3d Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

3d Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
Active 1863–65
Disbanded May 12, 1865
Country  Confederate States
Allegiance  Mississippi
Branch  Confederate States Army
Type Cavalry
Size Regiment
Nickname(s) "McGuirk's regiment"
Facings Yellow
Engagements

American Civil War

Commanders
Commanding officer Col. John McGuirk

The 3d Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (also known as "McGuirk's regiment") was a cavalry formation in the Western Theater of the American Civil War commanded by Col. John McGuirk.[1]

History

The regiment was established on June 9, 1863, in the Mississippi Militia at Panola of cavalry from new and existing companies, as the 3d Mississippi State Cavalry Regiment and assigned to the 5th Military District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.[2] It was reorganized in April, 1864, and mustered into Confederate service on May 3, 1864, as the 3d Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. The regiment was disbanded on May 12, 1865, at Gainesville, Alabama.[3]

Regimental order of battle

Units of McGuirk's regiment included:

  • Company A
  • Company B
  • Company C
  • Company D
  • Company E
  • Company F
  • Company G
  • Company H
  • Company I
  • Company K[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Sifakis 1995, pp. 41-42.
  2. ↑ Evans 1889, p. 130.
  3. ↑ Crute 1987, pp. 166-67.
  4. ↑ Rowland 1908, pp. 518-20.

References

  • Crute, Joseph H. Jr. (1987). Units of the Confederate States Army (2nd ed.). Gaithersburg, Md.: Olde Soldier Books. ISBN 0-942211-53-7. OL 8443216M.
  • Evans, Brig. Gen. Clement A., ed. (1899). Confederate Military History. Volume VII. Atlanta, Ga.: Confederate Publishing Company. LCCN 02017198. OCLC 951143. OL 6918120M.
  • Rowland, Dunbar, ed. (1908). Military History of Mississippi: 1803-1898. Spartanburg, S.C.: The Reprint Company (published 2011). ISBN 978-0-87152-266-5. LCCN 78-2454. OCLC 881684681.
  • Sifakis, Stewart (1995). Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Mississippi. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 0-8160-2292-5. LCCN 90023631. OCLC 31712711.

Further reading

  • Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4. LCCN 2008018253. OCLC 227191547. OL 16839816M.
  • Jordon, [Brig.] Gen. Thomas; Pryor, J. P. (1868). The Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's Cavalry, with Portraits, Maps and Illustrations. New Orleans, La., Memphis, Tenn., and New York: Bielock & Company. LCCN 02017133. OL 22938592M.
  • Roberts, Bobby; Moneyhon, Carl (1993). Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-260-9. LCCN 92021637. OCLC 636462586. OL 1718833M.
  • Smith, Timothy B. (2012). James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press. ISBN 978-1-61703-231-8. LCCN 2011024062. OCLC 731192042. OL 25343440M.


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