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The information in this list of Mississippi Military Units comes from the [https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm Civil War Soldiers and Sailors] web site (CWSS). That web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.  

*[[1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (State Troops)|1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (State Troops) (Ham's)]]<br>[Also known as Ham's Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry / 16th Battalion State Cavalry]<br>Organized May 18, 1863 at Guntown. <br>Re-inlisted in early 1864 in the State service and transferred in May to the Confederate States service.<br>"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<br>

*[[1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves (Denis')|1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves (Denis')]]<br>[Also known as 1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry Denis']<br> Commanded by Colonel Jules C. Denis, Lieutenant-Colonel D. W. Metts, and Major J. F. Meston.<br>

*[[1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry (Lindsay's) (Pinson's)]]<br>Assembled during the spring of 1862. <br>Surrendered in May, 1865. <br>Commanded by Colonel R.A. Pinson, Lieutenant Colonel F.A. Montgomery, and Majors John S. Simmons and E.G. Wheeler.<br>

*[[1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves|1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves (Denis')]], <br>[Also known as 1st Battalion Mississippi Cavalry Reserves (Denis')].<br> Commanded by Colonel Jules C. Denis, Lieutenant-Colonel D. W. Metts, and Major J. F. Meston.<br>"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<br>

*[[2nd Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|2nd Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]] [Also known as 4th and 42nd Regiment] <br>Organized during the spring of 1863. <br>Formerly the 47th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, which never completed its organization. <br>Commanded by Colonels Edward Dillon and J.L. McCarty, Lieutenant Colonel James Gordon, and Majors J.L. Harris and John J. Perry.<br>

*[[2nd Regiment, Mississippi State Cavalry|2nd Regiment, Mississippi State Cavalry (Smith’s) (Lowry’)]] [Also called 6th MS State Cavalry]<br>Organized April 1863 to state service.<br>Transferred to confederate service in May 1864.<br>Consolidated March 20, 1865 with Ashcroft's, Ham's, and Lowry's Cavalry Regiment.<br>Commanded by Colonels J.P. Smith of State troops, William L. Lowry, of Confederate States troops, Lieutenant-Colonels William L. Lowry, Joseph A. Johnson. Major L.L. Marshall.<br>"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<br>

*[[3rd Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (Ashcraft's)|3rd Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (Ashcraft's)]]<br>Organized May, 1864, with eight companies.<br>Formed by consolidating the 2nd and 3rd Battalions State Cavalry. <br>Surrendered in May, 1865. <br>Commanded by Colonel Thomas C. Ashcraft, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Harris, and Major E.L. Hawkins.<br>

*[[3rd Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|3rd Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>Organized during the spring of 1863 as the 3rd Mississippi State Cavalry . <br>Mustered into Confederate service in April, 1864. <br>Commanded by Colonel John McGuirk, Lieutenant Colonel H.H. Barksdale, and Major Thomas W. Webb.<br>

*[[4th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|4th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>4th Cavalry Regiment [also called 4th Battalion]<br>Organized during the fall of 1862 by consolidating Hughes' and Stockdale's Mississippi Cavalry Battalions. <br>Commanded by Colonel C.C. Wilbourn, Lieutenant Colonels Cornelius McLaurin and Thomas R. Stockdale, and Major James M. Norman. <br>

:Associated unit:<br>19th (George's) Cavalry Battalion, organized during the late summer of 1863. <br>Disbanded early in 1864. <br>Some members joined the 5th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. <br>Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James Z. George was its commander.<br>

*[[6th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|6th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>Organized late in 1863. <br>Mustered into Confederate service in January 1864. <br>Consolidated with the 8th Mississippi Cavalry in February 1865.<br>Surrendered in May 1865. <br>Commanded by Colonel Isham Harrison, Lieutenant Colonels Thomas C. Lipscomb and Thomas M. Nelson, and Major R.G. Brown. <br>

*[[7th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|7th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]] [Also known as 1st Partisan Rangers]<br>Organized during the early summer of 1862.<br>Surrendered on May 4,1865. <br>Commanded by Colonels William C. Falkner and Samuel M. Hyams, Jr., Lieutenant Colonels L.B. Hovis and James M. Park, and Majors W.L. Davis and William N. Stansell. <br>

*[[8th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|8th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]] [Also called the 19th Regiment or Battalion]<br>Formed in July, 1864, by consolidating the six-company 19th Battalion Mississippi Cavalry and four companies raised behind Federal lines. <br>Consolidated with the 6th Mississippi Cavalry in February 1865. <br>Surrendered in May. <br>Commanded by Colonel William L. Duff, Lieutenant Colonel William L. Walker, and Major Thomas A. Mitchell.

:Predecessor unit:<br>19th (Duff's) Cavalry Battalion organized during the late summer of 1863 with six companies. <br>Merged into the 8th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment on July 19, 1864. <br>Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel William L. Duff and Major William L. Walker.<br>

*[[9th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|9th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>Formed in December, 1864 by consolidating the 17th Mississippi and 17th Tennessee Cavalry Battalions. <br>Surrendered in May, 1865. <br>Commanded by Colonel Horace H. Miller, Lieutenant Colonel Abner C. Steede, and Major E.J. Sanders. <br>

*[[11th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|11th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>Formed during the spring of 1864 using Perrin's Battalion State Cavalry as its nucleus. <br>Surrendered on May 4, 1865. <br>Commanded by Colonel Robert O. Perrin, Lieutenant Colonel H.L. Muldrow, and Major Abner Reed. <br>

*[[12th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|12th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]] [Also called 16th Confederate Cavalry] <br>Organized during the summer of 1863. <br>Commanded by Colonel C.G. Armistead, Lieutenant Colonel Philip B. Spence, and Major William Yerger, Jr. <br>

*[[18th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|18th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]] [Also called 18th Regiment] <br>Organized during the late fall of 1862 with eight companies. <br>Commanded by Colonel Alex. H. Chalmers, Lieutenant Colonel J. Waverly Smith, and Major William R. Mitchell. <br>

*[[24th Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (Moorman's)|24th Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (Moorman's)]]<br>Crute's compendium contains no history for this unit. See Moorman's Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry. <br>

*[[38th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|38th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>Formed during the summer of 1862. <br>Surrendered in May, 1865. <br>Commanded by Colonels Fleming W. Adams and Preston Brent, Lieutenant Colonel Walter L. Keirn, and Majors Franklin W. Foxworth and R.C. McCay. <br>

*[[Adams' Company, Mississippi (Holmes County Independent)|Adams' Company, Mississippi (Holmes County Independent)]] <br>Wirt Adams' Cavalry Regiment [also called 1st Mississippi Cavalry] was organized during the summer of 1861. <br>Mustered into Confederate service at Jackson, Mississippi.<br>Surrendered in May, 1865. <br>Commanded by Colonels Wirt Adams and Robert C. Wood, Jr.; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lewers; and Majors Stephen B. Cleveland, James Hagan, and Isaac F. Harrison.<br>

*[[Ashby's Company, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves|Ashby's Company, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves]]<br>"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<br>

 

*Ballentine's, see [[2nd Regiment, Mississippi Partisans|2nd Regiment, Mississippi Partisans (2nd Partisan Rangers Cavalry)]]<br>

*Denis', see [[1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves (Denis')|1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves]] also [[1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves|1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves]]<br>

*[[English's Company, Mississippi Light Artillery|English's Company, Mississippi Light Artillery]]<br>Quitman Light Artillery was organized in Quitman County, Mississippi, during May, 1862. <br>Captured in July 1863 and after the exchange it was not reorganized. <br>Commanded by Richard T. English and William S. Lovell.<br>

*[[Ham's Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|Ham's Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>Oganized in May, 1864, by transferring the 16th Mississippi State Cavalry along with a number of state companies to regular service. <br>Surrendered on May 4, 1865. <br>Commanded by Colonel T.W. Ham, Lieutenant Colonel William P. Curlee, and Major George W. Bynum.<br>

*Ham's, see also [[1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (State Troops)|1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (State Troops)]]<br>

*Harris's, see also [[2nd Battalion, Mississippi State Cavalry (Harris's)|2nd Battalion, Mississippi State Cavalry]]<br>

*[[Jeff Davis Legion, Mississippi Cavalry|Jeff Davis Legion, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>Organized in January, 1862, using the 2nd Mississippi Cavalry Battalion as its nucleus.<br>Commanded by Colonel William T. Martin, Lieutenant Colonels William G. Conner and J. Fred. Waring, and Major Ivey F. Lewis and W.M. Stone.<br>

:2nd Cavalry Battalion was organized at Manassas, Virginia, in October, 1861.<br>Merged into the Jeff. Davis Mississippi Cavalry Legion in January, 1862.<br>Commanded by Major William T. Martin.<br>

*Lindsay's, see [[1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry (Pinson's)]]<br>

 

*Lowry's, see [[2nd Regiment, Mississippi State Cavalry|2nd Regiment, Mississippi State Cavalry (Smith’s) [also called 6th MS State Cavalry]]]<br>

*Miller's, see [[1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry (Miller's)|1st Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>

*[[Mitchell's Company, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves|Mitchell's Company, Mississippi Cavalry Reserves]]<br>"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<br>

 

*Moorman's see, [[24th_Battalion,_Mississippi_Cavalry_(Moorman's)|24th Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry]]<br>

*Pinson's, see [[1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry|1st Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry (Lindsay's)]]<br>

*[[Shelby's Company, Mississippi Cavalry (Bolivar Greys)|Shelby's Company, Mississippi Cavalry (Bolivar Greys)]]<br>"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<br>

 

*Smith's, see [[2nd_Regiment,_Mississippi_State_Cavalry|2nd Regiment, Mississippi State Cavalry (Lowry’s) [also called 6th MS State Cavalry]]]<br>

*[[Stubbs' Battalion, Mississippi State Cavalry|Stubbs' Battalion, Mississippi State Cavalry]]<br>"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<br>