The following is the organization of the Confederate forces engaged at the Siege of Port Hudson, during the American Civil War in 1863. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Department of Mississippi & East Louisiana

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

District of East Louisiana[1][2]
     MG Franklin Gardner

 Left Wing

   Col Isaiah G. W. Steedman
  • 1st Alabama: Col I.G.W. Steedman
  • 1st Mississippi: Maj Thomas H. Johnston
  • 39th Mississippi: Col W.B. Shelby
  • 10th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Ltc E.L. Vaughan
  • 15th Arkansas: Col Benjamin Johnson
  • 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's): Col W.N. Parish
  • Claiborne's Mississippi Light Infantry: Cpt A.J. Lewis
  • 9th Louisiana Partisan Rangers Battalion: Ltc J.H. Wingfield
  • 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (Bradford´s and Herod´s batteries)
  • Watson's Louisiana Battery: Lt E.A. Toledano
  • English's Mississippi Battery: Lt P.J. Noland
Center

   BG William Beall
  • 1st Alabama Infantry: Cpt J.F. Whitfield
  • 49th Alabama: Col Jeptha Edwards
  • 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion: Ltc Batt L. Jones
  • 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col T.J. Reid, Jr.
  • 14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Powers'): Ltc Pleasant Fowler
  • 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col David Provence
  • 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col O.P. Lyles
  • 1st Mississippi Infantry: Ltc A.S. Hamilton
  • 12th Louisiana Artillery Battalion: Ltc P.F. Gournay
  • 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (Abbay´s battery): George Abbay
  • 1st Tennessee Light Artillery: Lt Oswald Tilghman
  • Watson's Louisiana Battery: Sgt Maj H.L. Nichols
  • 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery: Cpt James A. Fisher
Right Wing

   Col William R. Miles
  • 9th Louisiana: Cpt T.B.R. Chinn
  • Miles’ Louisiana Legion: Ltc Frederick Brand
  • 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment: Col O.P. Lyles
  • Maxey's Brigade (provisional battalion): Col S.A. Whiteside
  • Boone’s Louisiana Battery: Cpt R.M. Boone
  • Seven Stars Mississippi Artillery: Cpt Calvit Roberts
  • DeGournay's Battery: Maj A. Merchant
Cavalry[3]

   Col John L. Logan
  • 11th and 17th Arkansas (detachment): Col John Griffith
  • 9th Tennessee Battalion: Maj James H. Aiken
  • Cochran's Battalion
  • Garland's Battalion: Maj W.H. Garland
  • Hughes's Battalion: Ltc C.C. Wilbourn
  • Stockdale's Battalion: Ltc Thomas R. Stockdale
  • 7 Stars Mississippi Artillery (Robert's battery): Cpt Calvin Roberts

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Eicher p.248
  2. ↑ Port Hudson Confederate Forces
  3. ↑ Operated outside the post during the siege

References

  • Port Hudson, Louisiana
  • Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
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