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 [ ]
Military rank [ ]
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 West Tennessee [ ]
MG Earl Van Dorn
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
- Ltc John Griffith
3rd Louisiana
40th Mississippi - Ltc J.A.P. Campbell (w ), Maj Enoch McDonald (k )
27th Texas Cavalry (1st Legion) (dismounted) - Ltc E.R. Hawkins
3rd Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Ltc Giles S. Boggess
Dawson's St. Louis Battery - Cpt William E. Dawson
Clark's (Missouri) Battery - Lt James L. Faris
Third Brigade
BG Martin E. Green
Col William H. Moore (mw )
43rd Mississippi - Col William H. Moore, Ltc Richard W. Leigh (k )
7th Mississippi Battalion - Ltc James S. Terral (w )
4th Missouri - Col Archibald MacFarlane (w )
6th Missouri - Col A. Eugene Irwin (w ), Ltc Isaac N. Hedgpeth (w ), Maj Joseph P. Vaughn (k )
3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted)
Guibor's (Missouri) Battery - Cpt Henry Guibor
Landis's (Missouri) Battery - Cpt John C. Landis
Fourth Brigade
Col John D. Martin (mw )
Col Robert McLain (w )
37th Alabama - Col James F. Dowdell
36th Mississippi - Col William W. Witherspoon
37th Mississippi - Col Robert McLain
38th Mississippi - Ltc Preston Brent
Lucas's Battery
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 [ ]
BG Daniel Ruggles (not present)
Division
Brigade
Regiments and Others
First Division
MG Mansfield Lovell
First Brigade
BG Albert Rust
31st Alabama - Col Daniel R. Hundley
35th Alabama - Cpt Alva E. Ashford
4th Alabama Battalion - Maj John H. Gibson
9th Arkansas - Col Isaac L. Dunlop
3rd Kentucky - Col Albert P. Thompson
7th Kentucky - Col Edward Crossland
Hudson's (Mississippi) Battery - Lt John R. Sweaney
Second Brigade
BG John Villepigue
33rd Mississippi - Col David W. Hurst
39th Mississippi - Col William B. Shelby
Pointe Coupee Artillery (3 batteries) - Maj George O. Watts[3]
Third Brigade
BG John S. Bowen
6th Mississippi - Col Robert Lowry
15th Mississippi - Col Michael Farrell
22nd Mississippi - Cpt James D. Lester
Caruthers' Mississippi Sharpshooters - Cpt Copeland K. Caruthers
1st Missouri - Ltc Amos C. Riley
Watson's (Louisiana) Battery - Cpt Allen A. Bursley
Cavalry Brigade
Col William H. Jackson
Dupiere's Louisiana Zouaves - Maj St. Leon Dupiere
Notes [ ]
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 374-375
^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, page 154
^ temporary, served as Inspector-General to BG Villepigue
References [ ]
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 .