Battle of Perryville order of battle: Confederate

The following Confederate Army units and commanders^[1] 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

Notes

1. Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.

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