The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Second Battle of Corinth of the American Civil War on October 3 and 4, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battleOfficial Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, pages 374-375 and reports.Official Records, Series I, Volume XVII, Part 1, page 154 The Union order of battle is listed separately.
Abbreviations used Military rank 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 c = captured
Army of West Tennessee
MG Earl Van Dorn
Price's Corps (Army of the West) MG Sterling Price
Division Brigade Regiments and OthersFirst Division
BG Louis Hébert
(reported himself as sick morning of October 4)
BG Martin E. Green First Brigade
Col Elijah Gates 16th Arkansas 2nd Missouri - Col Francis Cockrell 3rd Missouri - Col James A. Pritchard (w) 5th Missouri - Col James McCown 1st Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) - Ltc William D. Maupin (k) Wade's (Missouri) Battery - Cpt William Wade Second Brigade
Col W. Bruce Colbert 14th Arkansas 17th Arkansas - Ltc John Griffith 3rd Louisiana 40th Mississippi - Ltc Josiah A.P. Campbell (w), Maj Enoch McDonald (k) 27th Texas Cavalry (1st Legion) (dismounted) - Ltc E.R. Hawkins 3rd Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Ltc Giles S. Boggess Dawson's St. Louis Battery - Cpt William E. Dawson Clark's (Missouri) Battery - Lt James L. Faris Third Brigade
BG Martin E. Green
Col William H. Moore (mw) 43rd Mississippi - Col William H. Moore, Ltc Richard W. Leigh (k) 7th Mississippi Battalion - Ltc James S. Terral (w) 4th Missouri - Col Archibald MacFarlane (w) 6th Missouri - Col A. Eugene Irwin (w), Ltc Isaac N. Hedgpeth (w), Maj Joseph P. Vaughn (k) 3rd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted) Guibor's (Missouri) Battery - Cpt Henry Guibor Landis's (Missouri) Battery - Cpt John C. Landis Fourth Brigade
Col John D. Martin (mw)
Col Robert McLain (w) 37th Alabama - Col James F. Dowdell 36th Mississippi - Col William W. Witherspoon 37th Mississippi - Col Robert McLain (w) 38th Mississippi - Ltc Preston Brent Lucas's (Missouri) BatteryMaury's Division
BG Dabney H. Maury Moore's Brigade
BG John C. Moore 42nd Alabama - Col John W. Portis 15th Arkansas - Ltc Squire Boone 23rd Arkansas - Ltc A. A. Pennington 35th Mississippi - Col William T.S. Barry 2nd Texas - Col William P. Rogers (k) Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery - Cpt Hiram M. Bledsoe Cabell's Brigade (temporarily attached to Green's division on October 5)
BG William L. Cabell (w) 18th Arkansas - Col John N. Daly (mw), Cpt William N. Parish (w) 19th Arkansas - Col Thomas P. Dockery 20th Arkansas - Col Henry P. Johnson (k) 21st Arkansas - Col Jordan E. Cravens 8th (Jones's) Arkansas Battalion 12th (Rapley's) Arkansas Battalion - Cpt James A. Ashford Appeal Battery - Lt William N. Hogg Phifer's Brigade
BG Charles W. Phifer 3rd Arkansas Cavalry (dismounted) 6th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Col Lawrence S. Ross (w) 9th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Stirman's Arkansas Sharpshooters - Col Erasmus J. Stirman McNally's (Arkansas) Battery - Lt Frank A. Moore Cavalry Brigade
BG Frank C. Armstrong 2nd Arkansas (Slemons') Cavalry - Col William F. Slemons Wirt Adams' Cavalry Regiment - Col Wirt Adams 2nd Missouri Cavalry (dismounted and attached to Green's Brigade) - Col Robert A. McCulloch Reserve Artillery
Cpt William E. Burnet Hoxton's (Tennessee) Battery - Lt Thomas F. Tobin (c) Sengstak's (Alabama) Battery - Cpt Henry H. Sengstak
District of the Mississippi
Division Brigade Regiments and OthersFirst Division
MG Mansfield Lovell First Brigade
BG Albert Rust 31st Alabama - Col Daniel R. Hundley 35th Alabama - Cpt Alva E. Ashford 4th Alabama Battalion - Maj John H. Gibson 9th Arkansas - Col Isaac L. Dunlop 3rd Kentucky - Col Albert P. Thompson 7th Kentucky - Col Edward Crossland Hudson's (Mississippi) Battery - Lt John R. Sweaney Co. B, Pointe Coupee Artillery - Cpt Wm. A Davidson Second Brigade
BG John VillepigueSmith also listed the 1st Confederate, 2nd Louisiana Zouave, 12th Louisiana, and McClung's Battery. 1st Confederate Infantry Battalion 12th Louisiana - Col Thomas M. Scott (2nd) Louisiana Zouave Battalion - Maj St. Leon Dupiere 33rd Mississippi - Col David W. Hurst 39th Mississippi - Col William B. Shelby Co. A, Pointe Coupee Artillery - Maj George O. Wattstemporary, served as Inspector-General to BG Villepigue McClung's (Tennessee) Battery Third Brigade
BG John S. Bowen 6th Mississippi - Col Robert Lowry 15th Mississippi - Col Michael Farrell 22nd Mississippi - Cpt James D. Lester Caruthers' Mississippi Sharpshooters - Cpt Copeland K. Caruthers 1st Missouri - Ltc Amos C. Riley Watson's (Louisiana) Battery - Cpt Allen A. Bursley Cavalry Brigade
Col William H. Jackson 1st Mississippi Cavalry - Col Richard A. Pinson 7th Tennessee Cavalry - Ltc John G. Stocks
Notes
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. Cozzens, Peter, The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, .