Mill Springs Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Mill Springs of the American Civil War on January 19, 1862 near present-day Nancy, Kentucky. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

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

Other

• k = killed
• w = wounded

District of East Tennessee

Confederate forces at Mill Springs

MG George Bibb Crittenden

Brigade	Regiments and Other
First Brigade    BG Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (k)	15th Mississippi: Ltc Edward Cary Walthall 19th Tennessee: Col David H. Cummings 20th Tennessee: Col Joel Allen Battle 25th Tennessee: Col Sidney Smith Stanton (w) Tennessee Battery: Cpt Arthur Middleton Rutledge Tennessee Cavalry Company: Cpt William Scott Bledsoe Tennessee Cavalry Company: Cpt Q. C. "Ned" Sanders (or Saunders) Kentucky Cavalry Company: Cpt B. E. Roberts (attached to Bledsoe & Sanders)
Second Brigade    BG William Henry Carroll	16th Alabama: Col William B. Wood 17th Tennessee: Ltc Thomas C. H. Miller 28th Tennessee: Col John Porry Murray 29th Tennessee: Col Samuel Powel (w), Maj Horace Rice Tennessee Battery (Caswell Artillery): Cpt Hugh L. W. McClung [not engaged] 4th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Benjamin M. Branner 5th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc George R. McClellan

Nearby District Troops Not Engaged

• 37th Tennessee: Col Moses White (engaged in the defense of Beech Grove)
• 1st Tennessee Cavalry Battalion: Ltc Frank Nathaniel McNairy (may have been present at Beech Grove)
• 3rd Tennessee Cavalry Battalion (2 companies): Ltc William Brazleton
• Tennessee Battery (Harding Artillery): Capt G. H. Monserratt, Cpt Ed Baxter

References

• Battle, J. H., et. al. Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville, KY: F. A. Battey, 1885).
• Lindsley, John B. The Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate: First Series (Nashville, TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co.), 1886.
• The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Ser. I, Vol. 7, pp. 79–116; 824.
• Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers, War 1861-65 Vol. I (Frankfort, KY: State Journal Company, Printers), 1915.

External links

• Mills Springs Battlefield Association
• Battle of Mill Springs/Fishing Creek by Geoffrey R. Walden