Fredericksburg Confederate order of battle
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1][2] The Union order of battle is listed separately.
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
Other
- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k =killed
- c = captured
Army of Northern Virginia
Gen Robert E. Lee, Commanding
First Corps
LTG James Longstreet
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
McLaws' Division |
Kershaw's Brigade |
|
| Barksdale's Brigade |
| |
| Cobb's Brigade
|
| |
| Semmes' Brigade |
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
|
Anderson's Division |
Wilcox's Brigade | |
| Mahone's Brigade | ||
| Featherston's Brigade |
| |
| Wright's Brigade |
| |
| Perry's Brigade |
| |
| Artillery |
| |
|
Pickett's Division |
Garnett's Brigade | |
| Armistead's Brigade | ||
| Kemper's Brigade | ||
| Jenkins' Brigade |
| |
| Corse' s Brigade[12] | ||
| Artillery[13] |
| |
|
Hood's Division
|
Law's Brigade |
|
| Robertson' s Brigade |
| |
| Anderson's Brigade |
| |
| Toombs' Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery |
| |
|
Ransom's Division |
Ransom's Brigade
|
|
| Cooke's Brigade
|
| |
|
First Corps Artillery[18] |
Washington (Louisiana) Artillery
|
|
| Alexander's Battalion |
|
Second Corps
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
D. H. Hill's Division |
First (Rodes') Brigade |
|
| Second (Doles') Brigade
|
| |
| Third (Colquitt's) Brigade |
| |
| Fourth (Iverson's) Brigade |
| |
| Fifth (Ramseur's) Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
| First (Field's) Brigade |
| |
| Second (Gregg's) Brigade
|
| |
| Third (Thomas') Brigade |
| |
| Fourth (Lane's) Brigade |
| |
| Fifth (Archer's) Brigade |
| |
| Sixth (Pender's) Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
|
Ewell's Division |
Lawton's Brigade
|
|
| Trimble's Brigade
|
| |
| Early's Brigade
|
||
| Hays' (First Louisiana) Brigade |
| |
| Artillery |
| |
|
Jackson's Division |
First (Paxton's) Brigade |
|
| Second (Jones') Brigade | ||
| Third (Taliaferro's) Brigade |
| |
| Fourth (Starke's) Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
|
Reserve Artillery
| Battalions | Batteries |
|---|---|
| Brown's Battalion | |
| Cutts' (Georgia) Battalion |
|
| Nelson's Battalion
|
|
| Miscellaneous Batteries[21] |
|
Cavalry
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
| First Brigade[22]
|
| |
| Second Brigade
|
| |
| Third Brigade |
| |
| Fourth Brigade[24] |
| |
| Artillery[25]
|
|
Notes
- ↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXI, Part 1, pages 538-545
- ↑ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
- ↑ Transferred from Drayton's brigade, November 26, 1862.
- ↑ Transferred from Robertson's brigade, November 26, 1862.
- ↑ Cabell also commanded Nelson's Battalion and Branch's, Cooper's, Dearing's, Ells', Eubank's, Lane's, Macon's and Ross' batteries
- ↑ Transferred from Pryor's brigade, November 10, 1862.
- ↑ Transferred from Cooke's brigade, November 26, 1862.
- ↑ Assigned November 10, 1862.
- 1 2 Assigned December 1, 1862
- ↑ Assigned November 26, 1862. Corse was assigned November 6, vice Pickett promoted, and was succeeded by Garnett.
- ↑ Transferred from Pryor's brigade, November 10, 1862.
- ↑ Brigade organized and Corse assigned November 26, 1862.
- ↑ Other batteries of this division are probably noted as "miscellaneous" (see Reserve Artillery) their assignments not being clearly indicated by the reports. Stribling's battery was assigned December 1, 1862 "for service with the brigade to which it has long been attached"
- ↑ Transferred from McLaws' division, December 8, 1862.
- ↑ Transferred from Wright's brigade, November 26, 1862.
- ↑ Transferred from Cooke's brigade, November 26, 1862.
- ↑ Transferred from Cobb's brigade, November 26, 1862.
- ↑ Not assigned to divisions
- ↑ Majors John J. Garnett, Samuel P. Hamilton and Thomas J. Page, jr. are mentioned in the reports as commanding artillery battalion but their composition is not stated
- 1 2 3 4 5 Of the First Virginia Light Artillery
- ↑ Mentioned in the reports but assignments not indicated
- ↑ Detached on a raid to Dúmfries
- ↑ Transferred from Third Brigade, between November 10 and December 31.
- ↑ In the Shenandoah Valley
- ↑ On roster for December 16, 1862 Hart's, Breathed's, Moorman's and Chew's batteries appear as attached respectively to the First, Second, Third and Fourth Brigades
- ↑ was probably in the Shenandoah Valley with the Fourth (Jones') Brigade
References
- 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.
- National Park Service: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (Fredricksburg Confederate order of battle).
- Civil War Home: Fredericksburg Confederate order of battle
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