Opequon Confederate order of battle

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The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Opequon on September 19, 1864. The Union order of battle is listed separately. The battle was fought on September 19, 1864 near Winchester, Virginia, and Opequon Creek. The battle is also known as the Third Battle of Winchester and the Battle of Opequon Creek.

Abbreviations used[]

Military rank[]

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

Other[]

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

Army of the Valley District[]

LTG Jubal Early[Note 1]
Staff:
Adjutant general: Ltc Alexander Pendleton


Size as of September 10, 1864 = 15,514 men.[3]

Infantry - 10,116
Cavalry -   4,585
Artillery -      813


Breckinridge's Corps[]

MG John C. Breckinridge

Staff:
Chief of Artillery: Ltc John Floyd King[4]


Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Breckinridge's Division
BG Gabriel C. Wharton

Smith's Brigade


Col Thomas Smith

Forsberg's Brigade


Col Augustus Forsberg (w)[5]
Maj William A. Yonce (mw)[5]

Patton's Brigade


Col George S. Patton (mw)[6]

Gordon's Division[Note 2]
MG John B. Gordon

Evans' Brigade


Col Edmund N. Atkinson

  • 13th Georgia Infantry: Ltc John H. Baker
  • 26th Georgia Infantry: Col Edmund N. Atkinson
  • 31st Georgia Infantry: Col John H. Lowe[8]
  • 38th Georgia Infantry: Ltc Philip E. Davant
  • 60th Georgia Infantry: Col William H. Stiles
  • 61st Georgia Infantry: Col John H. Lamar
  • 12th Georgia Infantry Battalion: Cpt J.W. Anderson
Terry's Brigade


BG William R. Terry

  • 2nd Virginia Infantry
  • 4th Virginia Infantry
  • 5th Virginia Infantry
  • 27th Virginia Infantry
  • 33rd Virginia Infantry
  • (2nd Grouping): Col Robert H. Dungan
  • 21st Virginia Infantry
  • 25th Virginia Infantry
  • 44th Virginia Infantry
  • 48th Virginia Infantry
  • 50th Virginia Infantry
  • (3rd Grouping): Ltc Samuel Saunders (w)
  • 10th Virginia Infantry
  • 23rd Virginia Infantry
  • 37th Virginia Infantry
York's Brigade


BG Zebulon York (w)[9]
Col William R. Peck (w)[10]

  • Louisiana Infantry (1): Col William R. Peck
  • 5th Louisiana Infantry
  • 6th Louisiana Infantry
  • 7th Louisiana Infantry
  • 8th Louisiana Infantry
  • 9th Louisiana Infantry
  • Louisiana Infantry (2): Col Eugene Waggaman
  • 1st Louisiana Infantry
  • 2nd Louisiana Infantry
  • 10th Louisiana Infantry
  • 14th Louisiana Infantry
  • 15th Louisiana Infantry

Rodes' Division
MG Robert E. Rodes (k)[6]
BG Cullen A. Battle

Battle's Brigade


BG Cullen Battle
Col Samuel B. Pickens (w)
Col Charles Forsyth

  • 3rd Alabama Infantry: Col Charles Forsyth
  • 5th Alabama Infantry: Col Josephus M. Hall
  • 6th Alabama Infantry: Ltc Isaac F. Culver (w)
  • 12th Alabama Infantry: Col Samuel B. Pickens
  • 61st Alabama Infantry: Ltc Lewis H. Hill
Grimes' Brigade


BG Bryan Grimes

  • 32nd North Carolina Infantry: Col David G. Cowand[11]
  • 43rd North Carolina Infantry: Col Thomas S. Kenan
  • 45th North Carolina Infantry: Col John R. Winston[12]
  • 53rd North Carolina Infantry: Col James T. Moorehead[13]
  • 2nd North Carolina Infantry Battalion: Maj John M. Hancock
Cox's Brigade


Col William R. Cox

  • 1st North Carolina Infantry: Col Hamilton A. Brown
  • 2nd North Carolina Infantry: Col William R. Cox
  • 3rd North Carolina Infantry: Col Stephen Thurston
  • 4th North Carolina Infantry: Col Edwin A. Osborne
  • 14th North Carolina Infantry: Col Risden Tyler Bennett (c)[12]
  • 30th North Carolina Infantry: Col Francis M. Parker
Cook's Brigade


BG Philip Cook

  • 4th Georgia Infantry: Ltc William H. Willis
  • 12th Georgia Infantry: Col Edward Willis
  • 21st Georgia Infantry: Col John T. Mercer
  • 44th Georgia Infantry: Col William H. Peebles

Ramseur's Division
MG Stephen D. Ramseur

Pegram's Brigade


BG John Pegram

  • 13th Virginia Infantry: Ltc George A. Goodman (w, c)[10]
  • 31st Virginia Infantry: Col John S. Hoffman
  • 49th Virginia Infantry: Col Jonathan Gibson
  • 52nd Virginia Infantry: Col James H. Skinner
  • 58th Virginia Infantry: Col Francis H. Board
Hoke's Brigade


BG Archibald C. Godwin (k)[9]
Ltc Anderson Ellis (w)
Ltc William S. Davis

  • 6th North Carolina Infantry: Col Robert F. Webb
  • 21st North Carolina Infantry: Ltc Wiley F. Hartsfield
  • 54th North Carolina Infantry: Ltc Anderson Ellis
  • 57th North Carolina Infantry: Maj John Beard
Johnston's Brigade


BG Robert D. Johnston

  • 5th North Carolina Infantry: Col Thomas M. Garrett
  • 12th North Carolina Infantry: Col Henry E. Coleman
  • 20th North Carolina Infantry: Col Thomas F. Toon
  • 23rd North Carolina Infantry: Col Charles C. Blacknall (mw)[14]

Artillery
Col Thomas H. Carter

Braxton's Battalion


Ltc Carter M. Braxton[Note 3]

McLaughlin's Battalion


Maj William McLaughlin

Nelson's Battalion


Ltc William Nelson[Note 4]

  • Amherst Battery (Virginia): Cpt Thomas J. Kirkpatrick
  • Fluvanna Artillery (Virginia): Cpt John L. Massie
  • Georgia Regular Battery: Lt. Thomas A. Maddox

Cavalry Corps[]

MG Fitzhugh Lee (w)[6]

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Lee's Division
BG Williams Wickham

Lomax's Brigade


Col William Payne

  • 5th Virginia Cavalry: Col Reuben B. Boston
  • 6th Virginia Cavalry: Col Julian Harrison
  • 15th Virginia Cavalry: Col Charles R. Collins
Wickham's Brigade


Col Thomas T. Munford

  • 1st Virginia Cavalry: Col Richard W. Carter
  • 2nd Virginia Cavalry: Col Thomas T. Munford
  • 3rd Virginia Cavalry: Col Thomas H. Owen
  • 4th Virginia Cavalry
Horse Artillery


Maj James Breathed

  • 1st Stuart Horse Artillery (Virginia): Cpt Philip P. Johnston
  • Lynchburg Beauregard Battery: Cpt John J. Shoemaker

Lomax's Division
MG Lunsford L. Lomax

Imboden's Brigade


Col George H. Smith

  • 18th Virginia Cavalry
  • 23rd Virginia Cavalry: Ltc Charles T. O'Ferrall
  • 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry
Johnson's Brigade


BG Bradley T. Johnson

  • 1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Ridgely Brown
  • 2nd Maryland Cavalry Battalion: Maj Henry W. Gilmor
  • 8th Virginia Cavalry: Col James M. Corns
  • 21st Virginia Cavalry: Col William E. Peters
  • 36th Virginia Cavalry Battalion: Maj James W. Sweeney
  • 37th Virginia Cavalry Battalion: Ltc James R. Claiburne
McCausland's Brigade


Col Milton Ferguson[Note 5]

  • 14th Virginia Cavalry: Col James Cochran[17]
  • 16th Virginia Cavalry
  • 17th Virginia Cavalry
  • 22nd Virginia Cavalry: Col John T. Radford
Jackson's Brigade


Ltc William P. Thompson

  • 19th Virginia Cavalry
  • 20th Virginia Cavalry
  • 46th Virginia Cavalry Battalion
  • 47th Virginia Cavalry Battalion
Vaughn's Brigade


Ltc Onslow Bean

  • 16th Georgia Cavalry Battalion
  • 1st Tennessee Cavalry
  • 12th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
  • 16th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
  • 39th Tennessee Mounted Infantry
  • 43rd Tennessee Mounted Infantry
  • 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry
  • 60th–61st–62nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry
Horse Artillery
  • Charlottesville Battery (Virginia): Cpt Thomas Jackson
  • Roanoke Battery (Virginia): Cpt Warren Lurty
  • Staunton Battery (Virginia): Cpt John H. McClanahan

Notes[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ The main source herein is Appendix 1 in Scott Patchan's The Last Battle of Winchester...[1] Some additional information has been used from the text of the same book, and is footnoted. Official Records... by Ainsworth and Kirkley of the United States War Department, Volume XLIII, Chapter LV, did not have an order of battle for Third Winchester, but has been used for small bits of information that are footnoted.[2]
  2. ^ All three brigades in Gordon's Division are consolidations of depleted units. Evans' Brigade lost so many officers that inspectors believed it interfered seriously with its good management. Terry's Brigade consisted of remnants of the Stonewall, Jones, and Steuart brigades formerly of Johnson's Division. York's Brigade was composed of fragments of Hays' and Stafford's brigades.[7]
  3. ^ Patchan describes Braxton as a Major in his Appendix 1 and in some portions of his text, but as a Lieutenant Colonel in Chapters 18 and 19 of his book.[15][16]
  4. ^ Patchan describes Nelson as a Major in his Appendix 1, but as a Lieutenant Colonel in Chapter 13 of his book.[4]
  5. ^ The official commander of this brigade, BG John C. McCausland, was absent during the battle for undisclosed reasons.[4]

Citations[]

  1. ^ Patchan 2013, Appendix 1 of e-book
  2. ^ Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, pp. 554–611
  3. ^ Patchan 2013, Appendix 3 of e-book
  4. ^ a b c Patchan 2013, Ch. 13 of e-book
  5. ^ a b Patchan 2013, Ch. 20 of e-book
  6. ^ a b c Early & Early 1912, p. 427
  7. ^ Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, p. 609
  8. ^ Wert 2010, p. 57
  9. ^ a b Early & Early 1912, p. 423
  10. ^ a b Patchan 2013, Ch. 14 of e-book
  11. ^ Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, p. 605
  12. ^ a b Patchan 2013, Ch. 16 of e-book
  13. ^ Clark 1901, pp. 255–257
  14. ^ Wert 2010, p. 48
  15. ^ Patchan 2013, Ch. 18 of e-book
  16. ^ Patchan 2013, Ch. 19 of e-book
  17. ^ Wert 2010, p. 72

References[]

  • Ainsworth, Fred C.; Kirkley, Joseph W. (1902). The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies - Series I Volume XLIII Part I - Additions and Corrections, Chapter LV. Washington, District of Columbia: Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-91867-807-2. OCLC 427057. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  • Clark, Walter (1901). Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina, in the Great War 1861-'65 (Vol. 3). Raleigh, North Carolina: Published by the state. OCLC 1300611. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  • Early, Jubal A.; Early, Ruth H. (1912). Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, C.S.A. Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott Co. ISBN 9781468192155. OCLC 1370161. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  • Patchan, Scott C. (2013). The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7-September 19, 1864. El Dorado Hills, Calif: Savas Beatie. ISBN 978-1-932714-98-2. OCLC 751578151.
  • Wert, Jeffry D. (2010). From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-80932-972-4. OCLC 463454602.
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