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Captain George Leoni, 1st Battalion Mississippi Mounted Rifles. Transferred from 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment.. The battalion was organized in Memphis, Tennessee, in March 1864, [3] and consisted of Unionist and anti-Confederate volunteers from Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama.
1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles (Union) 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (African Descent) – redesignated 3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry Regiment; 1st Mississippi Heavy Artillery Regiment (African Descent) – redesignated 5th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment
0–9. 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles; 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Union) 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (Stirman's) 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Union)
Mounted Rifle Company F. Captain Lansford W. Hastings [7] Mounted Rifle Company G. Captain B. K. Thompson [7] Mounted Rifle Company H. Captain Richard T. Jacobs (Spy Company chiefly of native Indians) [7] Artillery Company A. Captain John K. Wilson (Midshipman U.S. Navy) [7] Artillery Company. Captain William Findlay [7] Mounted Rifle Company.
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.
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During the 1950s, all but the 1st Battalion were deactivated. The 1st Battalion (Combined Arms), 155th Infantry (Mechanized) is now a part of the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team (155th ABCT), Mississippi Army National Guard. The unit served in Bosnia as "Task Force Rifles" and in Iraq in 2005–06 and again in 2009–10.
Mississippi Rifles: A Muster Listing of All Known Mississippi Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines who Served in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Greenville, S.C.: Southern Historical Press. ISBN 9780893088019. OCLC 58479353. Rowland, Dunbar (1908). "Mississippi Commands in the Army of the United States in Mexico, 1846–1848".