Mississippi County Cross Reference

This county cross reference is by no means complete, but we are working on it and will be adding additional notes as they become known. If you know of a county where a particular company was formed, drop me a note at Jrigdon@researchonoline.net


Adams
QUITMAN LIGHT ARTILLERY - Independent Battery
NATCHEZ FENCIBLES - Co. G - 12th Mississippi Regiment
ADAMS LIGHT GUARD - Co. D. Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment
ADAMS LIGHT GUARD - Co. I - 16th Mississippi Regiment
ADAMS TROOP - Co A - Jeff Davis Legion
NATCHEZ RIFLES - Co E - 4th La. Battalion
NATCHEZ LIGHT INFANTRY - Co. A. First Regiment Mississippi Vols. (60 days)
TOM WELDON REBELS - Co L - 44th Mississippi Regiment
NATCHEZ SOUTHRONS - Co B - 10th Mississippi Regiment
CONNER BATTERY - Wade's Battery, Maj. Dunlap's Battallion of Artillery
ENGLISH BATTERY
BRECKENRIDGE GUARDS
BINGAMAN RANGERS - Co. K. Starks Regiment
CAPTAIN LYNN'S SQUAD - Part of Co. G, Miles-Legion


Amite
7th Mississippi Regiment, Company B: Amite County Rifles.
7th Mississippi Regiment, Company K
22nd Mississippi Regiment, Company E: Liberty Guards.
33rd Mississippi Regiment, Company B: Amite County Guards.
33rd Mississippi Regiment, Company K: Amite County Defenders.
44th Mississippi Regiment, Company K: Amite County Rangers.
4th Mississippi Cavalry, Company I: Stockdale's Battalion.


Attala
2nd Infantry Battalion - Rocky Point Rifles, aka Rocky Point Rifle Company


Calhoun
3rd Cavalry Regiment


Carroll
1st Sharpshooters Battalion - Company A
Black Hawk Rifles; Co. G, 22nd Regiment Infantry
Buckner Rebels; Co. I, 30th Regiment Infantry
Capt. Applewhite's Company (Vaiden Guards)

Capt. J.M. Armistead's Company (Partisan Rangers)(Independent)

Capt. Stanford's Battery (Stanford's Light Artillery)

Capt. Walker's Company; Carroll County Militia, Co. C,
3rd Regiment Infantry MinuteMen (State Troops)(Owen's)

Carroll County Cavalry; Co. I, 28th Regiment Cavalry
Carroll County Defenders; Co. B, 3rd Regiment Infantry
Minute Men (State Troops)(Owen's)

Carroll County Rebels; Co. H, 4th Regiment Infantry

Carroll County Rifles; Co. K, 11th Regiment Infantry

Carroll Dragoons; Co. B, 2nd Battalion Partisan Rangers

Carroll Fencibles; Co. A, 42nd Regiment Infantry

Carroll Guards; Co. C, 20th Regiment Infantry

Carroll Light Artillery; Battery E, 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Carroll Minute Men; Co. H, 2nd Regiment Infantry
(Army of 10,000)(Alcorn's)

Carroll Minute Men, Co. H, 30th Regiment Infantry

Carroll Rangers; Co. E, 1st Battalion Cavalry (Miller's)
also Co. A, 1st Regiment Cavalry (Pinson's)

Coms Avengers; Co. I, 25th Regiment Infantry

also Co. I, 2nd Regiment Confederate Infantry
(aka 10th and 20th Battalions Infantry)

Coyle's Company; Co. G, 1st Battalion Cavalry Reserves (Denis')

Curtis' Company; Co. C, 5th Regiment Cavalry

Deason Battalion of Cavalry (local defense)

Dixie Boys; Co. K, 30th Regiment Infantry

Dixie Rangers; Co. B, 28th Regiment Cavalry

Ford's Company; Co. A, 2nd Regiment Partisan Rangers (Ballantine's)

Lake's Company; Co. I, 2nd Battalion Reserve Corps. (Cavalry)

McAfee Hussars; Co. A, 28th Regiment Cavalry

McClung Rifles; Co. E, 15th Regiment Infantry

Middleton Rebels; Co. B, 2nd Regiment Infantry
(Army of 10,000)(Alcorn's)

Mississippi Rangers; Co. A, 5th Regiment Cavalry

Neill Guards; Co. A, 30th Regiment Infantry

Perkins' Company; Co. A, Yerger's Regiment Cavalry

Pettus Partisans (aka W.B. Prince's Company); Co. A,
6th Battalion Cavalry

Red Invincibles; Co. C, 4th Regiment Infantry

Robert's Company; Co. A, 3rd Battalion Cavalry Reserves

Scale's Company; Co. D, 5th Regiment Cavalry

Shipp's Company; Co. F, 1st Battalion Cavalry Reserves (Denis')

Stephens' Guards; Co. E, 4th Regiment Cavalry

Trotter's Company; Co. B, 5th Regiment Cavalry

Vaiden Artillery; Battery L, 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Walthall Rebels; Co. G, 29th Regiment Infantry

Winona Stars; Co. B, 15th Regiment Infantry
Choctaw

2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company A -- Choctaw Rangers



Clarke

2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company F -- East Mississippi Dragoons, aka East Mississippi Guards

De Soto

1st Infantry Regiment (Simonton's)

Grenada

3rd Cavalry Regiment

Hinds 2nd Infantry Battalion - Jackson Boys [attached to the 26th Virginia Infantry]

Holmes County

1st Sharpshooters Battalion - Company B

Itawamba

1st Infantry Regiment (Simonton's)

Kemper

2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company H -- Kemper Dragoons

Lafayette

1st Infantry Regiment (Simonton's)

Lauderdale

2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company C -- Lauderdale Cavalry

Lowndes 2nd Infantry Battalion - Blewetts Company, aka Blewetts Rifles, & aka "The Blewetts"

Marshall

1st Infantry Regiment (Simonton's)

Monroe

2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company I -- Lula White Rebels

Newton

2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company B -- Newton Rangers

Oktibbeha

2nd Infantry Battalion, Company K - Oktibbeha Reserve [or "Oktibbeha Rescue" -- records not clear], aka Capt. Joel P. Rogers Company

Panola

1st Infantry Regiment (Simonton's) 2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company D -- Senatobia Opposers

Scott

2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company K -- Mississippi Body Guards

Smith

1st Infantry Regiment (Simonton's)

Tishomingo

1st Infantry Regiment (Simonton's)

Warren

2nd Infantry Battalion - King Cotton Guards

Yalobusha

1st Sharpshooters Battalion - Company C 2nd Infantry Battalion - Dixie Boys

Mississippi Service - raised in other states

Tennessee

1st Sharpshooters Battalion - Company D

County Unknown

2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company E -- Mooresville Blues (raised in Itawamba County, MS); also Barefoots Company (county of origin not specified) 2nd Cavalry Regiment - Company G -- Pontotoc Rangers (raised in Pontotoc County, MS); also Peerys Company (county of origin not specified)

More than 800 units were formed in Mississippi for service in the war. This page contains a cross reference to the units by the county in which they were formed.