Confederate order of battle at the Second Battle of Corinth

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

Price's Corps (Army of the West)

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	16th Arkansas 2nd Missouri - Col Francis Cockrell 3rd Missouri - Col James A. Pritchard (w) 5th Missouri - Col James McCown 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) - Ltc William D. Maupin (k) Wade's (Missouri) Battery - Cpt William Wade
	Second Brigade Col W. Bruce Colbert	14th Arkansas 17th Arkansas - Ltc John Griffith 3rd Louisiana 40th Mississippi - Ltc Josiah 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 (Missouri) Battery
Maury's Division BG Dabney H. Maury	Moore's Brigade BG John C. Moore	42nd Alabama - Col John W. Portis 15th Arkansas - Ltc Squire Boone 23rd Arkansas - Ltc A. A. Pennington 35th Mississippi - Col William T.S. Barry 2nd Texas - Col William P. Rogers (k) Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery - Cpt Hiram M. Bledsoe
	Cabell's Brigade (temporarily attached to Green's division on October 5) BG William L. Cabell (w)	18th Arkansas - Col John N. Daly (mw), Cpt William N. Parish (w) 19th Arkansas - Col Thomas P. Dockery 20th Arkansas - Col Henry P. Johnson (k) 21st Arkansas - Col Jordan E. Cravens 8th (Jones's) Arkansas Battalion 12th (Rapley's) Arkansas Battalion - Cpt James A. Ashford Appeal Battery - Lt William N. Hogg
	Phifer's Brigade BG Charles W. Phifer	3rd Arkansas Cavalry (dismounted) 6th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Col Lawrence S. Ross (w) 9th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Stirman's Arkansas Sharpshooters - Col Erasmus J. Stirman McNally's (Arkansas) Battery - Lt Frank A. Moore
	Cavalry Brigade BG Frank C. Armstrong	2nd Arkansas (Slemons') Cavalry - Col William F. Slemons Wirt Adams' Cavalry Regiment - Col Wirt Adams 2nd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted and attached to Green's Brigade) - Col Robert A. McCulloch
	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

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 Co. B, Pointe Coupee Artillery - Cpt Wm. A Davidson
	Second Brigade BG John Villepigue^[3]^[4]	1st Confederate Infantry Battalion 12th Louisiana - Col Thomas M. Scott (2nd) Louisiana Zouave Battalion - Maj St. Leon Dupiere 33rd Mississippi - Col David W. Hurst 39th Mississippi - Col William B. Shelby Co. A, Pointe Coupee Artillery - Maj George O. Watts^[5] McClung's (Tennessee) Battery
	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	1st Mississippi Cavalry - Ltc Frank A. Montgomery 7th Tennessee Cavalry - Ltc John G. Stocks

Notes

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.
Smith, Timothy B. (2012). Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2345-7.

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