Chantilly Confederate order of battle

Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War. On February 8, 1861, delegates from the seven Deep South states which had already declared their secession from the United States of America adopted the...

units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chantilly

Battle of Chantilly

The Battle of Chantilly took place on September 1, 1862, in Fairfax County, Virginia, as the concluding battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War. Thomas J...

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...

on September 1, 1862, near Chantilly, Virginia

Chantilly, Virginia

Chantilly is an unincorporated community located in western Fairfax County and southeastern Loudoun County of Northern Virginia. Recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census designated place , the community population was 23,039 as of the 2010 census -- down from 41,041 in 2000, due to the...

. The Union order of battle

Chantilly Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Chantilly of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.-Military Rank Abbreviations Used:* MG = Major General* BG = Brigadier General...

is shown separately.

Military rank

MG = Major General
Major General
Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...
BG = Brigadier General
Brigadier General
Brigadier general is a senior rank in the armed forces. It is the lowest ranking general officer in some countries, usually sitting between the ranks of colonel and major general. When appointed to a field command, a brigadier general is typically in command of a brigade consisting of around 4,000...
Col = Colonel
Colonel
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Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant colonel
Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...
Maj = Major
Major
Major is a rank of commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every military in the world.When used unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicator of rank, the term refers to the rank just senior to that of an Army captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...
Cpt = Captain
Lt = Lieutenant
Lieutenant
A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

Left Wing, Army of Northern Virginia

MG Thomas Jackson

Stonewall Jackson

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Starke’s Division BG William E. Starke William E. Starke William Edwin Starke was a wealthy Gulf Coast businessman and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War...	Stonewall Brigade Stonewall Brigade The Stonewall Brigade of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, was a famous combat unit in United States military history. It was trained and first led by General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, a professor from Virginia Military Institute... Col A.J. Grigsby	2nd Virginia Infantry 2nd Virginia Infantry The 2nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in today’s West Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought as part of the Stonewall Brigade, mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 4th Virginia Infantry 4th Virginia Infantry The 4th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought in the Stonewall Brigade, mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 5th Virginia Infantry 5th Virginia Infantry The 5th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought in the Stonewall Brigade, mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 27th Virginia Infantry 27th Virginia Infantry The 27th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Stonewall Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia.... 33rd Virginia Infantry 33rd Virginia Infantry The 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in the Commonwealth of Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War...
	Campbell’s Brigade Col Bradley T. Johnson	21st Virginia Infantry 21st Virginia Infantry The 21st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 42nd Virginia Infantry 42nd Virginia Infantry The 42nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War... 48th Virginia Infantry 48th Virginia Infantry The 48th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 1st Virginia “Irish” Battalion 1st Virginia Infantry Battalion The 1st Battalion, Virginia Infantry Regulars, also known as the Irish Battalion, was raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and, served as infantry. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia....
	Taliaferro’s Brigade Col Alexander G. Taliaferro	47th Alabama 48th Alabama 10th Virginia Infantry 10th Virginia Infantry The 10th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 23rd Virginia Infantry 23rd Virginia Infantry The 23rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 37th Virginia Infantry 37th Virginia Infantry The 37th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia....
	Starke’s Brigade Col Leroy A. Stafford	1st Louisiana 2nd Louisiana 9th Louisiana 10th Louisiana 15th Louisiana Coppens Louisiana Battalion
	Artillery Maj Lindsay M. Shumaker	2nd Baltimore Light Artillery Allegheny (Va.) Artillery Hampden (Va.) Artillery Cutshaw’s (Va.) Battery Rockbridge (Va.) Artillery Lynchburg “Lee” (Va.) Artillery Danville (Va.) Artillery Danville Artillery The Danville Artillery was a field artillery company in the Confederate States Army, Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. It was also referred to informally as a battery, although this reference was only infrequently used during the war.... 8th Star (Va.) Artillery Winchester (Va.) Artillery
Light Division MG A.P. Hill A. P. Hill Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr. , was a career U.S. Army officer in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars and a Confederate general in the American Civil War...	Branch’s Brigade BG Lawrence O'Bryan Branch Lawrence O'Bryan Branch Lawrence O'Bryan Branch was a North Carolina representative in the U.S. Congress and a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Antietam.-Early life and career:...	7th North Carolina 18th North Carolina 28th North Carolina 33rd North Carolina 37th North Carolina
	Thomas’s Brigade Col Edward L. Thomas	14th Georgia 35th Georgia 45th Georgia 49th Georgia
	Pender’s Brigade BG William D. Pender William Dorsey Pender William Dorsey Pender was one of the youngest, and most promising, generals fighting for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.-Early life:...	16th North Carolina 22nd North Carolina 34th North Carolina 38th North Carolina
	Gregg’s Brigade BG Maxcy Gregg Maxcy Gregg Maxcy Gregg was a lawyer, soldier in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War who was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg....	1st South Carolina 1st South Carolina (Orr's) Rifles 12th South Carolina 13th South Carolina 14th South Carolina
	Archer’s Brigade BG James J. Archer James J. Archer James Jay Archer was a lawyer and an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, and he later served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....	8th Alabama Battalion 19th Georgia 1st Tennessee Provincial Army 7th Tennessee 14th Tennessee
	Field’s Brigade Col John M. Brockenbrough John M. Brockenbrough John Mercer Brockenbrough was a farmer and a Confederate colonel in the American Civil War.-Early life:Brockenbrough was born in Richmond County, Virginia, and graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1850....	40th Virginia Infantry 40th Virginia Infantry The 40th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia. Prior to the reorganization of the army after Chancellorsville, it was part of... 47th Virginia Infantry 47th Virginia Infantry The 47th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia and was a unit in A.P. Hill's Light Division.... 55th Virginia Infantry 22nd Virginia Infantry Battalion 22nd Virginia Infantry Battalion The 22nd Battalion, Virginia Infantry Regulars was raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and, served as infantry. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia....
	Artillery Ltc R. Lindsay Walker	Branch (N.C.) Artillery Pee Dee (S.C.) Artillery Crenshaw (Va.) Artillery Fredericksburg (Va.) Artillery Middlesex (Va.) Artillery Purcell (Va.) Artillery Letcher (Va.) Artillery
Lawton’s Division BG Alexander R. Lawton	Lawton’s Brigade Col Marcellus Douglass	13th Georgia 26th Georgia 31st Georgia 38th Georgia 60th Georgia 61st Georgia
	Trimble’s Brigade Cpt William F. Brown (k)	15th Alabama 12th Georgia 21st Georgia 21st North Carolina 1st North Carolina Battalion
	Early’s Brigade BG Jubal A. Early Jubal Anderson Early Jubal Anderson Early was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served under Stonewall Jackson and then Robert E. Lee for almost the entire war, rising from regimental command to lieutenant general and the command of an infantry corps in the Army of Northern Virginia...	13th Virginia Infantry 13th Virginia Infantry The 13th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War... 25th Virginia Infantry 25th Virginia Infantry The 25th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of the Northwest and Army of Northern Virginia... 31st Virginia Infantry 31st Virginia Infantry The 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 44th Virginia Infantry 44th Virginia Infantry The 44th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War... 49th Virginia Infantry 49th Virginia Infantry The 49th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 52nd Virginia Infantry 52nd Virginia Infantry The 52nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 58th Virginia Infantry 58th Virginia Infantry The 58th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia....
	Hay’s Brigade Col Henry B. Strong	5th Louisiana 6th Louisiana 7th Louisiana 8th Louisiana 14th Louisiana
	Artillery Maj Alfred R. Courtney	D’Aquin’s Guard (La.) Artillery Dement’s (Md.) Artillery Chesapeake (Md.) Artillery Johnson’s (Va.) Artillery Courtney (Va.) Artillery Staunton (Va.) Artillery

Cavalry

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cavalry Division MG J.E.B. Stuart J.E.B. Stuart James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart was a U.S. Army officer from Virginia and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb", from the initials of his given names. Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance and the use...	Robertson’s Brigade BG Beverly H. Robertson Beverly Robertson Beverly Holcombe Robertson was a cavalry officer in the United States Army on the Western frontier and a Confederate general during the American Civil War.-Early life:...	2nd Virginia Cavalry 2nd Virginia Cavalry The 2nd Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 6th Virginia Cavalry 6th Virginia Cavalry The 6th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 7th Virginia Cavalry 7th Virginia Cavalry The 7th Virginia Cavalry also known as Ashby's Cavalry was a Confederate cavalry regiment raised in the spring of 1861 by Colonel Angus W. McDonald, Sr. The regiment was composed primarily of men from the counties of the upper Shenandoah Valley as well as from the counties of Fauquier and Loudoun... 12th Virginia Cavalry 12th Virginia Cavalry The 12th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War... 17th Virginia Cavalry Battalion
	Lee’s Brigade BG Fitzhugh Lee Fitzhugh Lee Fitzhugh Lee , nephew of Robert E. Lee, was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, the 40th Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and United States Army general in the Spanish-American War.-Early life:...	1st Virginia Cavalry 1st Virginia Cavalry The 1st Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War... 3rd Virginia Cavalry 3rd Virginia Cavalry The 3rd Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 4th Virginia Cavalry 4th Virginia Cavalry The 4th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 5th Virginia Cavalry 5th Virginia Cavalry The 5th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... 9th Virginia Cavalry 9th Virginia Cavalry The 9th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia....
	Hampton’s Brigade BG Wade Hampton Wade Hampton III Wade Hampton III was a Confederate cavalry leader during the American Civil War and afterward a politician from South Carolina, serving as its 77th Governor and as a U.S...	1st North Carolina Cavalry 2nd North Carolina Cavalry 10th Virginia Cavalry 10th Virginia Cavalry The 10th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.... Cobb’s (Georgia) Legion Cavalry Cobb's Legion Cobb's Legion was an American Civil War unit that was raised on the Confederate side from the State of Georgia by Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb during the summer of 1861. A "legion" consisted of a single integrated command, with individual components from the infantry, cavalry, and artillery... Jeff Davis (Mississippi) Legion Cavalry
	Artillery Hart’s (S.C.) Horse Artillery 1st Stuart (Va.) Horse Artillery

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