Battle of Perryville order of battle: Confederate

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Perryville of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• Gen = General
• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = 1st Lieutenant
• 2Lt = 2nd Lieutenant

Artillery

• 3" R = 3 inch caliber ordnance rifle
• How = Howitzer
• Nap = M1857 Napoleon gun
• pdr = pound (projectile weight)
• R = Rifled gun
• SB = Smoothbore gun

Other

• w = wounded
• mw = mortally wounded
• k = killed

Army of Mississippi

<small>16,000 men, 56 guns (k-532, w-2652, m-236 = 3,420)</small>

Gen Braxton Bragg, Commanding

Escort:

• 3rd Tennessee Cavalry (4 companies): Cpt W. C. Bacot

<small>k-1, w-0, m-0 = 1</small>

• 13th Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, Company I: Cpt William W. Lillard

Right Wing

<small>7,000 men, 16 guns (k-306, w-1153, m-87 = 1,546)</small>

MG Leonidas Polk

Escort:

• Orleans Light Horse Company: Cpt Leeds Greenleaf

Left Wing

<small>9,000 men, 40 guns (k-225, w-1499, m-149 = 1,873)</small>

MG William Joseph Hardee

Escort:

• Raum's Cavalry Company (Mississippi): Cpt William Cyrus Rippey Raum

See also

• Kentucky in the American Civil War

Notes

References

• Holman, Kurt. Perryville Order of Battle: Forces Present at Perryville, October 8, 1862 (Revised July 1, 2012) unpublished paper, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
• Noe, Kenneth W., Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky), 2001.