Battle of Antietam order of battle: Confederate

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

Military rank

• Gen = General
• 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 in action
• (c) = captured

Army of Northern Virginia

Main article: Army of Northern Virginia

Gen Robert E. Lee

Right Wing

MG James Longstreet

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
McLaws' Division      MG Lafayette McLaws	Kershaw's Brigade    BG Joseph B. Kershaw	2nd South Carolina: Col John D. Kennedy (w), Maj Franklin Gaillard 3rd South Carolina: Col James D. Nance 7th South Carolina: Col David W. Aiken (w), Cpt John S. Hard 8th South Carolina: Ltc Axalla J. Hoole
	Cobb's Brigade    Ltc Christopher C. Sanders[5]    Ltc William MacRae	16th Georgia: Ltc Philip Thomas 24th Georgia: Maj Robert E. McMillan (w) Cobb's (Georgia) Legion: Ltc Luther Glenn 15th North Carolina: Ltc William MacRae
	Semmes' Brigade    BG Paul J. Semmes	10th Georgia: Maj Willis C. Holt (w), Cpt William Johnston (w), Cpt Philologus H. Loud (w) 53rd Georgia: Ltc Thomas Sloan (mw), Cpt Samuel W. Marshborne 15th Virginia: Cpt Emmett M. Morrison (w), Cpt Edward J. Willis 32nd Virginia: Col Edgar B. Montague
	Barksdale's Brigade    BG William Barksdale	13th Mississippi: Ltc Kennon McElroy[6] 17th Mississippi: Ltc John C. Fiser 18th Mississippi: Maj James C. Campbell (w), Ltc William H. Luse[7] 21st Mississippi: Cpt John Sims, Col Benjamin G. Humphreys[7]
	Artillery    Maj Samuel P. Hamilton    Col Henry C. Cabell[8]	Manly's (1st North Carolina, Battery A) Battery: Cpt Basil C. Manly Pulaski (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt John P. W. Read Richmond (Fayette) Artillery: Cpt Miles C. Macon Richmond Howitzers, 1st Company: Cpt Edward S. McCarthy Troup (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt Henry H. Carlton
Anderson's Division      MG Richard H. Anderson (w)      BG Roger A. Pryor	Wilcox's Brigade    Col Alfred Cumming (w)    Maj Hilary A. Herbert    Cpt James M. Crow	8th Alabama: Maj Hilary A. Herbert 9th Alabama: Maj Jeremiah H. Johnston (w), Cpt James M. Crow 10th Alabama: Cpt George C. Whatley (k) 11th Alabama: Maj John C. C. Sanders
	Mahone's Brigade[9]    Col William A. Parham	6th Virginia: Cpt John R. Ludlow 12th Virginia 16th Virginia 41st Virginia 61st Virginia
	Featherston's Brigade[10]    Col Carnot Posey	12th Mississippi: Col William H. Taylor 16th Mississippi: Cpt Abram M. Feltus 19th Mississippi: Col Nathaniel H. Harris (w) 2nd Mississippi Battalion: Maj William S. Wilson (mw)
	Armistead's Brigade    BG Lewis A. Armistead (w)    Col James G. Hodges	9th Virginia: Cpt William J. Richardson 14th Virginia: Col James G. Hodges 38th Virginia: Col Edward C. Edmonds 53rd Virginia: Cpt William G. Pollard (k) 57th Virginia
	Pryor's Brigade    BG Roger A. Pryor    Col John C. Hately (w)	14th Alabama: Maj James A. Broome 2nd Florida: Col William D. Ballantine (w), Lt Henry C. Geiger 5th Florida: Col John C. Hately (w), Ltc Thomas B. Lamar (w), Maj Benjamin F. Davis 8th Florida: Ltc Georges A. G. De Coppens (k), Cpt Richard A. Waller (k), Cpt William Baya 3rd Virginia: Col Joseph Mayo, Jr. (w), Ltc Alexander D. Callcote
	Wright's Brigade    BG Ambrose R. Wright (w)    Col Robert H. Jones (w)    Col William Gibson	44th Alabama: Ltc Charles A. Derby (k), Maj William F. Perry 3rd Georgia: Cpt Reuben B. Nisbit (w), Cpt John T. Jones 22nd Georgia: Col Robert H. Jones (w), Cpt Lawrence D. Lallerstedt (w) 48th Georgia: Col William Gibson
	Artillery    Maj John S. Saunders	Donaldsonville (Louisiana) Artillery: Cpt Victor Maurin Norfolk (Virginia) Artillery (Huger's Battery): Lt Charles R. Phelps Moorman's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt Marcellus N. Moorman Portsmouth (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Cary F. Grimes (k) Dixie (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt William H. Chapman
Jones' Division      BG David R. Jones	Toombs' Brigade    BG Robert Toombs (w)[11]    Col Henry L. Benning	2nd Georgia: Ltc William R. Holmes (k), Maj Skidmore Harris (w), Cpt Abner M. Lewis 15th Georgia: Col William T. Millican (mw), Cpt Thomas H. Jackson 17th Georgia: Cpt John A. McGregor 20th Georgia: Col John B. Cumming
	Drayton's Brigade    BG Thomas F. Drayton	50th Georgia: Ltc Francis Kearse 51st Georgia Phillips' (Georgia) Legion: Maj Richard "Robert" Thomas Cook[12] 15th South Carolina: Col William D. DeSaussure 3rd South Carolina Battalion:[13] Cpt George M. Gunnels
	Pickett's Brigade    BG Richard B. Garnett	8th Virginia: Col Eppa Hunton 18th Virginia: Maj George C. Cabell 19th Virginia: Lt William N. Wood 28th Virginia: Cpt William L. Wingfield 56th Virginia: Cpt John B. McPhail, Jr.[14]
	Kemper's Brigade    BG James L. Kemper	1st Virginia: Cpt George F. Newton, Maj William H. Palmer 7th Virginia: Maj Arthur Herbert 11th Virginia: Cpt Robert Miller Mitchell, Jr.[15] 17th Virginia: Col Montgomery D. Corse (w) 24th Virginia: Col William R. Terry
	Jenkins' Brigade    Col Joseph Walker	1st South Carolina (Volunteers): Ltc Daniel Livingston (w) 2nd South Carolina Rifles: Col Robert A. Thompson 5th South Carolina: Cpt Thomas C. Beckham 6th South Carolina: Cpt Edward B. Cantey (w) 4th South Carolina Battalion: Lt W. T. Field Palmetto (South Carolina) Sharpshooters: Cpt Alfred H. Foster (w), Cpt Franklin W. Kirkpatrick
	Jones' Brigade    Col George T. Anderson	1st Georgia (Regulars): Col William J. Magill (w), Cpt Richard A. Wayne 7th Georgia: Col George H. Carmical 8th Georgia: Col John R. Towers 9th Georgia: Ltc John C. L. Mounger (w) 11th Georgia: Maj Francis H. Little[16]
	Artillery[17]	Wise (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt James S. Brown
Walker's Division      BG John G. Walker	Walker's Brigade    Col Van H. Manning (w)    Col Edward D. Hall	3rd Arkansas: Cpt John W. Reedy 27th North Carolina: Col John R. Cooke (w) 46th North Carolina: Col Edward D. Hall, Ltc William A. Jenkins 48th North Carolina: Col Robert C. Hill 30th Virginia: Ltc Robert S. Chew (w) French's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt Thomas B. French
	Ransom's Brigade    BG Robert Ransom, Jr.	24th North Carolina: Ltc John L. Harris 25th North Carolina: Col Henry M. Rutledge 35th North Carolina: Col Matt W. Ransom 49th North Carolina: Ltc Leroy M. McAfee Branch's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt James R. Branch
Hood's Division      BG John B. Hood	Hood's Brigade    Col William T. Wofford	18th Georgia: Ltc Solon Z. Ruff Hampton's (South Carolina) Legion: Ltc Martin W. Gary 1st Texas: Ltc Philip A. Work 4th Texas: Ltc Benjamin F. Carter 5th Texas: Cpt Ike N. M. Turner
	Whiting's Brigade[18]    Col Evander M. Law	4th Alabama: Cpt Lawrence H. Scruggs (w), Cpt William M. Robbins 2nd Mississippi: Col John M. Stone (w), Lt William C. Moody 11th Mississippi: Ltc Samuel F. Butler (mw), Maj Taliaferro S. Evans (k) 6th North Carolina: Maj Robert F. Webb (w)
	Artillery    Maj Bushrod W. Frobel	German (South Carolina) Artillery: Cpt William K. Bachman Palmetto (South Carolina) Artillery: Cpt Hugh R. Garden Rowan (North Carolina) Artillery: Cpt James Reilly
Reporting directly	Evans' Brigade    BG Nathan G. Evans    Col Peter F. Stevens[19] (w)	17th South Carolina: Col Fitz W. McMaster 18th South Carolina: Col William H. Wallace 22nd South Carolina: Maj Miel Hilton 23rd South Carolina: Lt E. R. White Holcombe (South Carolina) Legion: Col Peter F. Stevens Macbeth (South Carolina) Artillery: Cpt Robert Boyce
Reserve Artillery	Washington (Louisiana) Artillery    Col James B. Walton	1st Company: Cpt Charles W. Squires 2nd Company: Cpt John B. Richardson 3rd Company: Cpt Merritt B. Miller 4th Company: Cpt Benjamin F. Eshleman
	Lee's Battalion    Col Stephen D. Lee	Ashland (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Pichegru Woolfolk, Jr. Bedford (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Tyler C. Jordan Brooks (South Carolina) Artillery (Rhett's Battery): Lt William Elliott Eubank's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt John L. Eubank Madison (Louisiana) Light Artillery: Cpt George V. Moody Parker's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt William W. Parker

Left Wing

MG Thomas J. Jackson

Chief 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      BG Alexander Lawton (w)      BG Jubal A. Early	Lawton's Brigade    Col Marcellus Douglass (k)    Maj John H. Lowe    Col John H. Lamar	13th Georgia: Cpt D. A. Kidd 26th Georgia 31st Georgia: Ltc John T. Crowder (w), Maj John H. Lowe 38th Georgia: Cpt William H. Battey (k), Cpt Peter Brennan 60th Georgia: Maj Waters B. Jones 61st Georgia: Col John H. Lamar, Maj Archibald P. McRae (k)
	Early's Brigade    BG Jubal A. Early    Col William Smith (w)	13th Virginia: Cpt Frank V. Winston 25th Virginia: Cpt Robert D. Lilley 31st Virginia 44th Virginia: Cpt David W. Anderson (w) 49th Virginia: Col William Smith, Ltc Jonathan C. Gibson (w) 52nd Virginia: Col Michael G. Harman 58th Virginia
	Trimble's Brigade    Col James A. Walker (w)	15th Alabama: Cpt Isaac B. Feagin 12th Georgia: Cpt James G. Rogers (k), Cpt John T. Carson 21st Georgia: Maj Thomas C. Glover (w), Cpt James C. Nisbit 21st North Carolina: Cpt F. P. Miller (k) 1st North Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters[20]
	Hays' Brigade    BG Harry T. Hays	5th Louisiana: Col Henry Forno 6th Louisiana: Col Henry B. Strong (k) 7th Louisiana: Col. Davidson Bradfute Penn 8th Louisiana: Ltc Trevanion D. Lewis (w) 14th Louisiana
	Artillery[21]    Maj Alfred R. Courtney	Johnson's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt John R. Johnson Louisiana Guard Battery: Cpt Louis E. D'Aquin
A. P. Hill's Light Division[22]      MG Ambrose P. Hill	Branch's Brigade    BG Lawrence O. Branch (k)    Col James H. Lane	7th North Carolina: Col Edward G. Haywood 18th North Carolina: Ltc Thomas J. Purdie 28th North Carolina: Col James H. Lane, Maj William J. Montgomery 33rd North Carolina: Ltc Robert F. Hoke 37th North Carolina: Cpt William G. Morris
	Gregg's Brigade    BG Maxcy Gregg (w)	1st South Carolina (Provisional Army): Col Daniel H. Hamilton, Sr. 1st South Carolina Rifles: Ltc James M. Perrin (w) 12th South Carolina: Col Dixon Barnes (mw), Maj William H. McCorkle 13th South Carolina: Col Oliver E. Edwards 14th South Carolina: Ltc William D. Simpson
	Field's Brigade    Col John M. Brockenbrough	40th Virginia: Ltc Fleet W. Cox 47th Virginia: Ltc John W. Lyell 55th Virginia: Maj Charles N. Lawson 22nd Virginia Battalion: Maj Edward P. Tayloe
	Archer's Brigade    BG James J. Archer    Col Peter Turney[23]	5th Alabama Battalion: Cpt Charles M. Hooper 19th Georgia: Maj James H. Neal 1st Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col Peter Turney 7th Tennessee: Lt George A. Howard 14th Tennessee: Col William McComb (w), Ltc James W. Lockert
	Pender's Brigade    BG William D. Pender	16th North Carolina: Ltc William A. Stowe 22nd North Carolina: Maj Christopher C. Cole 34th North Carolina: Ltc John McDowell 38th North Carolina
	Artillery[24]    Ltc R. Lindsay Walker	Pee Dee (South Carolina) Artillery: Cpt David G. McIntosh Crenshaw's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt William G. Crenshaw Fredericksburg (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Carter M. Braxton Purcell (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt William R. J. Pegram
Jackson's Division      BG John R. Jones (w)      BG William E. Starke (k)      Col Andrew J. Grigsby	Winder's Brigade[25]    Col Andrew J. Grigsby    Ltc Robert D. Gardner (w)    Maj Hazael J. Williams	4th Virginia: Ltc Robert D. Gardner 5th Virginia: Maj Hazael J. Williams, Cpt E. L. Curtis (w) 27th Virginia: Cpt Frank C. Wilson 33rd Virginia: Cpt Jacob Golladay (w), Lt David Walton
	Taliaferro's Brigade[26]    Col Edward T. H. Warren    Col James W. Jackson (w)    Col James L. Sheffield	47th Alabama: Col James W. Jackson, Maj James M. Campbell 48th Alabama: Col James L. Sheffield 23rd Virginia Ltc Simeon T. Walton (w) 37th Virginia: Ltc John F. Terry (w)
	Jones' Brigade    Cpt John E. Penn (w)    Cpt A. C. Page (w)    Cpt Robert W. Withers	21st Virginia: Cpt A. C. Page 42nd Virginia: Cpt Robert W. Withers, Cpt D. W. Garrett 48th Virginia: Cpt John H. Candler 1st Virginia Battalion: Lt Charles A. Davidson
	Starke's Brigade    BG William E. Starke    Col Jesse M. Williams (w)    Col Leroy A. Stafford (w)    Col Edmund Pendleton	1st Louisiana: Ltc Michael Nolan (w), Cpt William E. Moore 2nd Louisiana: Col Jesse M. Williams 9th Louisiana: Col Leroy A. Stafford, Ltc William R. Peck 10th Louisiana: Cpt Henry D. Monier 15th Louisiana: Col Edmund Pendleton Coppens' (First Louisiana Zouaves) Battalion:[27] Cpt M. Alfred Coppens
	Artillery    Maj Lindsay M. Shumaker	Alleghany (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt John C. Carpenter Baltimore (Maryland) Artillery: Cpt John B. Brockenbrough Danville (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt George Wooding Hampden (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt William H. Caskie Lee (Virginia) Battery: Cpt Charles I. Raine Rockbridge (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt William T. Poague
D. H. Hill's Division[28]      MG Daniel H. Hill	Ripley's Brigade    BG Roswell S. Ripley (w)    Col George P. Doles	4th Georgia: Col George P. Doles, Maj Robert S. Smith (k), Cpt William H. Willis 44th Georgia: Cpt John C. Key 1st North Carolina: Ltc Hamilton A. Brown 3rd North Carolina: Col William L. De Rosset (w), Maj Stephen D. Thruston (w)
	Rodes' Brigade    BG Robert E. Rodes (w)	3rd Alabama: Col Cullen A. Battle 5th Alabama: Maj Edwin L. Hobson 6th Alabama: Col John B. Gordon (w), Ltc James N. Lightfoot (w) 12th Alabama: Cpt E. Tucker (k), Cpt W. L. Maroney (w), Cpt Adolph Proskauer (w) 26th Alabama: Col Edward A. O'Neal (w)
	Garland's Brigade    Col Duncan K. McRae (w)	5th North Carolina: Cpt Thomas M. Garrett 12th North Carolina: Cpt Shugan Snow 13th North Carolina: Ltc Thomas Ruffin, Jr. (w), Cpt Joseph H. Hyman 20th North Carolina: Col Alfred Iverson, Jr. 23rd North Carolina: Col Daniel H. Christie
	Anderson's Brigade    BG George B. Anderson (mw)    Col Risden T. Bennett (w)	2nd North Carolina: Col Charles C. Tew (k), Cpt Gideon M. Roberts 4th North Carolina: Col Bryan Grimes, Cpt William T. Marsh (k), Cpt Daniel P. Latham (k) 14th North Carolina: Col Risden T. Bennett 30th North Carolina: Col Francis M. Parker (w), Maj William W. Sillers
	Rains' (old) Brigade    Col Alfred H. Colquitt	13th Alabama: Col Birkett D. Fry (w), Ltc William H. Betts (w) 6th Georgia: Ltc James M. Newton (k), Maj Philemon Tracy (mw), Lt Eugene P. Bennett 23rd Georgia: Col William P. Barclay (k), Ltc Emory F. Best (w), Maj James H. Huggins (w) 27th Georgia: Col Levi B. Smith (k), Ltc Charles T. Zachry (w), Cpt William H. Rentfro 28th Georgia: Maj Tully Graybill (w), Cpt Nehemiah J. Garrison (w), Cpt George W. Warthen
	Artillery    Maj Scipio Pierson	Hardaway's (Alabama) Battery: Cpt Robert A. Hardaway Jefferson Davis (Alabama) Artillery: Cpt James W. Bondurant Jones' (Virginia) Battery: Cpt William B. Jones King William (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Thomas H. Carter (w)

Artillery Reserve

Division	Battalions	Batteries
Artillery Reserve[29]      BG William N. Pendleton	Brown's Battalion[30]    Col J. Thompson Brown	Powhatan (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Willis J. Dance Richmond (Virginia) Howitzers, 2nd company: Cpt David Watson Richmond (Virginia) Howitzers, 3rd company: Cpt Benjamin H. Smith, Jr. Salem (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Abraham Hupp Williamsburg (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt John A. Coke
	Cutts' Battalion[31]    Ltc Allen S. Cutts	Blackshears' (Georgia) Battery: Cpt James A. Blackshear Irwin (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt John Lane Lloyd's (North Carolina) Battery: Cpt Whitmel P. Lloyd Patterson's (Georgia) Battery: Cpt George M. Patterson Ross' (Georgia) Battery: Cpt Hugh M. Ross
	Jones' Battalion[31]    Maj Hilary P. Jones	Morris (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Richard C. M. Page Orange (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Jefferson Peyton Turner's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt William H. Turner Long Island (Virginia) Battery: Cpt Abram Wimbish
	Nelson's Battalion    Maj William Nelson	Amherst (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt Thomas J. Kirkpatrick Fluvanna (Virginia) Artillery: Cpt John J. Ancell Huckstep's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt Charles T. Huckstep Johnson's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt. Marmaduke Johnson Milledge (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt John Milledge
	Miscellaneous Batteries[32]	Cutshaw's (Virginia) Battery Magruder (Virginia) Artillery Rice's (Virginia) Battery:[33] Cpt William H. Rice

Cavalry

Main article: Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Stuart's Division      MG James E.B. Stuart	Hampton's Brigade    BG Wade Hampton	1st North Carolina: Col Laurence S. Baker 2nd South Carolina: Col Matthew C. Butler 10th Virginia Cobb's (Georgia) Legion: Ltc Pierce M. B. Young (w), Maj William G. Delony Jeff Davis (Mississippi) Legion: Ltc William T. Martin
	Lee's Brigade    BG Fitzhugh Lee	1st Virginia: Ltc Luke T. Brien 3rd Virginia: Ltc John T. Thornton (mw), Cpt Thomas Owens 4th Virginia: Col Williams C. Wickham 5th Virginia: Col Thomas L. Rosser 9th Virginia
	Robertson's Brigade    Col Thomas T. Munford	2nd Virginia: Ltc Richard H. Burks 6th Virginia 7th Virginia: Cpt Samuel B. Myers 12th Virginia: Col Asher W. Harman 17th Virginia Battalion
	Horse Artillery    Cpt John Pelham	Chew's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt R. Preston Chew Hart's (South Carolina) Battery: Cpt James F. Hart Pelham's (Virginia) Battery: Cpt John Pelham