Second Battle of Kernstown order of battle: Confederate explained

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the American Civil War's Second Battle of Kernstown on July 24, 1864, in Kernstown, now part of the Virginia city of Winchester. The Union order of battle is shown separately.

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
• Bvt = Brevet Rank

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed

Army of the Valley

LTG Jubal A. Early

Breckinridge’s Command

MG John C. Breckinridge^[1]

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division (Echols’ Division)      BG Gabriel C. Wharton	Wharton's Brigade   Col Augustus Forsberg	30th Virginia Sharpshooters Battalion 45th Virginia Infantry - Maj Francis Miller 51st Virginia Infantry
	Echols’ Brigade   Col George S. Patton	22nd Virginia Infantry - Ltc Charles S. McDonald 23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion - Ltc Clarence Derrick 26th Virginia Infantry Battalion - Ltc George Edgar
	Smith's Brigade   Col Thomas A. Smith	36th Virginia Infantry 45th Virginia Infantry Battalion 60th Virginia Infantry Thomas' Legion - Col James R. Love II
Second Division (Gordon's Division)      MG John B. Gordon	Evans’ Brigade   Col Edmund N. Atkinson	13th Georgia Infantry - Ltc John H. Baker 26th Georgia Infantry - Ltc James Blain 31st Georgia Infantry - Col John H. Lowe 38th Georgia Infantry - Ltc Philip E. Davant ^[2] 60th Georgia Infantry - Col. Waters B. Jones (?); Cpt Milton Russell 61st Georgia Infantry - Cpt Eliphalet F. Sharp ^[3] 12th Georgia Infantry Battalion - Cpt James W. Anderson
	York's Consolidated Louisiana Brigade   BG Zebulon York	Hays’s Old Brigade (Louisiana Tigers) - Col William R. Peck 5th Louisiana Infantry 6th Louisiana Infantry - Maj Alexander Hart 7th Louisiana Infantry 8th Louisiana Infantry 9th Louisiana Infantry Stafford’s Old Brigade - Col Eugene Waggaman 1st Louisiana Infantry 2nd Louisiana Infantry 10th Louisiana Infantry 14th Louisiana Infantry 15th Louisiana Infantry
	Terry's Consolidated Virginia Brigade   BG William Terry	Stonewall Brigade - Col John H. Stover Funk 2nd Virginia Infantry 4th Virginia Infantry 5th Virginia Infantry 27th Virginia Infantry 33rd Virginia Infantry Jones’s Old Second Brigade - Col Robert H. Dungan 21st Virginia Infantry 25th Virginia Infantry 42nd Virginia Infantry 44th Virginia Infantry 48th Virginia Infantry 50th Virginia Infantry Steuart’s Old Third Brigade - Cpt William B. Yancy ^[4] 10th Virginia Infantry 23rd Virginia Infantry 37th Virginia Infantry

Forces reporting directly to Gen. Early

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Rodes’ Division     MG Robert E. Rodes	Battle's Brigade   Col Samuel Pickens	3rd Alabama Infantry 5th Alabama Infantry 6th Alabama Infantry 12th Alabama Infantry 61st Alabama Infantry
	Grimes’ Brigade   Ltc James Moorehead	32nd North Carolina Infantry 43rd North Carolina Infantry 45th North Carolina Infantry 53rd North Carolina Infantry 2nd North Carolina Infantry Battalion
	Cook's Brigade   BG Philip Cook	4th Georgia Infantry 12th Georgia Infantry 21st Georgia Infantry 44th Georgia Infantry
	Cox's Brigade   BG William Ruffin Cox	1st North Carolina Infantry 2nd North Carolina Infantry 3rd North Carolina Infantry 4th North Carolina Infantry 14th North Carolina Infantry 30th North Carolina Infantry
Ramseur's Division     MG Stephen Dodson Ramseur	Lilley's Brigade   Col John Hoffman	13th Virginia Infantry 31st Virginia Infantry 49th Virginia Infantry 52nd Virginia Infantry 58th Virginia Infantry
	Johnston's Brigade   BG Robert D. Johnston	5th North Carolina Infantry 12th North Carolina Infantry 20th North Carolina Infantry 23rd North Carolina Infantry
	Lewis’ Brigade   Col Archibald Godwin	6th North Carolina Infantry 21st North Carolina Infantry 54th North Carolina Infantry 57th North Carolina Infantry 1st North Carolina Infantry Battalion Sharpshooters
Ransom's Cavalry Division     BG John C. Vaughn	Imboden's Brigade   BG John D. Imboden	18th Virginia Cavalry 23rd Virginia Cavalry 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry McClanahan's Co. Virginia Horse Artillery
	McCausland's Brigade   BG John McCausland	14th Virginia Cavalry 16th Virginia Cavalry 17th Virginia Cavalry 22nd Virginia Cavalry Jackson's Co. Virginia Horse Artillery
	Johnson's Brigade   BG Bradley T. Johnson	1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion 2nd Maryland Cavalry Battalion 8th Virginia Cavalry 21st Virginia Cavalry 25th Virginia Cavalry (27th Battalion) 36th Battalion Virginia Cavalry 37th Battalion Virginia Cavalry Baltimore (2nd Md.) Light Horse Artillery
	Jackson's Brigade   BG William L. Jackson	19th Virginia Cavalry 20th Virginia Cavalry 46th Battalion Virginia Cavalry 47th Battalion Virginia Cavalry Lurty's Virginia Battery Horse Artillery
Artillery     BG Armistead L. Long	Braxton's Battalion   Maj Carter M. Braxton	Allegheny County (Virginia) Artillery Lee County (Virginia) Artillery Stafford County (Virginia) Artillery
	King's Battalion   Maj J. Floyd King	Wise Legion (Virginia) Artillery Lewisburg (Virginia) Artillery Monroe (Virginia) Battery
	Nelson's Battalion   Maj William Nelson	Amherst (Virginia) Artillery Fluvanna (Virginia) Artillery Milledge (Virginia) Artillery

References

• Kernstown Battlefield Association
• Patchan, Scott C. (2007). Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign. Lincoln & London, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-3754-4

Notes

1. Breckinridge commanded the First and Second Divisions of the Army of the Valley, while the others reported directly to Early. Since the Valley District was itself the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia it is inaccurate to refer to these two divisions as a "corps", however much it functioned like one.
2. Davant had been captured at Spotslyvania, only to be exchange on June 25th and returned to service.
3. After the deaths of Col John Lamar and Ltc James Van Valkenburg at the Battle of Monocacy, Sharp commanded the regiment; it would later be merged with the 60th Georgia Infantry.
4. Patchan, Scott C. "Shenandoah Summer: THe 1864 Valley Campaign". Pg. 191, 331-332. The commander of Steuart's Old Brigade is often listed as Peter Yancy, though this has to be confusion with Captain William B. Yancy of the 10th Virginia; Patchan refers to William B. Yancy commanding this unit on pg. 191, but in the Order of Battle on page 331, he labels the commander as Peter Yancy.