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

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 C. Walthall
  • 19th Tennessee: Col David H. Cummings
  • 20th Tennessee: Col Joel A. Battle
  • 25th Tennessee: Col Sidney S. Stanton (w)
  • Tennessee Battery: Cpt Arthur M. 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 Powell (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.
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