for a few hours before being subordinated to Gideon Pillow. Johnson then commanded a division of the Fort Henry survivors (Drake’s and Heiman’s brigades) known as the "Left Wing". Buckner commanded a division of Baldwin’s and Brown’s brigades, the "Right Wing", with Pillow in overall command. (Cooling, p. 131) On Feb 11 the brigades of Davidson, Wharton and McCausland were added to Johnson’s command. However, when Floyd arrived Pillow assumed command of the Left Wing, superseding Johnson. Though Pillow had command of the Left Wing, it seems Johnson still took an active part in the fighting specifically directing Drake’s, Heiman’s and Davidson’s brigades. (Gott, pp. 221, 254)
The 4th Brigade was never employed as a brigade; regiments were deployed individually
Baldwin's brigade was divided between Buckner's and Pillow's commands. Baldwin personally accompanied two regiments attached to Pillow while the three remaining regiments where attached to Brown's brigade in Buckner's command.
Book: Confederate Artillery Organizations: An Alphabetical Listing of the Officers and Batteries of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. 9781940669441. f. Ray Sibley. Jr. 8 September 2014. Savas .