Battle of Fort Donelson order of battle: Confederate

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

Confederate Memorial

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain

Army of Central Kentucky

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General Albert Sidney Johnston Not present at battle

Fort Donelson

BG Bushrod Johnson Feb 9
BG Gideon J. Pillow Feb 9-13
BG John B. Floyd Feb 13-16
BG Gideon J. Pillow Feb 16
BG Simon B. Buckner, Sr. Feb 16

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Right Wing      BG Simon B. Buckner, Sr.	2nd Brigade    (attached to 3rd Brigade)	2nd Kentucky: Col Roger Hanson 14th Mississippi: Maj Washington Doss 41st Tennessee: Col Robert Farquharson
	3rd Brigade    Col John C. Brown	3rd Tennessee: Ltc Thomas Gordon (w), Maj N. F. Cheairs 18th Tennessee: Col Joseph B. Palmer 32nd Tennessee: Col Edmond Cook
Left Wing      BG Gideon Johnson Pillow      BG Bushrod Johnson[3]	1st Brigade    Col Adolphus Heiman	27th Alabama: Col Adolphus Hughes 10th Tennessee: Ltc Randal W. McGavock 42nd Tennessee: Col William A. Quarles 48th Tennessee: Col William Voorhies 53rd Tennessee: Col Alfred Abernathy, Ltc Thomas F. Winston
	2nd Brigade    Col Thomas J. Davidson    Col John M. Simonton    Col John Gregg	8th Kentucky: Ltc Hylan B. Lyon 1st Mississippi: Col John M. Simonton, Ltc A. S. Hamilton 23rd Mississippi: Ltc Joseph Wells 7th Texas: Col John Gregg
	3rd Brigade    Col Joseph Drake	3rd Alabama Battalion: Maj John Garvin 15th Arkansas: Col James M. Gee 4th Mississippi: Maj Thomas Adaire
	4th Brigade (Fort Donelson Garrison)[4]    Col John W. Head	30th Tennessee: Col John W. Head 49th Tennessee: Col James Bailey 50th Tennessee: Col Cyrus Sugg 1st Tennessee Battalion: Maj Steven Colms Stankiewicz's Tennessee Battery: Lt Peter Stankiewicz
	5th Brigade    Col Gabriel C. Wharton	51st Virginia Infantry: Ltc James Massie 56th Virginia Infantry: Col Phillip Slaughter
	6th Brigade    Col John McCausland	20th Mississippi: Maj William Brown 36th Virginia: Ltc Leigh Reid 50th Virginia: Maj Charles Thorburn
	7th Brigade    Col William E. Baldwin[5]	26th Mississippi: Col Arthur Reynolds 26th Tennessee: Col John Lillard
Attached Units	Cavalry Brigade    Lt Col Nathan B. Forrest	3rd Tennessee Cavalry Ltc Nathan Bedford Forrest 9th Tennessee Cavalry Ltc George Gantt 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company D: Cpt S.B. Williams 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company G: Cpt M.D. Willcox 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company K: Cpt James Huey Melton's Kentucky Cavalry Company : Cpt James Melton
	Artillery    Lt Col Milton Haynes	French's Mercer (VA) Battery: Cpt Napoleon B. French[6] Gauley (VA) Artillery: Cpt Stephen Adams Goochland (VA) Battery: Cpt John Guy Kanawha (VA) Artillery: Cpt Thomas E. Jackson Graves' Kentucky Battery: Cpt Rice E. Graves Green's Kentucky Battery: Cpt Henry Green Maney's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Frank Maney (w) Porter's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Thomas Porter (w), Lt John W. Morton Ross' Tennessee Battery: Cpt Ruben Ross Culbertson's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Jacob Culbertson 51st Tennessee: Col. B.M. Browder

See also

• American Civil War portal

• Tennessee in the American Civil War