Meridian campaign order of battle: Confederate explained

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Meridian campaign (3 February – 6 March 1864) during the American Civil War. Order of battle was compiled from the army organization during the campaign. The strength numbers listed in the tables are "present for duty".

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Other

Meridian Expedition: Confederate forces

LTG Leonidas Polk

Infantry corps

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Loring's Division
MG William Wing Loring
548 officers
5,375 men
18 guns
Featherston's Brigade
BG Winfield S. Featherston
3rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment

Col T. A. Mellon

22nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment: Ltc H. J. Reid
31st Mississippi Infantry Regiment: Ltc M. D. L. Stephens
33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment: Ltc J. L. Drake
1st Mississippi Sharpshooters Battalion: Maj James M. Stigler
Charpentier's Alabama Battery: Cpt Stephen Charpentier
Adams' Brigade
BG John Adams
1st Confederate Battalion: Ltc George H. Forney
6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

Col Robert Lowry

14th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

Ltc W. L. Doss

15th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

Col M. Farrell

20th Mississippi Infantry Regiment: Col William N. Brown
26th Mississippi Infantry Regiment: Col Arthur E. Reynolds
Lookout Tennessee Artillery: Cpt Robert L. Barry
Buford's Brigade
BG Abraham Buford II
27th Alabama Infantry Regiment: Col James Jackson
35th Alabama Infantry Regiment: Col Samuel S. Ives
54th Alabama Infantry Regiment: Col Alpheus Baker
55th Alabama Infantry Regiment: Col John Snodgrass
9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment

Col Isaac L. Dunlop

3rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment

Col A. P. Thompson

7th Kentucky Infantry Regiment

Col Edward Crossland

8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment

Ltc A. R. Shacklett

12th Louisiana Infantry Regiment

Col Thomas M. Scott

Pointe Coupee Artillery

Cpt Alcide Bouanchaud

Artillery[1] Cowan's Mississippi Battery: Cpt J. J. Cowan
French's Division
MG Samuel Gibbs French
248 officers
2,442 men
8 guns
Ector's Brigade
BG Mathew Ector
29th North Carolina Infantry Regiment: Cpt W. W. Rollins
9th Texas Infantry Regiment

Col William Hugh Young

10th Texas Cavalry Regiment (dismounted): Col C. R. Earp
14th Texas Cavalry Regiment (dismounted): Col John Lafayette Camp
32nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (dismounted): Cpt Nathan Anderson
Cockrell's Brigade
BG Francis M. Cockrell
1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment

Col A. C. Riley

2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment

Col P. C. Flournoy

3rd and 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment: Col James McCown
1st and 3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment (dismounted): Col Elijah Gates
Artillery[2] Hoskins' Mississippi Battery: Cpt J. A. Hoskins
Wade's Missouri Battery

Lt Richard Walsh[3]

Cavalry corps

MG Stephen D. Lee

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Jackson's Division
BG William Hicks Jackson
1st Brigade
Col Peter Burwell Starke
1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

Col R. A. Pinson

28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

Col Peter Burwell Starke

Ballentine's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment: Col John Goff Ballentine
(Escort) Louisiana Company: Cpt Junius Y. Webb
Columbus (Georgia) Light Artillery: Cpt Edward Croft
2nd Brigade
Col Lawrence Sullivan Ross
3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment

Col H.P. Mabry

6th Texas Cavalry Regiment

Col Jack Wharton

9th Texas Cavalry Regiment

Col Dudley W. Jones

27th Texas Cavalry Regiment

Col Edward R. Hawkins

(Escort) Texas Company: Rush L. Elkin
King's Missouri Battery: Cpt Houston King
Adams' Brigade
BG William Wirt Adams
11th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

Col John Griffith

14th Confederate Cavalry Regiment: Cpt Josephus R. Quin
9th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion: Cpt E. A. Scott
Harris' Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Maj J. L. Harris
4th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

Maj T. R. Stockdale

Adams' Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

Col Robert C. Wood Jr.

9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Maj James H. Akin
Roberts' Mississippi Battery: Cpt Calvit Roberts
Ferguson's Brigade
BG Samuel W. Ferguson
2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment

Col R. G. Earle

56th Alabama Cavalry Regiment

Col William Boyles

12th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Maj William M. Inge
2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Barteau's)

Ltc George H. Morton

Waties' South Carolina Battery: Cpt John Waties
Chalmers' Division
BG James R. Chalmers
1st Brigade
Col William F. Slemons
2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Slemons')

Col W. F. Slemons

3rd Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

Col John McGuirk

5th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment: Col James Z. George
7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment: Col William L. Duckworth
McLendon's Mississippi Battery: Cpt J. M. McLendon
2nd Brigade
Col Robert McCulloch
1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers

Ltc L. B. Hovis

18th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Alexander H. Chalmers
19th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion: Ltc William L. Duff
2nd Missouri Cavalry Regiment: Col Robert McCulloch
Buckner Mississippi Battery: Lt H. C. Holt

Notes

Footnotes
Citations

References

. Mark M. Boatner III . The Civil War Dictionary . 1959 . David McKay Company Inc. . New York, N.Y. . 0-679-50013-8 .

Notes and References

  1. Loring reported having four batteries, but only specified the names of three. According to the Official Records, the fourth battery was probably Cowan's (Official Records, p. 332).
  2. French's official return omitted the artillery batteries. According to the Official Records, these probably were Hoskins' and Walsh's (Official Records, p. 333).
  3. Cpt Henry Guibor led the Missouri battery during the Atlanta campaign. It was in the same battalion as Hoskins' Battery and Cpt John Ward's Alabama Battery. (Battles & Leaders, p. 292)