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Wilderness Confederate order of battle

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The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5–7, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization May 5–6, 1864, the army organization at beginning of the Campaign, the army organization during the Campaign 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
  • Other

  • (w) = wounded
  • (mw) = mortally wounded
  • (k) = killed in action
  • (c) = captured
  • Army of Northern Virginia

    Gen Robert E. Lee

    General Staff:

  • Chief Engineer: MG Martin L. Smith
  • Chief of Artillery: BG William N. Pendleton
  • Assistant Adjutant General: Ltc Walter H. Taylor
  • Aide de Camp: Ltc Charles Marshall
  • Aide de Camp: Maj Charles S. Venable
  • First Corps

    LTG James Longstreet (w)
    MG Charles W. Field
    MG Richard H. Anderson

    Second Corps

    LTG Richard S. Ewell

    General Staff:

  • Assistant Adjutant General: Ltc Alexander S. Pendleton
  • Assistant Adjutant General: Maj Campbell Brown
  • Assistant Inspector General: Col Abner Smead
  • Engineer: Maj Benjamin H. Greene
  • Aide de Camp: Lt Thomas T. Turner
  • Chief of Ordnance: Ltc William Allan
  • Medical Director: Dr. Hunter H. McGuire
  • Quartermasters: Maj John D. Rogers and Maj A. M. Garber
  • Commissaries and subsistence: Maj Wells J. Hawks and Cpt J. J. Lock
  • Third Corps

    LTG Ambrose P. Hill

    Cavalry Corps

    MG J.E.B. Stuart

    References

    Wilderness Confederate order of battle Wikipedia