Battle of Franklin (1864) Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Franklin (1864). 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

Other

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

Army of Tennessee

Gen John B. Hood

Lee's Corps

LTG Stephen D. Lee

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Johnson's Division      MG Edward Johnson	Deas's Brigade    BG Zachariah C. Deas (w)	19th Alabama 22nd Alabama 25th Alabama 39th Alabama 50th Alabama
	Manigault's Brigade    BG Arthur M. Manigault (w)    Ltc William L. Butler	24th Alabama 28th Alabama 34th Alabama 10th South Carolina 19th South Carolina
	Sharp's Brigade    BG Jacob H. Sharp	7th Mississippi 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 41st Mississippi 44th Mississippi 9th Mississippi Sharpshooters Battalion
	Brantley's Brigade    BG William F. Brantley	24th-27th Mississippi 29th-30th Mississippi 34th Mississippi Dismounted Cavalry Company
Stevenson's Division      MG Carter L. Stevenson	Cummings's Brigade    Col Elihu P. Watkins	24th Georgia 36th Georgia 39th Georgia 56th Georgia
	Pettus's Brigade    BG Edmund W. Pettus	20th Alabama 23rd Alabama 30th Alabama 31st Alabama 46th Alabama
Clayton's Division      MG Henry D. Clayton, Sr.	Stovall's Brigade    BG Marcellus A. Stovall	40th Georgia 41st Georgia 42nd Georgia 43rd Georgia 52nd Georgia
	Gibson's Brigade    BG Randall L. Gibson	1st Louisiana 4th Louisiana 13th-20th Louisiana 16th-25th Louisiana 19th Louisiana 30th Louisiana 4th Louisiana Battalion 14th Louisiana Sharpshooters Battalion
	Holtzclaw's Brigade    BG James Holtzclaw	18th Alabama 32nd Alabama 36th Alabama 38th Alabama 58th Alabama
Corps Artillery      Maj John W. Johnston	Courtney's Battalion    Cpt James P. Douglas	Dent's Alabama Battery Douglas's Texas Battery Garrity's Alabama Battery
	Eldridge's Battalion    Cpt Charles E. Fenner	Eufaula Alabama Battery Fenner's Louisiana Battery Stanford's Miss Battery
	Johnson's Battalion    Cpt John B. Rowan	Corput's Georgia Battery Marshall's Tenn Battery Stephens's Light Artillery

Stewart's Corps

LTG Alexander P. Stewart

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Loring's Division      MG William W. Loring	Featherston's Brigade    BG Winfield S. Featherston	1st Mississippi 3rd Mississippi 22nd Mississippi 31st Mississippi 33rd Mississippi 40th Mississippi 1st Mississippi Battalion
	Adams's Brigade    BG John Adams (k)    Col Robert Lowry	6th Mississippi 14th Mississippi 15th Mississippi 20th Mississippi 23d Mississippi 43d Mississippi
	Scott's Brigade    BG Thomas M. Scott (w)    Col John Snodgrass	27th Alabama 35th Alabama 49th Alabama 55th Alabama 57th Alabama 12th Louisiana
French's Division      Maj. Gen. Samuel G. French	Ector's Brigade    Col David Coleman	29th North Carolina 30th North Carolina 9th Texas 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 32nd Texas Cavalry (dismounted)
	Cockrell's Brigade    BG Francis M. Cockrell (w)    Col Peter C. Flournoy	1st Missouri 2nd Missouri 3rd Missouri 4th Missouri 5th Missouri 6th Missouri 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) 3rd Missouri Cavalry Battalion (dismounted)
	Sears's Brigade    BG Claudius Sears	4th Mississippi 35th Mississippi 36th Mississippi 39th Mississippi 46th Mississippi 7th Mississippi Battalion
Walthall's Division      MG Edward C. Walthall	Quarles's Brigade    BG William A. Quarles (wounded at Franklin, captured Dec. 17th)    BG George D. Johnston (Nashville)	1st Alabama 42nd Tennessee 46th Tennessee 48th Tennessee 49th Tennessee 53rd Tennessee 55th Tennessee
	Cantey's Brigade    BG Charles M. Shelley	17th Alabama 26th Alabama 29th Alabama 37th Mississippi
	Reynold's Brigade    BG Daniel H. Reynolds	4th Arkansas 9th Arkansas 25th Arkansas 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted)
Corps Artillery      Ltc Samuel C. Williams	Truehart's Battalion	Lumsden's Alabama Battery Selden's Alabama Battery
	Myrick's Battalion	Bouanchaud's Louisiana Battery Cowan's Miss Battery Darden's Miss Battery
	Storrs' Battalion	Guibor's Missouri Battery Hoskin's Miss Battery Kolb's Alabama Battery

Cheatham's Corps

MG Benjamin F. Cheatham

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cleburne's Division      MG Patrick Cleburne (k)      BG James A. Smith	Lowrey's Brigade    BG Mark P. Lowrey	16th Alabama 33rd Alabama 45th Alabama 5th Mississippi 8th Mississippi 32nd Mississippi 3rd Mississippi Battalion
	Govan's Brigade    BG Daniel C. Govan	1st Arkansas 2nd-15th Arkansas 5th-13th Arkansas 6th Arkansas 7th Arkansas 8th Arkansas 19th-24th Arkansas
	Granbury's Brigade    BG Hiram B. Granbury (k)    Cpt E. T. Broughton	5th Confederate 35th Tennessee 6th-10th Texas 7th Texas 15th Texas 17th-18th-24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Nutt's Louisiana Cavalry (dismounted)
	Smith's Brigade (on detached duty)    BG James A. Smith    Col Charles H. Olmstead	54th Georgia 57th Georgia 63rd Georgia 1st Georgia Volunteers
Brown's (Cheatham's Old) Division      MG John C. Brown (w)      BG Mark P. Lowrey	Gist's Brigade    BG States Rights Gist (k)    Ltc Zachariah L. Watters	46th Georgia 65th Georgia 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion 16th South Carolina 24th South Carolina
	Maney's Brigade    BG John C. Carter (mw)    Col Hume R. Field	1st-27th Tennessee 4th Tennessee (provisional) 6th-9th Tennessee 8th Tennessee 16th Tennessee 28th Tennessee 50th Tennessee
	Strahl's Brigade    BG Otho F. Strahl (k)    Col Andrew J. Kellar	4th-5th Tennessee 19th Tennessee 24th Tennessee 31st Tennessee 33d Tennessee 38th Tennessee 41st Tennessee
	Vaughan's Brigade    BG George W. Gordon (c)    Col William M. Watkins	11th Tennessee 12th-47th Tennessee 13th-154th Tennessee 29th Tennessee 51st-52nd Tennessee
Bate's Division      MG William B. Bate	Tyler's Brigade    BG Thomas B. Smith	37th Georgia 4th Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion 2nd Tennessee 10th Tennessee 20th Tennessee 37th Tennessee
	Finley's Brigade    Col Robert Bullock    Maj Jacob A. Lash	1st-3rd Florida 4th Florida 6th Florida 7th Florida 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted)
	Jackson's Brigade    BG Henry R. Jackson	25th Georgia 29th Georgia 30th Georgia 1st Georgia Confederate 1st Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion
Corps Artillery      Col Melancthon Smith	Hoxton's Battalion	Phelan's Alabama Battery Perry's Florida Battery Turner's Miss Battery
	Hotchkiss's Battalion	Goldthwaite's Alabama Battery Key's Arkansas Battery Bledsoe's Missouri Battery
	Cobb's Battalion	Slocumb's Louisiana Battery Ferguson's South Carolina Battery Phillip's [Mabane's] Tennessee Battery

Cavalry Corps

MG Nathan B. Forrest

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Chalmers' Division      BG James R. Chalmers	Rucker's Brigade    Col Edmund W. Rucker	7th Alabama Cavalry 5th Mississippi Cavalry 7th Tennessee Cavalry 12th Tennessee Cavalry 14th Tennessee Cavalry 15th Tennessee Cavalry Forrest's Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry
	Biffle's Brigade    Col Jacob B. Biffle	4th Tennessee Cavalry 9th Tennessee Cavalry 10th Tennessee Cavalry
Buford's Division      BG Abraham Buford	Bell's Brigade    Col Tyree H. Bell	2nd/22nd Tennessee Cavalry (Barteau's) 19th Tennessee Cavalry 20th Tennessee Cavalry 21st Tennessee Cavalry Nixon's Tennessee, Cavalry Regiment
	Crossland's Brigade    Col Edward Crossland	3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry 8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry 12th Kentucky Cavalry Huey's Kentucky Battalion
Jackson's Division      BG William H. Jackson	Armstrong's Brigade    BG Frank C. Armstrong	1st Mississippi Cavalry 2nd Mississippi Cavalry 28th Mississippi Cavalry Ballentine's Mississippi Regiment
	Ross's Brigade    BG Lawrence S. Ross	3rd Texas Cavalry 6th Texas Cavalry 9th Texas Cavalry 27th Texas Cavalry 1st Texas Legion
Artillery	Morton's Tennessee Battery

References

• The Franklin Civil War Roundtable
• Save the Franklin Battlefield website
• Battle of Franklin - massive web site/blog
• The McGavock Confederate Cemetery - Franklin, TN