Mississippi Civil War Infantry Confederate Units

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The information in this list of Mississippi Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site (CWSS). That web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.

1st Units

• 1st Battalion, Mississippi Infantry
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 1st Battalion, Mississippi Infantry (Army of 10,000) (Beckett's)
  September 1861 - the call for 10,000 volunteers.
  
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 1st Battalion, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (30 days, 1864)
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 1st Battalion, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (12 months, 1862-63)
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 1st Battalion Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Harper's) (Minute Men)
  Organized under order of Major General T.C. Tupper.
  
  
• 1st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (Johnston's)
  Organization at Corinth, Mississippi, during the spring of 1861. 
  Surrendered in April, 1865. 
  Commanded by Colonels Thomas H. Johnston and John M. Sumonton, Lieutenant Colonel A.S. Hamilton, and Major M.S. Alcorn.
  
  
• 1st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (Patton's) (Army of 10,000) 
  [Formerly 5th Regiment]
  September 1861 - the call for 10,000 volunteers.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 1st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (Percy's) (Army of 10,000)
  September 1861 - the call for 10,000 volunteers.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 1st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (1864)
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 1st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Foote's)
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 1st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (King's) (Minute Men)
  Organized at July 31, 1862 at Grenada as a unit of the Minute Men under order of Major General T.C. Tupper.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  

2nd Units

• 2nd Battalion, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Jackson, Mississippi the summer of 1861 with five companies, later increased to six. 
  Additional companies joined November 1862 and it became the 48th Mississippi Regiment. 
  Commanded by Lieutenant Colonels Thomas B. Manlove, John G. Taylor, and William S. Wilson.
  
  
• 2nd Battalion, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Cook's) (Minute Men)
  Organized under order of Major General T.C. Tupper.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 2nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry 
  Organized at Corinth, Mississippi in April, 1861. 
  Mustered in at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
  Commanded by Colonels William C. Falkner and John M. Stone; Lieutenant Colonels John A. Blair, Bartley B. Boone, and D.W. Humphreys; and Major John H. Buchanan.
  
  
• 2nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (Bartlett's) (Army of 10,000)
  September 1861 - the call for 10,000 volunteers.
  
  
• 2nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (Davidson's) (Army of 10,000)
  September 1861 - the call for 10,000 volunteers.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 2nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (30 days, 1864)
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 2nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Quinn's) (Minute Men)
  Organized 11 August 1862, at Camp Tupper, Hinds County under order of Major General T.C. Tupper.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
• 3rd Battalion, Mississippi Infantry
  3rd (Williams') Infantry Battalion, formerly the 45th Mississippi Regiment, was organized July, 1864 with five companies.
  Surrendered April 26, 1865. 
  Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John D. Williams and Major Elisha F. Nunn. 
  
  
• 3rd Battalion, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Burgin's) (Minute Men)
  Organized under order of Major General T.C. Tupper.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 3rd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized in the spring of 1861 at Enterprise, Mississippi.
  Commanded byColonels John B. Deason and Thomas A. Mellon; Lieutenant Colonels Samuel M. Dyer, Robert Eager, James B. McRae, and E.A. Peyton; and Major William H. Morgan.
  
  
• 3rd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (Army of 10,000) (Rozell's)
  September 28, 1861, Governor Pettus called for 10,000 volunteers.
  
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 3rd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Owens') (Minute Men)
  Organized August 7, 1862 as a unit of the Minute Men under order of Major General T.C. Tupperand and stationed at Grenada.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 4th Battalion, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Postlethwait's) (Minute Men)
  Organized 23 October 1862.
  
  
• 4th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Grenada, Mississippi in April, 1861.
  Surrendered in May, 1865. 
  Commanded by Colonels Thomas N. Adaire, Joseph Drake, and Pierre S. Layton; Lieutenant Colonel Joseph J. Gee, and Major Thomas P. Nelson.
  
  
• 4th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Bromley's) (Minute Men)
  Organized August 25, 1862 as a unit of the Minute Men under the order of Major General T. C. Tupper.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 5th Battalion, Mississippi Infantry"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 5th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized in the spring of 1861.
  Surrendered on April 26, 1865.
  Commanded by Colonels John R. Dickins, Albert E. Fant, and John Weir; Lieutenant Colonels Samuel F.M. Faucett, John B. Herring, A.T. Stennis, and W.L. Sykes; and Major James R. Moore.
  
  
• 5th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (Robinson's) (Minute Men)
  Organized May 1862 under order of Major General T.C. Tupper.
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 6th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry [Also known as 7th Regiment]
  Assembled at Jackson, Mississippi, in February, 1861. 
  Surrendered on April 26, 1865.
  Commanded by Colonels Robert Lowry and John J. Thornton; Lieutenant Colonels R.R. Bennett, Thomas J. Borden, and A.Y. Harper; and Majors W.T. Hendon and J.R. Stevens.
  
  
• 6th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops)
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 7th Congressional District, Mississippi
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 7th Battalion, Mississippi Infantry (Terral's)
  Organized during the early spring of 1862 near Quitman, Mississippi.
  Surrendered in May 1865. 
  Commanded by Lieutenant Colonels L. B. Pardue and James S. Terral, and Major Joel E. Welborn.
  
  
• 7th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in April, 1861. 
  Briefly consolidated with the 9th Mississippi Regiment in December, 1863.
  Surrendered on April 26, 1865.
  Commanded by Colonels William H. Bishop, E.J. Goode, Hamilton Mayson, and A.G. Mills; Lieutenant Colonels R.S. Carter and Benjamin F. Johns; and Major Henry Pope.
  
  
• 8th Battalion, Mississippi Infantry [Also called 9th Battalion, Mississippi Sharpshooters / Chalmer's Sharpshooters]
  
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 8th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Enterprize, Mississippi, during the spring of 1861.
  Surrendered on April 26, 1865.
  Commanded by Colonels G.C. Chandler, Guilford G. Flynt, and John C. Wilkinson; Lieutenant Colonels James T. Gates, Aden McNeill, and John F. Smith; and Majors Andrew E. Moody, George F. Peek, and William Watkins.
  
  
• 9th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in March, 1861.
  Briefly consolidated with the 7th Mississippi Regiment in December, 1863.
  Commanded by Colonels James L. Autry, James R. Chalmers, W.C. Richards, and Thomas W. White; Lieutenant Colonels S.S. Calhoun, Thomas H. Lynam, William A. Rankin, and F. Eugene Whitfield; and Majors Albert R. Bowdre, J.M. Hicks, Andrew G. Mills, and J.E. White.
  
  
• 10th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  "Organized in April, 1861, at Jackson, Mississippi.
  Surrendered on April 26, 1865. Commanded by Colonels James Barr, Jr., Seaborne M. Phillips, Robert A. Smith, and James M. Walker; Lieutenant Colonels J.G. Bullard, Joseph R. Davis, and George B. Myers; and Majors James M. Dotson and Edward H. Gregory.
  
  
• 11th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in May, 1861.
  Mustered into Confederate service at Lynchburg, Virginia.
  Commanded by Colonels F.M. Green, Philip F. Liddell, William H. Moore, and Reuben O. Reynolds; Lieutenant Colonels Samuel F. Butler, William B. Lowry, and George W. Shannon; and Majors T.S. Evans and Alexander H. Franklin.
  
  
• 12th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Assembled at Corinth, Mississippi, in May, 1861. 
  Commanded by Colonels Richard Griffith, Merry B. Harris, Henry Hughes, and William H. Taylor; Lieutenant Colonel Samuel B. Thomas; and Majors James R. Bell, John R. Dickins, and W.H. Lilly.
  
  
• 13th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in May, 1861.
  Surrendered on April 9, 1865. 
  Commanded by Colonels William Barksdale, James W. Carter, and Kennon McElroy; Lieutenant Colonels John M. Bradley, Alfred G. O'Brien, and M. Whitaker; and Majors George L. Donald and Isham Harrison.
  
  
• 14th Consolidated Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
  
• 14th Battalion, Mississippi Light Artillery
  Organized early in 1863 by consolidating three batteries of light artillery. 
  Major Matthew S. Ward was in command.
  
  
• 14th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry [Also known as Beauregard Rifles] 
  Organized at Jackson, Mississippi, in October, 1861.
  Commanded by Colonels George W. Abert, William E. Baldwin, and Washington L. Doss, and Lieutenant Colonels Robert J. Lawrence and M.E. Norris.
  
  
• 15th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Choctaw, Mississippi, in May, 1861.
  Surrendered in April 1865. 
  Commanded by Colonels Michael Farrell and Winfield S. Statham; Lieutenant Colonels James R. Binford, J.W. Hemphill, and Edward C. Walthall; and Majors William F. Brantly, James B. Dennis, Russell G. Prewitt, and Lamkin S. Terry.
  
  
• 15th Consolidated Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.
  
• 16th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in June, 1861.
  Surrendered  April 9, 1865. 
  Commanded by field officers were Colonels Samuel E. Baker, Edward C. Councill, and Carnot Posey; Lieutenant Colonels Seneca M. Bain, Robert Clarke, Abram M. Feltus, and James J. Shannon; and Majors Jeff. Bankston and Thomas R. Stockdale.
  
  
• 17th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in June, 1861 and soon moved to Virginia.
  Commanded by Colonels Winfield S. Featherston, John C. Fixer, and William D. Holder; Lieutenant Colonel John McGuirk; and Majors William L. Duff, John M. Lyles, and Edward W. Upshaw.
  
  
• 18th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized in June, 1861, at Corinth, Mississippi.
  Commanded by Colonels E.R. Burt and Thomas M. Griffin; Lieutenant Colonel Walter G. Kearney and William H. Luse; and Majors John W. Balfour, James C. Campbell, G.B. Gerald, and E.G. Henry.
  
  
• 19th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized at Oxford, Mississippi, in May, 1861, and soon moved to Virginia.
  Surrendered April 9, 1865. 
  Commanded by Colonels Thomas J. Hardin, Nathaniel H. Harris, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, Christopher H. Mott, John Mullins, Richard W. Phipps, and Ward G. Vaughan; Lieutenant Colonel James H. Duncan; and Majors Ben. Allston, Robert A. Dean, Thomas R. Reading, and Abner Smead.
  
  
• 20th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
  Organized during the late summer of 1861.
  Surrendered on April 26, 1865. 
  Commanded by Colonels William N. Brown and D.R. Russell; Lieutenant Colonels D.H. Maury, Horace H. Miller, and Walter A. Rorer; and Majors William M. Chatfield, Thomas B. Graham, and C.K. Massey.