Confederate Government Civil War units

This is a list of Confederate government Civil War military units, not raised by any state.[1]

Infantry

  • 1st Confederate Infantry (1st Confederate Regiment, Georgia Volunteers)
  • 2nd Confederate Infantry
  • 3rd Confederate Infantry (Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, and additional Tennessee units)[2]
  • 4th Confederate Infantry (1st Regiment, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi Infantry)
  • 9th Confederate Infantry (5th Confederate Infantry; 5th Confederate Regiment, Tennessee Infantry)
  • 23rd Confederate Infantry (Alabama Volunteers)
  • Bailey's Consolidated Regiment of Infantry
  • Tucker's Confederate Regiment (also known as "1st Foreign Battalion"; "1st Foreign Legion":former Union prisoners of war)
  • 1st Battalion, Confederate Infantry (Forney's Regiment)
  • 8th Confederate Battalion (also known as "2nd Foreign Battalion"; "2nd Foreign Legion": former Union POWs)
  • Brooks' Battalion, Confederate Regular Infantry (also known as "Brooks Foreign Battalion": former Union POWs)
  • Haskell's Company, Infantry

Cavalry

  • 1st Confederate Cavalry
  • 1st Confederate Regular Cavalry
  • 3rd Confederate Cavalry
  • 7th Confederate Cavalry (Claiborne's Regiment, Partisan Rangers; 7th Regiment, Confederate Partisan Rangers)
  • 8th (Dearing's) Confederate Cavalry
  • 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2nd Regiment, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry)
  • 10th Confederate Cavalry
  • 14th Confederate Cavalry
  • 15th Confederate Cavalry (1st Regiment, Alabama and Florida Cavalry)
  • 16th Confederate Cavalry (12th Regiment Mississippi Cavalry, Armistead's Cavalry, Spence's Cavalry)
  • 20th Confederate Cavalry (Lay's Regiment, Confederate Cavalry)
  • Powers' Regiment, Confederate Cavalry
  • Wood's Regiment, Confederate Cavalry
  • 1st Battalion, Trans-Mississippi Confederate Cavalry (1st Battalion, Arkansas and Louisiana Cavalry)
  • 6th Battalion, Confederate Cavalry
  • 7th Battalion, Confederate Cavalry (Prentice's Battalion, Confederate Cavalry)
  • Baxter's Battalion, Confederate Cavalry
  • Cutshaw's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
  • Clarkson's Battalion, Confederate Cavalry, Independent Rangers
  • Murchison's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Raum's Company, Confederate Cavalry (Warren Dragoons)

Indian cavalry

  • 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles (1st Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles)
  • 1st Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (Watie's Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers; 2nd Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Arkansas; 1st Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles or Riflemen)
  • Cherokee Regiment (Special Service)
  • 1st Squadron, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (Holt's Squadron, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers)
  • 2nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (2nd Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles or Riflemen)
  • 1st Chickasaw Infantry (Hunter's Regiment, Indian Volunteers)
  • Shecoe's Chickasaw Battalion, Mounted Volunteers
  • 1st Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles
  • 1st Choctaw Mounted Rifles
  • Deneale's Regiment, Choctaw Warriors (Deneale's Confederate Volunteers)
  • Wilkins' (Captain) Company, Choctaw Infantry
  • 1st Creek Mounted Volunteers (1st Regiment, Creek Mounted Rifles or Riflemen; Creek Regiment, Mounted Indian Volunteers; 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Creeks)
  • 2nd Creek Mounted Volunteers
  • 1st Osage Battalion, C.S.A.
  • 1st Seminole Mounted Volunteers
  • Washington's Squadron of Indians, C.S.A. (Reserve Squadron of Cavalry)

Artillery

  • Toni Braxton's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (Battalion C, 2d Corps, Army of Northern Virginia)
  • Cunningham's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
  • Courtney's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
  • Haskell's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
  • Huger's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
  • Lewis' Battalion, Confederate Artillery
  • Martin's Battalion, Confederate Reserve Artillery
  • McLaughlin's Battalion, Confederate Artillery
  • McIntosh's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (Battalion C,
  • Nelson's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (31st Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery; 3rd Battalion Reserve, Light Artillery)
  • Page's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (Carter's Battalion of Artillery; Braxton's Battalion of Artillery)
  • Palmer's Battalion, Confederate Artillery (Robertson's Battalion of Artillery)
  • Poague's Battalion, Artillery

Light Artillery

  • 1st Regular Battery, Confederate Light Artillery (Semmes' Battery; Barnes' Battery)
  • Davis' Company, Confederate Light Artillery
  • Dent's Battery, Confederate Light Artillery
  • Richardson's Battalion, Confederate Light Artillery (Battalion A. 1st Corps Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia)
  • Stark's Battalion, Confederate Light Artillery (Battalion B. 1st Corps Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia)
  • Cobb's Battery 1st Kentucky Light Artillery (1st Kentucky Orphans Brigade, Army of Tennessee)

Heavy Artillery

  • De Gournay's Battalion, Heavy Artillery (12th Battalion, Louisiana Heavy Artillery)
  • Montague's Battalion, Confederate Heavy Artillery (4th Battalion, Confederate Heavy Artillery)
  • Smith's Battalion, Confederate Heavy Artillery

Horse Artillery

  • Marshall's Company, Confederate Artillery (Brown Horse Artillery)
  • Stuart's Horse Artillery
  • White's (Captain) Battery, Horse Artillery

Engineer

  • 1st Regiment, Confederate Engineer Troops
  • 2nd Regiment, Confederate Engineer Troops
  • 3rd Regiment, Confederate Engineer Troops
  • 4th Regiment, Confederate Engineer Troops

Misc

  • Bands, C.S.A.
  • Bell's Battalion, C.S.A.
  • Brush Battalion, C.S.A.[3]
  • Burrough's Battalion, Partisan Rangers (Princess Anne Partisan Rangers)
  • Click's Company, Ordnance Scouts and Guards, C.S.A.
  • Confederate Infantry
  • Cunningham's Ordnance Detachment (Cuyler's Ordnance Detachment)
  • Davis' Company of Guides, C.S.A.
  • Engineers, C.S.A.
  • Exchanged Battalion, C.S.A. (Trans-Mississippi Battalion; Western Battalion)
  • Gillum's Regiment (Henry Gillum's Regiment; Gillum's Regiment, Mounted Infantry; Gillum's Regiment, Mounted Riflemen)
  • Infantry School of Practice
  • Invalid Corps
  • Jackson's Company, C.S.A.
  • Lyon's Escort, Forrest's Cavalry, C.S.A.
  • Madison's Company, Mounted Spies and Guides (Phillips' Mtd. Spies and Guides)
  • Martin's Escort, C.S.A.
  • McDaniel's (Captain) Company, Secret Service
  • Mead's Confederate Cavalry (Mead's Regiment of Partisan Rangers)
  • Miscellaneous Indian Records
  • Nitre and Mining Bureau, War Department, C.S.A.,
  • Ochiltree's Detachment of Recruits (Detachment of Regulars)
  • President's Guard, C.S.A.
  • Reserve Corps Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia)
  • Sappers and Miners
  • Signal Corps, C.S.A.
  • Stirman's Regiment, Sharp Shooters
  • Young's (5th) Company, Retributors

Scouts

  • Blake's Scouts, C.S.A.
  • Bradford's Corps, Scouts and Guards (Bradford's Battalion)
  • Forrest's Scouts, C.S.A.
  • Fort's Scouts, C.S.A.
  • Lillard's Company, Independent Scouts and Rangers (Nelson Rangers and Scouts)
  • Wheeler's Scouts, C.S.A. (Hawkins' Scouts, C.S.A.; Carter's Scouts, C.S.A.; 1st Tennessee Mounted Scouts)

See also

References

  1. Phillips, Geraldine N. (1973). Compiled Records Showing Service of Military Units in Confederate Organizations. United States. National Archives and Records Service. p. 48.
  2. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies; Series 1 - Volume 52 (Part II). United States. War Dept. 1898. p. 262. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. Pickering, David, and Judy Falls. 2000. Brush Men and Vigilantes, Civil War Dissent in Texas. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M Press.
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