Siege of Corinth order of battle: Confederate explained

The following units^[1] and commanders of the Confederate Army fought at the Siege of Corinth (29 Apr-30 May 1862) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the Official Records of the American Civil War as they appeared on June 30, 1862.^[2]

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

Other

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

Department Number Two

Gen Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Army of Tennessee

See main article: Army of Tennessee. Gen Braxton Bragg

I Corps

See main article: First Corps, Army of Tennessee. MG Leonidas Polk

width=30%	Division	width=30%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division     BG Charles Clark^[3] BG James H. Trapier^[4]	1st Brigade   Col Robert M. Russell	12th Tennessee 13th Tennessee 47th Tennessee 154th Tennessee Bankhead's (Tennessee) Battery
	2nd Brigade   BG Alexander P. Stewart	13th Arkansas 4th Tennessee 5th Tennessee 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee Stanford's (Mississippi) Battery
Second Division     BG Benjamin F. Cheatham	1st Brigade   BG Daniel S. Donelson	8th Tennessee 15th Tennessee 16th Tennessee 51st Tennessee Carnes' (Alabama) Battery
	2nd Brigade   BG George Maney	1st Tennessee 6th Tennessee 9th Tennessee 27th Tennessee Smith's Battery
	Detached Brigade   BG Samuel B. Maxey	41st Georgia 24th Mississippi 9th Texas Eldridge Wright's (Tennessee) Battery

II Corps

See main article: Second Corps, Army of Tennessee. MG Thomas C. Hindman until 2 June^[5]
MG Samuel Jones^[6]

Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Other
First Division^[7] ^[8]   BG Daniel Ruggles	1st Brigade^[9]   BG J. Patton Anderson	Florida & Confederate Battalion: Cpt William C. Beard 4th Louisiana 17th Louisiana^[10] 25th Louisiana 30th Mississippi^[11] 36th Mississippi^[12] 41st Mississippi: Col William F. Tucker Hodgson's (Louisiana) Battery
	2nd Brigade  BG Alfred Mouton	11th Louisiana 16th Louisiana 18th Louisiana 19th Louisiana 13th (Orleans Guard) Louisiana Battalion Ducatel's (Louisiana) Battery
	3rd Brigade  BG Lucius M. Walker	37th (34th) Mississippi: Col Samuel Benton 13th Louisiana 20th Louisiana 21st Louisiana^[13] 24th (Crescent) Louisiana Burnett's (Alabama) Battery
	3rd Brigade  BG John C. Moore	1st Arkansas: Col James F. Fagan 2nd Texas 38th Tennessee 51st Tennessee Lumsden's (Alabama) Battery Barret's (Missouri) Battery
Second Division  MG Jones M. Withers BG James H. Trapier^[14]	1st Brigade  BG Franklin Gardner	1st Louisiana Regulars 19th Alabama 22nd Alabama 25th Alabama 26th Alabama (Coltart's)^[15] 39th Alabama 17th Alabama Sharpshooters Battalion Robertson's (Alabama) Battery
	2nd Brigade  BG James R. Chalmers	5th Mississippi 7th Mississippi 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 29th Mississippi 36th Mississippi Ketchum's (Alabama) Battery
	3rd Brigade  BG John K. Jackson	5th Georgia 17th Alabama 18th Alabama 21st Alabama 24th Alabama Burtwell's (Alabama) Battery
	4th Brigade  BG James H. Trapier   Col Arthur M. Manigault	Blythe's (1st) Mississippi Battalion 28th Alabama 34th Alabama^[16] 10th South Carolina: Col Arthur M. Manigault 19th South Carolina Waters' (Alabama) Battery

III Corps

See main article: Third Corps, Army of Tennessee. MG William J. Hardee

width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Other
1st Brigade  BG St. John R. Liddell	2nd Arkansas 5th Arkansas 6th Arkansas 7th Arkansas 8th Arkansas Roberts' (Arkansas) Battery Pioneer Company
2nd Brigade  BG Patrick Cleburne	15th Arkansas 2nd Tennessee 35th Tennessee 24th Tennessee 48th Tennessee Calvert's (Arkansas) Battery
3rd Brigade  BG S. A. M. Wood	16th Alabama 32nd Mississippi 33rd Mississippi 44th Tennessee Baxter's (Tennessee) Battery
4th Brigade  BG John S. Marmaduke	3rd Confederate 25th Tennessee 29th Tennessee 37th Tennessee Swett's (Mississippi) Battery
5th Brigade  Col Alexander T. Hawthorn	33rd Alabama 17th Tennessee 21st Tennessee 23rd Tennessee Austin's (Arkansas) Battery

Reserve Corps

MG John C. Breckinridge

width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Other
1st Brigade  BG James M. Hawes	31st Alabama 4th Alabama Battalion 4th Kentucky 5th (9th) Kentucky Bryne's Mississippi Battery
2nd Brigade  BG Benjamin H. Helm	35th Alabama 3rd Kentucky 6th Kentucky Col Joseph H. Lewis 7th Kentucky Cobb's Kentucky Battery
3rd Brigade:   BG John S. Bowen	9th Arkansas 10th Arkansas 2nd Confederate 1st Missouri Watson's (Louisiana) Battery
4th Brigade  Col Walter S. Statham	15th Mississippi 22nd Mississippi 19th Tennessee 20th Tennessee 28th Tennessee 45th Tennessee McClung's (Tennessee) Battery

Army of the West

See main article: Army of the West (1862). MG Earl Van Dorn

width=30%	Division	width=30%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division     BG Samuel Jones     BG Lewis H. Little	1st Brigade   BG Lewis H. Little^[17]   BG John C. Moore^[18]	16th Arkansas Infantry: Col David Provence 2nd Missouri Infantry 3rd Missouri Infantry Battalion of Missouri Infantry 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Col Elijah Gates Wade’s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt William Wade
	2nd Brigade  BG Louis Hébert^[19]   Col John W. Whitfield	14th Arkansas Infantry 17th Arkansas Infantry 3rd Louisiana Infantry Whitfield’s Texas Legion (dismounted): Col John W. Whitfield 3rd Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Elkanah Greer MacDonald’s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Emmett McDonald
	3rd Brigade  BG Martin E. Green	4th Missouri Infantry Battalion Missouri Infantry Battalion Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) Confederate Rangers (dismounted) Clark’s Battery:^[20] Cpt Houston King Kneisley′s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt James Kneisley
Second Division     BG Sterling Price     BG John P. McCown	1st Brigade   BG Joseph L. Hogg (died May 16)   BG William L. Cabell	McCray’s Arkansas Infantry 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 11th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Andrews's 32d Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Good’s Texas Battery: Cpt John Jay Good
	2nd Brigade   BG Thomas J. Churchill	4th Arkansas Infantry 1st Arkansas Riflemen (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Riflemen (dismounted) 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion Turnbull’s (11th) Arkansas Infantry Battalion Reeves’ Missouri State Guard Cavalry Scouts 1st Arkansas Battery: Cpt David Provence (until 6 May), Lt John T. Humphreys
Third Division     BG Dabney H. Maury	1st Brigade   Col Thomas P. Dockery	18th Arkansas Infantry 19th Arkansas Infantry 20th Arkansas Infantry McCairns’ Arkansas Battalion Unknown battery
	2nd Brigade   BG John C. Moore	Hobbs’ Arkansas Infantry Adams’ Arkansas Infantry 25th Missouri Infantry 2nd Texas Infantry Bledsoe’s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Hiram Bledsoe
	3rd Brigade   Col Charles W. Phifer	3rd Arkansas Cavalry (dismounted) 6th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 9th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Brooks’ (1st) Arkansas Cavalry Battalion McNally’s (Arkansas) Battery
Artillery Brigade	Clark′s Battalion   Maj Meriwether Lewis Clark	Clarks′s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Houston King Kneisley′s (Missouri) Battery:^[21] Cpt James Kneisley Landis′s (Missouri) Battery: Cpt John C. Landis

Sources

• 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.
• Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001. .

Notes and References

1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
2. Book: The War of the Rebellion, Series I, Volume X, Part 1 . 1891 . Washington, D.C. . Government Printing Office . April 13, 2020 . 787–790 .
3. Ill on April 14th
4. Had command on April 14th to unknown
5. Eicher p.297
6. Eicher p.325
7. Book: The War of the Rebellion:a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.. 1880–1901. Washington. 809–811. 2027/mdp.49015002426576.
8. Web site: The Nafziger Collection of Orders of Battle. 2021-05-25. cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org. en.
9. Web site: 17th Regiment Infantry. 2021-05-25. www.acadiansingray.com.
10. Left after May 26th 1862, to Vicksburg
11. Joined after May 26th 1862
12. Transferred to the Second Division by May 26th, 1862
13. Joined after May 26th 1862, but before May 28th
14. Had command on May 3rd
15. Not to be confused with the other 26th Alabama(O'Neill's) that served in the Army of Northern Virginia and later Army of Tennessee. Coltart's 26th Alabama was renamed 50th Alabama on June 6, 1863.
16. Joined in June 1862
17. Eicher p.350
18. Eicher p.395
19. Eicher p.291
20. transferred to Clark′s Brigade
21. transferred to Green′s Brigade