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D
IVISION
A
RTILLERY
B
ATTALION
Maj. M. W. Henry: four batteries

 

C
ORPS
R
ESERVE
A
RTILLERY
Col. J. B. Walton, corps artillery commander

 

(Although he was officially in command at Gettysburg, the guns were in fact commanded by Col. E. Porter Alexander)

Alexanders Battalion: six batteries

 

W
ASHINGTON
A
RTILLERY
B
ATTALION
Maj. B. F. Eshleman: four batteries

 

With rare and temporary exceptions, four guns were the standard number for Confederate batteries; six guns were the standard number for Union batteries.

 

SECOND CORPS
Lieut. Gen. Richard S. Ewell (May 22, 1863)

 

E
ARLY’S
D
IVISION
(formerly Ewell’s)
Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early (Jan. 17, 1863)

 

Hays’s Brigade:

Hoke’s Brigade:

Brig. Gen. Harry T. Hays

Brig. Gen. Robert F. Hoke

(July 25, 1862)

(Jan. 17, 1863)

5th Louisiana Regiment

6th North Carolina Regiment

6th Louisiana Regiment

21st North Carolina Regiment

7th Louisiana Regiment

54th North Carolina Regiment

8th Louisiana Regiment

57th North Carolina Regiment

9th Louisiana Regiment

1st North Carolina Battalion

 

Out of action with a wound. Brigade commanded at Gettysburg by Col. Isaac Avery, who was mortally wounded July 2, 1863.

 

Not at Gettysburg: detached at Winchester to guard prisoners and captured supplies.

Smith’s Brigade:

Gordon’s Brigade:

Brig. Gen. William (“Extra Billy”)

Brig. Gen. John B. Gordon

Smith
(Jan. 31, 1863)

(May 7, 1863)

13th Virginia Regiment

13th Georgia Regiment

31st Virginia Regiment

26th Georgia Regiment

49th Virginia Regiment

31st Georgia Regiment

52nd Virginia Regiment

38th Georgia Regiment

58th Virginia Regiment

60th Georgia Regiment

 
Replaced after Gettysburg by
Brig. Gen. John Pegram.

61st Georgia Regiment

Not at Gettysburg: detached at
Winchester.

 

D
IVISION
A
RTILLERY
B
ATTALION
Lieut. Col. H. P. Jones: four batteries

 

J
OHNSON’S
D
IVISION

 

(originally formed by Stonewall Jackson as an all-Virginia unit, the division suffered high mortality in its commanders, and Maj. Gen. Trimble, designated by Lee to assume command, was absent with illness when the army was reorganized)

 

Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson (Feb. 23,1863)

 

Stonewall Brigade (the official name of Jackson’s first command):

Jones’s Brigade: Brig. Gen. J. M. Jones (May 15, 1863)

Brig. Gen. J.
A.
Walker

21st Virginia Regiment

(May 15, 1863)

25th Virginia Regiment

2nd Virginia Regiment

42nd Virginia Regiment

4th Virginia Regiment

44th Virginia Regiment

5th Virginia Regiment

48th Virginia Regiment

27th Virginia Regiment

50th Virginia Regiment

33rd Virginia Regiment

Parts of this unit were left at Winchester.

 

Steuart’s Brigade:

Nichols’s Brigade:

Brig. Gen. George H. Steuart

Brig. Gen. Francis T. Nichols

(March 6, 1862)

(Oct. 14, 1862)

10th Virginia Regiment

1st Louisiana Regiment

23rd Virginia Regiment

2nd Louisiana Regiment

37th Virginia Regiment

10th Louisiana Regiment

1st North Carolina Regiment

14th Louisiana Regiment

3rd North Carolina Regiment

15th Louisiana Regiment

1st Maryland Battalion

Not at Gettysburg; brigade
commanded by Col. L. A. Stafford,
later its brigadier.

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