1st Mississippi Regiment, Co. F
Alcorn Rifles

Organized in April 1861 for three years or the war.  The First Regiment was completed in August 1861 and ordered into camp of instruction at Iuka, MS. The field officers were elected 10 September, 1861. The First was one of the four regiments sent by Governor Pettus to Kentucky to reinforce Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston near Hopkinsville, Ky., on October 17, 1861.  Regimental officers included: John M. Simonton, Colonel; A. S. Hamilton, Lt. Col.; and T. H. Johnson, Major.  Company F was formed in Marshall County, MS, though it included some me from DeSoto County from around Cockrum, Greenleaf, Flewellen’s Crossroads, among others. Company officers when organized were:

Captain – J. J. Milam
1st Lt – L. J. Wilson
2nd Lt. – W. D. Howze
3rd Lt. – M. L. Mobley

The company was captured at Fort Donelson, TN in February 1862.  After their parole, the company was at Port Hudson, LA were they were captured a second time in 1863.  Once again paroled, the company was in the Army of Tennessee under General Joseph Johnston and John B. Hood, taking part in the Georgia campaign and the battles at Franklin and Nashville, TN.  Afterward the joined General Johnston in North Carolina and were present at the surrender.

The names of men from the 1860 DeSoto census are in italics.

John C. Rietti, in his book, Military Annals of Mississippi Confederate (p. 24), lists the following members of Company A:

Captain – J. J. Milam
1st Lt. – L. J. Wilson
2nd Lt. – W. D. Howze
3rd Lt – M. L. Mobley
1st Sgt – S. O. B. Crockett
2nd Sgt – J. P. Wilson
3rd Sgt – A. S. Yarbrough
4th Sgt – R. K. Byrd
1st Cpl – F. L. Ragsdale
2nd Cpl – C. Harris
3rd Cpl – W. M. Flack
4th Cpl – J. A. Bizzle

Privates:

Baum, C.
Brumley, C.
Callow, N. P.
Carson, J. W.
Carter, W. L.
Coleman, B.
Echols, H.
Faver, J. B.
Gillespie, J. A.
Hairston, W. I.
Harris, J. M.
Hays, S.
Howard, J. A.
Howell, J. N.
Janney, M. [W.] A.
Joyner, J. M.
Langston, E. G.
Langston, J. P.
Magher, John
Mason, Joe
McAuntly, R. T.
Mims, D. H.
Mobley, D. S.
Neily, N. H.
Parish, W. N.
Parker, W. H.
Parks, L. J.
Ragsdale, H. W.
Rochell, D. N.
Roberson, A. M.
Roberson, W. G. S.
Reddiong, R. M.
Strickland, W. E.
Stricklin, W. D.
Skelton, L. H.
Sanderson, V. P.
Sanderson, J. H.
Sanderson, W. G.
Turner, James
Wetherly, J. S.
Weaver, J. S.
Wilson, W. F.
Watkins, S. B.
Wolf, J. W.
Wolf, S. D.
Yarbrough, G. W.

The National Park Service’s Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System listed the following members of Company F: