The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1][2] The Union order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used
Military rank
- 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
- w = wounded
- mw = mortally wounded
- k =killed
- c = captured
Army of Northern Virginia
Gen Robert E. Lee, Commanding
First Corps
LTG James Longstreet
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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McLaws' Division |
Kershaw's Brigade |
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Barksdale's Brigade |
| |
Cobb's Brigade
|
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Semmes' Brigade |
| |
Artillery
|
| |
Anderson's Division |
Wilcox's Brigade |
|
Mahone's Brigade |
| |
Featherston's Brigade |
| |
Wright's Brigade |
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Perry's Brigade |
| |
Artillery
|
| |
Pickett's Division |
Garnett's Brigade |
|
Armistead's Brigade |
| |
Kemper's Brigade |
| |
Jenkins' Brigade |
| |
Corse' s Brigade[11] |
| |
Artillery[13]
|
| |
Hood's Division
|
Law's Brigade |
|
Robertson' s Brigade |
| |
Anderson's Brigade |
| |
Toombs' Brigade
|
| |
Artillery
|
| |
Ransom's Division |
Ransom's Brigade
|
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Cooke's Brigade
|
| |
First Corps Artillery[17] |
Washington (Louisiana) Artillery
|
|
Alexander's Battalion |
|
Second Corps
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
---|---|---|
D.H. Hill's Division
|
First (Rodes') Brigade |
|
Second (Doles') Brigade
|
| |
Third (Colquitt's) Brigade |
| |
Fourth (Iverson's) Brigade |
| |
Fifth (Ramseur's) Brigade
|
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Artillery
|
| |
|
First (Field's) Brigade |
|
Second (Gregg's) Brigade
|
| |
Third (Thomas') Brigade |
| |
Fourth (Lane's) Brigade |
| |
Fifth (Archer's) Brigade |
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Sixth (Pender's) Brigade
|
| |
Artillery |
| |
Ewell's Division |
Lawton's Brigade
|
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Trimble's Brigade
|
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Early's Brigade
|
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Hays' (First Louisiana) Brigade |
| |
Artillery |
| |
Jackson's Division |
First (Paxton's) Brigade |
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Second (Jones') Brigade |
| |
Third (Taliaferro's) Brigade |
| |
Fourth (Starke's) Brigade
|
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Artillery
|
|
Reserve Artillery
Battalions | Batteries |
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Brown's Battalion |
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Cutts' (Georgia) Battalion |
|
Nelson's Battalion
|
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Miscellaneous Batteries[24] |
|
Cavalry
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
---|---|---|
First Brigade[25]
|
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Second Brigade
|
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Third Brigade
|
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Fourth Brigade[27] |
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Artillery[28]
|
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Notes
- ↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XXI, Part 1, pages 538-545
- ↑ Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
- ↑ Transferred from Drayton's brigade, Nov. 26
- ↑ Transferred from Robertson's brigade, Nov. 26
- ↑ Cabell also commanded Nelson's Battalion and Branch's, Cooper's, Dearing's, Ells', Eubank's, Lane's, Macon's and Ross' batteries.
- 1 2 Transferred from Pryor's brigade, Nov. 10
- 1 2 Transferred from Cooke's brigade, Nov. 26
- ↑ Assigned Nov. 10
- ↑ Assigned Dec. 1
- ↑ Assigned Nov. 26; Corse was assigned Nov. 6, vice Pickett promoted, and was succeeded by Garnett.
- ↑ Brigade organized and Corse assigned Nov. 26
- ↑ Promoted Col, Dec. 13
- ↑ Other batteries of this division are probably noted as "miscellaneous" (see Reserve Artillery) their assignments not being clearly indicated by the reports. Stribling's battery was assigned Dec. 1 "for service with the brigade to which it has long been attached".
- ↑ Transferred from McLaws' division, Dec. 8
- ↑ Transferred from Wright's brigade, Nov. 26
- ↑ Transferred from Cobb's brigade, Nov. 26
- ↑ Not assigned to divisions
- ↑ OR 21 Page 1073
- ↑ Promoted and assigned command, Dec. 12
- ↑ Assigned command, Dec. 3
- ↑ Attached from Dearing's Artillery
- ↑ Majors John J. Garnett, Samuel P. Hamilton and Thomas J. Page, jr. are mentioned in the reports as commanding artillery battalion but their composition is not stated.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Of the First Virginia Light Artillery
- ↑ Mentioned in the reports but assignments not indicated
- ↑ Detached on a raid to Dúmfries
- ↑ Transferred from Third Brigade, between Nov. 10 and Dec. 31.
- ↑ In the Shenandoah Valley
- ↑ Roster for Dec. 16; Hart's, Breathed's, Moorman's and Chew's batteries appear as attached respectively to the First, Second, Third and Fourth Brigades.
- ↑ Probably in the Shenandoah Valley with the Fourth (Jones') Brigade.
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.
- National Park Service: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (Fredericksburg Confederate order of battle).
- Civil War Home: Fredericksburg Confederate order of battle