title: Atlanta campaign Confederate order of battle
text: # Atlanta campaign Confederate order of battle
  
  The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.
  
  This order of battle covers the period of May 7 – July 17, 1864. The period July 17 – September 8, 1864 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
  
  ### Other
  
  * w = wounded
  * k = killed
  
  ## Army of Tennessee
  
  Gen Joseph E. Johnston
  
  ### Hardee's Corps
  
  LTG William J. Hardee
  
  | Division | Brigade | Regiments and others |
  | - | - | - |
  | Cheatham's Division   MG Benjamin F. Cheatham | Maney's Brigade   BG George E. Maney  Col Francis M. Walker | 4th Confederate (Tennessee) 1st-27th Tennessee 6th-9th Tennessee: Col George C. Porter 19th Tennessee (from mid-June): Col Francis M. Walker 41st Tennessee (until mid-June) 50th Tennessee: Col Stephen H. Colms 24th Tennessee Battalion (until early July) |
  | Cheatham's Division   MG Benjamin F. Cheatham | Strahl's Brigade   BG Otho F. Strahl | 4th-5th Tennessee 19th Tennessee (until mid-June) 24th Tennessee: Col John A. Wilson 31st Tennessee 33rd Tennessee 41st Tennessee (from mid-June): Col James D. Tillman |
  | Cheatham's Division   MG Benjamin F. Cheatham | Wright's Brigade   Col John C. Carter | 8th Tennessee 16th Tennessee 28th Tennessee 38th Tennessee 51st-52nd Tennessee |
  | Cheatham's Division   MG Benjamin F. Cheatham | Vaughn's Brigade   BG Alfred J. Vaughn (w July 4)  Col Michael Magevney | 11th Tennessee: Col George W. Gordon 12th-47th Tennessee: Col William M. Watkins 29th Tennessee: Col Horace Rice 13th-154th (Senior) Tennessee: Col Michael Magevney |
  | Cleburne's Division   MG Patrick R. Cleburne | Polk's Brigade   BG Lucius E. Polk | 1st-15th Arkansas: Col J. W. Colquitt 5th Confederate (Tennessee): Cpt W. A. Brown 2nd Tennessee (Provisional Army): Col W. D. Robison 35th Tennessee 48th Tennessee |
  | Cleburne's Division   MG Patrick R. Cleburne | Govan's Brigade   BG Daniel C. Govan | 2nd-24th Arkansas: Col Elisha Warfield 5th-13th Arkansas: Col John E. Murray 6th-7th Arkansas: Col Samuel G. Smith 8th-19th Arkansas: Col George F. Baucum 3rd Confederate (Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas): Cpt M. H. Dixon |
  | Cleburne's Division   MG Patrick R. Cleburne | Lowrey's Brigade   BG Mark P. Lowrey | 16th Alabama 33rd Alabama: Col Samuel Adams 45th Alabama: Col Harris D. Lampley 32nd Mississippi: Col William H. H. Tison 45th Mississippi |
  | Cleburne's Division   MG Patrick R. Cleburne | Granbury's Brigade   BG Hiram B. Granbury  BG James A. Smith | 6th Texas Infantry-15th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Cpt R. Fisher 7th Texas: Cpt J. H. Collet 10th Texas: Col Roger Q. Mills 17th-18th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Cpt G. D. Manion 24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col F. C. Wilkes |
  | Bate's Division   MG William B. Bate | Tyler's Brigade   BG Thomas Benton Smith | 37th Georgia 10th Tennessee (until mid-June) 15th-37th Tennessee: Ltc R. Dudley Frayser (w July 22), Cpt Matthew Dwyer 20th Tennessee 30th Tennessee 4th Georgia Sharpshooters |
  | Bate's Division   MG William B. Bate | Lewis' (Orphan) Brigade   BG Joseph Horace Lewis | 2nd Kentucky: Col James W. Moss 4th Kentucky 5th Kentucky 6th Kentucky: Col Martin H. Cofer 9th Kentucky |
  | Bate's Division   MG William B. Bate | Finley's Brigade   BG Jesse J. Finley (w May 14)  Col Angus D. McLean | 1st-3rd Florida 1st Florida Cavalry (dismounted)-4th Florida Infantry 6th Florida: Col Angus D. McLean 7th Florida |
  | Walker's Division   MG William H. T. Walker | Mercer's Brigade   BG Hugh W. Mercer | 1st (Olmstead's) Georgia Volunteers: Col Charles H. Olmstead 54th Georgia 57th Georgia: Col William Barkuloo 63rd Georgia |
  | Walker's Division   MG William H. T. Walker | Gist's Brigade   BG States Rights Gist | 46th Georgia 16th South Carolina: Col James McCullough 24th South Carolina: Col Ellison Capers 8th Georgia Battalion: Ltc Zachariah L. Watters |
  | Walker's Division   MG William H. T. Walker | Jackson's Brigade   BG John K. Jackson | 1st Confederate (Georgia Volunteers) (until mid-June) 5th Georgia (until mid-June) 47th Georgia 65th Georgia 5th Mississippi 8th Mississippi: Col John C. Wilkinson 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters |
  | Walker's Division   MG William H. T. Walker | Stevens' Brigade   BG Clement H. Stevens | 1st Confederate (Georgia Volunteers) (from mid-June) 25th Georgia: Col William J. Winn 29th Georgia 30th Georgia Volunteer Infantry 66th Georgia: Col J. Cooper Nisbet 26th Georgia Battalion (until mid-June) 1st Georgia Sharpshooters |
  | Hardee's Corps Artillery   Col Melancthon Smith | Hoxton's Battalion   Maj Llewelyn Hoxton | Phelan's (Alabama) Battery Marion (Florida) Light Artillery Turner's (Mississippi) Battery |
  | Hardee's Corps Artillery   Col Melancthon Smith | Hotchkiss' Battalion   Maj Thomas R. Hotchkiss | Semple's (Alabama) Battery Key's (Arkansas) Battery: Cpt Thomas Key Goldwaite's Alabama Battery |
  | Hardee's Corps Artillery   Col Melancthon Smith | Martin's Battalion   Maj Robert Martin | Howell's (Georgia) Battery Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery |
  | Hardee's Corps Artillery   Col Melancthon Smith | Cobb's Battalion   Maj Robert Cobb | Cobb's (Kentucky) Battery 5th Company, Washington (Louisiana) Light Artillery Johnston (Tennessee) Light Artillery |
  
  ### Hood's Corps
  
  LTG John B. Hood
  
  | Division | Brigade | Regiments and others |
  | - | - | - |
  | Hindman's Division   MG Thomas C. Hindman (w July 4)  BG John C. Brown | Deas' Brigade   BG Zachariah C. Deas  Col John G. Coltart | 19th Alabama 22nd Alabama: Col Benjamin R. Hart 25th Alabama 39th Alabama 50th Alabama: Col John G. Coltart 17th Alabama Sharpshooters |
  | Hindman's Division   MG Thomas C. Hindman (w July 4)  BG John C. Brown | Manigault's Brigade   BG Arthur Middleton Manigault | 24th Alabama: Col Newton N. Davis 28th Alabama 34th Alabama: Col Julius C. B. Mitchell 10th South Carolina: Col James F. Pressley 19th South Carolina |
  | Hindman's Division   MG Thomas C. Hindman (w July 4)  BG John C. Brown | Walthall's Brigade   BG Edward C. Walthall (w May 15)  Col Samuel Benton | 24th-27th Mississippi: Col Robert P. McKelvaine 29th-30th Mississippi: Col William F. Brantley 34th Mississippi: Col Samuel Benton, Cpt T. S. Hubbard |
  | Hindman's Division   MG Thomas C. Hindman (w July 4)  BG John C. Brown | Tucker's Brigade   BG William F. Tucker (w May)  Col Jacob H. Sharp | 7th Mississippi: Col William H. Bishop 9th Mississippi 10th Mississippi 41st Mississippi: Col J. Byrd Williams 44th Mississippi: Col Jacob H. Sharp 9th Mississippi Sharpshooters |
  | Stevenson's Division   MG Carter L. Stevenson | Brown's Brigade   BG John C. Brown  Col Joseph B. Palmer | 3rd Tennessee (Volunteers) 18th Tennessee: Col Joseph B. Palmer 26th Tennessee: Col Richard M. Saffell 32nd Tennessee 45th Tennessee-23rd Tennessee Battalion: Col Anderson Searcy |
  | Stevenson's Division   MG Carter L. Stevenson | Cumming's Brigade   BG Alfred Cumming | 34th Georgia 36th Georgia 39th Georgia 56th Georgia: Col E. P. Watkins 2nd Georgia State (from mid-June): Col James Wilson |
  | Stevenson's Division   MG Carter L. Stevenson | Reynold's Brigade   BG Alexander W. Reynolds (w May 27)  Col Washington M. Hardy | 58th North Carolina 60th North Carolina: Col Washington M. Hardy 54th Virginia 63rd Virginia |
  | Stevenson's Division   MG Carter L. Stevenson | Pettus' Brigade   BG Edmund W. Pettus | 20th Alabama: Col James M. Dedman 23rd Alabama 30th Alabama: Col Charles M. Shelley 31st Alabama 46th Alabama |
  | Stewart's Division   MG Alexander P. Stewart  MG Henry D. Clayton | Stovall's Brigade   BG Marcellus A. Stovall | 40th Georgia 41st Georgia 42nd Georgia 43rd Georgia Capt. Homer Howard 52nd Georgia 1st Georgia State (from mid-June) |
  | Stewart's Division   MG Alexander P. Stewart  MG Henry D. Clayton | Clayton's Brigade   BG Henry D. Clayton  BG James T. Holtzclaw | 18th Alabama 32nd-58th Alabama 36th Alabama 38th Alabama |
  | Stewart's Division   MG Alexander P. Stewart  MG Henry D. Clayton | Gibson's Brigade   BG Randall L. Gibson | 1st Louisiana (Regulars) 13th-20th Louisiana Consolidated: Col Leon Von Zinken 16th-25th Louisiana Consolidated 19th Louisiana: Col Richard W. Turner 4th Louisiana Battalion 14th Louisiana Sharpshooters |
  | Stewart's Division   MG Alexander P. Stewart  MG Henry D. Clayton | Baker's Brigade   BG Alpheus Baker | 37th Alabama 40th Alabama 42nd Alabama 54th Alabama (from mid-June) |
  | Hood's Corps Artillery   Col Robert F. Beckham | Courtney's Battalion   Maj Alfred R. Courtney | Dent's (Alabama) Battery Garrity's (Alabama) Battery Douglas's Texas Battery |
  | Hood's Corps Artillery   Col Robert F. Beckham | Eldridge's Battalion   Maj John W. Eldridge | Eufala (Alabama) Artillery Fenner's (Louisiana) Battery Stanford's (Mississippi) Battery |
  | Hood's Corps Artillery   Col Robert F. Beckham | Johnston's Battalion   Maj John W. Johnston | Cherokee (Georgia) Artillery: Cpt Max van den Corput Stephens (Georgia) Light Artillery: Cpt John B. Rowan Marshall's (Tennessee) Battery |
  
  ### Polk's Corps (Army of Mississippi)
  
  LTG Leonidas Polk (k June 14) MG William W. Loring LTG Alexander P. Stewart
  
  | Division | Brigade | Regiments and others |
  | - | - | - |
  | Loring's Division   MG William W. Loring  BG Winfield S. Featherston | Featherston's Brigade   BG Winfield S. Featherston | 3rd Mississippi 22nd Mississippi 31st Mississippi: Col Marcus Stephens 33rd Mississippi: Col Jabez Drake 40th Mississippi 1st Mississippi Sharpshooters |
  | Loring's Division   MG William W. Loring  BG Winfield S. Featherston | Adams' Brigade   BG John Adams | 6th Mississippi: Col Robert Lowry 14th Mississippi 15th Mississippi 20th Mississippi 23rd Mississippi 43rd Mississippi |
  | Loring's Division   MG William W. Loring  BG Winfield S. Featherston | Scott's Brigade   BG Thomas M. Scott | 27th Alabama 35th Alabama 49th Alabama 55th Alabama 57th Alabama 12th Louisiana |
  | French's Division   MG Samuel G. French | Ector's Brigade   BG Matthew D. Ector (w July 27) | 29th North Carolina 39th North Carolina 9th Texas: Col William Hugh Young (w) 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 32nd Texas Cavalry (dismounted) |
  | French's Division   MG Samuel G. French | Cockrell's Brigade   BG Francis M. Cockrell | 1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) 2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) 3rd and 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) 1st-3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted): Col Elijah Gates |
  | French's Division   MG Samuel G. French | Sears' Brigade   BG Claudius W. Sears (w May 19)  Col William T.S. Barry | 4th Mississippi 35th Mississippi: Col William T.S. Barry 36th Mississippi 39th Mississippi 46th Mississippi 7th Mississippi Battalion |
  | Walthall's Division   BG James Cantey  BG Edward C. Walthall | Reynolds' Brigade   BG Daniel H. Reynolds | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 4th Arkansas 9th Arkansas 25th Arkansas |
  | Walthall's Division   BG James Cantey  BG Edward C. Walthall | Cantey's Brigade   BG James Cantey  Col Virgil Murphey | 1st Alabama (from early June to mid-June) 17th Alabama: Col Virgil Murphey 26th Alabama (from early June):Col Edward A. O'Neal 29th Alabama 37th Mississippi |
  | Walthall's Division   BG James Cantey  BG Edward C. Walthall | Quarles' Brigade   BG William A. Quarles | 1st Alabama 4th Louisiana 30th Louisiana 42nd Tennessee 48th Tennessee 49th Tennessee 53rd Tennessee 56th (46th-55th) Tennessee |
  | Polk's Corps Artillery   Ltc Samuel C. Williams | Myrick's Battalion   Maj John D. Myrick | Bouanchaud's (Louisiana) Battery: Cpt Alcide Bouanchaud Cowan's (Mississippi) Battery; Cpt James J. Cowan Barry's Lookout (Tennessee) Battery; Cpt Robert L. Barry |
  | Polk's Corps Artillery   Ltc Samuel C. Williams | Storrs' Battalion   Maj George S. Storrs | Ward's (Alabama) Battery Hoskins' (Mississippi) Battery Guibor's (Missouri) Battery |
  | Polk's Corps Artillery   Ltc Samuel C. Williams | Preston's Battalion   Maj William C. Preston (k July 20) | Tarrant's (Alabama) Battery Selden's (Alabama) Battery Yates' (Mississippi) Battery |
  
  ### Artillery Reserve
  
  Chief of Artillery: BG Francis A. Shoup
  
  | Division | Brigade | Regiments and others |
  | - | - | - |
  | Artillery Reserve   Ltc James H. Hallonquist | Palmer's Battalion   Maj Joseph Palmer | Lumsden's (Alabama) Battery Anderson's (Georgia) Battery Havis' (Georgia) Battery |
  | Artillery Reserve   Ltc James H. Hallonquist | Williams' Battalion   Ltc Samuel C. Williams | Barbour (Alabama) Artillery: Cpt Reuben Kolb Jefferson (Mississippi) Artillery: Cpt Put Darden Nottoway (Virginia) Artillery |
  | Artillery Reserve   Ltc James H. Hallonquist | Waddell's Battalion   Maj James F. Waddell | Bellamy's (Alabama) Battery Emery's (Alabama) Battery Barret's (Missouri) Battery: Cpt Overton Barret |
  
  ### Cavalry Corps
  
  MG Joseph Wheeler
  
  | Division | Brigade | Regiments and others |
  | - | - | - |
  | Martin's Division   MG William T. Martin | Morgan's Brigade   BG John T. Morgan  BG William Allen (from mid-June) | 1st Alabama Cavalry 3rd Alabama Cavalry: Col James Hagan 4th Alabama Cavalry: Col Alfred A. Russell 7th Alabama Cavalry 51st Alabama Cavalry: Col Milton L. Kirkpatrick 12th Alabama Cavalry Battalion (from mid-June) |
  | Martin's Division   MG William T. Martin | Iverson's Brigade   BG Alfred Iverson, Jr. | 1st Georgia Cavalry: Col Samuel W. Davitte 2nd Georgia Cavalry: Col Charles C. Crews 3rd Georgia Cavalry: Col Robert Thompson 4th Georgia Cavalry: Col Isaac W. Avery 6th Georgia Cavalry: Col John R. Hart |
  | Kelly's Division   BG John H. Kelly | Allen's Brigade   BG William Allen (until mid-June)  Col Robert H. Anderson (from mid-June) | 3rd Confederate Cavalry 8th Confederate Cavalry 10th Confederate Cavalry 12th Confederate Cavalry 5th Georgia Cavalry (from mid-June): Col Robert H. Anderson |
  | Kelly's Division   BG John H. Kelly | Dibrell's Brigade   Col George G. Dibrell | 4th (McLemore's) Tennessee Cavalry 8th Tennessee Cavalry 9th Tennessee Cavalry 10th Tennessee Cavalry 11th Tennessee Cavalry (until mid-June) |
  | Humes' Division   BG William Y.C. Humes | Humes' Brigade   Col James T. Wheeler  Col Henry M. Ashby (from mid-June) | 1st (6th) Tennessee Cavalry: Col James T. Wheeler 2nd (Ashby's) Tennessee Cavalry: Col Henry M. Ashby 4th (Murray's) Tennessee Cavalry (until mid-June) 5th Tennessee Cavalry 9th Tennessee Cavalry |
  | Humes' Division   BG William Y.C. Humes | Grigsby's Brigade   Col J. Warren Grigsby  BG John S. Williams (from mid-June) | 1st (3rd) Kentucky Cavalry 2nd Kentucky Cavalry 9th Kentucky Cavalry 2nd (Dortch's) Kentucky Cavalry Battalion Hamilton's Tennessee Cavalry Battalion Allison's Tennessee Squadron |
  | Humes' Division   BG William Y.C. Humes | Harrison's Brigade   Col Thomas H. Harrison | 3rd Arkansas Cavalry 4th (Murray's) Tennessee Cavalry (from mid-June) 8th Texas Cavalry 11th Texas Cavalry |
  | Humes' Division   BG William Y.C. Humes | Hannon's Brigade   Col Moses W. Hannon | 53rd Alabama Cavalry 24th Alabama Cavalry Battalion |
  | Jackson's Division   BG William Hicks Jackson | Armstrong's Brigade   BG Frank C. Armstrong | 6th Alabama Cavalry (until mid-June) 1st Mississippi Cavalry 2nd Mississippi Cavalry 28th Mississippi Cavalry Ballentine's Mississippi Cavalry |
  | Jackson's Division   BG William Hicks Jackson | Ross' Brigade   BG Lawrence Sullivan Ross | 3rd Texas Cavalry 6th Texas Cavalry 9th Texas Cavalry 27th Texas Cavalry (1st Texas Legion) |
  | Jackson's Division   BG William Hicks Jackson | Ferguson's Brigade   BG Samuel W. Ferguson | 2nd Alabama Cavalry 56th Alabama Cavalry: Col William Boyles 9th Mississippi Cavalry: Col Horace H. Miller Perrin's Mississippi Cavalry: Col Robert O. Perrin 12th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion |
  | Jackson's Division   BG William Hicks Jackson | Waties' Battalion   Cpt John Waties | Columbus (Georgia) Artillery King's (Missouri) Battery Waties' (South Carolina) Battery |
  | Corps Artillery Reserve | Wheeler's Horse Artillery   Ltc Felix H. Robertson | Wiggin's (Arkansas) Battery: Lt J.P. Bryant Ferrell's (Georgia) Battery (1 section) Huggin's (Tennessee) Battery (from mid-June) Huwald's (Tennessee) Battery White's (Tennessee) Battery |
  
  ## Strengths
  
  The following table shows total strengths of each of the major formations at several stages throughout the campaign.
  
  | Corps | April 30 | June 10 | June 30 | July 10 | July 31 | August 10 | August 31 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Hardee's Corps | 21,946 | 20,741 | 18,107 | 16,567 | 13,369 | 14,013 | 14,160 |
  | Hood's/Lee's Corps | 21,385 | 17,379 | 15,970 | 15,492 | 13,553 | 13,005 | 11,633 |
  | Polk's/Stewart's Corps | - | 16,538 | 14,380 | 13,354 | 11,850 | 11,551 | 11,457 |
  | Cavalry Corps | 8,062 | 13,546 | 12,889 | 12,379 | 12,523 | 12,803 | 13,244 |
  | Total | 52,931 | 69,946 | 62,747 | 59,196 | 51,843 | 51,946 | 51,141 |
  