Opequon Confederate order of battle

The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Opequon on September 19, 1864. The Union order of battle is listed separately. The battle was fought on September 19, 1864 near Winchester, Virginia, and Opequon Creek. The battle is also known as the Third Battle of Winchester and the Battle of Opequon Creek.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• 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
• c = captured

Army of the Valley District

LTG Jubal Early[Note 1]
Staff:
Adjutant general: Ltc Alexander Pendleton

Size as of September 10, 1864 = 15,514 men.[3]

Infantry - 10,116

Cavalry -   4,585

Artillery -      813

Breckinridge's Corps

MG John C. Breckinridge

Staff:
Chief of Artillery: Ltc John Floyd King[4]

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Breckinridge's Division BG Gabriel C. Wharton	Smith's Brigade Col Thomas Smith	36th Virginia Infantry: Col Thomas Smith 60th Virginia Infantry 45th Virginia Infantry Battalion Thomas' Legion (North Carolina): Col James R. Love II
	Forsberg's Brigade Col Augustus Forsberg (w)[5] Maj William A. Yonce (mw)[5]	45th Virginia Infantry 51st Virginia Infantry: Maj William A. Yonce (mw) 30th Virginia Sharpshooters Battalion: Cpt Stephen Adam (w)
	Patton's Brigade Col George S. Patton (mw)[6]	22nd Virginia Infantry: Ltc John C. McDonald 23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion: Ltc Clarence Derrick (w&c) 26th Virginia Infantry Battalion: Ltc George M. Edgar
Gordon's Division[Note 2] MG John B. Gordon	Evans' Brigade Col Edmund N. Atkinson	13th Georgia Infantry 26th Georgia Infantry: Col Edmund N. Atkinson 31st Georgia Infantry: Col John H. Lowe[8] 38th Georgia Infantry 60th Georgia Infantry 61st Georgia Infantry 12th Georgia Infantry Battalion
	Terry's Brigade BG William R. Terry	Stonewall Brigade: Col John H.S. Funk (mw) 2nd Virginia Infantry 4th Virginia Infantry 5th Virginia Infantry 27th Virginia Infantry 33rd Virginia Infantry (2nd Grouping): Col Robert H. Dungan 21st Virginia Infantry 25th Virginia Infantry 43rd Virginia Infantry 44th Virginia Infantry 48th Virginia Infantry 50th Virginia Infantry (3rd Grouping): Ltc Samuel Saunders (w) 10th Virginia Infantry 23rd Virginia Infantry 37th Virginia Infantry
	York's Brigade BG Zebulon York (w)[9] Col William R. Peck (w)[10]	Louisiana Infantry (1): Col William R. Peck 5th Louisiana Infantry 6th Louisiana Infantry 7th Louisiana Infantry 8th Louisiana Infantry 9th Louisiana Infantry Louisiana Infantry (2): Col Eugene Waggaman 1st Louisiana Infantry 2nd Louisiana Infantry 10th Louisiana Infantry 14th Louisiana Infantry 15th Louisiana Infantry
Rodes' Division MG Robert E. Rodes (k)[6] BG Cullen A. Battle	Battle's Brigade BG Cullen Battle Col Samuel B. Pickens (w) Col Charles Forsyth	3rd Alabama Infantry: Col Charles Forsyth 5th Alabama Infantry 6th Alabama Infantry 12th Alabama Infantry 61st Alabama Infantry
	Grimes' Brigade BG Bryan Grimes	32nd North Carolina Infantry: Col David G. Cowand[11] 43rd North Carolina Infantry 45th North Carolina Infantry: Col John R. Winston[12] 53rd North Carolina Infantry: Col James T. Moorehead[13] 2nd North Carolina Infantry Battalion
	Cox's Brigade Col William R. Cox	1st North Carolina Infantry 2nd North Carolina Infantry 3rd North Carolina Infantry 4th North Carolina Infantry 14th North Carolina Infantry: Col Risden Tyler Bennett (c)[12] 30th North Carolina Infantry
	Cook's Brigade BG Philip Cook	4th Georgia Infantry 12th Georgia Infantry 21st Georgia Infantry 44th Georgia Infantry
Ramseur's Division MG Stephen D. Ramseur	Pegram's Brigade BG John Pegram	13th Virginia Infantry: Ltc George A. Goodman (w, c)[10] 31st Virginia Infantry 49th Virginia Infantry 52nd Virginia Infantry 58th Virginia Infantry
	Hoke's Brigade BG Archibald C. Godwin (k)[9] Ltc Anderson Ellis (w) Ltc William S. Davis	6th North Carolina Infantry 21st North Carolina Infantry 54th North Carolina Infantry: Ltc Anderson Ellis 57th North Carolina Infantry: Maj John Beard
	Johnston's Brigade BG Robert D. Johnston	5th North Carolina Infantry 12th North Carolina Infantry 20th North Carolina Infantry: Col Thomas F. Toon 23rd North Carolina Infantry: Col Charles C. Blacknall (mw)[14]
Artillery Col Thomas H. Carter	Braxton's Battalion Ltc Carter M. Braxton[Note 3]	Allegheny Artillery (Virginia): Cpt John C. Carpenter Lee Battery (Virginia): Cpt William W. Hardwick Stafford Battery (Virginia): Cpt Raleigh Cooper
	McLaughlin's Battalion Maj William McLaughlin	Lewisburg Battery (Virginia): Cpt Thomas Bryan Monroe Battery (Virginia): Cpt George B. Chapman Wise Legion Battery (Virginia): Cpt William M. Lowry
	Nelson's Battalion Ltc William Nelson[Note 4]	Amherst Battery (Virginia): Cpt Thomas J. Kirkpatrick Fluvanna Artillery (Virginia): Cpt John L. Massie Georgia Regular Battery: Lt. Thomas A. Maddox

Cavalry Corps

MG Fitzhugh Lee (w)[6]

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Lee's Division BG Williams Wickham	Lomax's Brigade Col William Payne	5th Virginia Cavalry 6th Virginia Cavalry 15th Virginia Cavalry
	Wickham's Brigade Col Thomas T. Munford	1st Virginia Cavalry 2nd Virginia Cavalry 3rd Virginia Cavalry 4th Virginia Cavalry
	Horse Artillery Maj James Breathed	1st Stuart Horse Artillery (Virginia): Cpt Philip P. Johnston Lynchburg Beauregard Battery: Cpt John J. Shoemaker
Lomax's Division MG Lunsford L. Lomax	Imboden's Brigade Col George H. Smith	18th Virginia Cavalry 23rd Virginia Cavalry: Ltc Charles T. O'Ferrall 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry
	Johnson's Brigade BG Bradley T. Johnson	1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion 2nd Maryland Cavalry Battalion 8th Virginia Cavalry 21st Virginia Cavalry 27th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 36th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 37th Virginia Cavalry Battalion: Ltc James R. Claiburne
	McCausland's Brigade Col Milton Ferguson[Note 5]	14th Virginia Cavalry: Col James Cochran[17] 16th Virginia Cavalry 17th Virginia Cavalry 22nd Virginia Cavalry: Col John T. Radford
	Jackson's Brigade Ltc William P. Thompson	19th Virginia Cavalry 20th Virginia Cavalry 46th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 47th Virginia Cavalry Battalion
	Vaughn's Brigade Ltc Onslow Bean	16th Georgia Cavalry Battalion 1st Tennessee Cavalry 12th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion 16th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion 39th Tennessee Mounted Infantry 43rd Tennessee Mounted Infantry 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry 60th–61st–62nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry
	Horse Artillery	Charlottesville Battery (Virginia): Cpt Thomas Jackson Roanoke Battery (Virginia): Cpt Warren Lurty Staunton Battery (Virginia): Cpt John H. McClanahan

Notes

Footnotes

1. The main source herein is Appendix 1 in Scott Patchan's The Last Battle of Winchester...[1] Some additional information has been used from the text of the same book, and is footnoted. Official Records... by Ainsworth and Kirkley of the United States War Department, Volume XLIII, Chapter LV, did not have an order of battle for Third Winchester, but has been used for small bits of information that are footnoted.[2]
2. All three brigades in Gordon's Division are consolidations of depleted units. Evans' Brigade lost so many officers that inspectors believed it interfered seriously with its good management. Terry's Brigade consisted of remnants of the Stonewall, Jones, and Steuart brigades formerly of Johnson's Division. York's Brigade was composed of fragments of Hays' and Stafford's brigades.[7]
3. Patchan describes Braxton as a Major in his Appendix 1 and in some portions of his text, but as a Lieutenant Colonel in Chapters 18 and 19 of his book.[15][16]
4. Patchan describes Nelson as a Major in his Appendix 1, but as a Lieutenant Colonel in Chapter 13 of his book.[4]
5. The official commander of this brigade, BG John C. McCausland, was absent during the battle for undisclosed reasons.[4]

Citations

1. Patchan 2013, Appendix 1 of e-book
2. Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, pp. 554–611
3. Patchan 2013, Appendix 3 of e-book
4. Patchan 2013, Ch. 13 of e-book
5. Patchan 2013, Ch. 20 of e-book
6. Early & Early 1912, p. 427
7. Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, p. 609
8. Wert 2010, p. 57
9. Early & Early 1912, p. 423
10. Patchan 2013, Ch. 14 of e-book
11. Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, p. 605
12. Patchan 2013, Ch. 16 of e-book
13. Clark 1901, pp. 255-257
14. Wert 2010, p. 48
15. Patchan 2013, Ch. 18 of e-book
16. Patchan 2013, Ch. 19 of e-book
17. Wert 2010, p. 72

References

• Ainsworth, Fred C.; Kirkley, Joseph W. (1902). The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies - Series I Volume XLIII Part I - Additions and Corrections, Chapter LV. Washington, District of Columbia: Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-91867-807-2. OCLC 427057. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
• Clark, Walter (1901). Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina, in the Great War 1861-'65 (Vol. 3). Raleigh, North Carolina: Published by the state. OCLC 1300611. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
• Early, Jubal A.; Early, Ruth H. (1912). Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, C.S.A. Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States,. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott Co. OCLC 1370161. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
• Patchan, Scott C. (2013). The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7-September 19, 1864. El Dorado Hills, Calif: Savas Beatie. ISBN 978-1-932714-98-2. OCLC 751578151.
• Wert, Jeffry D. (2010). From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-80932-972-4. OCLC 463454602.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)