Battle of Jonesborough order of battle: Confederate

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Jonesborough of the American Civil War on August 31-September 1, 1864. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

MG = Major General
BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain
Lt = Lieutenant

Other

Army of Tennessee

LTG William J. Hardee

Hardee's Corps

MG Patrick R. Cleburne

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cheatham's Division BG George E. Maney^[1] BG John C. Carter^[2]	Maney's Brigade Col George C. Porter	4th Confederate (34th Tennessee) 1st-27th Tennessee 6th-9th Tennessee: Col George C. Porter 19th Tennessee 50th Tennessee: Col Stephen H. Colms
	Strahl's Brigade Col James D. Tillman	4th-5th Tennessee 24th Tennessee: Ltc Samuel E. Shannon 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee 41st Tennessee: Cpt A.M. Keith
	Wright's Brigade BG John C. Carter	8th Tennessee 16th Tennessee 28th Tennessee 38th Tennessee: Maj Hamilton W. Cotter 51st-52nd Tennessee
	Gist's Brigade Col Ellison Capers	46th Georgia 65th Georgia 16th South Carolina: Col James McCullough, Cpt John W. Boling 24th South Carolina: Ltc Jesse S. Jones 8th Georgia Battalion: Ltc Zachariah L. Watters 2nd Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion
	Vaughn's Brigade Col Michael Magevney	11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon 12th-47th Tennessee: Col William M. Watkins 13th-154th (Senior) Tennessee: Maj William J. Crook 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice
Cleburne's Division BG Mark P. Lowrey	Govan's Brigade BG Daniel C. Govan (c); Col Peter V. Green	1st-15th Arkansas: Cpt Felix G. Lusk (mia); Capt William H. Scales 2nd-24th Arkansas: Maj Amzi T. Meek (mia); Capt John K. Phillips 5th-13th Arkansas: Col Peter V. Green; Ltc E. A. Howell 6th-7th Arkansas: Col Samuel G. Smith (mw&c); Cpt J.T. Robinson 8th-19th Arkansas: Maj David H. Hamiter 3rd Confederate (Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas): Capt Mumford H. Dixon (c)
	Mercer's Brigade Col Charles H. Olmstead	1st (Olmstead's) Georgia Volunteers: Maj Martin J. Ford 54th Georgia: Ltc Morgan Rawls, Cpt Thomas W. Brantley 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo, Ltc Cincinnatus S. Guyton 63rd Georgia
	Lowrey's Brigade Col John Weir	16th Alabama 33rd Alabama 45th Alabama: Ltc Robert H. Abercrombie 5th Mississippi & 3rd Mississippi Battalion: Col John Weir 8th&32nd Mississippi: Cpt Andrew Moody
	Granbury's Brigade BG Hiram B. Granbury	5th Confederate (Tennessee): Capt Aaron A. Cox 6th Texas Infantry-15th Texas Cavalry (dismounted); Capt Matthew M. Houston 7th Texas: Capt J. William Brown 10th Texas Infantry: Ltc Robert B. Young 17th-18th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Capt William H. Perry 24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Maj. William A. Taylor
Bate's Division MG John C. Brown	Tyler's Brigade BG Thomas Benton Smith	37th Georgia 2nd Tennessee 10th Tennessee 15th-37th Tennessee: Cpt Matthew Dwyer 20th Tennessee 30th Tennessee 4th Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion
	Lewis' (Orphan) Brigade BG Joseph Horace Lewis	2nd Kentucky: Col James W. Moss (mw) 4th Kentucky 5th Kentucky 6th Kentucky: Col Martin H. Cofer 9th Kentucky
	Jackson's Brigade BG Henry R. Jackson	1st Confederate (Georgia Volunteers) 25th Georgia: Col William J. Winn, Maj A.W. Smith 29th Georgia 30th Georgia 66th Georgia: Cpt Thomas L. Langston 1st Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion
	Finley's Brigade BG Jesse J. Finley (w) Ltc Daniel Kenan	1st-3rd Florida 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted)-4th Florida Infantry 6th Florida: Ltc Daniel Kenan 7th Florida
Hardee's Corps Artillery Col Melancthon Smith	Palmer's Battalion Maj Joseph Palmer	Lumsden's (Alabama) Battery Anderson's (Georgia) Battery Havis' (Georgia) Battery
	Hoxton's Battalion Maj Llewelyn Hoxton	Phelan's (Alabama) Battery Marion (Florida) Light Artillery Turner's (Mississippi) Battery
	Hotchkiss' Battalion Maj Thomas R. Hotchkiss Cpt Thomas Key	Semple's (Alabama) Battery Key's (Arkansas) Battery: Cpt Thomas Key Warren (Mississippi) Light Artillery
	Martin's Battalion Maj Robert Martin	Howell's (Georgia) Battery Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery
	Cobb's Battalion Maj Robert Cobb	Cobb's (Kentucky) Battery 5th Company, Washington (Louisiana) Light Artillery Johnston (Tennessee) Light Artillery

Lee's Corps

LTG Stephen D. Lee

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Anderson's Division MG Patton Anderson	Deas' Brigade BG Zachariah C. Deas	19th Alabama 22nd Alabama: Col Benjamin R. Hart 25th Alabama 39th Alabama: Cpt T. J. Branon 50th Alabama: Col John G. Coltart, Cpt George W. Arnold 17th Alabama Sharpshooters (until mid-August)
	Manigault's Brigade BG Arthur Middleton Manigault	24th Alabama: Col Newton N. Davis 28th Alabama 34th Alabama: Col Julius C. B. Mitchell 10th South Carolina: Col James F. Pressley 19th South Carolina: Cpt Elijah W. Horne
	Brantley's Brigade Col William F. Brantley	24th-27th Mississippi: Col Robert P. McKelvaine 29th-30th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley, Ltc James M. Johnson 34th Mississippi: Cpt T. S. Hubbard
	Sharp's Brigade BG Jacob H. Sharp	7th Mississippi: Col William H. Bishop 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 41st Mississippi: Col J. Byrd Williams 44th Mississippi 9th Mississippi Sharpshooters
Stevenson's Division MG Carter L. Stevenson	Brown's Brigade Col Joseph B. Palmer (w September 1)	3rd Tennessee (Volunteers) 18th Tennessee: Col Joseph B. Palmer 26th Tennessee: Col Richard M. Saffell 32nd Tennessee 45th Tennessee-23rd Tennessee Battalion: Col Anderson Searcy
	Cumming's Brigade BG Alfred Cumming	34th Georgia 36th Georgia 39th Georgia 56th Georgia: Col Elihu P. Watkins 2nd Georgia State: Col James Wilson
	Reynold's Brigade Col Washington M. Hardy	58th North Carolina 60th North Carolina 54th Virginia 63rd Virginia
	Pettus' Brigade BG Edmund W. Pettus	20th Alabama: Col James M. Dedman 23rd Alabama 30th Alabama: Col Charles M. Shelley 31st Alabama 46th Alabama
Clayton's Division MG Henry D. Clayton	Stovall's Brigade BG Marcellus A. Stovall	40th Georgia 41st Georgia 42nd Georgia 43rd Georgia 52nd Georgia 1st Georgia State: Cpt Albert Howell
	Holtzclaw's Brigade BG James T. Holtzclaw	18th Alabama 32nd-58th Alabama 36th Alabama 38th Alabama: Lt John C. Dumas
	Gibson's Brigade BG Randall L. Gibson	1st Louisiana (Regulars) 4th Louisiana 13th Louisiana: Col Francis L. Campbell 16th-25th Louisiana 19th Louisiana: Col Richard W. Turner 20th Louisiana: Col Leon Von Zinken 30th Louisiana 4th Louisiana Battalion 14th Louisiana Sharpshooters
	Baker's Brigade BG Alpheus Baker	37th Alabama 40th Alabama 42nd Alabama 54th Alabama
Lee's Corps Artillery Ltc James H. Hallonquist	William's Battalion Ltc Samuel C. Williams Cpt Reuben Kolb	Barbour (Alabama) Artillery: Cpt Reuben Kolb Jefferson (Mississippi) Artillery Nottoway (Virginia) Artillery
	Courtney's Battalion Maj Alfred R. Courtney	Dent's (Alabama) Battery Garrity's (Alabama) Battery Douglas' (Texas) Battery
	Eldridge's Battalion Maj John W. Eldridge	Eufala (Alabama) Artillery Fenner's (Louisiana) Battery Stanford's (Mississippi) Battery
	Johnston's Battalion Maj John W. Johnston Cpt John B. Rowan	Cherokee (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt Max van den Corput Stephens (Georgia) Light Artillery: John B. Rowan Marshall's (Tennessee) Battery

Notes

^ Relieved for medical reasons, August 31
^ Assumed command, September 1

References

"Battle of Jonesboro," Civil War Trust <http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/atlanta/atlanta-history-articles/battle-of-jonesboro.html> 20 April 2016.
"Jonesboro," Tenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry <https://web.archive.org/web/20160307213211/http://tenthkentuckyinfantry.com/jonesboro.php> 20 April 2016.
"Jonesboro," National Park Service <https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battles-detail.htm?battleCode=GA022> 20 April 2016.
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.

[1] Relieved for medical reasons, August 31

[2] Assumed command, September 1

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