Champion Hill Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Champion Hill

Battle of Champion Hill

The Battle of Champion Hill, or Bakers Creek, fought May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Union commander Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate Lt. Gen. John C...

of the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

. The Union order of battle

Champion Hill Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Champion Hill of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.-Military rank:* MG = Major General* BG = Brigadier General* Col = Colonel...

is listed separately.

Military rank

LTG = Lieutenant General
MG = Major General
BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Colonel (United States)
In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, colonel is a senior field grade military officer rank just above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general...
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel (United States)
In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of major and just below the rank of colonel. It is equivalent to the naval rank of commander in the other uniformed services.The pay...
Maj = Major
Major (United States)
In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, major is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel...
Cpt = Captain
Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Confederate Army

LTG John C. Pemberton

John C. Pemberton

John Clifford Pemberton , was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Seminole Wars and with distinction during the Mexican–American War. He also served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, noted for his defeat and surrender in the critical Siege of Vicksburg in...

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Loring's Division MG William W. Loring William W. Loring William Wing Loring was a soldier from North Carolina who served in the armies of the United States, the Confederacy, and Egypt.-Early life:...	1st Brigade BG Lloyd Tilghman Lloyd Tilghman Lloyd Tilghman was a railroad construction engineer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Champion Hill... (k) Col A. E. Reynolds	1st Confederate Infantry Battalion: Ltc G. H. Forney 6th Mississippi: Col R. Lowry 23rd Mississippi: Col J. M. Wells 26th Mississippi: Col A. E. Reynolds, Maj T. F. Parker Company C, 14th Mississippi Artillery Battalion (4 guns): Lt J. Culbertson Company G, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (6 guns): Cpt J. J. Cowan
	2nd Brigade BG Abraham Buford Abraham Buford II Brigadier General Abraham "Abe" Buford II was a soldier and Thoroughbred horse breeder. Born in Woodford County, Kentucky, his origins were a Huguenot family named Beaufort who fled persecution in France and settled in England before emigrating to America in 1635.Abraham Buford was the son of...	27th Alabama: Col J. Jackson 35th Alabama: Col Edward Goodwin 54th Alabama: Col Alpheus Baker Alpheus Baker Alpheus Baker was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in South Carolina, Baker was a schoolteacher and practiced law before moving to Alabama... (w) 55th Alabama: Col J. Snodgrass 9th Arkansas: Col I. L. Dunlop 3rd Kentucky 3rd Kentucky Infantry The 3rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was part of the First Kentucky Brigade through August 1862.-Service:... (4 companies): Maj J. H. Bowman 7th Kentucky 7th Kentucky Infantry The 7th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Service:... : Col E. Crossland 12th Louisiana: Col Thomas M. Scott Companies A & C, Pointe Coupée Artillery Pointe Coupee Artillery The Pointe Coupee Artillery was a Confederate Louisiana artillery unit in the American Civil War. This artillery unit was commanded by Major R. A... (8 guns): Cpt A. Bouanchaud
	3rd Brigade BG Winfield S. Featherston Winfield S. Featherston Winfield Scott Featherston "Old Swet" was an antebellum two-term U.S. Representative from Mississippi and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was later a state politician and a circuit court judge.-Early life and career:Winfield S...	3rd Mississippi: Col T. A. Mellon 22nd Mississippi: Col F. Schaller 31st Mississippi: Col J. A. Orr 33rd Mississippi: Col D. W. Hurst 1st Mississippi Sharpshooter Battalion: Maj W. A. Rayburn Company D, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt J. L. Wofford

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Stevenson's Division MG Carter L. Stevenson Carter L. Stevenson Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Jr. was a career military officer, serving in the United States Army in several antebellum wars and then in the Confederate States Army as a general in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.-Early life and career:Stevenson was born to a prominent family in... Division Artillery: Maj Joseph W. Anderson (k) Botetourt (Virginia) Artillery (2 guns): Cpt J. W. Johnston Company A, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (4 guns): Cpt S. J. Ridley (k), Cpt W. T. Ratliff	1st Brigade BG Seth M. Barton	40th Georgia: Ltc R. M. Young 41st Georgia: Col W. E. Curtiss 42nd Georgia: Col R. J. Henderson 43rd Georgia 43rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry The 43rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry was an Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.- History :The regiment was first organized during the spring of 1862 with men recruited from Banks, Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson, and Pickens counties... : Col S. Harris (k), Cpt M. M. Grantham 52nd Georgia: Col C. D. Phillips (c), Maj J. J. Moore Cherokee Georgia Artillery (4 guns): Cpt M. Van Den Corput
	2nd Brigade BG Stephen D. Lee Stephen D. Lee Stephen Dill Lee was an American soldier, planter, legislator, and author. He was the youngest Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War, and later served as the first president of Mississippi A&M College...	20th Alabama: Col I. W. Garrott 23rd Alabama: Col F. K. Beck 30th Alabama: Col C. M. Shelley 31st Alabama: Ltc T. M. Arrington 46th Alabama: Col M. L. Woods (c), Cpt G. E. Brewer Waddell's Alabama Battery (6 guns): Cpt J. F. Waddell
	3rd Brigade BG Alfred Cumming Alfred Cumming (general) Alfred Cumming was a brigadier general for the Confederacy in the American Civil War.-Early life:...	34th Georgia: Col J. A. W. Johnson 36th Georgia: Col J. A. Glenn 39th Georgia: Col J. T. McConnell (w), Ltc J. F. B. Jackson 56th Georgia: Col E. P. Watkins (w), Ltc J. T. Slaughter 57th Georgia: Col W. Barkuloo
	4th Brigade Col Alexander W. Reynolds Alexander W. Reynolds Alexander Welch Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War, primarily fighting in the Western Theater. After the conflict he served as a staff officer in the Egyptian Army.-Early life and career:Alexander W...	3rd Tennessee (P.A.): Col N. J. Lillard 31st Tennessee: Col W. M. Bradford 43rd Tennessee: Col J. W. Gillespie 59th Tennessee: Col W. L. Eakin 3rd Maryland Artillery (6 guns): Cpt F. O. Claiborne
Bowen's Division BG John S. Bowen John S. Bowen John Stevens Bowen was a career United States Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army, a commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. He is often said to have died just as his abilities were gaining attention.-Early life:Bowen was born in Bowen's Creek, Georgia...	1st Brigade BG Francis M. Cockrell	1st Missouri: Col A. C. Riley 2nd Missouri: Ltc P. S. Senteny 3rd Missouri: Col W. R. Gause 5th Missouri: Col J. McCown 6th Missouri: Maj S. Cooper Guibor's (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Lt W. Corkery Landis' (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Lt J. M. Langan Wade's (Missouri) Battery (6 guns): Lt R. C. Walsh
	2nd Brigade BG Martin E. Green Martin E. Green Martin Edwin Green was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, and a key organizer of the Missouri State Guard in northern Missouri.-Early life:...	15th Arkansas: Ltc W. W. Reynolds 19th Arkansas: Col Thomas P. Dockery 20th Arkansas: Col D. W. Jones 21st Arkansas: Col J. E. Cravens 12th Arkansas Sharpshooter Battalion: Lt J. S. Bell 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (dismounted): Cpt W. S. Catterson 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Col Elijah Gates 3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Ltc D. T. Samuels 3rd Missouri Battery (4 guns): Cpt W. E. Dawson Lowe's (Missouri) Battery (4 guns): Cpt S. Lowe
	Cavalry	Adams' Mississippi Cavalry: Col Wirt Adams 20th Mississippi Mounted Infantry: Ltc W. N. Brown
	Engineers: Maj Samuel H. Lockett

Military rank

Confederate Army

See also