McGuirk's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
McGuirk's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment 3rd Mississippi Cavalry Regiment | |
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Active | 1863–1865 |
Country | Confederate States |
Allegiance | Mississippi |
Branch | Confederate States Army |
Type | Cavalry |
Size | Regiment |
Part of | Adams' Brigade |
Facings | Yellow |
Campaigns | |
Disbanded | May 12, 1865 |
Commanders | |
Commanding officer | John McGuirk |
McGuirk's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (3rd Mississippi Cavalry Regiment) was a formation in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, and was commanded by Colonel John McGuirk.[1]
History
McGuirk's Regiment was organized on June 9, 1863 in the Mississippi Militia at Panola from new and existing companies of cavalry as the Third Regiment, Mississippi State Cavalry, and assigned to the Fifth 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 Third (McGuirk's) Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry. McGuirk's Regiment surrendered on May 4, 1865.[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
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.
- Wheeler, Maj.-Gen. Joseph; Hooker, Col. Charles E. (1899). Evans, Brig.-Gen. Clement A., ed. Confederate Military History. XII. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing.
Further reading
- Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4.
- C.S. War Dept. (1863). Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1863 (2nd ed.). Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
- 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. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
- Montgomery, Lieut.-Col. Frank A. (1901). Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War (1st ed.). Cincinnati, Ohio: The Robert Clark Company Press. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
- Roberts, Bobby and Carl Moneyhon (1993). Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-260-9.
- Smith, Timothy B. (2012). James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press. ISBN 978-1-61703-231-8.
- "U.S. Army Campaigns: Civil War". Center of Military History. United States Army. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
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