Wilderness Confederate order of battle
The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5–7, 1864) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization May 5–6, 1864, the army organization at beginning of the Campaign, the army organization during the Campaign and the reports.<ref>Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXVI, Part 1, pages 1162–1168</ref> Abbreviations used Military rank Gen = General LTG = Lieutenant General MG = Major General BG = Brigadier General Col = Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel Maj = Major Cpt = Captain Other (w) = wounded (mw) = mortally wounded (k) = killed in action (c) = captured Army of Northern Virginia Gen Robert E. Lee General Staff: Chief Engineer: MG Martin L. Smith Chief of Artillery: BG William N. Pendleton Assistant Adjutant General: Ltc Walter H. Taylor Aide de Camp: Ltc Charles Marshall Aide de Camp: Maj Charles S. Venable First Corps LTG James Longstreet (w) MG Charles W. Field MG Richard H. Anderson Second Corps LTG Richard S. Ewell General Staff: Assistant Adjutant General: Ltc Alexander S. Pendleton Assistant Adjutant General: Maj Campbell Brown Assistant Inspector General: Col Abner Smead Engineer: Maj Benjamin H. Greene Aide de Camp: Lt Thomas T. Turner Chief of Ordnance: Ltc William Allan Medical Director: Dr. Hunter H. McGuire Quartermasters: Maj John D. Rogers and Maj A. M. Garber Commissaries and subsistence: Maj Wells J. Hawks and Cpt J. J. Lock Third Corps LTG Ambrose P. Hill Cavalry Corps MG J.E.B. Stuart Strengths The following table shows total strengths of each of the major formations at the start of the battle. First Corps Second Corps Third Corps Cavalry Corps Total Army of Northern Virginia Notes See also Spotsylvania Court House Confederate order of battle Cold Harbor Confederate order of battle References Boyd, Charles E. The Devil's Den: A History of the 44th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army, 1862-1865. Birmingham, AL: Banner Press, 1987. . Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. . Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Rhea, Gordon C. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002 Sibley, Jr., F. Ray, The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1, The Army of Northern Virginia, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 1996. U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. Wise, Jennings C., The Long Arm of Lee, Volumen 2: Chancellorsville to Appomattox, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1991 Wittenberg, Eric J. Glory Enough For All: Sheridan's Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station. Washington, DC: Brassey's, Inc, 2001. Young, Alfred C., III. Lee's Army during