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Battle of Mill Springs order of battle: Confederate

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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

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Military rank

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Other

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  • k = killed
  • w = wounded

District of East Tennessee

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Confederate forces at Mill Springs

MG George Bibb Crittenden

Brigade Regiments and Other
First Brigade


   BG Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (k)

  • 15th Mississippi: Col W.S. Statham; 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

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  • 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

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  • 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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