Battle of Franklin (1863) order of battle explained

The following Union and Confederate army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Franklin on April 10, 1863. Organization is compiled from the Official Records of the American Civil War.

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

Union

Army of Kentucky

See main article: Army of Kentucky. MG Gordon Granger^[1]

width=30%	Division	width=30%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Baird's Division     BG Absalom Baird^[2]	1st Brigade   Col John Coburn^[3]	33rd Indiana 85th Indiana 19th Michigan 22nd Wisconsin 9th Ohio Battery
	2nd Brigade   Col Smith D. Atkins	92nd Illinois 96th Illinois 115th Illinois 84th Indiana 40th Ohio Cpt Charles G. Matchett 18th Ohio Battery
	3rd Brigade   Col William P. Reid	78th Illinois Col William H. Bennison^[4] 98th Ohio Ltc John S. Pearce 113th Ohio Ltc Darius B. Warner 121st Ohio Ltc Henry B. Banning 1st Illinois Artillery, Battery M
	4th Brigade   BG George Crook	11th Ohio 26th Ohio 89th Ohio 92nd Ohio 18th Kentucky 21st Indiana Battery
	Unattached	124th Ohio 125th Ohio
Gilbert's Division     BG Charles C. Gilbert^[5]	Not brigaded	78th Illinois^[6] Further composition unknown
1st Cavalry Division     BG David S. Stanley^[7]	1st Brigade   Ltc William B. Sipes^[8]	4th U.S. Cavalry Cpt James B. McIntire 4th Michigan Cavalry Ltc Josiah B. Parke 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry Ltc William B. Sipes 1st Middle Tennessee Cavalry Ltc Robert Galbraith 1st Ohio Battery Lt Nathaniel M. Newell
	2nd Brigade   Ltc Oliver P. Robie	3rd Indiana Cavalry Ltc Robert Klein 3rd Ohio Cavalry 4th Ohio Cavalry
	3rd Brigade   Col Daniel M. Ray^[9]	2nd East Tennessee Cavalry 4th Indiana Cavalry
Attached cavalry	4th Cavalry Brigade (Dept. of the Cumberland)   BG Green Clay Smith	4th Kentucky Cavalry 6th Kentucky Cavalry Col Louis D. Watkins 2nd Michigan Cavalry 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Col Thomas J. Jordan

Confederate

Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee

MG Earl Van Dorn^[10]

width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Other
First Brigade  BG Frank Armstrong	3rd Arkansas Cavalry 4th Mississippi Cavalry 1st Tennessee Cavalry Sanders’ Tennessee Cavalry Battalion Escort (James H. Polk’s Mississippi Company)
Second Brigade  Col James W. Starnes	3rd Tennessee Cavalry 9th Tennessee Cavalry Escort (Detachment, 3rd Tennessee Cavalry)
Unattached	Freeman’s Tennessee (Horse Artillery) Battery Forrest’s Tennessee Escort

Notes and References

1. Web site: Reports of Major General Gordon Granger, U.S. Army, commanding Army of Kentucky . United States War Department . The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I) . 1889 . June 28, 2014 . Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle . 222.
2. Book: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion . The Dyer Publishing Company . Dyer, Frederick H. . 1908 . Des Moines . 450.
3. Col John Coburn and all field officers were taken prisoner at the Battle of Thompson's Station and the remnants likewise captured at the Battle of Brentwood.
4. Web site: Report of the adjutant general of the state of Illinois . Phillips Bros., State Printers . archive.org . 1901 . June 24, 2014 . Reece, Jasper . 3 and 23.
5. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/1292*.html Cullum's Register
6. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf6.htm#78th Civil War Archive
7. Web site: Report of Major General David S. Stanley, U.S. Army, commanding cavalry . United States War Department . The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I) . 1889 . June 28, 2014 . Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle . 234.
8. Web site: Reports of Lieut. Col. William B. Sipes, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, commanding Second Cavalry Brigade . United States War Department . The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I) . 1889 . June 28, 2014 . Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle . 236.
9. Web site: Reports of Col. Daniel M. Ray, Second Tennessee Cavalry, commanding Third Cavalry Brigade . United States War Department . The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I) . 1889 . June 28, 2014 . Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle . 238.
10. Web site: Reports of Col. Daniel M. Ray, Second Tennessee Cavalry, commanding Third Cavalry Brigade . United States War Department . The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I) . 1889 . June 29, 2014 . Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle . 239.