19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
Active 1861–1865
Disbanded April 12, 1865
Country  Confederate States
Allegiance  Mississippi
Branch  Confederate States Army
Type Infantry
Size Regiment
Part of Harris' Brigade
Nickname(s) "Nineteenth Mississippi"
Facings Light blue
Arms Enfield rifled muskets
Engagements

American Civil War

Battle honors
Commanders
Commanding officers

The 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (also known as the "Nineteenth Mississippi") was an infantry formation in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, and was successively commanded by Colonels Christopher Mott, Lucius Lamar, Nathaniel Harris, Thomas Hardin, and Richard Phipps.[1][2]

History

The Nineteenth Mississippi was organized on June 1, 1861, in the Mississippi Volunteers from the counties of Noxubee, Lafayette, Warren, Jefferson, Tippah, Marshall, and Itawamba.[3] It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Cold Harbor, then served in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment lost 15 killed and 85 wounded of the 501 engaged at Williamsburg, had 58 killed, 264 wounded, and three missing at Gaines' Mill and Frayser's Farm, and had six killed and 52 wounded in the Maryland Campaign. Its casualties were six killed and 40 wounded at Chancellorsville and seven percent of the 372 at Gettysburg disabled. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered with eight officers and 129 men.[4]

Regimental order of battle

Units of the Nineteenth Mississippi included:

  • Company A (President Davis Guards)
  • Company B (Mott Guards)
  • Company C (Warren Rifles)
  • Company D (Thomas Hinds Guards)
  • Company E (McClung Riflemen)
  • Company F (Avant Southrons)
  • Company G (Springport Invincibles)
  • Company H
  • Company I
  • Company K (Jake Thompson Guards)[5]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Rowland 1908, pp. 98-108
  2. ↑ Sifakis 1995, pp. 104-105.
  3. ↑ Rowland 1908, pp. 98-108.
  4. ↑ Crute 1987, p. 178.
  5. ↑ Rowland 1908, pp. 98-108.

References

  • Crute, Joseph H. Jr. (1987). Units of the Confederate States Army (2nd ed.). Gaithersburg, Md.: Olde Soldier Books. ISBN 0-942211-53-7.
  • Rowland, Dunbar (ed.) (1908). Military History of Mississippi: 1803-1898. Jackson, Miss.: The Reprint Company (published 2011). ISBN 978-0-87152-266-5. LCCN 78-2454.
  • Sifakis, Stewart (1995). Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Mississippi. New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-2292-5.

Further reading

  • Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4.
  • Cannon, Devereaux D. Jr. (1994). The Flags of The Confederacy: An Illustrated History. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 1-56554-109-X.
  • Gottfried, Bradley M. (2002). Brigades of Gettysburg: The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61608-401-1.
  • Roberts, Bobby; Moneyhon, Carl (1993). Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-260-9.
  • "U.S. Army Campaigns: Civil War". Center of Military History. United States Army. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  • Wheeler, Maj.-Gen. Joseph; Hooker, Col. Charles E. (1899). Evans, Brig.-Gen. Clement A., ed. Confederate Military History. XII. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing.


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