Champion Hill Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units^[1] and commanders fought in the Battle of Champion Hill of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization,^[2] returns of casualties^[3] and reports.^[4]

Abbreviations used

Military rank

LTG = Lieutenant General
MG = Major General
BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain
Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other

w = wounded
k = killed
c = captured

Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana

LTG John C. Pemberton

Chief of Engineers: Maj Samuel H. Lockett

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Loring's Division MG William W. Loring	1st Brigade BG Lloyd Tilghman (k) Col A. E. Reynolds	1st Confederate Infantry Battalion: Ltc G. H. Forney 6th Mississippi: Col Robert Lowry 23rd Mississippi: Col J. M. Wells 26th Mississippi: Col A. E. Reynolds, Maj T. F. Parker Company C, 14th Mississippi Artillery Battalion (4 guns): Lt J. Culbertson Company D, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt J. L. Wofford Company G, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (6 guns): Cpt J. J. Cowan
	2nd Brigade BG Abraham Buford	27th Alabama: Col J. Jackson 35th Alabama: Col Edward Goodwin 54th Alabama: Col Alpheus Baker (w) 55th Alabama: Col J. Snodgrass 9th Arkansas: Col Isaac L. Dunlop 3rd Kentucky (4 companies): Maj J. H. Bowman 7th Kentucky: Col Edward Crossland 12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott Companies A & C, Pointe Coupee Artillery (8 guns): Cpt Alcide Bouanchaud
	3rd Brigade BG Winfield S. Featherston	3rd Mississippi: Col T. A. Mellon 22nd Mississippi: Col F. Schaller 31st Mississippi: Col J. A. Orr 33rd Mississippi: Col D. W. Hurst 1st Mississippi Sharpshooter Battalion: Maj W. A. Rayburn

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Stevenson's Division MG Carter L. Stevenson	1st Brigade BG Seth M. Barton	40th Georgia: Ltc Robert M. Young 41st Georgia: Col William E. Curtiss 42nd Georgia: Col Robert J. Henderson 43rd Georgia: Col Skidmore Harris (k), Cpt Mathadeas M. Grantham 52nd Georgia: Col C. D. Phillips (c), Maj John J. Moore Cherokee Georgia Artillery (4 guns): Cpt Max van den Corput
	2nd Brigade BG Stephen D. Lee	20th Alabama: Col Isham W. Garrott 23rd Alabama: Col Franklin K. Beck 30th Alabama: Col C. M. Shelley 31st Alabama: Ltc Thomas M. Arrington 46th Alabama: Col M. L. Woods (c), Cpt George E. Brewer Waddell's Alabama Battery (6 guns): Cpt James F. Waddell
	3rd Brigade BG Alfred Cumming	34th Georgia: Col J. A. W. Johnson 36th Georgia: Col J. A. Glenn 39th Georgia: Col J. T. McConnell (w), Ltc Joseph F. B. Jackson 56th Georgia: Col E. P. Watkins (w), Ltc John T. Slaughter 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo
	4th Brigade Col Alexander W. Reynolds	3rd Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col Newton J. Lillard 31st Tennessee: Col William M. Bradford 43rd Tennessee: Col James W. Gillespie 59th Tennessee: Col William L. Eakin 3rd Maryland Artillery (6 guns): Cpt F. O. Claiborne
	Artillery Maj Joseph W. Anderson (k)	Botetourt (Virginia) Artillery (2 guns): Cpt J. W. Johnston Company A, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt S. J. Ridley (k), Cpt W. T. Ratliff
Bowen's Division BG John S. Bowen	1st Brigade BG Francis M. Cockrell	1st Missouri: Col Amos C. Riley 2nd Missouri: Ltc P. S. Senteny 3rd Missouri: Col W. R. Gause 5th Missouri: Col James McCown 6th Missouri: Maj Stephen Cooper Guibor's (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Lt W. Corkery Landis' (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Lt John M. Langan Wade's (Missouri) Battery (6 guns): Lt Richard C. Walsh
	2nd Brigade BG Martin E. Green	15th Arkansas: Ltc W. W. Reynolds 19th Arkansas: Col Thomas P. Dockery 20th Arkansas: Col Daniel W. Jones 21st Arkansas: Col Jordan E. Cravens 12th Arkansas Sharpshooter Battalion: Lt John S. Bell 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (dismounted): Cpt William S. Catterson 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Col Elijah Gates 3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Ltc D. T. Samuels 3rd Missouri Battery (4 guns): Cpt William E. Dawson Lowe's (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Cpt S. Lowe
	Cavalry	Adams' Mississippi Cavalry: Col Wirt Adams 20th Mississippi Mounted Infantry: Ltc W. N. Brown

Notes

↑ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 3, pages 703-707 (April 1863) and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Order of Battle)
↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, page 728
↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 725-726 and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Official Reports)

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.
The Battle of Champion Hill website

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

[2] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 3, pages 703-707 (April 1863) and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Order of Battle)

[3] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, page 728

[4] Official Records, Series I, Volume XXIV, Part 2, pages 725-726 and The Battle of Champion Hill website (Official Reports)