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(Redirected from Franklin (1863) order of battle) For units involved in the major battle in 1864, see Franklin Union order of battle and Franklin Confederate order of battle.

The following Union and Confederate army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Franklin on April 10, 1863. Organization is compiled from the Official Records of the American Civil War.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

Other

  • w = wounded
  • mw = mortally wounded
  • k = killed

Union

Army of Kentucky

Main article: Army of Kentucky

MG Gordon Granger

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

Baird's Division
     BG Absalom Baird

1st Brigade


   Col John Coburn

2nd Brigade


   Col Smith D. Atkins

3rd Brigade


   Col William P. Reid

4th Brigade


   BG George Crook

Unattached

Gilbert's Division
     BG Charles C. Gilbert

Not brigaded

1st Cavalry Division
     BG David S. Stanley

1st Brigade


   Ltc William B. Sipes

2nd Brigade


   Ltc Oliver P. Robie

3rd Brigade


   Col Daniel M. Ray

Attached cavalry

4th Cavalry Brigade (Dept. of the Cumberland)


   BG Green Clay Smith

Confederate

Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee

MG Earl Van Dorn

Brigade Regiments and Other
First Brigade

   BG Frank Armstrong

  • 3rd Arkansas Cavalry
  • 4th Mississippi Cavalry
  • 1st Tennessee Cavalry
  • Sanders’ Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
  • Escort (James H. Polk’s Mississippi Company)
Second Brigade

   Col James W. Starnes

Unattached
  • Freeman’s Tennessee (Horse Artillery) Battery
  • Forrest’s Tennessee Escort

References

  1. Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle (1889). "Reports of Major General Gordon Granger, U.S. Army, commanding Army of Kentucky". The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I). United States War Department. p. 222. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  2. Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company. pp. 450.
  3. Col John Coburn and all field officers were taken prisoner at the Battle of Thompson's Station and the remnants likewise captured at the Battle of Brentwood.
  4. Reece, Jasper (1901). "Report of the adjutant general of the state of Illinois". archive.org. Phillips Bros., State Printers. pp. 3 and 23. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  5. Cullum's Register
  6. Civil War Archive
  7. Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle (1889). "Report of Major General David S. Stanley, U.S. Army, commanding cavalry". The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I). United States War Department. p. 234. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  8. Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle (1889). "Reports of Lieut. Col. William B. Sipes, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, commanding Second Cavalry Brigade". The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I). United States War Department. p. 236. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  9. Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle (1889). "Reports of Col. Daniel M. Ray, Second Tennessee Cavalry, commanding Third Cavalry Brigade". The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I). United States War Department. p. 238. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  10. Robert N. Scott and Henry Martyn Lazelle (1889). "Reports of Col. Daniel M. Ray, Second Tennessee Cavalry, commanding Third Cavalry Brigade". The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 23 (Part I). United States War Department. p. 239. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
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