Wilderness Confederate order of battle
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The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of the Wilderness of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.
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[edit] Abbreviations used
[edit] Military rank
- Gen = General
- LTG = Lieutenant General
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Cpt = Captain
- Lt = Lieutenant
[edit] Other
- (w) = wounded
- (mw) = mortally wounded
- (k) = killed in action
- (c) = captured
[edit] Army of Northern Virginia
Gen Robert E. Lee
General Staff:
- Chief Engineer: MG Martin L. Smith
- Chief of Artillery: BG William N. Pendleton
- Asst. Adjutant General: Ltc Walter H. Taylor
- Aide de Camp: Ltc Charles Marshall
- Aide de Camp: Maj Charles S. Venable
[edit] First Corps
LTG James Longstreet (w) [1]
MG Charles W. Field
MG Richard H. Anderson [2]
General Staff:
- Asst. Adjutant General: Ltc Gilbert M. Sorrel
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McLaws' (old) Division [3] |
Kershaw's Brigade
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| Wofford's Brigade |
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| Humphreys' Brigade |
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| Bryan's Brigade
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Field's Division |
Jenkins' Brigade
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| Law's Brigade [4]
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| Anderson's Brigade |
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| Gregg's Brigade
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| Benning's Brigade
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Artillery |
Huger's Battalion
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| Haskell's Battalion
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| Cabell's Battalion
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[edit] Second Corps
LTG Richard S. Ewell
General Staff:
- Asst. Adjutant General: Ltc Alexander S. Pendleton
- Asst. Adjutant General: Maj Campbell Brown
- Asst. Inspector General: Col Abner Smead
- Engineer: Maj Benjamin H. Greene
- Aide de Camp: Lt Thomas T. Turner
- Chief of Ordnance: Ltc William Allan
- Medical Director: Dr. Hunter H. McGuire
- Quartermasters: Maj John D. Rogers and Maj A. M. Garber
- Commissaries and subsistence: Maj Wells J. Hawks and Cpt J. J. Lock
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Early's Division [6] |
Hays' Brigade |
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| Pegram's Brigade
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| Gordon's Brigade |
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Johnson's Division |
Stonewall Brigade |
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| Jones' Brigade
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| Steuart's Brigade |
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| Stafford's Brigade
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Rodes' Division |
Daniel's Brigade [7] |
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| Doles' Brigade [8] |
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| Ramseur's Brigade |
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| Battle's Brigade [9] |
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| Johnston's Brigade [10][11] |
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Artillery [12] |
Brown's Division
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| Carter's Division
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[edit] Third Corps
LTG Ambrose P. Hill
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Anderson's Division |
Perrin's Brigade |
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| Harris' Brigade
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| Mahone's Brigade
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| Wright's Brigade |
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| Perry's Brigade
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Heth's Division |
Davis' Brigade [13][14]
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| Cooke's Brigade |
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| Kirkland's Brigade |
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| Walker' s Brigade [15]
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Wilcox's Division |
Lane' s Brigade |
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| Scales' Brigade |
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| McGowan' s Brigade |
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| Thomas' Brigade |
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Artillery |
Poague's Battalion
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| Pegram's Battalion
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| McIntosh' s Battalion
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| Cutts' Battalion
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| Richardson's Battalion
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[edit] Cavalry Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Hampton's Division [16] |
Young's Brigade [17][18][19]
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| Rosser's Brigade |
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Fitzhugh Lee's Division |
Lomax's Brigade |
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| Wickham's Brigade |
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W.H.F. Lee's Division |
Chambliss' Brigade | |
| Gordon's Brigade |
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Horse Artillery |
Breathed's Battalion
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Pickett's Division (Kemper's, Hunton's, Barton's and Corse's Brigade) detached. Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, pp. 341-342; Gordon C. Rhea, To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864, The Order of Battle
- ^ assigned on May 7, 1864
- ^ Kershaw was not official assigned until June 4, 1864
- ^ Brigadier General Evander M. Law was under arrest[citation needed]
- ^ This Battery was equipped; armed with small guns
- ^ Hoke's Brigade (6th, 21st, 54th and 57th North Carolina Regiments and the 1st Battalion North Carolina Sharpshooters) detached [1] [2]
- ^ The 43rd North Carolina was detached with Hoke's Brigade [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]; Rhea in The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, The Order of Battle lists the 43rd North Carolina in this Brigade
- ^ The 21st Georgia was detached with Hoke's Brigade [9] [10]
- ^ The 61st Alabama was assigned on February 12, 1864 in place of the 26th Alabama [11] [12]; Rhea in The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, The Order of Battle lists the 26th Alabama instead of the 61st Alabama
- ^ Johnston's Brigade arrived on May 6, 1864 from Hanover Junction
- ^ Rhea in The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, The Order of Battle lists this Brigade in Early's Division, but the Brigade was not transferred until May 8, 1864 [13] [14]
- ^ The Artillery of the Second Corps was organized into two Divisions on April 7, 1864 by Long [15] [16]
- ^ Brigadier General Joseph R. Davis was ill
- ^ The 26th Mississippi and the 1st Confederate Battalion were ordered to join the Brigade on March 25, 1864 [17] [18] [19]; Rhea in The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, The Order of Battle lists none of the two commands
- ^ Archer's and Walker's Brigade consolidated Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, The Order of Battle
- ^ Elements from Butler's South Carolina Brigade (4th, 5th and 6th South Carolina Cavalry) started arriving May 20, 1864 [20] Gordon C. Rhea, To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864, The Order of Battle; in The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, The Order of Battle Rhea lists the brigade in this division, in The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7–12, 1864, The Order of Battle not.
- ^ Brigadier General Pierce M. B. Young was not present, Colonel Wright (Cobb's Legion) was in command [21] Eric J. Wittenberg, Glory Enough For All, p. 14
- ^ the 7th Georgia was assigned on June 7, 1864 Eric J. Wittenberg, Glory Enough For All, p. 14
- ^ the 20th Georgia Battalion was ordered to join the Army of Northern Virginia on May 25, 1864 [22], arrrived on May 28, 1864 (Gordon C. Rhea, Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 – June 3, 1864, p. 67) and was assigned to the Brigade on June 7, 1864 (Eric J. Wittenberg, Glory Enough For All, p. 14)
[edit] References
- 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
- Freeman, Douglas S. (1934) R. E. Lee, A Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons
- Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8071-3021-4
- Rhea, Gordon C. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7–12, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8071-3067-2
- Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8071-3111-3
- Rhea, Gordon C. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 – June 3, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002 ISBN 978-0-8071-3244-9
- Sketch of the Forty-third Regiment, North Carolina troops. (Infantry)
- 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.
- Wittenberg, Eric J. Glory Enough For All: Sheridan's Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station. Washington, DC: Brassey's, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8032-5967-6
