Crater Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of the Crater (July 30, 1864) 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 = Lieutenant

Army of Northern Virginia

Gen Robert E. Lee

III Corps

LTG A. P. Hill

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Richard H. Anderson's Division      BG William Mahone	Mahone's (Virginia) Brigade    Col David Weisiger	6th Virginia: Col George Thomas Rogers 12th Virginia: Cpt Richard W. Jones 16th Virginia: Ltc Richard Owen Whitehead 41st Virginia: Maj William H. Etheridge 61st Virginia: Ltc William H. Stewart
	Wilcox's (Alabama) Brigade    Col John C. C. Sanders	8th Alabama: Cpt M. M. Mordecai 9th Alabama: Col J. Horace King 10th Alabama: Cpt W. L. Brewster 11th Alabama: Ltc George Edward Tayloe 14th Alabama: Cpt Elias Folk
	Wright's (Georgia) Brigade    Ltc Matthew R. Hall	3rd Georgia: Ltc Claiborne Snead 22nd Georgia: Col George H. Jones 48th Georgia: Ltc Reuben W. Carswell 64th Georgia: Col John W. Evans

Artillery

BG William N. Pendleton

First Corps      Ltc Frank Huger	Haskell's Battalion    Maj John C. Haskell	Branch Battery (North Carolina): Cpt Henry G. Flanner Nelson Battery (Virginia): Cpt James N. Lamkin
	13th Battalion Virginia Light Artillery    Maj Wade Hampton Gibbs	Company A, Otey Battery: Cpt David Norvell Walker Company B, Ringgold Battery: Cpt Crispin Dickenson Company C, Davidson's Battery: Lt John H. Chamberlayne Mortar Battery (manned by men of Otey & Ringgold Batteries): Lt Jack Langhorne
Third Corps      Col Reuben Lindsay Walker	Pegram's Battalion    Ltc William Ransom Johnson Pegram	Crenshaw's Battery (Virginia): Cpt Thomas Ellett Letcher Light Artillery: Cpt Thomas A. Brander

Department of North Carolina And Southern Virginia

Gen P.G.T. Beauregard

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Johnson's Division      BG Bushrod Johnson	Ransom's (North Carolina) Brigade    Col Lee M. McAfee	24th North Carolina: Col William John Clarke 25th North Carolina: Maj William Simmons Grady 35th North Carolina: Col James Theodore Johnson 49th North Carolina: Ltc John A. Flemming 56th North Carolina: Cpt Lawson Harrill
	Elliott's (South Carolina) Brigade    BG Stephen Elliott, Jr.	17th South Carolina: Col Fitz William McMaster 18th South Carolina: Cpt R. H. Glenn 22nd South Carolina: Col David G. Fleming 23rd South Carolina: Cpt E. R. White 26th South Carolina: Col Alexander D. Smith
	Wise's (Virginia) Brigade    Col J. Thomas Goode	26th Virginia: Cpt Napoleon B. Street 34th Virginia: Maj John R. Bagby 46th Virginia: Cpt George Norris 59th Virginia: Cpt Henry Wood
Hoke's Division      MG Robert Hoke	Clingman's (North Carolina) Brigade    BG Thomas Lanier Clingman	61st North Carolina: Col James Dillard Radcliffe
	Colquitt's (Georgia) Brigade [temporarily assigned to Johnson's Division]    BG Alfred H. Colquitt	6th Georgia: Col John T. Lofton 19th Georgia: Col James H. Neal 23rd Georgia: Col James H. Huggins 27th Georgia: Maj Hezekiah Bussey 28th Georgia: Cpt John A. Johnson
Artillery      Col Henry Pollard Jones	Branch's Battalion    Maj James C. Coit	Halifax Battery (Virginia): Cpt Samuel T. Wright Petersburg Battery (Virginia): Cpt Richard G. Pegram

See also

American Civil War portal

• Virginia in the American Civil War
• Petersburg National Battlefield

References

• Kinard, Jeff. The Battle of the Crater (Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press), 1998. ISBN 1-8866-6106-5