Second Corinth Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Second Battle of Corinth of the American Civil War on October 3 and 4, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle[1] and reports.[2] The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Army of West Tennessee

MG Earl Van Dorn

Price's Corps (Army of the West)

MG Sterling Price

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Louis Hébert
     (reported himself as sick morning of October 5)
     BG Martin E. Green

First Brigade


   Col Elijah Gates

  • 16th Arkansas
  • 2nd Missouri
  • 3rd Missouri
  • 5th Missouri
  • 1st Missouri Dismounted Cavalry
  • Wade's (Missouri) Battery
Second Brigade


   Col W. Bruce Colbert

  • 14th Arkansas
  • 17th Arkansas
  • 3rd Louisiana
  • 40th Mississippi
  • 1st Texas Legion
  • 3rd Texas Dismounted Cavalry
  • Dawson's St. Louis Battery
  • Clark Missouri Battery
Third Brigade


   BG Martin E. Green
   Col W. H. Moore (mw)

  • 43rd Mississippi
  • 7th Mississippi Battalion
  • 4th Missouri
  • 6th Missouri
  • 3rd Missouri Dismounted Cavalry
  • Guibor's (Missouri) Battery
  • Landis's (Missouri) Battery
Fourth Brigade


   Col John D. Martin

  • 37th Alabama
  • 36th Mississippi
  • 37th Mississippi
  • 38th Mississippi
  • Lucas's Battery

Maury's Division
     BG Dabney H. Maury

Moore's Brigade


   BG John C. Moore

Cabell's Brigade


   BG William L. Cabell
   (temporarilly attached to Green's division on October 5)

Phifer's Brigade


   BG Charles W. Phifer

  • 3rd Arkansas Cavalry (dismounted)
  • 6th Texas Cavalry (dismounted)
  • 9th Texas Cavalry (dismounted)
  • Stirman's Arkansas Sharpshooters
  • McNally's Battery
Cavalry Brigade


   BG Frank C. Armstrong

  • Slemon's Regiment
  • Wirt Adam's Mississippi Regiment
Reserve Artillery
  • Hoxton's (Tennessee) Battery
  • Sengstak's Battery

District of the Mississippi

BG Daniel Ruggles (not present)

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     MG Mansfield Lovell

First Brigade


   BG Albert Rust

Second Brigade


   BG John Villepigue

Third Brigade


   BG John S. Bowen

  • 6th Mississippi
  • 15th Mississippi
  • 22nd Mississippi
  • Caruther's Mississippi Battalion
  • 1st Missouri
  • Watson's Battery
Cavalry Brigade


   Col William H. Jackson

  • 1st Mississippi
  • 7th Tennessee

Notes

  1. Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 374-375
  2. Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, page 154

References