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
Staff:
Chief of Artillery: Ltc John Floyd King[4]
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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Breckinridge's Division
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Smith's Brigade
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| Forsberg's Brigade
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| Patton's Brigade
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Gordon's Division[Note 2]
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Evans' Brigade[8]
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| Terry's Brigade[10] |
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| York's Brigade[11]
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Rodes' Division
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Battle's Brigade
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| Grimes' Brigade
|
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| Cox's Brigade
|
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| Cook's Brigade
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Ramseur's Division
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Pegram's Brigade
|
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| Hoke's Brigade
|
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| Johnston's Brigade |
| |
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Artillery
|
Braxton's Battalion |
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| McLaughlin's Battalion
|
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| Nelson's Battalion
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Cavalry Corps
MG Fitzhugh Lee (w)[6]
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
|---|---|---|
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Lee's Division
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Lomax's Brigade
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| Wickham's Brigade |
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| Horse Artillery
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Lomax's Division
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Imboden's Brigade
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| Johnson's Brigade |
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| McCausland's Brigade
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| Jackson's Brigade
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| Vaughn's Brigade
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| Horse Artillery |
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Notes
Footnotes
- 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]
- 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]
- 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.[19][20]
- Patchan describes Nelson as a Major in his Appendix 1, but as a Lieutenant Colonel in Chapter 13 of his book.[4]
- The official commander of this brigade, BG John C. McCausland, was absent during the battle for undisclosed reasons.[4]
Citations
- Patchan 2013, Appendix 1 of e-book
- Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, pp. 554–611
- Patchan 2013, Appendix 3 of e-book
- Patchan 2013, Ch. 13 of e-book
- Patchan 2013, Ch. 20 of e-book
- Early & Early 1912, p. 427
- Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, p. 609
- Officers from NARA Microfilm Roll 10: https://ia802805.us.archive.org/24/items/NARA_M935_Roll_10/0182.jpg . BG Clement A. Evans was wounded at the Battle of Monocacy, and would not return until the end of the month.
- Wert 2010, p. 57
- Officers from NARA Microfilm Roll 10: https://ia802805.us.archive.org/24/items/NARA_M935_Roll_10/0163.jpg . Terry's Brigade was made up of the consolidated remnants of Edward Johnson's Division, destroyed at Spotsylvania. They were formed into three regiments based around the three original brigades they were part of.
- Officers from NARA Microfilm Roll 10: https://ia902805.us.archive.org/24/items/NARA_M935_Roll_10/0196.jpg . York's Brigade consisted of the remnants of Harry Hays' and Leroy Stafford's Louisiana Brigades, which had not been able to replace much of their losses from the year previous, and were further depleted throughout the year at places such as the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Monocacy.
- Early & Early 1912, p. 423
- Patchan 2013, Ch. 14 of e-book
- Col William Monaghan (6th Louisiana Infantry), the senior colonel, had been killed in a skirmish on August 29th.
- Ainsworth & Kirkley 1902, p. 605
- Patchan 2013, Ch. 16 of e-book
- Clark 1901, pp. 255–257
- Wert 2010, p. 48
- Patchan 2013, Ch. 18 of e-book
- Patchan 2013, Ch. 19 of e-book
- 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. ISBN 9781468192155. 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.
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