# Battle of Fort Donelson order of battle: Confederate

The following Confederate Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Fort Donelson of the American Civil War. Order of battle compiled from the army organization, and the reports. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

## Abbreviations used
### Military Rank

* BG = Brigadier General
* Col = Colonel
* Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
* Maj = Major
* Cpt = Captain

## Army of Central Kentucky

General Albert Sidney Johnston Not present at battle

### Fort Donelson

BG Bushrod Johnson Feb 9 BG Gideon J. Pillow Feb 9-13 BG John B. Floyd Feb 13-16 BG Gideon J. Pillow Feb 16 BG Simon B. Buckner, Sr. Feb 16
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
| Right Wing   BG Simon B. Buckner, Sr. | 2nd Brigade   (attached to 3rd Brigade) | 2nd Kentucky: Col Roger Hanson 14th Mississippi: Maj Washington Doss 41st Tennessee: Col Robert Farquharson |
| Right Wing   BG Simon B. Buckner, Sr. | 3rd Brigade   Col John C. Brown | 3rd Tennessee: Ltc Thomas Gordon (w), Maj N. F. Cheairs 18th Tennessee: Col Joseph B. Palmer 32nd Tennessee: Col Edmond Cook |
| Left Wing   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow  BG Bushrod Johnson | 1st Brigade   Col Adolphus Heiman | 27th Alabama: Col Adolphus Hughes 10th Tennessee: Ltc Randal W. McGavock 42nd Tennessee: Col William A. Quarles 48th Tennessee: Col William Voorhies 53rd Tennessee: Col Alfred Abernathy, Ltc Thomas F. Winston |
| Left Wing   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow  BG Bushrod Johnson | 2nd Brigade   Col Thomas J. Davidson  Col John M. Simonton  Col John Gregg | 8th Kentucky: Ltc Hylan B. Lyon 1st Mississippi: Col John M. Simonton, Ltc A. S. Hamilton 23rd Mississippi: Ltc Joseph Wells 7th Texas: Col John Gregg |
| Left Wing   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow  BG Bushrod Johnson | 3rd Brigade   Col Joseph Drake | 3rd Alabama Battalion: Maj John Garvin 15th Arkansas: Col James M. Gee 4th Mississippi: Maj Thomas Adaire |
| Left Wing   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow  BG Bushrod Johnson | 4th Brigade (Fort Donelson Garrison)   Col John W. Head | 30th Tennessee: Col John W. Head 49th Tennessee: Col James Bailey 50th Tennessee: Col Cyrus Sugg 1st Tennessee Battalion: Maj Steven Colms Stankiewicz's Tennessee Battery: Lt Peter Stankiewicz |
| Left Wing   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow  BG Bushrod Johnson | 5th Brigade   Col Gabriel C. Wharton | 51st Virginia Infantry: Ltc James Massie 56th Virginia Infantry: Col Phillip Slaughter |
| Left Wing   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow  BG Bushrod Johnson | 6th Brigade   Col John McCausland | 20th Mississippi: Maj William Brown 36th Virginia: Ltc Leigh Reid 50th Virginia: Maj Charles Thorburn |
| Left Wing   BG Gideon Johnson Pillow  BG Bushrod Johnson | 7th Brigade   Col William E. Baldwin | 26th Mississippi: Col Arthur Reynolds 26th Tennessee: Col John Lillard |
| Attached Units | Cavalry Brigade   Lt Col Nathan B. Forrest | 3rd Tennessee Cavalry Ltc Nathan Bedford Forrest 9th Tennessee Cavalry Ltc George Gantt 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company D: Cpt S.B. Williams 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company G: Cpt M.D. Willcox 1st Kentucky Cavalry, Company K: Cpt James Huey Melton's Kentucky Cavalry Company : Cpt James Melton |
| Attached Units | Artillery   Lt Col Milton Haynes | French's Mercer (VA) Battery: Cpt Napoleon B. French Gauley (VA) Artillery: Cpt Stephen Adams Goochland (VA) Battery: Cpt John Guy Kanawha (VA) Artillery: Cpt Thomas E. Jackson Graves' Kentucky Battery: Cpt Rice E. Graves Green's Kentucky Battery: Cpt Henry Green Maney's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Frank Maney (w) Porter's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Thomas Porter (w), Lt John W. Morton Ross' Tennessee Battery: Cpt Ruben Ross Culbertson's Tennessee Battery: Cpt Jacob Culbertson 51st Tennessee: Col. B.M. Browder |