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Battle of Antietam order of battle: Confederate

Battle of Antietam order of battle: Confederate

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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]

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Military rank

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Army of Northern Virginia

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Gen Robert E. Lee

Right Wing

MG James Longstreet

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Left Wing

MG Thomas J. Jackson

Chief of Artillery: Col Stapleton Crutchfield

Escort:

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Artillery Reserve

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Cavalry

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Multiple commander names indicate command succession of command during the battle or the campaign.
  2. [2]
    Antietam National Battlefield-Army of Northern Virginia; Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 803-810; Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, pages 366-372
  3. [3]
    Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 810-813
  4. [4]
    Official Records, Series I, Volume XIX, Part 1, pages, 1111-1114, 1169-1171; Official Records, Series I, Volume LI, Part 1, pages, 1312, 1391-1392
  5. [5]
    Turned over command to Lieutenant Colonel MacRae on account of sickness (see: MacRae's report)
  6. [6]
    Wounded September 15, 1862, but remained in command (see: Barksdale's report)
  7. [7]
    Reached the field just as the battle was closing (see: Barksdale's report)
  8. [8]
    Joined during the battle (see: McLaws' report)
  9. [9]
    Attached to Pryor's brigade (see: Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, page 367)
  10. [10]
    The Antietam National Battlefield site and the Official Records lists Brigadier General Featherston in command but he is not mentioned in the reports. For Posey in command see Longstreet's report
  11. [11]
    Commanded the 2nd, 20th and 50th Georgia and the 2nd Company, Washington Artillery. Colonel Benning commanded the remnant of the brigade. (see: Toombs' report; F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 248/Note 47)
  12. [12]
    Richard M. Coffman & Kurt D. Graham, To Honor These Men: A History of the Phillips Georgia Legion Infantry Battalion
  13. [13]
    F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 28
  14. [14]
    Wounded September 14, 1862, but remained in command
  15. [15]
    Relieved Maj Adam Clement, wia 9/14; Robert T. Bell, 11th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va.): H. E. Howard, Inc., 1985, roster
  16. [16]
    Detached September 14, 1862, at Hagerstown, five companies reached Sharpsburg on the morning of September 17, 1862, and served with General Toombs (see: Anderson's report)
  17. [17]
    Stribling's, Rogers' and Leake's batteries left at Leesburg, Virginia
  18. [18]
    Also called Law's or Third Brigade (see: Longstreet's and Law's report)
  19. [19]
    Commanded the brigade while General Evans commanded a provisional division
  20. [20]
    Attached to the 21st North Carolina
  21. [21]
    Carrington's (Virginia) battery left at Richmond in August, did not rejoin the Army after the Battle of Sharpsburg. Johnson's and D'Aquin batteries were the only ones present with this division at Sharpsburg, Brown's (Maryland), Dement's (Maryland), Latimer's (Virginia) and Balthis' (Virginia) batteries having been left at Harper's Ferry and Shepherdstown
  22. [22]
    Anderson's (old) Brigade (14th, 35th, 45th, 49th Georgia) under Colonel Edward L. Thomas was left at Harper's Ferry (see: A. P. Hill's and Walker's report)
  23. [23]
    Commanded the brigade during the march from Harper's Ferry to Sharpsburg and from September 18–19, 1862. Brigadier General Archer retired from the field on account of exhaustion during the march and on September 18, 1862 (see: Archer's report)
  24. [24]
    Braxton's, Crenshaw's, McIntosh's, and Pegram's batteries engaged at Sharpsburg. Davidson's battery had been left at Harper's Ferry, and Fleet's and Latham's batteries at Leesburg
  25. [25]
    2nd Virginia detached at Martinburg, West Virginia
  26. [26]
    10th Virginia detached at Martinburg, West Virginia
  27. [27]
    F. Ray Sibley, Jr., The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, page 250/Note 111
  28. [28]
    On 'field return', Army of Northern Virginia, for September 22, 1862, this division appears as of Jackson's Corps (left wing)
  29. [29]
    Including all batteries mentioned in the reports or in the reorganization of October 4, 1862, and not elsewhere accounted for. Brooke's, Dearings' and Nelson's batteries joined after the campaign had terminated
  30. [30]
    First Virginia Artillery
  31. [31]
    Under D. H. Hill's command
  32. [32]
    Thomas (Virginia) Artillery (Edwin J. Anderson's Battery) left in Leesburg
  33. [33]
    Not mentioned between September 1–22, but probably with the army in reserve

References

  • Antietam National Battlefield
  • Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. ISBN 978-0-618-34419-2.
  • Sibley, Jr., F. Ray, The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 1996. ISBN 0-942597-73-7
  • 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.
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