The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Nashville of the American Civil War. The order of battle has been compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign[2] and reports.[3] The Union order of battle is shown separately.
Abbreviations used
editMilitary rank
edit- 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
edit- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k = killed
- c = captured
Army of Tennessee
editGen John B. Hood, Commanding
Cheatham’s Corps
editChief of Artillery
Col Melancthon Smith
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Brown's Division
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Gist's Brigade
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Strahl's Brigade
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Maney's Brigade
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Vaughan's Brigade
|
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Artillery Battalion |
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Cleburne's Division
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Smith's Brigade (attached to Forrest's command at Murfreesboro) |
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Govan's Brigade
|
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Lowrey's Brigade
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Granbury's Brigade
|
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Bate's Division
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Tyler's Brigade
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Finley's Brigade
|
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Jackson's Brigade
|
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Cobb's Artillery Battalion
|
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Corps artillery |
Hotchkiss's Battalion |
|
Lee’s Corps
editLTG Stephen D. Lee
Chief of Artillery
Maj John W. Johnston
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Johnson's Division
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Deas' Brigade |
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Sharp's Brigade |
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Manigault's Brigade
|
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Brantley's Brigade |
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Courtney's Artillery Battalion
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Stevenson's Division
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Cumming's Brigade
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Pettus's Brigade |
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Brown's and Reynolds' Brigade
|
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Clayton's Division
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Stovall's Brigade |
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Holtzclaw's Brigade |
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Gibson's Brigade |
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Eldridge's Artillery Battalion
|
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Corps Artillery |
Johnston's Battalion
|
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Stewart’s Corps
editChief of Artillery
Ltc Samuel C. Williams
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Loring's Division
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Featherston's Brigade |
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Adams' Brigade
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Scott's Brigade
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Myrick's Artillery Battalion |
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French's Division
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Sears' Brigade
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Ector's Brigade
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Cockrell's Brigade (on detached duty on the Duck River)
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Storrs' Artillery Battalion |
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Walthall's Division
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Quarles' Brigade |
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Cantey's Brigade |
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Reynolds' Brigade |
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Trueheart's Artillery Battalion
|
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Cavalry Corps
editMG Nathan B. Forrest
(Detached; at Murfreesboro with Jackson's and Buford's Divisions.)
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Chalmers' Division
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Rucker's Brigade
|
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Biffle's Brigade
|
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Buford's Division |
Bell's Brigade
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Crossland's Brigade
|
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Jackson's Division |
Armstrong's Brigade |
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Ross's Brigade |
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Artillery |
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Notes
edit- ^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLV, Part 1, pages 664-669 (December 10, 1864)
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLV, Part 1, pages 31-32
References
edit- 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.
- McDonough, James Lee. Nashville: The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
- Nashville page, Civil War Home site