Battle of Richmond order of battle: Confederate

Monument for the Confederate soldiers buried in a mass grave at Richmond Cemetery in Richmond, Kentucky.

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Richmond of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain

Other

• k = killed
• w = wounded

Army of Kentucky

Main article: Confederate Army of Kentucky

MG E. Kirby Smith
Escort:

• Company A, E, and F; 1st Florida Cavalry: Cpt William M. Footman
• Georgia Cavalry: Cpt Thomas M. Nelson

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Churchill's Division      BG Thomas J. Churchill	McCray's Brigade    Col Thomas H. McCray	31st Arkansas Sharpshooters: Maj James W. Clark 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Cullen R. Earp 11th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col John C. Burks 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Col Matthew D. Ector 32nd (15th) Texas Cavalry (dismounted): Ltc James A. Weaver
	McNair's Brigade    Col Evander McNair	1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Col Daniel H. Reynolds 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Col Harris Flanagin 4th Arkansas Infantry: Ltc Henry C. Bunn 25th Arkansas Infantry: Col Charles J. Turnbull 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion: Maj Jesse A. Ross Humphreys' Artillery: Cpt John T. Humphreys
Cleburne's Division      BG Patrick R. Cleburne (w)      Col Preston Smith	Smith's Brigade    Col Preston Smith    Col Alfred Jefferson Vaughan	12th and 47th Tennessee Infantry: Col Lipscomb P. McMurray 13th Tennessee Infantry: Col Alfred J. Vaughan, Jr., Ltc William E. Morgan 154th Senior Tennessee Infantry: Col Edward Fitzgerald (k), Ltc Michael Mageveney, Jr Marion (Florida) Light Artillery: Cpt John M. Martin
	Hill's Brigade    Col Benjamin J. Hill	13th and 15th Arkansas Infantry: Col Lucius E. Polk (w) 2nd Tennessee Infantry: Ltc John A. Butler (k), Cpt Charles W. Moore 35th Tennessee Infantry: Ltc Joseph A. Smith 48th Tennessee Infantry: Col George H. Nixon, Ltc Thomas R. Hughes Sharpshooter Company Douglas's Texas Battery: Cpt James P. Douglas

Brigade	Regiments and Others
Cavalry Brigade    Col John S. Scott	1st Georgia Cavalry: Col James J. Morrison 3nd Tennessee Cavalry (detachment): Col James W. Starnes 1st Louisiana Cavalry: Ltc James O. Nixon Buckner Guards: Cpt William L. Garnett

Troops Attached to Smith's Command [Not Present]

• 2nd Kentucky Cavalry: Col John Hunt Morgan
• Stevenson's Division: BG Carter L. Stevenson
  • Left in Powell Valley, Virginia against Federal forces at Cumberland Gap
• Heth's Division: BG Henry Heth
  • En route from Barbourville, Kentucky

See also

• Kentucky in the American Civil War

References

• Lambert, D. Warren. "When the Ripe Pears Fell: The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky" (Richmond, KY: Madison County Historical Society, Inc.), 1996. ISBN 0-9615162-3-2