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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
Military rank
Other
District of East Tennessee
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
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
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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