Shiloh Confederate order of battle

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The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Shiloh of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is shown separately.

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[edit] Abbreviations Used

[edit] Military Rank

[edit] Other

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

[edit] Army of Mississippi

Gen Albert S. Johnston (mw)
Gen P.G.T. Beauregard

[edit] First Corps

MG Leonidas Polk

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division
     BG Charles Clark

 1st Brigade


   Col R. M. Russell
  • 11th Louisiana
  • 12th Tennessee
  • 13th Tennessee
  • 22nd Tennessee
  • Bankhead's Battery
2nd Brigade


   BG Alexander P. Stewart
  • 13th Arkansas
  • 4th Tennessee
  • 5th Tennessee
  • 33rd Tennessee
  • Stanford's Battery

2nd Division
   BG Benjamin F. Cheatham

 1st Brigade


   BG Bushrod R. Johnson
  • Blythe's Mississippi battalion
  • 2nd Tennessee
  • 15th Tennessee
  • 154th Tennessee (senior)
  • Polk's battery
2nd Brigade


   Col W. H. Stephens
  • 7th Kentucky
  • 1st Tennessee
  • 6th Tennessee
  • 9th Tennessee
  • Smith's Battery

[edit] Second Corps

MG Braxton Bragg

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

1st Division
     BG Daniel Ruggles

 1st Brigade


   Col Randall L. Gibson
  • 1st Arkansas
  • 4th Louisiana
  • 13th Louisiana
  • 19th Louisiana
  • Bains' Battery
2nd Brigade


   BG Patton Anderson
  • 1st Florida Battalion
  • 17th Louisiana
  • 20th Louisiana
  • 9th Texas
  • Confederate Guards Response Battalion
  • Hodgson's Battery
3rd Brigade


   Col Preston Pond, Jr.
  • 16th Louisiana
  • 18th Louisiana
  • Crescent (Louisiana) Regiment
  • 38th Tennessee
  • Ketchum's battery

2nd Division
     BG Jones M. Withers

 1st Brigade


   BG A. H. Gladden
  • 21st Alabama
  • 22nd Alabama
  • 23rd Alabama
  • 26th Alabama
  • 1st Louisiana
  • Robertson's Battery
  • Gage's Battery
2nd Brigade


   BG James R. Chalmers
  • 5th Mississippi
  • 7th Mississippi
  • 9th Mississippi
  • 10th Mississippi
  • 51st Tennessee
  • 52nd Tennessee
3rd Brigade


   BG John K. Jackson
  • 17th Alabama
  • 18th Alabama
  • 19th Alabama
  • Alabama battalion
  • Arkansas battalion
  • 2nd Texas
  • Girardey's Battery
  • The 47th Tennessee, Colonel Hill, arrived on the field on the 7th

For a detailed account of the actions of the 19th Alabama at the Battle of Shiloh, see See Col. Joseph Wheeler's report in The Official Records - War of the Rebellion, Vol. X, Part 1 Pages 558-560

[edit] Third Corps

MG William J. Hardee

Brigades Regiments and batteries
1st Brigade


   BG Thomas C. Hindman
  • 2nd Arkansas
  • 5th Arkansas
  • 6th Arkansas
  • 7th Arkansas
  • 3rd Confederate
  • Miller's Battery
  • Swett's Battery
2nd Brigade


   BG Patrick Cleburne
  • 15th Arkansas
  • 6th Mississippi
  • 5th [35th] Tennessee
  • 23rd Tennessee
  • 24th Tennessee
3rd Brigade


   BG S.A.M. Wood
  • 7th Alabama
  • 16th Alabama
  • 8th Arkansas
  • 9th Arkansas Battalion
  • 3rd Mississippi Battalion
  • 27th Tennessee
  • 44th Tennessee
  • 55th Tennessee
  • Harper's battery
Shoup's artillery battalion
  • Watson Battery

[edit] Reserve Corps

BG John C. Breckinridge

Brigades Regiments and batteries
1st Brigade


   Col R.P. Trabue
  • 4th Alabama Battalion
  • 3rd Kentucky
  • 4th Kentucky
  • 5th Kentucky
  • Crew's Tennessee Battalion
  • John Hunt Morgan's Kentucky Cavalry Squadron
  • Byrne's Battery
  • Grave's Battery
  • Lyon's (Cobb's) battery
2nd Brigade


   BG John S. Bowen
  • 9th Arkansas
  • 10th Arkansas
  • 2nd Confederate
  • 1st Missouri
  • Hudson's battery
3rd Brigade


   Col W. Statham
  • 15th Mississippi
  • 22nd Mississippi
  • 19th Tennessee
  • 20th Tennessee
  • 28th Tennessee
  • 45th Tennessee
  • Rutledge's battery

[edit] References

  • McDonough, James Lee. Shiloh: In Hell before Night. University of Tennessee Press, 1977. ISBN 0-87049-232-2

The Official Records - War of the Rebellion, Vol. X, Part 1 Pages 558-560