Port Hudson Confederate order of battle
The following is the organization of the Confederate forces engaged at the Siege of Port Hudson, during the American Civil War in 1863. The Union order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used
Military rank
Department of Mississippi & East Louisiana
| Division |
Brigade |
Regiments and Others |
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District of East Louisiana[1][2]
MG Franklin Gardner
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Left Wing
Col Isaiah G. W. Steedman
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- 1st Alabama: Col I.G.W. Steedman
- 1st Mississippi: Maj Thomas H. Johnston
- 15th Arkansas: Col Benjamin Johnson
- 39th Mississippi: Col W.B. Shelby
- 10th Arkansas: Ltc E.L. Vaughan
- 18th Arkansas: Col W.N. Parish
- 1st Mississippi Light Artillery
- Watson's Louisiana Battery: Lt E.A. Toledano
- 9th Louisiana Battalion: Ltc J.H. Wingfield
- Claiborne's Mississippi Light Infantry: Cpt A.J. Lewis
- English's Mississippi Battery: Lt P.J. Noland
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| Center
BG William Beall
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- 49th Alabama: Maj T.A. Street
- 12th Arkansas: Col T.J. Reid, Jr.
- 16th Arkansas: Col David Provence
- 14th Arkansas: Ltc Pleasant Fowler
- 23rd Arkansas: Col O.P. Lyles
- 1st Arkansas: Ltc B. Jones
- 12th Louisiana Artillery Battalion
- 1st Mississippi: Ltc A.S. Hamilton
- 1st Mississippi Light Artillery: George Abbay
- 1st Alabama Infantry: Cpt J.F. WhitfieId
- 1st Tennessee Light Artillery: Lt Oswald Tilghman
- Watson's Louisiana Battery: Sgt Maj H.L. Nichols
- 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery: Cpt James A. Fisher
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| Right Wing
Col William R. Miles
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- 9th Louisiana: Cpt T.B.R. Chinn
- Miles’ Louisiana Legion: Ltc Frederick Brand
- 23rd Arkansas: Col O.P. Lyles
- Boone’s Louisiana Battery: Cpt R.M. Boone
- Seven Stars Mississippi Artillery: Cpt Calvit Roberts
- DeGournay's Battery: Maj A. Merchant
- Maxey's Brigade (provisional battalion): Col S.A. Whiteside
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| Cavalry[3]
Col John L. Logan
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- 11th and 17th Arkansas (detachment)
- 9th Tennessee Battalion
- Cochran's Battalion
- Garland's Battalion
- Hughes's Battalion
- Stockdale's Battalion
- Robert's Battery
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See also
Notes and references