Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign Confederate order of battle

The following units and commanders fought in the Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign of the American Civil War on the Confederate side. The Union order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization from November 20, 1863^[1] and the reports.^[2]

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
Sgt = Sergeant
Cpl = Corporal

Other[]

(w) = wounded
(mw) = mortally wounded
(k) = killed in action
(c) = captured

Army of Tennessee[]

Gen Braxton Bragg

Escort:

1st Louisiana (Regulars)
1st Louisiana Cavalry

Hardee's Corps[]

LTG William J. Hardee

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cheatham's Division MG Benjamin F. Cheatham BG John K. Jackson	Jackson's Brigade BG John K. Jackson Col John C. Wilkinson	1st Georgia (Confederate) 5th Georgia 47th Georgia: Ltc A.C. Edwards 65th Georgia 2nd Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters 5th Mississippi 8th Mississippi: Col John C. Wilkinson
	Moore's Brigade BG John C. Moore	37th Alabama: Ltc Alexander A. Greene 40th Alabama: Col John H. Higley 42nd Alabama: Ltc Thomas C. Lanier
	Walthall's Brigade BG Edward C. Walthall (w)	24th Mississippi: Col William F. Dowd 27th Mississippi: Col James A. Campbell (c), Ltc Andrew J. Jones 29th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley 30th Mississippi: Maj James M. Johnson 34th Mississippi: Col Samuel Benton, Cpt H. J. Bowen
	Wright's Brigade^[3] BG Marcus J. Wright Col John H. Anderson	8th Tennessee: Col John H. Anderson, Ltc Chris C. McKinney 16th Tennessee: Col D. M. Donnell, Cpt Benjamin Randals 28th Tennessee: Col Sidney S. Stanton 51st-52nd Tennessee: Ltc John G. Hall
	Artillery Battalion Maj Melancthon Smith	Fowler's (Alabama) battery McCants' (Florida) battery Scogin's (Georgia) battery Smith's (Mississippi) battery
Hindman's Division BG Patton Anderson	Anderson's Brigade Col William F. Tucker	7th Mississippi 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 41st Mississippi 44th Mississippi 9th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters
	Manigault's Brigade BG Arthur M. Manigault	24th Alabama 28th Alabama 34th Alabama 10th-19th South Carolina
	Deas' Brigade BG Zach C. Deas	19th Alabama 22nd Alabama 25th Alabama 39th Alabama 50th Alabama 17th Alabama Battalion Sharpshooters
	Vaughan's Brigade BG Alfred J. Vaughan, Jr.	11th Tennessee 12th-47th Tennessee 13th-154th Tennessee 29th Tennessee
	Artillery Battalion Maj Alfred R. Courtney	Dent's (Alabama) battery Garrity's (Alabama) battery Scott's (Tennessee) battery Waters' (Alabama) battery
Buckner's Division^[4] BG Bushrod R. Johnson	Johnson's Brigade Col John S. Fulton	17th-23rd Tennessee 25th-44th Tennessee 63rd Tennessee
	Gracie's Brigade BG Archibald Gracie, Jr.	41st Alabama 43rd Alabama 1st Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion 2nd Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion 3rd Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion 4th Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion
	Reynolds' Brigade BG Alexander W. Reynolds	58th North Carolina 60th North Carolina: Maj James T. Weaver 54th Virginia 63rd Virginia
	Artillery Battalion Maj Samuel C. Williams	Darden's (Mississippi) battery Jeffress' (Virginia) battery Kolb's (Alabama) battery: Cpt R. F. Kolb
Walker's Division BG States R. Gist	Maney's Brigade BG George Maney (w)	1st-27th Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field 4th Tennessee (Provisional Army) 6th-9th Tennessee 41st Tennessee 50th Tennessee: Col Cyrus A. Sugg (w) 24th Tennessee Battalion Sharpshooters
	Gist's Brigade^[5]	46th Georgia 8th Georgia Battalion 16th South Carolina 24th South Carolina
	Wilson's Brigade^[6]	25th Georgia 29th Georgia 30th Georgia 66th Georgia 26th Georgia Battalion 1st Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters
	Artillery Battalion Maj Robert Martin	Bledsoe's (Missouri) battery Ferguson's (South Carolina) battery Howell's (Georgia) battery: Lt R. T. Gibson

Breckinridge's Corps[]

MG John C. Breckinridge

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cleburne's Division MG Patrick Cleburne	Liddell's Brigade Col Daniel C. Govan	2nd-15th-24th Arkansas: Maj E. Warfield 5th-13th Arkansas: Col John E. Murray 6th-7th Arkansas: Ltc Peter Snyder 8th-19th Arkansas: Ltc Augustus S. Hutchison
	Smith's Brigade BG James A. Smith (w) Col Hiram B. Granbury	6th-10th Texas-15th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Roger Q. Mills (w), Cpt John R. Kennard 7th Texas: Col Hiram B. Granbury, Cpt Charles E. Talley 17th-18th-24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Maj William A. Taylor
	Polk's Brigade BG Lucius E. Polk	1st Arkansas: Col John W. Colquitt, Ltc William H. Martin (w) 3rd-5th Confederate: Ltc James C. Cole (w), Cpt W. A. Brown, Cpt M. H. Dixon 2nd Tennessee: Col William D. Robison (w), Ltc William J. Hale 35th-48thTennessee
	Lowrey's Brigade BG Mark P. Lowrey	16th Alabama: Maj Frederick A. Ashford 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams 45th Alabama: Ltc Harris D. Lampley 32nd-45th Mississippi: Col Aaron B. Hardcastle 15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters: Cpt T. M. Steger
	Artillery Battalion Maj Thomas R. Hotchkiss Cpt James P. Douglas	Calvert's (Arkansas) battery: Lt Thomas J. Key Douglas' (Texas) battery: James P. Douglas, Lt John H. Bingham Semple's (Alabama) battery: Lt Richard W. Goldthwaite Swett's (Mississippi) battery: Lt Harvey Shannon (w), Lt Joseph Ashton (mw), Cpl F. M. Williams^[7]
Stewart's Division MG Alexander P. Stewart	Adams' Brigade Col Randall L. Gibson	13th-20th Louisiana 16th-25th Louisiana 19th Louisiana 4th Louisiana Battalion 14th Louisiana Battalion Sharpshooters: Maj John E. Austin
	Strahl's Brigade BG Otho F. Strahl	4th-5th Tennessee 19th Tennessee 24th Tennessee 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee
	Clayton's Brigade^[8] Col James T. Holtzclaw	18th Alabama 32nd-58th Alabama 36th Alabama 38th Alabama
	Stovall's Brigade BG Marcellus A. Stovall	40th Georgia 41st Georgia 42nd Georgia 43rd Georgia 52nd Georgia
	Artillery Battalion Cpt Henry C. Semple	Dawson's (Georgia) battery Humphreys' (Arkansas) battery Oliver's (Alabama) battery Stanford's (Mississippi) battery
Breckinridge's Division BG William B. Bate
	Lewis' Brigade BG Joseph H. Lewis	2nd Kentucky 4th Kentucky 5th Kentucky 6th Kentucky 9th Kentucky John H. Morgan's dismounted men
	Bate's Brigade Col Robert C. Tyler (w) Col Anthony F. Rudler (w) Ltc James J. Turner	37th Georgia: Col Anthony F. Rudler, Ltc Joseph T. Smith 4th Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters 10th Tennessee: Maj John O'Neill 15th-37th Tennessee: Maj John M. Wall 20th Tennessee 30th Tennessee: Ltc James J. Turner 1st Tennessee Battalion
	Florida (Finley's) Brigade BG Jesse J. Finley	1st-3rd Florida: Ltc Elisha Mashburn 4th Florida: Ltc Edward Badger 6th Florida: Ltc Angus D. McLean 7th Florida 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted)
	Artillery Battalion Cpt Cuthbert H. Slocomb	Cobb's (Kentucky) battery Mebane's (Tennessee) battery Slocomb's (Louisiana) battery
Stevenson's Division MG Carter L. Stevenson BG John C. Brown	Brown's Brigade BG John C. Brown	3rd Tennessee 18th-26th Tennessee: Ltc William R. Butler, Maj William H. Joyner (w) 32nd Tennessee: Maj John P. McGuire 45th Tennessee-23rd Tennessee Battalion: Col Anderson Searcy
	Cumming's Brigade BG Alfred Cumming	34th Georgia: Col James A. W. Johnson (w), Ltc Joseph W. Bradley 36th Georgia: Ltc Alexander M. Wallace (w), Cpt Jacob L. Morgan 39th Georgia: Col Joseph T. McConnell (mw) 56th Georgia: Ltc John T. Slaughter (w), Cpt John A. Grice
	Pettus's Brigade BG Edmund W. Pettus	20th Alabama: Cpt John W. Davis 23rd Alabama 30th Alabama: Col Charles M. Shelley 31st Alabama: Col Daniel R. Hundley 46th Alabama
	Artillery Battalion^[9] Cpt William W. Carnes^[10]	Baxter's (Tennessee) battery Carnes's (Tennessee) battery Corput's (Georgia) battery: Cpt Max Van Den Corput Rowan's (Georgia) battery

Wheeler's Cavalry Corps[]

MG Joseph Wheeler^[11]

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Wharton's Division MG John A. Wharton	First Brigade Col Thomas Harrison	3rd Arkansas 6th North Carolina 8th Texas 11th Texas
Wharton's Division MG John A. Wharton	Second Brigade BG Henry B. Davidson	1st Tennessee 2nd Tennessee 4th Tennessee 6th Tennessee 11th Tennessee
Martin's Division BG William T. Martin	First Brigade BG John T. Morgan	1st Alabama 3rd Alabama 4th (Russell's) Alabama Malone's (Alabama) Regiment 51st Alabama
Martin's Division BG William T. Martin	Second Brigade Col James J. Morrison	1st Georgia 2nd Georgia 3rd Georgia 4th Georgia 6th Georgia
Armstrong's Division BG Frank C. Armstrong	First Brigade BG William Y.C. Humes	4th (Baxter Smith's) Tennessee 5th Tennessee 8th (Dibrell's) Tennessee 9th Tennessee 10th Tennessee
Armstrong's Division BG Frank C. Armstrong	Second Brigade Col Charles H. Tyler	Clay's (Kentucky) Battalion Edmundson's (Virginia) Battalion Jessee's (Kentucky) Battalion Johnson's (Kentucky) Battalion
Kelly's Division BG John H. Kelly	First Brigade Col William B. Wade	1st Confederate 3rd Confederate 8th Confederate 10th Confederate
Kelly's Division BG John H. Kelly	Second Brigade Col John W. Grigsby	2nd Kentucky 3rd Kentucky 9th Kentucky Allison's Tennessee Squadron Hamilton's Tennessee Battalion Rucker's Legion
	Artillery	Huggins' (Tennessee) battery Huwald's (Tennessee) battery White's (Tennessee) battery Wiggins' (Arkansas) battery

Reserve Artillery[]

Battalions	Batteries
Robertson's Battalion^[12] Maj Felix H. Robertson	Barret's (Missouri) battery Havis' (Georgia) battery Lumsden's (Alabama) battery Massenburg's (Georgia) battery

Notes[]

↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 657-664
↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 808-812
↑ The 38th Tennessee was left at Charleston, Tennessee (see: Wright's report)
↑ Detached November 22 for operations in East Tennessee. Reynolds' brigade and the artillery were recalled
↑ Brigade commander unknown^{[citation needed]}
↑ Col James C. Nisbet from the 66th Georgia was probably in command^{[citation needed]}
↑ So many non-commissioned officers and men had been killed and disabled in the battery that Col Granbury was forced to make a detail from the infantry to work the guns (see: Cleburne's report)
↑ The 32nd Alabama and 58th Alabama were consolidated just prior to the Battle of Missionary Ridge (see: Peter Cozzens, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga, page 412)
↑ According to Stevenson's return from November 20, 1863 his artillery battalion consisted of Carnes's, Corput's and Rowan's batteries and the 20th Alabama Battalion viz: Company A, Cpt Winslow D. Emery; Company B, Richard H. Bellamy and Company C, Cpt T. J. Key
↑ Peter Cozzens, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga, page 413
↑ Army organization from November 20, 1863 shows that the First Brigade of Wharton's Division, Martin's Division, Armstrong's Division (the 5th Tennessee excepted) and all the Artillery (excepted Huwald's battery) was detached under Wheeler's command
↑ Sengstak's (Alabama) battery, assigned November 19, not accounted for

References[]

Cozzens, Peter. The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-252-06595-8.
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.

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[1] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 657-664

[2] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, pages 808-812

[3] The 38th Tennessee was left at Charleston, Tennessee (see: Wright's report)

[4] Detached November 22 for operations in East Tennessee. Reynolds' brigade and the artillery were recalled

[5] Brigade commander unknown^{[citation needed]}

[6] Col James C. Nisbet from the 66th Georgia was probably in command^{[citation needed]}

[7] So many non-commissioned officers and men had been killed and disabled in the battery that Col Granbury was forced to make a detail from the infantry to work the guns (see: Cleburne's report)

[8] The 32nd Alabama and 58th Alabama were consolidated just prior to the Battle of Missionary Ridge (see: Peter Cozzens, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga, page 412)

[9] According to Stevenson's return from November 20, 1863 his artillery battalion consisted of Carnes's, Corput's and Rowan's batteries and the 20th Alabama Battalion viz: Company A, Cpt Winslow D. Emery; Company B, Richard H. Bellamy and Company C, Cpt T. J. Key

[10] Peter Cozzens, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga, page 413

[11] Army organization from November 20, 1863 shows that the First Brigade of Wharton's Division, Martin's Division, Armstrong's Division (the 5th Tennessee excepted) and all the Artillery (excepted Huwald's battery) was detached under Wheeler's command

[12] Sengstak's (Alabama) battery, assigned November 19, not accounted for

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