Kernstown II Confederate order of battle


The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the American Civil War's Second Battle of Kernstown on July 24, 1864 in Kernstown, now part of the Virginia city of Winchester. The Union order of battle is shown separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

LTG Jubal A. Early

Breckinridge’s Command

MG John C. Breckinridge
DivisionBrigadeRegiments and Others

First Division

BG Gabriel C. Wharton

Wharton's Brigade

Col Augustus Forsberg

  • 30th Virginia Sharpshooters Battalion
  • 45th Virginia Infantry - Maj Francis Miller
  • 51st Virginia Infantry
First Division

BG Gabriel C. Wharton
Echols’ Brigade

Col George S. Patton

  • 22nd Virginia Infantry
  • 23rd Virginia Infantry
  • 26th Virginia Infantry
First Division

BG Gabriel C. Wharton
Smith's Brigade

Col Thomas A. Smith

  • 36th Virginia Infantry
  • 45th Virginia Infantry Battalion
  • 60th Virginia Infantry
  • Thomas' Legion
Second Division

MG John B. Gordon
Evans’ Brigade

Col E.N. Atkinson

  • 13th Georgia Infantry
  • 26th Georgia Infantry
  • 31st Georgia Infantry
  • 38th Georgia Infantry
  • 60th Georgia Infantry
  • 61st Georgia Infantry
  • 12th Georgia Infantry Battalion
Second Division

MG John B. Gordon
York's Consolidated Louisiana Brigade

BG Zebulon York

Hays’s Old Brigade - Col W. R. Peck
  • 5th Louisiana Infantry
  • 6th Louisiana Infantry
  • 7th Louisiana Infantry
  • 8th Louisiana Infantry
  • 9th Louisiana Infantry
Stafford’s Old Brigade - Col E. Waggaman
  • 1st Louisiana Infantry
  • 2nd Louisiana Infantry
  • 10th Louisiana Infantry
  • 14th Louisiana Infantry
  • 15th Louisiana Infantry
Second Division

MG John B. Gordon
Terry's Consolidated Virginia Brigade

BG William Terry

Stonewall Brigade - Col J.H.S. Funk
  • 2nd Virginia Infantry
  • 4th Virginia Infantry
  • 5th Virginia Infantry
  • 27th Virginia Infantry
  • 33rd Virginia Infantry
Jones’s Old Second Brigade - Col R. H. Dungan
  • 21st Virginia Infantry
  • 25th Virginia Infantry
  • 42nd Virginia Infantry
  • 44th Virginia Infantry
  • 48th Virginia Infantry
  • 50th Virginia Infantry
Steuart’s Old Third Brigade - Cpt Peter Yancy
  • 10th Virginia Infantry
  • 23rd Virginia Infantry
  • 37th Virginia Infantry

Forces reporting directly to Gen. Early