The Confederate order of battle during the

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(multiple commander names indicate command succession during the three-day battle (July 1–3, 1863)). Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle, the casualty returns and the reports.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

* Gen =

General A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...

* LTG =

Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

* MG =

Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

* BG =

Brigadier General Brigadier general or Brigade general is a military rank used in many countries. It is the lowest ranking general officer in some countries. The rank is usually above a colonel, and below a major general or divisional general. When appointed ...

* Col =

Colonel Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of ...

* Ltc =

Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colone ...

* Maj =

Major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...

* Cpt =

Captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...

* Lt =

Lieutenant A lieutenant ( , ; abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations. The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often sub ...

Other

* (w) = wounded * (mw) =

mortally wounded : A mortal wound is an injury that will ultimately lead to a person's death. ''Mortal'' refers to the mortality of a human: whether they are going to live or die."mortal_adjective." Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. 2018. Oxford University P ...

* (k) = killed in action * (c) = captured

Army of Northern Virginia

General Robert E. Lee, Commanding General Staff: * Chief of Staff and Inspector General: Col Robert H. Chilton * Chief of Artillery: BG

William N. Pendleton William Nelson Pendleton (December 26, 1809 – January 15, 1883) was an American teacher, Episcopal priest, and soldier. He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, noted for his position as Gen. Robert E. Lee's chief ...

* Medical Director: Dr. Lafayette Guild * Chief of Ordnance: Ltc Briscoe G. Baldwin * Chief of Commissary: Ltc Robert G. Cole * Chief Quartermaster: Ltc James L. Corley * Judge Advocate General: Maj Henry E. Young * Military Secretary and Acting Asst. Chief of Artillery: Col Armistead L. Long * Asst. Inspector General: Col Henry L. Peyton * Asst. Inspector General and Asst. Adjutant General: Maj Henry E. Young * Asst. Inspector General and Asst. Adjutant General: Maj Giles B. Cook * Aide de Camp and Asst. Adjutant General: Maj

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* Aide de Camp and Asst. Military Secretary: Maj Charles Marshall * Aide de Camp and Asst. Inspector General: Maj Charles S. Venable * Aide de Camp: Maj Thomas M. R. Talcott * Aide de Camp: Lt George W. Peterkin * Engineer: Col William P. Smith * Engineer: Cpt Samuel R. Johnston General Headquarters: * Escort: 39th Virginia Cavalry Battalion (companies A & C)

First Corps

LTG

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, Commanding General Staff: * Chief of Staff: Ltc

Moxley Sorrel Gilbert Moxley Sorrel (February 23, 1838 – August 10, 1901) was a staff officer and Brigadier General in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. Early life Sorrel was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of one of the wealthiest men in ...

(w) * Signal Officer: Cpt Jacob H. Manning * Quartermaster: Maj Samuel P. Mitchell * Commissary and subsistence: Maj Raphael J. Moses * Asst. Adjutant General & Asst. Inspector General: Maj Osmun Latrobe * Asst. Adjutant General & Assistant Inspector General: Maj John Walter Fairfax * Ordnance Officer: Lt. Col. Peyton T. Manning * Engineer: Maj John J. Clarke * Aide de Camp: Cpt

Thomas J. Goree Thomas Jewett Goree (November 14, 1835 – March 5, 1905) was a Confederate Captain in the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. By the end of the war he was promoted to the rank of captain. He was one of Lt. Gene ...

* Medical Director: Dr. John S. D. Cullen

Second Corps

LTG

Richard S. Ewell Richard Stoddert Ewell (February 8, 1817 – January 25, 1872) was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He achieved fame as a senior commander under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. L ...

, Commanding General Staff: * Supernumerary: MG

Isaac R. Trimble Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (May 15, 1802 – January 2, 1888) was a United States Army officer, a civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate States Army, Confederate General officer, general in t ...

transferred to Third Corps on July 3 * Chief of Staff: Ltc Charles J. Faulkner * Asst. Adjutant General: Maj Alexander S. Pendleton * Asst. Adjutant General: Maj George C. Brown * Aide de Camp: Cpt James P. Smith * Aide de Camp: Lt Thomas T. Turner * Asst. Adjutant General & Asst. Inspector General: Col Abner Smead * Asst. Inspector General: Maj Benjamin H. Green * Asst. Quartermaster: Maj John A. Harman * Commissaries and subsistence: Maj Wells J. Hawks * Engineer: Cpt Henry B. Richardson (w&c) * Topographical engineer: Cpt

Jedediah Hotchkiss Jedediah Hotchkiss (November 30, 1828 – January 17, 1899), known most frequently as Jed, was a teacher and the most famous cartographer and topographer of the American Civil War. His detailed and accurate maps of the Shenandoah Valley are c ...

* Ordnance: Maj William Allen * Signal Officer: Cpt Richard E. Wilbourn * Medical Director: Dr. Hunter H. McGuire * Escort: Randolph's Company Virginia Cavalry, Cpt William F. Randolph * Provost Guard: 1st North Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters

Third Corps

LTG Ambrose P. Hill, Commanding General Staff: * Chief of Staff: Maj William H. Palmer * Signal Officer: Cpt Richard H. T. Adams

Cavalry units

Notes

References

* U.S. War Department
''The War of the Rebellion''
''a Compilation of the

Official Records The ''Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion'', commonly known as the ''Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies'' or Official Records (OR or ORs), is the most extensive collection of Americ ...

of the Union and Confederate Armies'', U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
Gettysburg National Military Park - The Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg

* Eicher, John H

at Gettysburg Discussion Group website.

External links

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