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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.
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".
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 .
The First Cavalry acted as rearguard during the Second Battle of Corinth, then retreated to Holly Springs, Mississippi, and later to Grenada, Mississippi with General Earl Van Dorn's forces. In December the Regiment took part in Van Dorn's Holly Springs Raid , a surprise attack which destroyed a large Union supply depot.
On November 4, 1862, McNair received his commission as Brigadier General. Several other units were folded into his brigade including the 1st and 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted), the 4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, 30th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, and Humphrey's Arkansas Artillery Battery.
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1st-2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles (dismounted): Ltc Morton G. Galloway; 4th Arkansas: Col Henry C. Bunn; 9th Arkansas; 25th Arkansas; Quarles's Brigade Brigadier General George Doherty Johnston: 1st Alabama; 25th Alabama; 42nd-46th-49th-53rd-55th Tennessee; 48th Tennessee