Battle of Perryville order of battle: Confederate explained
The following Confederate Army units and commanders[1] fought in the Battle of Perryville of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used
Military rank
Artillery
- 3" R = 3 inch caliber ordnance rifle
- How = Howitzer
- Nap = M1857 Napoleon gun
- pdr = pound (projectile weight)
- R = Rifled gun
- SB = Smoothbore gun
Other
- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k = killed
Army of Mississippi
16,000 men, 56 guns (k-532, w-2652, m-236 = 3,420)
Gen Braxton Bragg, Commanding
Escort:
- 3rd Tennessee Cavalry (4 companies): Cpt W. C. Bacot
k-1, w-0, m-0 = 1
- 13th Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, Company I: Cpt William W. Lillard
Right Wing
7,000 men, 16 guns (k-306, w-1153, m-87 = 1,546)
MG Leonidas Polk
Escort:
- Orleans Light Horse Company: Cpt Leeds Greenleaf
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First Division
16 guns, k-305, w-1153, m-87 = 1,545
MG Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
| 1st Brigade
k-71, w-300, m-3 = 374
BG Daniel Smith Donelson
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2nd Brigade
k-62, w-336, m-25 = 423
BG Alexander Peter Stewart
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3rd Brigade
k-107, w-515, m-58 = 743
BG George Earl Maney
| - 41st Georgia: Col Charles Addison McDaniel (mw)
- 1st Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field
- 6th Tennessee: Col George Camp Porter
- 9th Tennessee: Ltc John W. Buford (w)
- 27th Tennessee: Ltc William Frierson (w), Maj Alexander C. Allen
- Turner's Battery (aka Smith's Battery) (Mississippi) [2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr iron SB]: Lt William B. Turner
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4th Brigade
k-2, w-2, m-1 = 5
BG Preston Smith
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1st Cavalry Brigade
k-1, w-2, m-0 = 3
Col John Austin Wharton
| - 2nd Georgia Cavalry (5 companies): Ltc Arthur Hood
- 1st Kentucky Cavalry (Companies C, D, I, & K): Cpt Thomas A. Ireland
- 4th Tennessee Cavalry (5 companies): Maj Baxter Smith
- Davis' Cavalry Battalion (4 companies) (Tennessee): Maj John R. Davis
- 8th Texas Cavalry (aka Terry's Texas Rangers): Ltc Thomas Harrison
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Left Wing
9,000 men, 40 guns (k-225, w-1499, m-149 = 1,873)
MG William Joseph Hardee
Escort:
- Raum's Cavalry Company (Mississippi): Cpt William Cyrus Rippey Raum
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Second Division
18 guns, k-109, w-406, m-70 = 585
BG James Patton Anderson
| 1st Brigade
k-47, w-190, m-2 = 239
BG John Calvin Brown (w)
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2nd Brigade
k-7, w-78, m-67 = 152
BG Daniel Weisiger Adams
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3rd Brigade
k-13, w-13, m-0 = 26
Col Samuel Powel
| - 45th Alabama: Col James Graham Gilchrist
- 1st Arkansas: Col John W. Colquitt
- 24th Mississippi: Col William Frances Dowd
- 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice
- Barret's Battery (Missouri) [2 6-pdr SB, 2 12-pdr How]: Cpt Overton W. Barret
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4th Brigade
k-42, w-125, m-1 = 168
Col Thomas Marshall Jones
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Third Division
20 guns, k-113, w-709, m-10 = 832
MG Simon Bolivar Buckner
| 1st Brigade
k-15, w-57, m-0 = 72
BG St. John Richardson Liddell
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2nd Brigade
k-25, w-325, m-0 = 350
BG Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
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3rd Brigade
k-32, w-164, m-9 = 205
BG Bushrod Rust Johnson
| - 5th Confederate (8 companies): Col James A. Smith
- 17th Tennessee: Col Albert Smith Marks
- 23rd Tennessee (8 companies): Ltc Richard Hudson Keeble
- 25th Tennessee: Col John M. Hughes
- 37th Tennessee: Col Moses White
- 44th Tennessee: Col John S. Fulton
- Darden's Battery (Mississippi) [2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr SB]: Cpt Putnam Darden
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4th Brigade
k-41, w-163, m-1 = 205
BG Sterling Alexander Martin Wood (w)
Escort:
- 3rd Georgia Cavalry (Companies G & F): Cpt Reuben L. Hill
| - 16th Alabama: Col William Basis Wood
- 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams (w), Ltc Robert F. Crittenden
- 3rd Confederate: Ltc Henry Virtner Keep
- 15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters (Companies A & B): Maj A. T. Hawkins
- 32nd Mississippi: Col Mark Perrin Lowrey (w)
- 33rd Mississippi: Ltc Richard Charlton
- Semple's Battery (Alabama) [4 12-pdr Nap, 2 6-pdr M1841 R]: Cpt Henry Churchill Semple
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| 2nd Cavalry Brigade
k-3, w-1, m-0 = 3
Col Joseph Wheeler
| - 1st Alabama Cavalry: Col William Wirt Allen (w)
- 3rd Alabama Cavalry: Col James Hagan
- 1st CS Cavalry: Ltc Charles S. Robertson
- 6th CS Cavalry: Ltc James Pell
- 8th CS Cavalry: Col William B. Wade
- 2nd Georgia Cavalry (5 companies): Maj Caleb A. Whaley
- Smith's Cavalry Battalion (Georgia): Col John R. Hart
- 1st Kentucky Cavalry (Companies A, B, E, F, & H): Maj John William Caldwell
- 6th Kentucky Cavalry (Companies A, B, & D): Col J. Warren Grigsby
- 9th Tennessee Cavalry: Col James D. Bennett
- 12th Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc Thomas W. Adrian
- Calvert's Battery (Arkansas) [1 section; 2 12-pdr How]: 2Lt Sylvanus G. Hanley
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See also
References
- Holman, Kurt. Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised July 1, 2012) unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
- Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky), 2001.
Notes and References
- Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
