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Battle of Nashville order of battle: Confederate

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The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Nashville of the American Civil War. The order of battle has been compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign[2] and reports.[3] The Union order of battle is shown separately.

Abbreviations used

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Military rank

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Other

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

Army of Tennessee

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Gen John B. Hood, Commanding

Cheatham’s Corps

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MG Benjamin F. Cheatham

Chief of Artillery
Col Melancthon Smith

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Brown's Division
     BG Mark P. Lowrey

Gist's Brigade


   Ltc Zachariah L. Watters

  • 46th Georgia: Cpt Malcolm Gillis
  • 65th Georgia-8th Georgia Battalion: Cpt William W. Grant
  • 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion: Cpt William H. Brown
  • 16th South Carolina: Cpt John W. Boling
  • 24th South Carolina: Cpt William C. Griffith
Strahl's Brigade


   Col Andrew J. Kellar

  • 4th-5th-31st-33rd-38th Tennessee: Ltc Luke W. Finlay
  • 19th-24th-41st Tennessee: Cpt Daniel A. Kennedy
Maney's Brigade


   Col Hume R. Field

  • 4th (Provision Army)-6th-9th-50th Tennessee: Ltc George W. Pease
  • 1st-27th Tennessee: Ltc John L. House
  • 8th-16th-28th Tennessee: Col John H. Anderson
Vaughan's Brigade


   Col William M. Watkins

Artillery Battalion
  • Perry's (Florida) battery
  • Phelan's (Alabama) battery
  • Turner's (Mississippi) battery

Cleburne's Division
     BG James A. Smith

Smith's Brigade
(attached to Forrest's command at Murfreesboro)


   Col Charles H. Olmstead

  • 1st Georgia Volunteers: Maj Martin J. Ford
  • 54th Georgia: Cpt George W. Moody
  • 57th Georgia: Cpt Lucius C. Bryan
  • 63rd Georgia: Cpt Elijah J. Craven
Govan's Brigade


   BG Daniel C. Govan (w)
   Col Peter V. Green (w)

Lowrey's Brigade


   Ltc Robert H. Abercrombie

  • 16th-33rd-45th Alabama: Ltc Robert H. Abercrombie
  • 5th Regiment-3rd Mississippi Battalion: Cpt Francis M. Woodward
  • 8th-32nd Mississippi: Maj Andrew E. Moody
Granbury's Brigade


   Cpt Edward T. Broughton

Bate's Division
     MG William B. Bate

Tyler's Brigade


   BG Thomas B. Smith (w&c)

  • 37th Georgia: Cpt James A. Sanders
  • 4th Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion: Maj Theodore D. Caswell
  • 2nd-10th-20th-37th Tennessee: Ltc William M. Shy (k), Maj Henry C. Lucas
Finley's Brigade


   Maj Jacob A. Lash (mw&c)
   Maj Glover A. Ball

Jackson's Brigade


   BG Henry R. Jackson (c)

  • 1st Georgia (Confederate)-66th Georgia: Ltc James C. Gordon
  • 25th Georgia: Cpt Joseph E. Fulton
  • 29th-30th Georgia: Col William D. Mitchell
  • 1st Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion: Lt R. Cuyler King
Cobb's Artillery Battalion


   Cpt Rene T. Beauregard

  • Slocomb's (Louisiana) Battery
  • Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery
  • Mebane's (Tennessee) Battery

Corps artillery

Hotchkiss's Battalion

Lee’s Corps

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LTG Stephen D. Lee

Chief of Artillery
Maj John W. Johnston

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Johnson's Division
     MG Edward Johnson (c)

Deas' Brigade


   BG Zachariah C. Deas

  • 19th Alabama: Ltc George R. Kimbrough
  • 22nd Alabama: Cpt Hugh W. Henry
  • 25th Alabama: Cpt Napoleon B. Rouse
  • 39th Alabama: Ltc William C. Clifton
  • 50th Alabama: Col John G. Coltart
Sharp's Brigade


   BG Jacob H. Sharp

  • 7th-9th Mississippi: Maj Henry Pope
  • 10th-44th-9th Sharpshooters Battalion Mississippi: Cpt Robert A. Bell
  • 41st Mississippi: Cpt James M. Hicks
Manigault's Brigade


   Ltc William L. Butler

  • 24th Alabama: Cpt Thomas J. Kimbell
  • 28th Alabama: Cpt William M. Nabors
  • 34th Alabama: Ltc John C. Carter
  • 10th South Carolina: Ltc C. Irvine Walker
  • 19th South Carolina: Cpt Thomas W. Getzen
Brantley's Brigade


   BG William F. Brantley

  • 24th-34th Mississippi: Cpt Clifton Dancy
  • 27th Mississippi: Cpt Samuel M. Pegg
  • 29th-30th Mississippi: Cpt Robert W. Williamson
  • Alexander's (Tennessee) Cavalry Company (dismounted): Cpt David W. Alexander
Courtney's Artillery Battalion


   Cpt James P. Douglas

  • Dent's (Alabama) Battery: Cpt Staunton H. Dent
  • Douglas's Texas Battery: Lt Benjamin Hardin
  • Garrity's (Alabama) Battery: Lt Henry F. Carrell

Stevenson's Division
     MG Carter L. Stevenson

Cumming's Brigade


   Col Elihu P. Watkins

  • 34th Georgia: Cpt Russell A. Jones
  • 36th Georgia: Col Charles E. Broyles
  • 39th Georgia: Cpt William P. Milton
  • 56th Georgia: Cpt Benjamin T. Spearman
Pettus's Brigade


   BG Edmund W. Pettus

  • 20th Alabama: Col James M. Dedman
  • 23rd Alabama: Ltc Joseph B. Bibb
  • 30th Alabama: Ltc James K. Elliott
  • 31st Alabama: Ltc Thomas M. Arrington
  • 46th Alabama: Cpt George E. Brewer
Brown's and Reynolds' Brigade


   Col Joseph B. Palmer

Clayton's Division
     MG Henry D. Clayton

Stovall's Brigade


   BG Marcellus A. Stovall

  • 40th Georgia: Col Abda Johnson
  • 41st Georgia: Cpt Jared E. Stallings
  • 42nd Georgia: Col Robert J. Henderson
  • 43rd Georgia: Col Henry C. Kellogg
  • 52nd Georgia: Cpt Rufus R. Asbury
Holtzclaw's Brigade


   BG James T. Holtzclaw

Gibson's Brigade


   BG Randall L. Gibson

Eldridge's Artillery Battalion


   Cpt Charles E. Fenner

  • Eufaula (Alabama) Battery: Cpt William J. McKenzie
  • Fenner's (Louisiana) Battery: Lt Wat T. Cluverius
  • Stanford's (Mississippi) Battery: Lt James S. McCall

Corps Artillery

Johnston's Battalion


   Cpt John B. Rowan

  • Corput's (Georgia) Battery: Lt William S. Hoge
  • Marshall's (Tennessee) Battery: Cpt Lucius G. Marshall
  • Stephens (Georgia) Light Artillery: Lt William L. Ritter

Stewart’s Corps

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LTG Alexander P. Stewart

Chief of Artillery
Ltc Samuel C. Williams

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Loring's Division
     MG William W. Loring

Featherston's Brigade


   BG Winfield S. Featherston

  • 1st Mississippi: Cpt Owen D. Hughes
  • 3rd Mississippi: Cpt O. H. Johnston
  • 22nd Mississippi: Maj Martin A. Oatis
  • 31st Mississippi: Cpt Robert A. Collins
  • 33rd Mississippi: Cpt Thomas L. Cooper
  • 40th Mississippi: Col Wallace B. Colbert
  • 1st Mississippi Battalion: Maj James M. Stigler
Adams' Brigade


   Col Robert Lowry

Scott's Brigade


   Col John Snodgrass

  • 55th Alabama: Maj James B. Dickey
  • 57th Alabama: Maj J. Horatio Wiley
  • 27th-35th-49th Alabama: Ltc John D. Weeden
  • 12th Louisiana: Cpt James T. Davis
Myrick's Artillery Battalion

French's Division
   MG Samuel G. French (absent, sick)
temporarily attached to Walthall's Division
    

Sears' Brigade


   BG Claudius W. Sears (w)

Ector's Brigade


   Col David Coleman

Cockrell's Brigade
(on detached duty on the Duck River)


   Col Peter C. Flournoy

  • 1st-4th Missouri: Cpt James H. Wickersham
  • 2nd-6th Missouri: Ltc Stephen Cooper
  • 3rd-5th Missouri: Cpt Benjamin E. Guthrie
  • 1st-3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Lt Charles B. Cleveland
Storrs' Artillery Battalion
  • Guibor's (Missouri) battery
  • Hoskins' (Mississippi) battery
  • Kolb's (Alabama) battery

Walthall's Division
     MG Edward C. Walthall

Quarles' Brigade


   BG George D. Johnston

  • 1st Alabama: Lt Charles M. McRae
  • 42nd-46th-49th-53rd-55th Tennessee: Cpt Austin M. Duncan
  • 48th Tennessee: Col William M. Voorhies
Cantey's Brigade


   BG Charles M. Shelley

  • 17th Alabama: Cpt John Bolling, Jr.
  • 26th Alabama: Cpt Daniel M. Gideon
  • 29th Alabama: Cpt Samuel Abernethy
  • 37th Mississippi: Maj Samuel H. Terral
Reynolds' Brigade


   BG Daniel H. Reynolds

Trueheart's Artillery Battalion


   Cpt James H. Yates

  • Lumsden's (Alabama) battery
  • Selden's (Alabama) battery
  • Tarrant's (Alabama) battery

Cavalry Corps

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MG Nathan B. Forrest
(Detached; at Murfreesboro with Jackson's and Buford's Divisions.)

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Chalmers' Division
     BG James R. Chalmers

Rucker's Brigade


   Col Edmund W. Rucker (w&c)
   Ltc Raleigh R. White

  • 7th Alabama Cavalry
  • 5th Mississippi Cavalry
  • 3rd Tennessee Cavalry (Forrest's Old Regiment)
  • 7th Tennessee Cavalry
  • 12th Tennessee Cavalry
  • 14th Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc Raleigh R. White
  • 15th Tennessee Cavalry
Biffle's Brigade


   Col Jacob B. Biffle

  • 4th Tennessee Cavalry
  • 9th Tennessee Cavalry
  • 10th Tennessee Cavalry

Buford's Division
(Detached; at Murfreesboro)
     BG Abraham Buford

Bell's Brigade


   Col Tyree H. Bell

Crossland's Brigade


   Col Edward Crossland

Jackson's Division
(Detached; at Murfreesboro)
     BG William H. Jackson

Armstrong's Brigade


   BG Frank C. Armstrong

Ross's Brigade


   BG Lawrence S. Ross

Artillery
  • Morton's Tennessee Battery

Notes

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  1. ^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLV, Part 1, pages 664-669 (December 10, 1864)
  3. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLV, Part 1, pages 31-32

References

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