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Second Battle of Corinth order of battle: Confederate

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

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Military rank

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Other

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

Army of West Tennessee

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Main article: Confederate Army of West Tennessee

MG Earl Van Dorn

Price's Corps (Army of the West)

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MG Sterling Price

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     BG Louis Hébert
     (reported himself as sick morning of October 4)
     BG Martin E. Green

First Brigade


   Col Elijah Gates

Second Brigade


   Col W. Bruce Colbert

Third Brigade


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

Fourth Brigade


   Col John D. Martin (mw)
   Col Robert McLain (w)

Maury's Division
     BG Dabney H. Maury

Moore's Brigade


   BG John C. Moore

Cabell's Brigade

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

Phifer's Brigade


   BG Charles W. Phifer

Cavalry Brigade


   BG Frank C. Armstrong

Reserve Artillery


   Cpt William E. Burnet

  • Hoxton's (Tennessee) Battery - Lt Thomas F. Tobin (c)
  • Sengstak's (Alabama) Battery - Cpt Henry H. Sengstak

District of the Mississippi

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Division Brigade Regiments and Others

First Division
     MG Mansfield Lovell

First Brigade


   BG Albert Rust

Second Brigade


   BG John Villepigue[3][4]

Third Brigade


   BG John S. Bowen

Cavalry Brigade


   Col William H. Jackson

Notes

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  1. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 374-375
  2. ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, page 154
  3. ^ Smith 2012, p. 311.
  4. ^ Smith also listed the 1st Confederate, 2nd Louisiana Zouave, 12th Louisiana, and McClung's Battery.
  5. ^ temporary, served as Inspector-General to BG Villepigue

References

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  • 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.
  • Cozzens, Peter, The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8078-2320-1.
  • Smith, Timothy B. (2012). Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2345-7.
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