Battle of Antietam order of battle: Confederate

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 during the campaign, the casualty returns and the reports.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• Gen = General
• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = Lieutenant

Other

• (w) = wounded
• (mw) = mortally wounded
• (k) = killed in action
• (c) = captured

Army of Northern Virginia

Gen Robert E. Lee

Right Wing

MG James Longstreet

Left Wing

MG Thomas J. Jackson

Chief of Artillery: Col Stapleton Crutchfield

Escort:

• 4th Virginia Cavalry, Company H: Cpt Robert Randolph
• White's Virginia Cavalry (3 companies): Cpt Elijah V. White

Artillery Reserve

Cavalry

Notes

References

• Antietam National Battlefield
• Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. .
• Sibley, Jr., F. Ray, The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 1996.
• 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.