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The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Second Battle of Corinth of the American Civil War on October 3 and 4, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle[1] and reports.[2] The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

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

Army of West Tennessee

MG Earl Van Dorn

Price's Corps (Army of the West)

MG Sterling Price

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Louis Hébert
     (reported himself as sick morning of October 4)
     BG Martin E. Green

First Brigade


   Col Elijah Gates

Second Brigade


   Col W. Bruce Colbert

Third Brigade


   BG Martin E. Green
   Col William H. Moore (mw)

Fourth Brigade


   Col John D. Martin (mw)
   Col Robert McLain (w)

  • 37th Alabama - Col James F. Dowdell
  • 36th Mississippi - Col William W. Witherspoon
  • 37th Mississippi - Col Robert McLain
  • 38th Mississippi - Ltc Preston Brent
  • Lucas's Battery

Maury's Division
     BG Dabney H. Maury

Moore's Brigade


   BG John C. Moore

Cabell's Brigade

(temporarily attached to Green's division on October 5)
  
   BG William L. Cabell (w)

Phifer's Brigade


   BG Charles W. Phifer

Cavalry Brigade


   BG Frank C. Armstrong

Reserve Artillery


   Cpt William E. Burnet

  • Hoxton's (Tennessee) Battery - Lt Thomas F. Tobin (c)
  • Sengstak's (Alabama) Battery - Cpt Henry H. Sengstak

District of the Mississippi

BG Daniel Ruggles (not present)

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     MG Mansfield Lovell

First Brigade


   BG Albert Rust

  • 31st Alabama - Col Daniel R. Hundley
  • 35th Alabama - Cpt Alva E. Ashford
  • 4th Alabama Battalion - Maj John H. Gibson
  • 9th Arkansas - Col Isaac L. Dunlop
  • 3rd Kentucky - Col Albert P. Thompson
  • 7th Kentucky - Col Edward Crossland
  • Hudson's (Mississippi) Battery - Lt John R. Sweaney
Second Brigade


   BG John Villepigue

  • 33rd Mississippi - Col David W. Hurst
  • 39th Mississippi - Col William B. Shelby
  • Pointe Coupee Artillery (3 batteries) - Maj George O. Watts[3]
Third Brigade


   BG John S. Bowen

  • 6th Mississippi - Col Robert Lowry
  • 15th Mississippi - Col Michael Farrell
  • 22nd Mississippi - Cpt James D. Lester
  • Caruthers' Mississippi Sharpshooters - Cpt Copeland K. Caruthers
  • 1st Missouri - Ltc Amos C. Riley
  • Watson's (Louisiana) Battery - Cpt Allen A. Bursley
Cavalry Brigade


   Col William H. Jackson

  • Dupiere's Louisiana Zouaves - Maj St. Leon Dupiere

Notes

  1. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 374-375
  2. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, page 154
  3. ^ temporary, served as Inspector-General to BG Villepigue

References

  • 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.
  • Cozzens, Peter, The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8078-2320-1.
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