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The 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles was a unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War, [1] and was the only Union Mississippi unit created during the Civil War other than regiments of the United States Colored Troops [2]
This is a list of units from Mississippi that served in the Union during the American Civil War. Only a single unit of white Union troops was raised within the state, along with several regiments of African-American volunteers , eventually becoming part of the United States Colored Troops .
1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery, Battery "G" 1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery, Battery "K" 1st Battalion, Arkansas State Troops; 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles (Union) 1st California Mountaineers Battalion; 1st Cavalry Regiment, Arkansas State Troops; 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment; 1st Connecticut Cavalry Regiment; 1st ...
1st Regiment of Mississippi Rifles, volunteers for 12 months; June 1846 – June 1847. ... 1st Company of Mounted Men; 1 June 1847 – 2 August 1848.
Entering politics, Cooper represented Wilkinson County as a Whig in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1842 to 1844. [3] Cooper supported the Mexican–American War; with many other Southerners, he believed that the US could gain territory for the expansion of slavery. He helped to raise a regiment, the 1st Mississippi Rifles.
The Unionist 1st Mississippi Mounted Rifles guarded the pack train. Despite firm resistance, the Confederate line was pressed back. After shelling the Union cavalrymen, the train with its four-gun battery began to withdraw. Kargé ordered the 7th Indiana and 4th Missouri to seize the train.
Pages in category "Mississippi in the American Civil War" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles ...
1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted) 4th Arkansas Infantry; 9th Arkansas Infantry; 25th Arkansas Infantry; Cantey's Brigade Col Edward A. O'Neal. 17th Alabama Infantry; 26th Alabama Infantry; 29th Alabama Infantry; 37th Mississippi Infantry; Artillery Ltc Samuel C. Williams Waddell's Battalion