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Gettysburg Confederate order of battle

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The Confederate order of battle during the Battle of Gettysburg includes the American Civil War officers and men of the Army of Northern Virginia (multiple commander names indicate command succession during the three-day battle (July 1–3, 1863). Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle, the casualty returns and the reports.

Contents

Military rank

  • Gen = General
  • LTG = Lieutenant General
  • 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 in action
  • (c) = captured
  • Army of Northern Virginia

    General Robert E. Lee, Commanding

    General Staff:

  • Chief of Staff and Inspector General: Col Robert H. Chilton
  • Chief of Artillery: BG William N. Pendleton
  • Medical Director: Dr. Lafayette Guild
  • Chief of Ordnance: Ltc Briscoe G. Baldwin
  • Chief of Commissary: Ltc Robert G. Cole
  • Chief Quartermaster: Ltc James L. Corley
  • Judge Advocate General: Maj Henry E. Young
  • Military Secretary and Acting Asst. Chief of Artillery: Col Armistead L. Long
  • Asst. Inspector General: Col Henry L. Peyton
  • Asst. Inspector General and Asst. Adjutant General: Maj Henry E. Young
  • Asst. Inspector General and Asst. Adjutant General: Maj Giles B. Cook
  • Aide de Camp and Asst. Adjutant General: Maj Walter H. Taylor
  • Aide de Camp and Asst. Military Secretary: Maj Charles Marshall
  • Aide de Camp and Asst. Inspector General: Maj Charles S. Venable
  • Aide de Camp: Maj Thomas M. R. Talcott
  • Aide de Camp: Lt George W. Peterkin
  • Engineer: Col William P. Smith
  • Engineer: Cpt Samuel R. Johnson
  • General Headquarters:

  • Escort: 39th Virginia Cavalry Battalion (companies A & C)
  • First Corps

    LTG James Longstreet, Commanding

    General Staff:

  • Chief of Staff: Ltc Moxley Sorrel (w)
  • Signal Officer: Cpt Jacob H. Manning
  • Quartermaster: Maj Samuel P. Mitchell
  • Commissary and subsistence: Maj Raphael J. Moses
  • Asst. Adjutant General & Asst. Inspector General: Maj Osmun Latrobe
  • Asst. Adjutant General & Assistant Inspector General: Maj John Walter Fairfax
  • Engineer: Maj John J. Clarke
  • Aide de Camp: Cpt Thomas J. Goree
  • Medical Director: Dr. John S. D. Cullen
  • Second Corps

    LTG Richard S. Ewell, Commanding

    General Staff:

  • Supernumerary: MG Isaac R. Trimble
  • Chief of Staff: Col Charles J. Faulkner
  • Asst. Adjutant General: Maj Alexander S. Pendleton
  • Asst. Adjutant General: Maj George C. Brown
  • Aide de Camp: Cpt James P. Smith
  • Aide de Camp: Lt Thomas T. Turner
  • Asst. Adjutant General & Asst. Inspector General: Col Abner Smead
  • Asst. Inspector General: Maj Benjamin H. Green
  • Asst. Quartermaster: Maj John A. Harman
  • Commissaries and subsistence: Maj Wells J. Hawks
  • Engineer: Cpt Henry B. Richardson (w&c)
  • Topographical engineer: Cpt Jedediah Hotchkiss
  • Ordnance: Maj William Allen
  • Signal Officer: Cpt Richard E. Wilbourn
  • Medical Director: Dr. Hunter H. McGuire
  • Escort: Randolph's Company Virginia Cavalry, Cpt William F. Randolph
  • Provost Guard: 1st North Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters
  • Third Corps

    LTG Ambrose P. Hill, Commanding

    General Staff:

  • Chief of Staff: Maj William H. Palmer
  • Signal Officer: Cpt Richard H. T. Adams
  • References

    Gettysburg Confederate order of battle Wikipedia


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