Battle of Mill Springs order of battle: Confederate explained

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Mill Springs of the American Civil War on January 19, 1862, near present-day Nancy, Kentucky. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Other
First Brigade BG Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (k)	15th Mississippi: Col W.S. Statham; Ltc Edward C. Walthall 19th Tennessee: Col David H. Cummings 20th Tennessee: Col Joel A. Battle 25th Tennessee: Col Sidney S. Stanton (w) Tennessee Battery: Cpt Arthur M. Rutledge Tennessee Cavalry Company: Cpt William Scott Bledsoe Tennessee Cavalry Company: Cpt Q. C. "Ned" Sanders (or Saunders) Kentucky Cavalry Company: Cpt B. E. Roberts (attached to Bledsoe & Sanders)
Second Brigade BG William Henry Carroll	16th Alabama: Col William B. Wood 17th Tennessee: Ltc Thomas C. H. Miller 28th Tennessee: Col John Porry Murray 29th Tennessee: Col Samuel Powell (w), Maj Horace Rice Tennessee Battery (Caswell Artillery): Cpt Hugh L. W. McClung [not engaged] 4th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Benjamin M. Branner 5th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc George R. McClellan

37th Tennessee: Col Moses White (engaged in the defense of Beech Grove)
1st Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Frank Nathaniel McNairy (may have been present at Beech Grove)
3rd Tennessee Cavalry Battalion (2 companies): Ltc William Brazleton
Tennessee Battery (Harding Artillery): Capt G. H. Monserratt, Cpt Ed Baxter

Battle, J. H., et al. Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville, KY: F. A. Battey, 1885).
Lindsley, John B. The Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate: First Series (Nashville, TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co.), 1886.
The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Ser. I, Vol. 7, pp. 79–116; 824.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers, War 1861–65 Vol. I (Frankfort, KY: State Journal Company, Printers), 1915.