Editing Battle of Shiloh (section)

===Confederate===
{{further|Shiloh Confederate order of battle|l1=Confederate order of battle}}
[[Image:Albert Sydney Johnston.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|right|[[Albert Sidney Johnston]]|alt=Confederate Civil War general with mustache and hair covering his ears]]
[[Image:Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, C.S.A - NARA - 525441 (cropped).tif|thumb|upright=0.5|right|[[P. G. T. Beauregard|P.G.T. Beauregard]]|alt=Confederate Civil War general with mustache and combed hair]]
The Confederate army at the Battle of Shiloh was the [[Army of Mississippi]], commanded by [[General officers in the Confederate States Army#General|General]] Albert Sidney Johnston, with General [[P. G. T. Beauregard|Pierre G. T. Beauregard]] as Johnston's second in command.<ref name="Daniel320"/> Created by combining the scattered divisions of Johnston's army with troops from [[Mobile, Alabama in the American Civil War|Mobile]] and [[New Orleans in the American Civil War|New Orleans]],<ref name="McPherson406"/> and later including one regiment that arrived on April 7, Johnston's army had 44,699 men present for duty.<ref name="Daniel322"/>  The army also had 117 artillery pieces for the battle.<ref name="Gudmens17"/>  The forces at the battle were:
* First Corps was commanded by Major General [[Leonidas Polk]], and consisted of two divisions.<ref name="Daniel320-321">{{harvnb|Daniel|1997|pp=320–321}}</ref>
* Second Corps was commanded by Major General [[Braxton Bragg]], and consisted of two divisions.<ref name="Daniel321">{{harvnb|Daniel|1997|p=321}}</ref> Although lacking experience in combat, Bragg's troops were the best drilled and disciplined Confederate troops at the battle.<ref name="Daniel63">{{harvnb|Daniel|1997|p=63}}</ref>
* Third Corps was commanded by Major General [[William J. Hardee]], and consisted of three brigades.<ref name="Daniel321"/>
* Reserve Corps was commanded by Brigadier General [[John C. Breckinridge]], and consisted of three brigades.<ref name="Daniel321"/> In addition to the three brigades, this corps included some cavalry regiments and batteries that were not assigned to a brigade.<ref name="Cunningham406">{{harvnb|Cunningham|2009|p=406}}</ref>
* An unassigned infantry force was the [[47th Tennessee Infantry Regiment]], which arrived at the battle on April 7.<ref name="Daniel322"/>

Most of the Confederate troops did not have combat experience, and regiments were smaller than normal.<ref name="Daniel94">{{harvnb|Daniel|1997|p=94}}</ref> Bragg's Second Corps was the largest of four corps, although it was smaller than the normal size. One of the reasons for the four small corps (instead of fewer corps that were larger) was size deception, as a typical corps had about 20,000 men.<ref name="Daniel96">{{harvnb|Daniel|1997|p=96}}</ref> Small arms included [[flintlocks]], [[shotgun]]s, squirrel rifles, and percussion muskets. A few thousand of the highly accurate Enfield rifles had been distributed to Johnston's men before the battle;<ref name="Daniel94"/> the supply of these increased as they were seized from Union troops in combat.<ref name="Gudmens17"/> Only one-third of the cavalry possessed any weapons at the start of the battle.<ref name="Daniel94"/> Confederate cavalry was much more effective than their Union counterpart, and enabled Johnston to know the positions of both Union armies.<ref name="Shaara6"/>