Battle of Island Number Ten order of battle: Confederate explained

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Island Number Ten during the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the official reports.^[1]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• 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

Forces at Madrid Bend, February 28-March 17, 1862

BG John P. McCown^[2]

New Madrid Garrison

BG Alexander P. Stewart

width=25%	Post	Regiments and Others
Fort Thompson   Col Edward W. Gantt	11th Arkansas: Col Jabez M. Smith 12th Arkansas: Ltc W. D. S. Cook Upton's Heavy Artillery Company Stewart's Heavy Artillery Company: Cpt J. W. Stewart Co. A, Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery: Cpt Richard A. Stewart
Fort Bankhead   Col Lucius M. Walker^[3]	5th Tennessee: Col William E. Travis 40th Tennessee: Col C. C. Henderson 1st Alabama, Tennessee, & Mississippi: Col Alpheus Baker Bankhead's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Smith P. Bankhead

Island No. 10 Garrison

Brigade	Regiments and Others
Neely's Brigade   Col Rufus P. Neely	12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott 4th Tennessee: Col Rufus P. Neely^[4] 31st Tennessee: Col A. H. Bradford
Marks's Brigade   Col Samuel F. Marks	11th Louisiana: Col Samuel F. Marks 5th Louisiana Battalion: 5th Louisiana Battalion: Col J. G. Kennedy
Stewart's Brigade	4th Arkansas Battalion: Ltc Francis A. Terry 55th Tennessee: Col Alexander J. Brown
Not Brigaded	46th Tennessee: Col. John M. Clark	-	Cavalry	Haywood's Tennessee Company Hudson's Mississippi Squadron Neely's Tennessee Company: Cpt J. J. Neely Wheeler's Tennessee Company
Artillery   BG James Trudeau	Jackson's Tennessee Company: Cpt Andrew Jackson, Jr. Sterling's Tennessee Company: Cpt Robert Sterling Humes's Tennessee Company: Cpt William Y.C. Humes Hoadley's Arkansas Company: Cpt Frederick W. Hoadley Jones's Tennessee Company: Cpt W. C. Jones Dismuke's Arkansas Company: Cpt Paul T. Dismuke Caruther's Tennessee Company: Cpt Caruthers Fisher's Tennessee Company: Cpt James A. Fisher Johnston's Tennessee Siege Battery (Southern Guards): Cpt Thomas Johnston

Forces at Madrid Bend, March 19-April 7, 1862

MG John P. McCown
BG William W. Mackall^[5]

Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Brigade   BG Lucius M. Walker	46th Tennessee: Col John M. Clark 40th Tennessee: Ltc C. C. Henderson 1st Alabama: Col Isaiah G. W. Steedman 1st Alabama, Tennessee, & Mississippi: Col Alpheus Baker
Second Brigade   BG Edward W. Gantt	11th Arkansas: Col Jabez M. Smith 12th Arkansas: Ltc W. D. S. Cook 4th Arkansas Battalion: Ltc Francis A. Terry 55th Tennessee: Col Alexander J. Brown
Cavalry	Hudson's Mississippi Squadron Wheeler's Tennessee Company
Artillery   BG James Trudeau^[6]	Upton's Tennessee Company Stewart's Tennessee Company: Cpt J. W. Stewart Jackson's Tennessee Company: Cpt Andrew Jackson, Jr. Sterling's Tennessee Company: Cpt Robert Sterling Humes's Tennessee Company: Cpt William Y. C. Humes Hoadley's Arkansas Company: Cpt Frederick W. Hoadley Jones's Tennessee Company: Cpt W. C. Jones Dismuke's Arkansas Company: Cpt Paul T. Dismuke Caruther's Tennessee Company: Cpt Caruthers Fisher's Tennessee Company: Cpt James A. Fisher Rucker's Company: Cpt Edmund W. Rucker Johnston's Tennessee Siege Battery (Southern Guards): Cpt Thomas Johnston Co. B, Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery: Cpt Wm. A. Davidson

Confederate Navy Mississippi Flotilla

Commodore George N. Hollins

Vessels
C.S.S. McRae   Lt Thomas B. Huger
C.S.S. Livingston   Commander R. F. Pinkney
C.S.S. General Polk   Lt Commander J. H. Carter
C.S.S. Pontchartrain   Lt Commander John W. Dunnington
C.S.S. Maurepas   Lt Joseph Fry
C.S.S. Jackson   Lt. F. B. Renshaw
C.S.S. Ivy
C.S.S. New Orleans   Lt Samuel W. Averett

Notes

1. Official Records, Series I, Volume VIII, pages 125-186
2. Promoted to major general on March 10, 1862
3. Promoted to brigadier general on March 11, 1862
4. Sent to New Madrid on March 4, 1862
5. Replaced McCown on March 31, 1862
6. Left on March 31, 1862

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.