The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Antietam of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign,[2] the casualty returns[3] and the reports.[4]
Abbreviations used
editMilitary rank
edit- Gen = General
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Cpt = Captain
- Lt = Lieutenant
Other
edit- (w) = wounded
- (mw) = mortally wounded
- (k) = killed in action
- (c) = captured
Army of Northern Virginia
editGen Robert E. Lee
Right Wing
edit| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
McLaws' Division
|
Kershaw's Brigade |
|
| Cobb's Brigade
|
| |
| Semmes' Brigade |
| |
| Barksdale's Brigade |
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
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Anderson's Division
|
Wilcox's Brigade
|
|
| Mahone's Brigade[9] |
| |
| Featherston's Brigade[10]
|
| |
| Armistead's Brigade
|
| |
| Pryor's Brigade
|
| |
| Wright's Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
|
Jones' Division
|
Toombs' Brigade
|
|
| Drayton's Brigade |
| |
| Pickett's Brigade |
| |
| Kemper's Brigade |
| |
| Jenkins' Brigade
|
| |
| Jones' Brigade |
| |
| Artillery[17] |
| |
|
Walker's Division
|
Walker's Brigade
|
|
| Ransom's Brigade |
| |
|
Hood's Division
|
Hood's Brigade |
|
| Whiting's Brigade[18]
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
| Reporting directly | Evans' Brigade
|
|
|
Reserve Artillery |
Washington (Louisiana) Artillery
|
|
| Lee's Battalion
|
|
Left Wing
editChief of Artillery: Col Stapleton Crutchfield
Escort:
- 4th Virginia Cavalry, Company H: Cpt Robert Randolph
- White's Virginia Cavalry (3 companies): Cpt Elijah V. White
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
Ewell's Division
|
Lawton's Brigade
|
|
| Early's Brigade
|
| |
| Trimble's Brigade
|
| |
| Hays' Brigade |
| |
| Artillery[21]
|
| |
| Branch's Brigade
|
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| Gregg's Brigade
|
| |
| Field's Brigade |
| |
| Archer's Brigade
|
| |
| Pender's Brigade |
| |
| Artillery[24] |
| |
|
Jackson's Division
|
Winder's Brigade[25]
|
|
| Taliaferro's Brigade[26]
|
| |
| Jones' Brigade
|
| |
| Starke's Brigade
|
| |
| Artillery
|
| |
|
D. H. Hill's Division[28]
|
Ripley's Brigade
|
|
| Rodes' Brigade
|
| |
| Garland's Brigade
|
| |
| Anderson's Brigade
|
| |
| Rains' (old) Brigade |
| |
| Artillery
|
|
Artillery Reserve
edit| Division | Battalions | Batteries |
|---|---|---|
|
Artillery Reserve[29]
|
Brown's Battalion[30] |
|
| Cutts' Battalion[31]
|
| |
| Jones' Battalion[31]
|
| |
| Nelson's Battalion
|
| |
| Miscellaneous Batteries[32] |
|
Cavalry
edit| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
|
Stuart's Division
|
Hampton's Brigade
|
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| Lee's Brigade
|
| |
| Robertson's Brigade |
| |
| Horse Artillery
|
|
Notes
edit- ^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
- ^ Antietam National Battlefield-Army of Northern Virginia; Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 803-810; Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, pages 366-372
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 810-813
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 1111-1114, 1169-1171; Official Records, Series I, Volume LI, Part 1, pages, 1312, 1391-1392
- ^ Turned over command to Lieutenant Colonel MacRae on account of sickness (see: MacRae's report)
- ^ Wounded September 15, 1862, but remained in command (see: Barksdale's report)
- ^ a b Reached the field just as the battle was closing (see: Barksdale's report)
- ^ Joined during the battle (see: McLaws' report)
- ^ Attached to Pryor's brigade (see: Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, page 367)
- ^ The Antietam National Battlefield site and the Official Records lists Brigadier General Featherston in command but he is not mentioned in the reports. For Posey in command see Longstreet's report
- ^ Commanded the 2nd, 20th and 50th Georgia and the 2nd Company, Washington Artillery. Colonel Benning commanded the remnant of the brigade. (see: Toombs' report; F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 248/Note 47)
- ^ Richard M. Coffman & Kurt D. Graham, To Honor These Men: A History of the Phillips Georgia Legion Infantry Battalion
- ^ F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 28
- ^ Wounded September 14, 1862, but remained in command
- ^ Relieved Maj Adam Clement, wia 9/14; Robert T. Bell, 11th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va.): H. E. Howard, Inc., 1985, roster
- ^ Detached September 14, 1862, at Hagerstown, five companies reached Sharpsburg on the morning of September 17, 1862, and served with General Toombs (see: Anderson's report)
- ^ Stribling's, Rogers' and Leake's batteries left at Leesburg, Virginia
- ^ Also called Law's or Third Brigade (see: Longstreet's and Law's report)
- ^ Commanded the brigade while General Evans commanded a provisional division
- ^ Attached to the 21st North Carolina
- ^ Carrington's (Virginia) battery left at Richmond in August, did not rejoin the Army after the Battle of Sharpsburg. Johnson's and D'Aquin batteries were the only ones present with this division at Sharpsburg, Brown's (Maryland), Dement's (Maryland), Latimer's (Virginia) and Balthis' (Virginia) batteries having been left at Harper's Ferry and Shepherdstown
- ^ Anderson's (old) Brigade (14th, 35th, 45th, 49th Georgia) under Colonel Edward L. Thomas was left at Harper's Ferry (see: A. P. Hill's and Walker's report)
- ^ Commanded the brigade during the march from Harper's Ferry to Sharpsburg and from September 18–19, 1862. Brigadier General Archer retired from the field on account of exhaustion during the march and on September 18, 1862 (see: Archer's report)
- ^ Braxton's, Crenshaw's, McIntosh's, and Pegram's batteries engaged at Sharpsburg. Davidson's battery had been left at Harper's Ferry, and Fleet's and Latham's batteries at Leesburg
- ^ 2nd Virginia detached at Martinburg, West Virginia
- ^ 10th Virginia detached at Martinburg, West Virginia
- ^ F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 250/Note 111
- ^ On 'field return', Army of Northern Virginia, for September 22, 1862, this division appears as of Jackson's Corps (left wing)
- ^ Including all batteries mentioned in the reports or in the reorganization of October 4, 1862, and not elsewhere accounted for. Brooke's, Dearings' and Nelson's batteries joined after the campaign had terminated
- ^ First Virginia Artillery
- ^ a b Under D. H. Hill's command
- ^ Thomas (Virginia) Artillery (Edwin J. Anderson's Battery) left in Leesburg
- ^ Not mentioned between September 1–22, but probably with the army in reserve
References
edit- Antietam National Battlefield
- Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. ISBN 978-0-618-34419-2.
- Sibley, Jr., F. Ray, The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 1996. ISBN 0-942597-73-7
- 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.