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This is a list of Mississippi Civil War Confederate Units, or military units from the state of Mississippi which fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

Confederate Army

Infantry

  • 1st (Johnston's) Infantry
  • 1st (Patton's) Infantry (Army of 10,000)
  • 1st (Percy's) Infantry (Army of 10,000)
  • 2nd Infantry
  • 2nd (Davidson's) Infantry (Army of 10,000)
  • 2nd Mississippi Infantry (Army of 10,000)
  • 3rd Infantry
  • 3rd Infantry (Army of 10,000)
  • 4th Infantry
  • 5th Infantry
  • 6th Infantry
  • 7th Infantry
  • 8th Infantry
  • 9th Infantry
  • 10th Infantry
Flag of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
  • 11th Infantry
  • 12th Infantry
  • 13th Infantry
  • 14th (Consolidated) Infantry
  • 14th Infantry
  • 15th (Consolidated) Infantry
  • 15th Infantry
  • 16th Infantry
  • 17th Infantry
  • 18th Infantry
  • 19th Infantry[1]
  • 20th Infantry
  • 21st Infantry
  • 22nd Infantry
  • 23rd Infantry
  • 24th Infantry
  • 25th Infantry (2nd Confederate)
  • 26th Infantry
  • 27th Infantry
  • 29th Infantry
  • 30th Infantry
  • 31st Infantry
  • 32nd Infantry
  • 33rd Infantry
  • 34th Infantry
  • 35th Infantry
  • 36th Infantry
  • 37th Infantry
  • 39th Infantry
  • 40th Infantry
  • 41st Infantry
  • 42nd Infantry[2]
  • 43rd Infantry
  • 44th Infantry
  • 45th Infantry
  • 46th Infantry
  • 48th Infantry
  • 1st Battalion, Infantry (Army of 10,000)
  • 2nd Battalion, Infantry
  • 3rd Battalion, Infantry
  • 5th Battalion, Infantry
  • 7th Battalion, Infantry
  • 8th Battalion, Infantry
  • 37th Battalion, Infantry
  • Comfort's Company, Infantry
  • Cooper's Company, Infantry
  • Lewis' Company, Infantry
  • Red's Company, Infantry (Red Rebels)

Sharpshooters

  • 1st Battalion, Sharp Shooters
  • 9th Battalion Sharp Shooters
  • 15th Battalion, Sharp Shooters

Cavalry

  • Jeff Davis Legion
  • 1st (Wirt Adams's/Wood's) Cavalry
  • 1st (Lindsay's/Pinson's) Cavalry
  • 2nd Cavalry
  • 3rd (McGuirk's) Cavalry[3]
  • 4th Cavalry
  • 5th Cavalry
  • 6th Cavalry
  • 7th Cavalry
  • 8th Cavalry
  • 9th Cavalry
  • 10th Cavalry
  • 11th (Ashcraft's) Cavalry
  • 11th (Consolidated) Cavalry
  • 11th (Perrin's) Cavalry[4]
  • 12th Cavalry
  • 18th Cavalry
  • 28th Cavalry
  • 38th Cavalry
  • Ham's Regiment, Cavalry
  • Power's Regiment, Cavalry
  • Yerger's Regiment, Cavalry
  • 1st (Miller's) Battalion, Cavalry
  • 3rd (Ashcraft's) Battalion, Cavalry
  • 4th Battalion, Cavalry
  • 6th Battalion, Cavalry
  • 17th Battalion, Cavalry
  • 24th Battalion, Cavalry
  • Garland's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Hughes' Battalion, Cavalry
  • Stockdale's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Street's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Abbott's Company, Cavalry
  • Bowen's Company (Chulahoma Cavalry)
  • Buck's Company, Cavalry
  • Duncan's Company (Tishomingo Rangers), Cavalry
  • Dunn's Company (Mississippi Rangers), Cavalry
  • Garley's Company (Yazoo Rangers), Cavalry
  • Gibson's Company, Cavalry
  • Hamer's Company (Salem Cavalry)
  • Knox's Company (Stonewall Rangers), Cavalry
  • Polk's Independent Company (Polk Rangers), Cavalry
  • Russell's Company, Cavalry
  • Semple's Company, Cavalry
  • Shelby's Company (Bolivar Greys), Cavalry
  • Vivion's Company, Cavalry
  • William's Company, Cavalry

American Indian battalion

Artillery

  • 1st Light Artillery Regiment
  • 14th Battalion, Light Artillery
  • Bradford's Company (Confederate Guards Artillery)
  • Byrne's Battery, Artillery
  • Cook's Company, Horse Artillery
  • Cowan's Battery, Co. G, 1st Miss. Light Artillery Regiment
  • Culbertson's Battery, Light Artillery
  • Darden's Battery, Light Artillery (Jefferson Flying Artillery)
  • English's Company, Light Artillery
  • Graves' Company, Light Artillery (Issaquena Artillery)
  • Hoskins' Battery, Light Artillery (Brookhaven Light Artillery)
  • Kittrell's Company (Wesson Artillery), Artillery
  • Lomax's Company, Light Artillery
  • Merrin's Battery, Light Artillery
  • Pettus Flying Artillery, Light Artillery a/k/a Hudson's Battery and later sometimes Hoole's Battery
  • Richards' Company, Light Artillery (Madison Light Artillery)
  • Roberts' Company (Seven Stars Artillery), Artillery
  • Stanford's Company, Light Artillery
  • Swett's Company, Light Artillery (Warren Light Artillery)
  • Smith's/Turner's Battery, Light Artillery
  • Yates' Battery, Light Artillery

Militia

  • 4th Cavalry, Militia
  • Hinds County Militia

State Troops

Infantry

  • 1st Infantry, State Troops, 1864
  • 1st (Foote's) Infantry (State Troops)
  • 1st (King's) Infantry (State Troops)
  • 2nd (Quinn's) Infantry (State Troops)
  • 2nd Infantry, State Troops, 30 days, 1864
  • 3rd Infantry (State Troops)
  • 4th Infantry (State Troops)
  • 5th Infantry (State Troops)
  • 1st Battalion, State Troops, Infantry, 12 months, 1862–63
  • 1st Battalion, State Troops, Infantry, 30 days, 1864
  • 2nd Battalion, Infantry (State Troops)
  • 3rd Battalion, Infantry (State Troops)

Cavalry

  • 2nd State Cavalry
  • 1st (McNair's) Battalion, Cavalry (State Troops)
  • 1st (Montgomery's) Battalion, Cavalry (State Troops)
  • 2nd (Harris') Battalion, State Cavalry
  • 3rd (Cooper's) Battalion, State Cavalry
  • Davenport's Battalion, Cavalry (State Troops)
  • Stubb's Battalion, State Cavalry
  • Gamblin's Company, Cavalry (State Troops)
  • Grace's Company, Cavalry (State Troops)

Reserves

  • 3rd Battalion, Reserves

Infantry

  • Berry's Company, Infantry (Reserves)

Cavalry

  • 1st Cavalry Reserves
  • 2nd Cavalry Reserves
  • 3rd Cavalry Reserves
  • 2nd Battalion Cavalry Reserves
  • 3rd Battalion, Cavalry Reserves
  • Butler's Company, Cavalry Reserves
  • Mitchell's Company, Cavalry Reserves

Partisans

  • 1st Regiment, Partisan Rangers
  • 2nd (Ballentine's) Regiment, Partisan Rangers
  • Armistead's Company, Partisan Rangers
  • Rhodes' Company, Partisan Rangers, Cavalry
  • Smyth's Company, Partisan Rangers

Misc

  • Adair's Company (Lodi Company)
  • Adam's Company (Holmes County Independent)
  • Applewhite's Company (Vaiden Guards)
  • Barnes' Company of Home Guards
  • Barr's Company
  • Brown's Company (Foster Creek Rangers), Cavalry
  • Burt's Independent Company (Dixie Guards)
  • Camp Guard (Camp of Instruction for Conscripts)
  • Clayton's Company (Jasper Defenders)
  • Conscripts, Mississippi
  • Drane's Company (Choctaw County Reserves), Cavalry
  • Drane's Company (Choctaw Silver Greys)
  • Fant's Company
  • Foote's Company, Mounted Men
  • Gage's Company
  • Gage's Company (Wigfall Guards)
  • Gordon's Company (Local Guard of Wilkinson County)
  • Grave's Company (Copiah Horse Guards)
  • Griffin's Company (Madison Guards)
  • Hall's Company
  • Henley's Company (Henley's Invincibles)
  • Hightower's Company
  • Hudson's Company (Noxubee Guards)
  • Maxey's Company, Mounted Infantry (State Troops)
  • McCord's Company (Slate Springs Company)
  • McLelland's Company (Noxubee Home Guards)
  • Miscellaneous, Mississippi (Mississippi)
  • Montgomery's Company of Scouts
  • Montgomery's Independent Company (State Troops) (Herndon Rangers)
  • Montgomery's Company
  • Moore's Company (Palo Alto Guards)
  • Morgan's Company (Morgan Riflemen)
  • Morphis' Independent Company of Scouts
  • Moseley's Regiment
  • Nash's Company (Leake Rangers)
  • Packer's Company (Pope Guards)
  • Page's Company (Lexington Guards)
  • Roach's Company (Tippah Scouts)
  • Roger's Company
  • Shield's Company
  • Standefer's Company
  • Stewart's Company (Yalobusha Rangers)
  • Taylor's Company (Boomerangs)
  • Terrell's Unattached Company, Cavalry
  • Terry's Company
  • Walsh's Company (Muckalusha Guards)
  • Wilkinson County Minute Men
  • Williams' Company (Gray Port Greys)
  • William's Company
  • Wilson's Company (Ponticola Guards)
  • Wilson's Independent Company, Mounted Men (Neshoba Rangers)
  • Withers' Company, Reserve Corps

State Troops

  • Blythe's Battalion (State Troops)
  • Gillenland's Battalion (State Troops)
  • Grace's Company (State Troops)
  • Maxwell's Company (State Troops) (Peach Creek Rangers)
  • Patton's Company (State Troops)
  • Perrin's Battalion, State Cavalry[5]
  • Red's Company (State Troops)
  • Stricklin's Company (State Troops)
  • Yerger's Company (State Troops)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Sifakis 1995, pp. 104-105
  2. ^ Sifakis 1995, pp. 133-134
  3. ^ Sifakis 1995, pp. 41-42
  4. ^ Sifakis 1995, p. 47
  5. ^ Sifakis 1995, p. 63

References

  • Sifakis, Stewart (1995). Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Mississippi. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 0-8160-2292-5.