Battle of Nashville order of battle: Confederate
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Nashville of the American Civil War. The order of battle has been compiled from the army organization[1] during the campaign[2] and reports.[3] The Union order of battle is shown separately.
Abbreviations used
editMilitary rank
edit- Gen = General
- LTG = Lieutenant General
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Cpt = Captain
- Lt = Lieutenant
- Sgt = Sergeant
Other
edit- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k = killed
- c = captured
Army of Tennessee
editGen John B. Hood, Commanding
Cheatham’s Corps
editChief of Artillery
Col Melancthon Smith
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Brown's Division
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Gist's Brigade
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Strahl's Brigade
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Maney's Brigade
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Vaughan's Brigade
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Artillery Battalion |
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Cleburne's Division
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Smith's Brigade (attached to Forrest's command at Murfreesboro) |
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Govan's Brigade
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Lowrey's Brigade
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Granbury's Brigade
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Bate's Division
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Tyler's Brigade
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Finley's Brigade
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Jackson's Brigade
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Cobb's Artillery Battalion
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Corps artillery |
Hotchkiss's Battalion |
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Lee’s Corps
editLTG Stephen D. Lee
Chief of Artillery
Maj John W. Johnston
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Johnson's Division
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Deas' Brigade |
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Sharp's Brigade |
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Manigault's Brigade
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Brantley's Brigade |
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Courtney's Artillery Battalion
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Stevenson's Division
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Cumming's Brigade
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Pettus's Brigade |
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Brown's and Reynolds' Brigade
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Clayton's Division
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Stovall's Brigade |
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Holtzclaw's Brigade |
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Gibson's Brigade |
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Eldridge's Artillery Battalion
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Corps Artillery |
Johnston's Battalion
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Stewart’s Corps
editChief of Artillery
Ltc Samuel C. Williams
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Loring's Division
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Featherston's Brigade |
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Adams' Brigade
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Scott's Brigade
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Myrick's Artillery Battalion |
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French's Division
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Sears' Brigade
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Ector's Brigade
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Cockrell's Brigade (on detached duty on the Duck River)
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Storrs' Artillery Battalion |
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Walthall's Division
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Quarles' Brigade |
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Cantey's Brigade |
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Reynolds' Brigade |
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Trueheart's Artillery Battalion
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Cavalry Corps
editMG Nathan B. Forrest
(Detached; at Murfreesboro with Jackson's and Buford's Divisions.)
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Chalmers' Division
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Rucker's Brigade
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Biffle's Brigade
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Buford's Division |
Bell's Brigade
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Crossland's Brigade
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Jackson's Division |
Armstrong's Brigade |
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Ross's Brigade |
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Artillery |
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Notes
edit- ^ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLV, Part 1, pages 664-669 (December 10, 1864)
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLV, Part 1, pages 31-32
References
edit- 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.
- McDonough, James Lee. Nashville: The Western Confederacy’s Final Gamble. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
- Nashville page, Civil War Home site