Confederate Units at Port Hudson - May 27, 1863 (Source: Hewett, Lawrence L., Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi) Commander: Major General Franklin Gardner |
Left Flank: Colonel I. G. W. Steedman |
1st Alabama (six companies) |
10th Arkansas |
15th Arkansas |
9th Louisiana Battalion Partisan Rangers (dismounted) |
1st Mississippi (five companies) |
39th Mississippi |
Provost Guard Battalion: Claiborne Mississippi Infantry Company and English's Mississippi Battery (without guns) |
Watson Louisiana Battery (two guns) |
Battery B (Herod's), 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (six guns) |
Battery F (Bradford's), 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (two guns) |
Detachment, 1st Tennessee Battalion Heavy Artillery (two guns) |
Company A, 1st Alabama Infantry (two guns) |
Center: Brigadier General William N. R. Beall |
49th Alabama |
8th (Jones) Arkansas Battalion |
11th & 17th Arkansas (detachment) |
12th Arkansas |
14th Arkansas |
16th Arkansas |
18th Arkansas |
23rd Arkansas |
1st Mississippi (five companies) |
Watson Louisiana Battery (four guns) |
Battery F (Bradford's), 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (two guns) |
Battery K (Abbay's), 1st Mississippi Light Artillery (five or six guns) |
Detachment, Company K, 1st Alabama Infantry (one gun) |
Detachment, Company D, 12th Louisiana Battalion Heavy Artillery (one gun) |
Detachment, 1st Tennessee Battalion Heavy Artillery (two guns) |
Right Flank: Colonel William R. Miles |
9th Louisiana Battalion |
Miles's Louisiana Legion |
Battalion composed of members of the 12th Louisiana Battalion Heavy Artillery serving as infantry: Major Anderson Merchant |
Battalion composed of fragments of Maxey's and Gregg's Brigades: Lieutenant Colonel W. N. Parish |
Boone's Louisiana Battery (six guns) |
Roberts' (Seven Stars) Mississippi Battery (four guns) |
Heavy Batteries |
No. 2 Company A, 1st Alabama: one 42-pounder smoothbore |
No. 3 Company G, 1st Alabama: one rifled 32-pounder and one 42-pounder smoothbore |
No. 4 Company E, 12th Louisiana Battalion Heavy Artillery: one 8-inch and one 10-inch columbiad |
No. 5 Company B, 1st Alabama: one 10-inch columbiad, one 42-pounder, and one 32-pounder, both smoothbores |
No. 6 Company A, 12th Louisiana Battalion Heavy Artillery: two rifled 24-pounders |
No. 8 Detachment, Company D, 12th Louisiana Battalion Heavy Artillery: one rifled 24-pounder |
No. 9 Company B, 12th Louisiana Battalion Heavy Artillery: one 8-inch shell gun and one 32-pounder smoothbore |
No. 11 Lieutenant L. A. Schirmer, one 30-pound Parrott |
Cavalry and Mounted Infantry: Colonel John L. Logan (operated outside Port Hudson garrison) |
11th and 17th Arkansas (consolidated: mounted infantry) |
Cochran's Arkansas Battalion |
Garland's Mississippi Battalion |
Hughes's Mississippi Battalion |
Stockdale's Mississippi Battalion |
9th Tennessee Battalion |
Robert's Mississippi Battery (two guns) |
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