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Some Companies raised out of Hinds County, Mississippi
Excerpts from "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand"
and Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of  Mississippi, 1803-1898"


 
Powers’ Regiment Mississippi & Louisiana Cavalry
(afterward, 23rd Battalion Mississippi Cavalry)

MISSISSIPPI COMPANIES IN POWERS’ MS & LA REGIMENT CAVALRY:

Captain Wolff’s Company -- raised in Copiah, Hinds, & Scott Counties, MS
Owen’s Scouts -- raised in Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, & Jefferson Counties, MS

[The other companies in Powers’ Regiment were from Louisiana.]

May 15, 1863, General Gardner ordered Col. Frank P. Powers, of the Fourteenth Arkansas, to report at Olive Branch, La., to Col. J. L. Logan, and take command of the cavalry at  that place. With this command he took part in the engagements during the siege of Port  Hudson and after, including Plains' Store, the three days' fight from Olive Branch to Clinton, La., and other encounters at Clinton, Jackson and Red Wood. Federal scouts reported him, with a considerable command, at Woodville, Miss., in December. Col. 
Edward Dillon, commanding in that region, reported December 27, that it would be desirable to "muster into companies and organize a regiment and battalion of the men that have been assembled by Colonel Powers with that expectation."

This regiment included three Mississippi companies.. The regiment is mentioned in the official reports as part of Co1. John S. Scott’s Brigade, spring of 1864. It  was employed in April in the campaign against deserters and insurgents on Honey Island and vicinity. May 24, 1864, headquarters, Camp Polk, La. Powers' Regiment  of Cavalry, present, 310; enrolled, 803; taken prisoner, 36. June 1 -- Powers'
Louisiana and Mississippi Regiment, Co1. Frank P. Powers, Scott's Brigade, Wirt Adams' Cavalry.

By order of November 21, 1864, the three Mississippi companies were detached
as the Twenty-third Battalion, which see.


 
 
COMPANIES IN THE 23RD BATTALION MISSISSIPPI CAVALRY:
Company C -- Owen’s Scouts (raised in Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, & Jefferson Counties, MS)

TWENTY-THIRD BATTALION MISSISSIPPI CAVALRY

Major-- Joseph S. Terry,

Order of War Department, November 21, 1864: "The three companies now serving in the organization known as Powers' Regiment of Cavalry are hereby organized into a battalion,  to be known as the Twenty-third Mississippi Battalion."

See Powers' Regiment. The battalion was assigned to Wirt Adams’ Brigade in February, 1865.
 See Wirt Adams' Regiment. 

FROM "WIRT ADAMS’ REGIMENT CAVALRY" [taken from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of
 Mississippi, 1803-1898"]

Colonel Moorman wrote from Canton May 4: "Should the war cease now you would have the honor
of having won the last victory on Confederate soil and in the Confederate cause."

In camp near Gainesville, Ala., May 6, the regiment adopted resolutions of compliment to General Adams. Lieut.-Col.. S. B. Cleaveland was chairman, Lieut. John E. Sugg, Company E; Sergt.-Maj. William Laughlin and John E. Barlow, color bearer, were secretaries. The committee on resolutions was Lieut. C. F. Enzury, A; Lieut, A. Puryear, B; Lieut. Private [sic] John Creight, D; Sergt. Robert W. Caruthers, E;  Sergt. O. S.Smith, F; Lieut. J. M. Love, G; Capt. M. B. Bowie, H; Corpl. J. Creighton, I; Sergt. J. O. Mobley, K; Sergt. William Gibson, L; Sergt. William Evans, M; Sergt. J. M. Allen and Capt. John Y. Kilpatrick, I. Major Muldrow, Dr. J. M. Allen and Captain Smith of Company D were other officers present.

The regiment was "surrendered near Ramsey Station, Sumter County, Ala., May 4, 1865,
" according to one account. General Adams' parole is dated Gainesville, Ala., May 12, 1865.


 
 
COMPANIES IN THE 23RD BATTALION MISSISSIPPI CAVALRY:

Company C -- Owen’s Scouts (raised in Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, & Jefferson Counties, MS)

TWENTY-THIRD BATTALION MISSISSIPPI CAVALRY

Major-- Joseph S. Terry,

Order of War Department, November 21, 1864: "The three companies now serving in the
organization known as Powers' Regiment of Cavalry are hereby organized into a battalion,
to be known as the Twenty-third Mississippi Battalion."

Colonel Moorman wrote from Canton May 4: "Should the war cease now you would have the honor  of having won the last victory on Confederate soil and in the Confederate cause."

This was the last battle of regular troops, at least. The fights at West Point, Ala., April 16, and near Talladega, April 23, were by the reserves.

In camp near Gainesville, Ala., May 6, the regiment adopted resolutions of compliment  to General Adams. Lieut.-Col.. S. B. Cleaveland was chairman, Lieut. John E. Sugg,  Company E; Sergt.-Maj. William Laughlin and John E. Barlow, color bearer, were
 secretaries. The committee on resolutions was Lieut. C. F. Enzury, A; Lieut, A. Puryear, B; Lieut. Private [sic] John Creight, D; Sergt. Robert W. Caruthers, E;  Sergt. O. S. Smith, F; Lieut. J. M. Love, G; Capt. M. B. Bowie, H; Corpl. J. Creighton
I; Sergt. J. O. Mobley, K; Sergt. William Gibson, L; Sergt. William Evans, M; Sergt.  J. M. Allen and Capt. John Y. Kilpatrick, I. Major Muldrow, Dr. J. M. Allen and Captain Smith of Company D were other officers present.

The regiment was "surrendered near Ramsey Station, Sumter County, Ala., May 4, 1865,
" according to one account. General Adams' parole is dated Gainesville, Ala., May 12, 1865.


 
 
1ST (KING’S) REGIMENT MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY MINUTE MEN

Company C -- Raymond Company (raised in Hinds County, MS)
Company D -- "Company D, Hinds County Militia" (raised in Hinds County, MS)
Company E -- Hinds Minute Men, aka Jackson Company (raised in Hinds County, MS)
Company F -- "Company A, Madison County Minute Men" (raised in Madison County, MS)

The regiment was organized 11 August 1862, at Camp Tupper, Hinds County.

The regiment is reported in the returns of January, 1863, as 106 present effective, with Hebert’s Brigade;
same in February and March. 

The Second Regiment and Second and Fourth Battalions, State Troops, Major H.F. Cook, commanding, were
reported as 96 present, 648 absent, Station Milldale; April 15, 1863, Maj. J.D. Fairley, commanding.


 
 
18TH REGIMENT, MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY, CSA

(from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898")

Company E -- Mississippi College Rifles (raised in Hinds County, MS)
Company H -- Brown Rebels (raised in Hinds County, MS)
Company K -- Burt Rifles (raised in Hinds County, MS)

These companies were enlisted for one year in the service of the Confederate States and organized in the Eighteenth Regiment, under the direction of Gen. J. L. Alcorn, June 7, 1861. They started to Virginia June 10, arrived at Camp Walker near Manassas Junction on the 18th, and were brigaded with the Seventeenth Mississippi and Fifth South Carolina under Gem D. R. Jones, which brigade was posted on the extreme right of the army at Bull Run. They were near McLean’s ford when the first attack was made by the Federal army July 18. For the battle which Beauregard planned for 21 July this brigade was ordered to cross Bull Run and support General Ewell's attack upon Centerville. They crossed the ford early in the morning and confronted a force of the enemy, when the advance of the right wing was countermanded, and the brigade was ordered back. In retiring they were exposed to a dangerous artillery fire. Later in the day they advanced on the enemy up Rocky run, co-operating with Longstreet and Early. In attempting a charge over ground with unexpected difficulties under a murderous artillery fire the Eighteenth was compelled to retire, with the exception of Company H. Captain Fontaine and his men were particularly praised for their tenacity by General Jones, who also mentioned the valuable assistance of Colonel White and Mr. Davis, independent volunteers accompanying the Mississippi regiments. Colonel Burt reported: "Among the killed was Captain Adam McWillie of the Camden Rifles, a gallant soldier of the Mexican war, having fought bravely at Monterey and Buena Vista. He was killed by a canister shot while endeavoring to rally his command. Lieutenant Seary was killed on the field while making the charge. Lieutenant York was badly wounded at the same time. Lieutenant McLaurin was seriously wounded by the explosion of a shell. Six privates were killed and twenty-one wounded. This was the part of the battle toward Centerville, coming late in the day, when the Federal army was falling back from its defeat in another part of the field, that produced such a prodigious panic. Soon after this the Thirteenth Mississippi was substituted for Jenkins' regiment, and the brigade, under the command of Gen. N. G. Evans, was marched to Leesburg, where they held the extreme left of Beauregard's army until March, 1862, within which time fell the battle of Leesburg or Ball's Bluff.


 
 
12th Mississippi Infantry

(from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell’s "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand’)

Company C -- Raymond Fencibles [also listed as Co. A] (raised in Hinds County, MS)

Colonels -- Richard Griffith of Jackson, commissioned May 16, 1861, promoted to Brigadier-General; W. H. Taylor; M. B. Harris, wounded and disabled; S. B. Thomas, wounded and captured. Lieutenant-Colonels -- William H. Taylor of Jackson, promoted; Merry B. Harris, promoted; S. B. Thomas, promoted. Majors -- John R. Dickens; William H. Lilly, 1 May, 1862, killed by accident 19 February, 1863; S. B. Thomas, promoted; James R. Bell, 1864. - Adjutant -- W. H. Capers of Claiborne; Sergeant-Major E, H. McCaleb of Claiborne; Surgeon M. S. Craft of Hinds; Assistant Surgeon -- Clark; Commissary John A. Galbraith of Jefferson; Quartermaster -- Bristoe of Yazoo; Chaplain A. A. Lomax of Copiah. (Rietti.)

The companies for the organization of this regiment were assembled at Camp Clark, near Corinth, the post being under the command of Gen. Charles Clark, Army of Mississippi.. Balloting by companies for regimental officers began May 16, and seven ballots were taken before all of them were chosen. Capt. Henry Hughes, of the Claiborne Guards, was the favorite of a large part of the regiment for Colonel. Finally the selections were: Colonel, Griffith; Lieutenant-Colonel, Taylor; Major, Dickens. After the regiment was ready for service it was sent to Union City, Term., to cooperate in General Polk's campaign against St. Louis, but the imminence of conflict in Virginia caused its transfer to that department. On July 9, 1861, telegrams were sent to General Polk and General Clark, asking that the regiment be sent to Lynchburg without delay. It started July 16, and did not arrive in time for the battle of Manassas. . The regiment was posted in northeastern Virginia, and during the winter of 1861-62 was quartered near Centreville, attached to the Alabama brigade under General Rodes. President Davis planned to make the Twelfth part of a Mississippi brigade, which was to be under the command of Gen. Charles Clark. But Clark was needed in the West, and Colonel Griffith, who had been Adjutant of President Davis' regiment in the Mexican War, and also a General in the State army, was promoted as Brigadier-General and assigned to command of the First Mississippi Brigade. It appears to have been the President's plan to form two Mississippi brigades to be part of a division for Major-General Van Dorn, but General Johnston opposed this as impracticable at that time, and it was never effected. The Twelfth did not become a part of the brigade of which its first Colonel was commander. 

It may be surmised that a large part of the regiment was not in Fort Gregg. At least forty, according to Rietti's Annals, were surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse. under command of Sergt. William Brown, Company K, after all the attrition of the Appomattox campaign.


 
 
10th Mississippi Infantry

(from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell’s "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand’)

Company A -- Mississippi Rifles (raised in Hinds County, MS)

COMPANIES COMPRISING THE "NEW" 10TH MS INFANTRY:
Company D -- Mississippi Rifles [also listed as Co. G] (raised in Hinds County, MS)

Colonels -- Seaburne M. Phillips, died at Pensacola; Robert A. Smith, killed at Munfordville; James Barr, Jr., died in Georgia; James M. Walker, resigned. Lieutenant- Colonels -- Joseph R. Davis, transferred; James G. Bullard, killed at Munfordville; James Barr, Jr., promoted; James M. Walker, promoted; George B. Myers. Majors -- Edward H. Gregory, James Barr, Jr., JamesM. Dotson. Surgeons -- W. F. Camp, L. M. Wasson, died at Chattanooga, 1863, Assistant Surgeons -- W. L. Lipscomb, J. R. Barnett, B. R. Schaeffer. Adjutants -- William G. Paxton, Thomas H. Dickson, E. Turner Sykes, promoted Captain and Adjutant, Walthall's Brigade; William H. French. Quartermasters -- Daniel Morrison, George Whitfield. Commissaries -- Thomas Puckett, Daniel Morrison. Bandmaster -- P. Rivinac.

Aggregate original enrollment, 841 officers and men. 

The regiment was reorganized at Corinth, March 15, 1862, and reenlisted for two years.

The casualties of the Tenth were 8 killed, including Lieuts. J. F. Moseley and D. W. Owen, 70 wounded and 6 missing.

 Colonel Barr mentioned for conspicuous bravery Sergt, James Franks, Company E; James Bridges, Company H, and Corporal William Clark, Company F, who gallantly carried the colors through the fight with Granger. Also, for gallant conduct: Company A -- First Sergt. P. Bradley, Sergts. L. T. Glaze, J. O. Phillips and Dean, Corporals Collins and Jackson, Privates Cooper, J. P. Walker, A. J. Bradford, J. L. McCarcle and D. Logan. Company B -- First Sergt. F. D. Chaplin, Sergt. Benzell Corporals Douglas, C. Eustis, S. Orr, Privates G. T. Eisele, C. Irvine, James Wright, William Wells, C. Jacquemine, S. W. Griffin. Company C -- Privates William F. Law, Thomas Crayton, William Marrs. Company D -- Privates William Wells, H. Moode, H. K. Bell. Company F -- Sergt. D. O'Brien, Private Barney McCabe, who died within bayonet reach of the enemy. Company G -- Privates L. G. Bullard, N. J. Brown, D. C. Tomkins, J. H. Wright. Company K -- Privates J. M. Prince, M. V. Hopper, Grant Holly, W. C. Lesley, T. L. C. Gresham. Company A -- Captain A. W. Fleming, Lieuts, W. A. Lundy, D. W. C. Smith, J. G. McGowan. Company B -- Capt. R. A. Inge, Lieuts. T. Otis Baker, J. J. Hart, J. J. Gobeau. Company C -- Lieuts. S. B. Jackson, Henry Brown. Company D -- Capt. George Dobson, Lieuts. J. W. File, J. W. Clingan. Company E -- Lieuts. W. F. Harper, T. G. Bean. Company H -- Capt. T. J. Sharp, Lieuts. R. H. L. Ray, P. S. Brown. Company K -- Captain Stewart. The name of A. W. B. Prather, private of Company K, killed, appears in the Roll of Honor.

Battle of Atlanta, July 28, `864. Maj. J. M. Dotson, wounded. Company A -- 3 privates wounded. Company B - -Captain Inge and First Lieut. T. Otis Baker, wounded; 2 killed, 9 wounded. Company C -- Sergt. T. J. Crayton wounded; 2 killed, 7 wounded. Company D -- 2 killed, 8 severely wounded, 3 left on field. Company E -- 6 wounded. Company F -- Capt, W. R. Daniel wounded; 1 killed, 3 wounded. Company G -- Capt. George McDaniel wounded, Sergt. J. L. Beene killed, Sergt. W. P. McDaniel supposed killed; 3 killed, 7 wounded, 3 missing. Company H --- Capt. T. I. Sharp killed, First Lieut. R. H. L. Ray mortally wounded, Second Lieut. P. S. Brown wounded; 3 killed, 9 wounded Company I -- First Lieut. T. L. Boggan mortally wounded, First Sergt. B. F. Ballard and Corporal T. J. Owens severely wounded. Company K -- Capt. W. P. Stewart wounded; 1 killed, 6 wounded, 1 missing. Color bearers -- 1 killed, 5 wounded.

 Lieut.-Col. Sims, of the Forty-fourth, commanded the Tenth; Lieut. J. G. McGowan commanded Companies A and I; Capt. S. B. Watts, Companies B and H; Capt. J. W. Fite, Companies D and G; Capt. S. B. Jackson, Companies C, E, F and K. Lieut.-Col. Sims was severely wounded; Adjutant William French and Ensign S. C. Lindsay, slightly wounded. Jackson was killed, Watts captured, Fite and McGowan wounded. Total casualties, 13 killed, 35 wounded, 14 missing.

The Tenth Regiment was consolidated into three companies, commanded by Capts. John W. Fite, T. Otis Baker and Duncan A. Campbell (Company G). Campbell’s company had 43 members (Rietti's Annals, page 76.)

Brigadier-General Sharp's Brigade included this regiment, also the Eighth Mississippi Battalion, representing the consolidation of Lowrey's Brigade, and the Twenty-fourth Alabama and Nineteenth South Carolina, the consolidation of Manigault's Brigade. This consolidated brigade was surrendered with S. D. Lee's Corps April 26, 1865, and paroled at Greensboro, N.C. There were 64 men of the old Tenth present. May 2, 1865, they left High Point for home, traveling much of the way on foot. Sergeant Rietti, who kept a daily record, said that the regiment marched 3,500 miles on foot and was transported by rail or water 5,000 miles during its service.


 
 
3rd Mississippi Infantry

(from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell’s "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand’)

Company C -- Downing Rifles (raised in Hinds County, MS) [also listed as Co. I] 

Colonels -- John B. Deason, until reorganization; Thomas A. Mellon, wounded at Peachtree Creek; James M. Stigler, Third Consolidated, April, 1865. Lieutenant- Colonels -- Robert Eager, resigned; Thomas A. Mellon, to reorganization; E. A. Peyton, resigned; James B. McRae, resigned; Samuel M. Dyer. Majors -- Thomas A. Mellon, E. A. Peyton, Samuel M. Dyer, W. H. Morgan. Adjutants -- Benjamin Jones, 1861; Junius Poindexter, 1862; Fred S. Hewes, 1864. 

Total original enrollment, 806 officers and men.

This was the Third Regiment, Third Brigade, Army of Mississippi, Charles G. Dahlgren, Brigadier-General, M. R. Clark, Adjutant-General, headquarters Camp Clark, at Shieldsboro. The organization was not completed until other regiments bearing higher numbers, were in the field. The nucleus of the regiment was the Shieldsboro Rifles and Gainesville Volunteers, which Captain Deason reported in camp at Shieldsboro under his command August 1, 1861. The regimental field officers were elected September 25, 1861. Company I was assigned to the regiment October 14, at Pass Christian.

Listed July, 1862, as 35 officers and 476 men present for duty, aggregate present 709, present and absent, 886. In September, in command of Gen. M. L, Smith, Vicksburg, (Col. Mellon), 916 present and absent.

In his report of the battle of Peachtree Creek, General Featherston gave honorable mention to his staff: Capt. C. P. Neilson, Capt. W. G. Poindexter, Lieuts. A. N. Parker and W. G. Sykes.

I Killed, 16 officers, 60 men; wounded, 22 officers, 178 men; missing, 4 Officers, 72 men. December 9, the return of Stewart's Corps was 8155 aggregate present, 2,317 prisoners of war, and an enrollment of 21,052. On that day Featherston's Brigade had. 1,208 present, 781 effective. 

The return of December 21 showed an aggregate present for the Third of 75, 51 effective. At Columbia, December 20, a rear guard of infantry was organized under the command of General Walthall, including Featherston's Mississippians and six other brigades.

April 9 the Third, Thirty-third and Fortieth Mississippi were consolidated as the Third, Col. James M. Stigler commanding. Stewart's Corps, March 17, including the Mississippi brigades of Featherston and Lowry, had 1,349 present, 890 effective.
 


 
 
Company B -- Hinds Light Guards (raised in Hinds County, MS)

Colonels -- Richard Griffith of Jackson, commissioned May 16, 1861, promoted to Brigadier-General; W. H. Taylor; M. B. Harris, wounded and disabled; S. B. Thomas, wounded and captured. Lieutenant-Colonels -- William H. Taylor of Jackson, promoted; Merry B. Harris, promoted; S. B. Thomas, promoted. Majors -- John R. Dickens; William H. Lilly, 1 May, 1862, killed by accident 19 February, 1863; S. B. Thomas, promoted; James R. Bell, 1864. - Adjutant -- W. H. Capers of Claiborne; Sergeant-Major E, H. McCaleb of Claiborne; Surgeon M. S. Craft of Hinds; Assistant Surgeon -- Clark; Commissary John A. Galbraith of Jefferson; Quartermaster -- Bristoe of Yazoo; Chaplain A. A. Lomax of Copiah. (Rietti.)
 

The first battle of the Twelfth was fought as part of Rodes' brigade, after the army had been transferred to Richmond to meet the advance of McClellan from the Peninsula. Under Col. W. H. Taylor they began the attack of Rodes' brigade in the battle of Seven Pines and supported by the Fifth Alabama pressed forward under heavy fire into an abatis, and from there into the Federal rifle pits, where they heroically held their ground between the Confederate and Federal batteries. General Rodes mentioned specially the gallantry of Colonel Taylor, Captain Hastings (Company H) and Sergeant Robert Hall. After General Rodes was wounded in this bloody fight Col. John B. Gordon took command of the brigade. The brigade of four regiments carried 2,200 men into action and lost 241 killed and 853 wounded. The loss of the Twelfth was 41 killed and 152 wounded.
 

The Twelfth was in battle June 27 (Gaines' Mill or Cold Harbor) on Beaver Dam creek and on the Chickahominy near Gaines' house. Under heavy artillery fire they charged up a hill, driving the Federal line through a forest and capturing a battery. Maj. W. H. Lilly, in command, was wounded at the head of his regiment, and Captain Thomas then took command. June 30, in the battle of Glendale or Frazier’s farm, the brigade went into battle at five in the evening and sustained the attack of a large force of the enemy. The casualties of the regiment in the two battles were 34 killed, 186 wounded and 5 missing. Among the killed were Capts. J. Dobbins and J. E. Vawter, and Lieuts. T. W. Crump and W. B. Thomas.

In the second Manassas campaign the brigade was in Wilcox's division of Longstreet's corps. General Wilcox reported the gallant action of the Twelfth and Sixteenth, near Kelly's ford on the Rappahannock, August 21. In the battle of August 30 the brigade had a gallant part fighting in the vicinity of the stone house, and the brigade loss was 26 killed, 142 wounded.

The brigade took part in the capture of Harper's Ferry and the battle of Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862, but there are no official reports of the regiment. The casualties were 6 killed, 53 wounded. (See Sixteenth Regiment.)

In the battle of Fredericksburg, December, 1862, the regiment, under Col. W. H. Taylor, were three days and nights in line of battle, under artillery fire, which caused them the loss of eight men wounded.

When the Federal army began to cross near Fredericksburg and above, the two brigades moved to Chancellorsville, leaving a guard at the ford. From Chancellorsville Anderson withdrew them to the crossing of the old Mine and Plank roads, where they threw up intrenchments and were reinforced.  The loss of the 
regiment was 3 killed, 38 wounded, 23 missing.
 

With the brigade the Twelfth was in line of battle near Hagerstown, a week or more, and then, with the army, fell back into Virginia and behind the Rapidan. From a two months' rest near Orange Courthouse they were called in October to thwart the maneuvers of General Meade. The flank movement of Hill's corps across the Rappahannock was effective, but while the brigade was under the fire of artillery at Bristoe Station, on the 14th, General Posey was mortally wounded.  Many brave men fell in the gallant charge with which the day's work was begun. After the trying quick-time march to Spottsylvania Courthouse, }lay 9, the regiment was in battle at the Po River bridge, but its main fight, one memorable in the annals of America, was with the brigade in the Bloody Angle, May 12-13. The casualties of the regiment May 6-12 were 13 killed, 32 wounded, 13 missing. A casualty report in June showed 10 killed, 20 wounded, 8 missing. Among those wounded and captured were Col. S. B. Thomas, Major Bell, Adjutant Howard McCaleb and Captain Joseph Johnson, of the Twelfth. In August, up to and including this battle, the regiment reported 4 killed, 26 wounded, 63 missing.
 


 
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Overall Confederate Army 
States/ Territories rank by total men recruited for the war: 
(44 States and Territories)

Total number of men recruited......................103,414
Percentage of combined total in military.....2.7% 
Overall rank...................................................13
Number of Actions in Mississippi..... 772 

Date/Order of Secession:
January 9, 1861...2nd

P.O.W. CAMPS:
Confederate
Fort Massachusetts (Ship Island)
Jackson (Bridge Prison)
Meridian

Union Service: 
(43 States and Territories) 

Total number of men recruited.........18,414
Percentage of Union Army...................0.7%
Percentage of state's population.........2.3%
Overall rank..........................................24 
Union Army deaths:
Killed/Mortally Wounded....... 3 
Disease................................. 66 
Accidents/Drowning............... 1 
Murdered............................... 1 
Known/Not Classified............. 4 
Unknown................................ 3 
Total..................................... 78
 Confederate Service:
(15 States and Territories)
Total number of men furnished...............85,000
Percentage of Confederate Army...............8.2%
Overall rank (15 States/Territories)................6
Percentage of the South's population......10.7%
Overall rank..................................................3
Regiments of foreign-born soldiers:
None 

Battle Deaths
Killed: 

Officers........122
Enlisted.....5,685 
Died of Wounds:
Officers..........75
Enlisted.....2,576 
Total........ 8,458 

Disease Deaths
Officers.........103
Enlisted......6,704
Total...........6,807

State Military Units:
Artillery.............. 2 regiments/ 13 companies/ 12 batteries 
Cavalry............. 55 regiments/ 21 battalions/ 29 companies 
Infantry.............. 95 regiments/ 18 battalions/ 7 companies 
Engineer........... 1 regiment/ 1 corps
Sharpshooter... 3 battalions 

 
 
 

   
 

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