Battle of Perryville order of battle: Confederate

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Perryville of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• Gen = General
• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = 1st Lieutenant
• 2Lt = 2nd Lieutenant

Artillery

• 3" R = 3 inch caliber ordnance rifle
• How = Howitzer
• Nap = M1857 Napoleon gun
• pdr = pound (projectile weight)
• R = Rifled gun
• SB = Smoothbore gun

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed

Army of Mississippi

16,000 men, 56 guns (k-532, w-2652, m-236 = 3,420)

Gen Braxton Bragg, Commanding

Escort:

• 3rd Tennessee Cavalry (4 companies): Cpt W. C. Bacot

k-1, w-0, m-0 = 1

• 13th Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, Company I: Cpt William W. Lillard

Right Wing

7,000 men, 16 guns (k-306, w-1153, m-87 = 1,546)

MG Leonidas Polk

Escort:

• Orleans Light Horse Company: Cpt Leeds Greenleaf

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
First Division 16 guns, k-305, w-1153, m-87 = 1,545      MG Benjamin Franklin Cheatham	1st Brigade k-71, w-300, m-3 = 374    BG Daniel Smith Donelson	8th Tennessee: Col William Lawson Moore 15th Tennessee: Col Robert Charles Tyler 16th Tennessee: Col John Houston Savage (w) 38th Tennessee: Col John Carpenter Carter (w) 51st Tennessee (Consolidated): Col John Chester Carnes' Battery (aka The Steuben Artillery) (Tennessee) [4 6-pdr SB]: Cpt William Watts Carnes
	2nd Brigade k-62, w-336, m-25 = 423    BG Alexander Peter Stewart	4th Tennessee: Col Otho French Strahl 5th Tennessee & 46th Tennessee, Company L: Col Calvin Davenport Venable (w) 24th Tennessee: Ltc Hugh L. W. Bratton 31st Tennessee: Col Erasmus Egbert Tansil 33rd Tennessee: Col Warner P. Jones Stanford's Battery (Mississippi) [4 3" R]: Cpt Thomas Jefferson Stanford
	3rd Brigade k-107, w-515, m-58 = 743    BG George Earl Maney	41st Georgia: Col Charles Addison McDaniel (mw) 1st Tennessee: Col Hume R. Field 6th Tennessee: Col George Camp Porter 9th Tennessee: Ltc John W. Buford (w) 27th Tennessee: Ltc William Frierson (w), Maj Alexander C. Allen Turner's Battery (aka Smith's Battery) (Mississippi) [2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr iron SB]: Lt William B. Turner
	4th Brigade k-2, w-2, m-1 = 5    BG Preston Smith	12th Tennessee: Col Tyree Harris Bell 13th Tennessee: Col Alfred Jefferson Vaughan Jr. 47th Tennessee: Col Munson R. Hill 154th (Senior) Tennessee: Col Michael Magevney, Jr. 9th Texas: Col William Hugh Young Scott's Battery (aka Blankhead's Battery) (Tennessee) [2 6-pdr SB, 2 12-pdr How]: Cpt William L. Scott
	1st Cavalry Brigade k-1, w-2, m-0 = 3    Col John Austin Wharton	2nd Georgia Cavalry (5 companies): Ltc Arthur Hood 1st Kentucky Cavalry (Companies C, D, I, & K): Cpt Thomas A. Ireland 4th Tennessee Cavalry (5 companies): Maj Baxter Smith Davis' Cavalry Battalion (4 companies) (Tennessee): Maj John R. Davis 8th Texas Cavalry (aka Terry's Texas Rangers): Ltc Thomas Harrison

Left Wing

9,000 men, 40 guns (k-225, w-1499, m-149 = 1,873)

MG William Joseph Hardee

Escort:

• Raum's Cavalry Company (Mississippi): Cpt William Cyrus Rippey Raum

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Second Division 18 guns, k-109, w-406, m-70 = 585      BG James Patton Anderson	1st Brigade k-47, w-190, m-2 = 239    BG John Calvin Brown (w)	1st Florida: Col William Miller 3rd Florida: Col Daniel B. Bird 41st Mississippi: Col William Feimster Tucker (w) 14th Georgia Battalion Light Artillery, Battery "A" [3 12-pdr How, 3 6-pdr SB]: Cpt Joseph Palmer
	2nd Brigade k-7, w-78, m-67 = 152    BG Daniel Weisiger Adams	13th Louisiana: Col Randall Lee Gibson Austin's Battalion, Sharpshooters (aka 14th Battalion): Maj John Edward Austin 16th Louisiana: Col Daniel C. Gober 20th Louisiana: Col August Reichard 25th Louisiana: Col Stewart W. Fisk 5th Company, Washington Artillery (Louisiana) [2 6-pdr SB, 2 3" R, 2 12-pdr How] : Cpt Cuthbert Harrison Slocomb
	3rd Brigade k-13, w-13, m-0 = 26    Col Samuel Powel	45th Alabama: Col James Graham Gilchrist 1st Arkansas: Col John W. Colquitt 24th Mississippi: Col William Frances Dowd 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice Barret's Battery (Missouri) [2 6-pdr SB, 2 12-pdr How]: Cpt Overton W. Barret
	4th Brigade k-42, w-125, m-1 = 168    Col Thomas Marshall Jones	27th Mississippi: Ltc James Lockhart Autry 30th Mississippi: Col George G. Falls Neill 34th Mississippi: Col Samuel Benton (w) 2nd Alabama Battalion Light Artillery, Battery "F" [4 12-pdr Nap]: Cpt Charles L. Lumsden
Third Division 20 guns, k-113, w-709, m-10 = 832      MG Simon Bolivar Buckner	1st Brigade k-15, w-57, m-0 = 72    BG St. John Richardson Liddell	2nd Arkansas: Col Daniel Govan 5th Arkansas: Col Lucius P. Featherston 6th Arkansas: Col Alexander T. Hawthorn 7th Arkansas: Col David A. Gillispie 8th Arkansas: Col John Herbert Kelly Swett's Battery (Mississippi) [4 6-pdr SB, 2 12-pdr How]: 2Lt Thomas Havern
	2nd Brigade k-25, w-325, m-0 = 350    BG Patrick Ronayne Cleburne	13th Arkansas/15th Arkansas: Col Lucius Eugene Polk (w) 2nd Tennessee: Cpt Charles P. Moore 35th Tennessee: Col Benjamin Jefferson Hill 48th Tennessee: Col George Henry Nixon Calvert's Battery (Arkansas) [2 sections; 2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr SB]: 2Lt Thomas J. Key
	3rd Brigade k-32, w-164, m-9 = 205    BG Bushrod Rust Johnson	5th Confederate (8 companies): Col James A. Smith 17th Tennessee: Col Albert Smith Marks 23rd Tennessee (8 companies): Ltc Richard Hudson Keeble 25th Tennessee: Col John M. Hughes 37th Tennessee: Col Moses White 44th Tennessee: Col John S. Fulton Darden's Battery (Mississippi) [2 12-pdr How, 2 6-pdr SB]: Cpt Putnam Darden
	4th Brigade k-41, w-163, m-1 = 205    BG Sterling Alexander Martin Wood (w) Escort: 3rd Georgia Cavalry (Companies G & F): Cpt Reuben L. Hill	16th Alabama: Col William Basis Wood 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams (w), Ltc Robert F. Crittenden 3rd Confederate: Ltc Henry Virtner Keep 15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters (Companies A & B): Maj A. T. Hawkins 32nd Mississippi: Col Mark Perrin Lowrey (w) 33rd Mississippi: Ltc Richard Charlton Semple's Battery (Alabama) [4 12-pdr Nap, 2 6-pdr M1841 R]: Cpt Henry Churchill Semple
	2nd Cavalry Brigade k-3, w-1, m-0 = 3    Col Joseph Wheeler	1st Alabama Cavalry: Col William Wirt Allen (w) 3rd Alabama Cavalry: Col James Hagan 1st CS Cavalry: Ltc Charles S. Robertson 6th CS Cavalry: Ltc James Pell 8th CS Cavalry: Col William B. Wade 2nd Georgia Cavalry (5 companies): Maj Caleb A. Whaley Smith's Cavalry Battalion (Georgia): Col John R. Hart 1st Kentucky Cavalry (Companies A, B, E, F, & H): Maj John William Caldwell 6th Kentucky Cavalry (Companies A, B, & D): Col J. Warren Grigsby 9th Tennessee Cavalry: Col James D. Bennett 12th Tennessee Cavalry: Ltc Thomas W. Adrian Calvert's Battery (Arkansas) [1 section; 2 12-pdr How]: 2Lt Sylvanus G. Hanley

See also

• Kentucky in the American Civil War

References

• Holman, Kurt. Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised July 1, 2012) unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
• Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky), 2001. ISBN 978-0-8131-2209-0