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Battle of Fort Donelson
Confederate Official Records

President Jefferson Davis

​General Sidney A. Johnston

Commander, Western Department

Lt. Col. Jeremy F. Gilmer

Chief Engineer Western Department

Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd

Commander, Floyd's Brigade

Col. Gabriel C. Wharton

Commander, 1st Brigade

Col. John McCausland

Commander, 2nd Brigade

Brig. Gen. Gideon Pillow

Commander

Brig. Gen. Simon B. Buckner

Right Wing or Buckner's Division

Col. William B. Baldwin

Commander, 2nd Brigade

Col. Roger W. Hanson

Commander, 2nd Kentucky Infantry

Maj. W. L. Doss

Commander, 14th Mississippi Infantry

Col. John M. Lillard

Commander, 26th Tennessee Infantry

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Col. Robert Farquharson

Commander, 41st Tennessee Infantry

Maj. William N. Brown

Commander, 3rd Brigade

Maj. Nat F. Chairs

Commander, 3rd Tennessee Infantry

Col. Joseph R. Palmer

Commander, 18th Tennessee Infantry

Col. Edward C. Cook

Commander, 32nd Tennessee Infantry

Brig. Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson

Left Wing or Johnson's Division

Col. A. Heiman

Commander, 1st Brigade

Col. George F. McGinnis

Acting Adjutant 42nd Tennessee Infantry

Lt. R. B. Ryan

Aide-de-Camp, Davidson's Brigade

Col. John M. Simonton

Commander, 1st Mississippi Infantry

Lt. Col. H. B. Lyon

Commander, 8th Kentucky Infantry

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Col. John Gregg

Commander, 7th Texas Infantry

Col. John W. Head

Commander, Fort Donelson, 30th Tennessee Infantry

Maj. William N. Brown

Commander, 20th Mississippi Infantry

Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest

Commander, Tennessee Cavalry

Lt. Col. Milton A. Haynes

Chief of Tennessee Corps of Artillery

Col. J. E. Bailey

Commander, Fort Donelson, 49th

Tennessee Infantry

Capt. Jacob Culbertson

Commanding Batteries

Capt. B. G. Bidwell

Commander, 30th Tennessee Infantry

Capt. T. W. Beaumont

Commander, 50th Tennessee Infantry

Capt. R. R. Ross

Commander, Maury Artillery

Special Committee

Extracts from Special Committee

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