List of Mississippi Civil War Confederate units

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. The list of Union Mississippi units is shown separately.

Main article: Mississippi in the American Civil War

Confederate Army

Infantry
Two unidentified soldiers in early war Mississippi uniforms with muskets and bayonets
Corporal L. Purnell of Co. I, 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
  • 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
    Private Henry Augustus Moore of Co. F, 15th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
  • 15th Infantry
  • 16th Infantry
    Private Silas A. Shirley of Co. H, 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
  • 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
Sergeant John E. Barlow of 2nd Co. M, 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
  • 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. Organized 3/1/1863 from 1st (Falkner's) Regiment, Partisan Rangers (see below).
  • 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
Bust of Col. William T. Withers at Vicksburg National Military Park
Monument for 1st Mississippi Light Artillery, Company E at Vicksburg National Military Park
  • 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 (Falkner's) Regiment, Partisan Rangers. Organized in April 1862; temporarily disbanded 11/15/1862. Reorganized 3/1/1863 as 7th Mississippi Cavalry (see above).
  • 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 978-0-8160-2291-5.
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