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 === Brief History  ===
-th Infantry Regiment was organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in May, 1861, and mustered into Confederate service at Lynchburg, Virginia. Its companies were recruited into Confederate service at Lynchburg, Virginia. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Neshoba, Yazoo, Monroe, Coahome, Noxubee, Chickasaw, Lowndes, Lamar, Carroll, and Lafayette. The commanders were 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.
+th Infantry Regiment was organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in May, 1861, and mustered into Confederate service at Lynchburg, Virginia. Its companies were recruited into Confederate service at Lynchburg, Virginia. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Neshoba, Yazoo, Monroe, Coahome, Noxubee, Chickasaw, Lowndes, Lamar, Carroll, and Lafayette. The commanders were 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. <ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System] (accessed 11 January 2011)</ref>
 *The [http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/11th_MS_Inf.htm 11th Mississippi Infantry] Internet site has a longer history taken from Dunbar Rowland's Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898. <br><br>
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 Company A - University Greys (raised in [[Lafayette County, Mississippi#Military|Lafayette County]]) [Cosmopolitan rank &amp; file] <br>Company B - Coahoma Invincibles (raised in [[Coahoma County, Mississippi#Military|Coahoma County]])<br>Company C - Prairie Rifles, aka Prairie Rifleman (raised in [[Chickasaw County, Mississippi#Military|Chickasaw County]])<br>Company D - Neshoba Rifles, aka Neshoba Riflemen (raised in [[Neshoba County, Mississippi#Military|Neshoba County]])<br>Company E - Prairie Guards (raised in [[Lowndes County, Mississippi#Military|Lowndes County]])<br>Company F - Noxubee Rifles (raised in [[Noxubee County, Mississippi#Military|Noxubee County]]) See [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msnoxube/riflenames.html Roster]<br>Company G - Lamar Rifles (raised in [[Lafayette County, Mississippi#Military|Lafayette County]])<br>Company H - Chickasaw Guards (raised in [[Chickasaw County, Mississippi#Military|Chickasaw County]])<br>Company I - Van Dorn Reserve (raised in [[Monroe County, Mississippi#Military|Monroe County]])<br>Company K - Carroll County Rifles (raised in [[Carroll County, Mississippi#Military|Carroll County]])
-=== Source Material  ===
+=== Other Source  ===
+*[[Beginning United States Civil War Research|Beginning United States Civil War Research]] gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier. It covers the major records that should be used. Additional records are described in ‘Mississippi in the Civil War’ and ‘United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865’ (see below).<br>
+*National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], is searchable by soldier's name and state. It contains basic facts about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, a list of regiments, descriptions of significant battles, sources of the information, and suggestions for where to find additional information. <br>
+*[[Mississippi in the Civil War|Mississippi in the Civil War]] describes many Confederate and Union sources, specifically for Mississippi, and how to find them.. These include compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc. <br>
+*[[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865]] describes and explains United States and Confederate States records, rather than state records, and how to find them. These include veterans’ censuses, compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc. <br>
-*[http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System ]can be searched by soldier's name or by regiment; includes regimental rosters and additional history of the regiment. <br><br>
 *Rowland, Dunbar, ''Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898: taken from the Official and statistical register of the State of Mississippi, 1908 (''Spartanburg, South Carolina: Reprint Company). <br><br>
 *Howell, H. Grady, ''For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand!: A Muster Listing of All Known Mississippi Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines (''Chickasaw Bayou Press, 1998).<br>
+=== Reference ===
+<references />
 [[Category:Mississippi_-_Military_-_Civil_War,_1861-1865]]