The Confederate defenders at Macon included, among others, the 1st and 2nd Convalescent Regiments, from the hospital located there.

The defenses at Macon included 39 guns. The defense was luck to have several battalions of artillery, known as the Reserve Artillery, Army of Tennessee, which were left by General Hood when he began his invasion of Tennessee after the fall of Atlanta. The entire Reserve Artillery was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Hallonquist. This force included the reserved artillery battalions of Waddell, Martian, and Palmer. Waddell’s men had a full complement of ammunition for their guns, but not horses to pull them. Palmer’s force had both ammunition and horse, while Martians battalion had a full complement of ammunition, but no horses. That is why most artilleryman fought as infantry.

The artillery units included troops from Curry’s, Bellany’s, Guist’s, Howell’s, Plamers, Rivers, and Captain Edmund D. Baxter’s Light Artillery Companies, deployed as infantry. These men were commanded by Captain Albrough. The batteries of Rivers and Prichard were consolidated and the consolidated unit manned four twelve-pounder howitzers. Rivers’ guns responded to an attack by at 3:30 p.m. by the Beebe’s Battery.

Iobst, Richard W. Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1999, page 348. http://books.google.com/books?id=y_uAV2-_PEAC&pg=PA356&dq=Macon+Georgia+November+1864&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IQr3Uor2CKbU2AXsrIDoCA&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=Macon%20Georgia%20November%201864&f=false