Appomattox campaign order of battle: Confederate
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign.[1] The Union order of battle 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
- Sgt = Seargent
Other
- (w) = wounded
- (mw) = mortally wounded
- (k) = killed in action
- (c) = captured
Gen Robert E. Lee, Commanding
Staff:
- Chief of staff: Ltc Walter Taylor
- Assistant Inspector General: Maj Giles B. Cooke
- Chief of artillery: BG William N. Pendleton
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Headquarters units |
Escort |
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Provost Guard
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Engineers
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LTG James Longstreet
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Pickett's Division
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Steuart's Brigade |
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Corse's Brigade
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Hunton's Brigade
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Terry's Brigade
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Field's Division
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Perry's Brigade |
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Anderson's Brigade |
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Benning's Brigade |
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Gregg's Brigade
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Bratton's Brigade
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Kershaw's Division[2]
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DuBose's Brigade
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Humphrey's Brigade
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Simms' Brigade
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Artillery
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Cabell's Battalion[3]
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Huger's Battalion
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Haskell's Battalion
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Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Grimes' Division
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Battle's Brigade
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Grimes' Brigade
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Cox's Brigade |
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Cook's Brigade
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Archer's Battalion[4]
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Early's Division
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Johnston's Brigade
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Lewis' Brigade
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Walker's Brigade
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Gordon's Division
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Evans' Brigade
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Terry's Brigade
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York's Brigade
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Artillery
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Nelson's Battalion[3]
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Braxton's Battalion
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Cutshaw's Battalion
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Hardaway's Battalion |
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Johnson's Battalion
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Lightfoot's Battalion
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Stark's Battalion
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LTG A. P. Hill (k, April 1)[5]
Provost Guard
- 2th Alabama Battalion: Cpt Wade Ritter
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Mahone's Division
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Forney's Brigade |
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Weisiger's Brigade |
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Harris' Brigade |
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Sorrel's Brigade
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Finegan's Brigade
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Heth's Division
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Davis' Brigade |
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Cooke's Brigade |
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MacRae's Brigade |
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McComb's Brigade |
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Wilcox's Division
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Thomas' Brigade |
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Lane's Brigade |
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McGowan's Brigade |
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Scales' Brigade
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Artillery
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McIntosh's Battalion
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Pegram's Battalion
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Poague's Battalion |
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Thirteenth Virginia Battalion
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Richardson's Battalion
|
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Lane's Battalion[3]
|
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Washington Artillery
|
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Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Johnson's Division
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Wallace's Brigade |
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Moody's Brigade
|
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Wise's Brigade |
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Ransom's Brigade |
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Artillery
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Coit's Battalion
|
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Blount's Battalion
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Stribling's Battalion
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Smith's Battalion
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Sturdivant's Battalion[3]
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MG Fitzhugh Lee
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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Fitzhugh Lee's Division
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Munford's Brigade |
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Payne's Brigade
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Gary's Brigade |
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W. H. F. Lee's Division
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Barringer's Brigade
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Beale's Brigade
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Robert's Brigade |
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Rosser's Division
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Dearing's Brigade
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McCausland's Brigade | ||
Horse Artillery
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Breathed's Battalion
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Chew's Battalion |
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LTG Richard S. Ewell (c, April 6)
Ltc Thomas J. Spencer
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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G. W. C. Lee's Division
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Barton's Brigade
|
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Moore's Brigade |
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Artillery Brigade
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Other units |
Drewry's Bluff garrison
|
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Naval Brigade
|
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Unattached units |
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Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
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First Military District |
Petersburg
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Unattached units |
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Notes
- ^ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 1, pages 1267-1276
- ^ During the retreat Kershaw's and G. W. C. Lee's divisions, with other troops from the defenses of Richmond, were commanded by Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell.
- ^ a b c d This artillery battalion were shown on the Army of Northern Virginia returns for March 31, but do not enumerated on the Appomattox paroles.
- ^ Temporarily attached during the retreat.
- ^ Attached to First Corps April 2, after death of General Hill.
- ^ Relieved of command, April 8. Johnson's Division was reassigned to the Second Corps on April 8.
- ^ Relieved of command, April 8.
- ^ Apparently did not accompany his command on the retreat
References
- 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.
- National Park Service: Appomattox Court House (Confederate order of battle).
- Calkins, Chris. The Appomattox Campaign: March 29 – April 9, 1865. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 1997. ISBN 0-938289-54-3.
•Marvel, William. Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8078-5703-8.