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

Abbreviations used

Military Officer Rank

Other

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

Army of Mississippi

LTG John C. Pemberton, Commanding

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Stevenson's Division


     Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson

1st Brigade


   BG Seth M. Barton

  • 40th Georgia: Ltc Robert M. Young
  • 41st Georgia: Col William E. Curtiss
  • 42nd Georgia: Col Robert J. Henderson
  • 43rd Georgia: Col Skidmore Harris (k), Cpt Mathadeas M. Grantham
  • 52nd Georgia: Maj John Jay Moore
  • Hudson's (Mississippi) Battery: Lt Milton H. Trantham
  • Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery Co A (section/2 guns): Lt John Yoist
  • Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery, Co C (4 guns): Cpt Alexander Chust
2nd Brigade


   BG Alfred Cumming

  • 34th Georgia: Col James A. W. Johnson
  • 36th Georgia: Maj Charles E. Broyles
  • 39th Georgia: Ltc Joseph F. B. Jackson
  • 56th Georgia: Ltc John T. Slaughter
  • 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo
  • Cherokee (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt Max van den Corput
3rd Brigade


   BG Stephen D. Lee

  • 20th Alabama: Col Isham W. Garrott (k),[4] Col Edmund W. Pettus
  • 23rd Alabama: Col Franklin K. Beck
  • 30th Alabama: Cpt John C. Francis
  • 31st Alabama: Ltc Thomas M. Arrington
  • 46th Alabama: Cpt George E. Brewer
  • Alabama Battery: Cpt James F. Waddell
4th Brigade


   Col Alexander W. Reynolds

  • 3rd Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col Newton J. Lillard
  • 39th Tennessee:[5] Col William M. Bradford
  • 43rd Tennessee: Col James W. Gillespie
  • 59th Tennessee: Col William L. Eakin
  • 3rd Maryland Battery: Cpt John B. Rowan
Waul's Texas Legion


   Col Thomas Neville Waul

  • 1st Battalion (Infantry): Maj Eugene S. Bolling
  • 2nd Battalion (Infantry): Ltc James Wrigley
  • Cavalry Battalion: Lt Thomas J. Cleveland
  • Artillery Company: Cpt John Q. Wall
Attached
  • 1st (Carter's) Tennessee Cavalry, Company C: Cpt Richard S. Vandyke
  • Botetourt (Virginia) Artillery:[6] Lt James P. Wright
  • Signal Corps: Lt C. H. Barrot

Forney's Division


     MG John H. Forney

Hebert's Brigade


   BG Louis Hébert

  • 3rd Louisiana: Maj David Pierson
  • 2lst Louisiana: Ltc John T. Plattsmier
  • 36th Mississippi: Col William W. Witherspoon
  • 37th Mississippi: Col Orlando S. Holland
  • 38th Mississippi: Cpt Daniel B. Seal
  • 43rd Mississippi: Col Richard Harrison
  • 7th Mississippi Battalion: Cpt Alney M. Dozier
  • 2nd Alabama Artillery Battalion, Company C: Lt John R. Sclater
  • Appeal (Arkansas) Battery: Lt Robert N. Cotten
Moore's Brigade


   BG John C. Moore

  • 37th Alabama: Col James F. Dowdell
  • 40th Alabama: Col John H. Higley
  • 42nd Alabama: Col John W. Portis
  • 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (6 companies):[7] Col William T. Withers
  • 35th Mississippi: Ltc Charles R. Jordan
  • 40th Mississippi: Col Wallace B. Colbert
  • 2nd Texas: Col Ashbel Smith
  • Alabama battery: Cpt H.H. Sengstak
  • Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery, Company B: Cpt William A. Davidson

Smith's Division


     MG Martin L. Smith

Baldwin's Brigade


   BG William E. Baldwin

  • 17th Louisiana: Col Robert Richardson
  • 31st Louisiana: Ltc James W. Draughon
  • 4th Mississippi: Cpt Thomas P. Nelson
  • 46th Mississippi: Col Claudius W. Sears
  • Tennessee Battery: Cpt Thomas F. Tobin
Vaughn's Brigade


   BG John C. Vaughn

  • 60th Tennessee: Cpt Jonathan W. Bachman
  • 61st Tennessee: Ltc James G. Rose
  • 62nd Tennessee: Col John A. Rowan
Shoup's Brigade


   BG Francis A. Shoup

Mississippi State Troops[8]


   BG John V. Harris

  • 5th Regiment: Col Henry C. Robinson
  • 3rd Battalion: Ltc Thomas A. Burgin
Attached
  • 14th Mississippi Light Artillery Battalion: Maj Matthew S. Ward
  • Mississippi Partisan Rangers: Cpt James S. Smyth
  • Signal Corps: Cpt Max. T. Davidson

Bowen's Division


     MG John S. Bowen[9]

1st (Missouri) Brigade


   Col Francis Cockrell

  • 1st Missouri: Col Amos C. Riley
  • 2nd Missouri: Maj Thomas M. Carter
  • 3rd Missouri: Maj James K. McDowell
  • 5th Missouri: Col James McCown
  • 6th Missouri: Maj Stephen Cooper
  • Guibor's (Missouri) Battery: Lt Cornelius Heffernan
  • Landis' (Missouri) Battery: Lt John M. Langan
  • Wade's (Missouri) Battery: Lt Richard C. Walsh
2nd Brigade


   BG Martin E. Green (k)[10]
   Col Thomas P. Dockery

Artillery River Batteries[11]


   Col Edward Higgins

  • 1st Louisiana Artillery (8 companies):[12] Ltc Daniel Beltzhoover
  • 8th Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion (3 companies):[13] Maj Frederick N. Ogden
  • 22nd Louisiana (4 companies):[14] Cpt Samuel Jones
  • 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery (4 companies):[15] Col Andrew Jackson, Jr.
  • Tennessee Battery:[16] Cpt J.B. Caruthers
  • Tennessee Battery:[16] Cpt Thomas N. Johnston
  • Tennessee Battery:[16] Cpt J. Peyton Lynch
  • Vaiden (Mississippi) Battery (1st Mississippi Artillery, Battery L): Cpt Samuel C. Bains
Miscellaneous
  • 54th Alabama (detachment): Lt Joel P. Abney
  • City Guards: Cpt E.B. Martin
  • Signal Corps: Cpt C.A. King

Notes

  1. ^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 326-328
  3. ^ The commanders are given as indicated by the paroles.
  4. ^ 17 June 1863; BG as of 28 May 1863}
  5. ^ Paroled as the Thirty-first Regiment, and so known prior to June, 1863.
  6. ^ Assignment uncertain.
  7. ^ Batteries A, C, D, E, G, and I. Battery L (Vaiden Artillery) reported in Higgins' command, and Batteries B, F, and K at Port Hudson, La.
  8. ^ Under Vaughn's command.
  9. ^ died of dysentery on 13 July 1863
  10. ^ June 27, 1863
  11. ^ The troops in this command paroled as of Moore's Brigade.
  12. ^ Bond's, Bruce's, Butler's, Capers', Grayson's, Haynes', Lamon's, and Robertson's Companies.
  13. ^ Barrow's, Grandpre's, and McCrory's Companies.
  14. ^ P. A. Gomez's, Marks', Morlot's, and Theard's Companies.
  15. ^ Dismukes', Neyland's, Norman's, and Parks' Companies.
  16. ^ a b c Attached to 1st Tennesse Heavy Artillery

References