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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.
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 .
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.
In January 1864, [3] the regiment was reorganized as the 38th Mounted Infantry. [2] As a mounted infantry regiment, the 38th was expected to ride with cavalry regiments, and dismount from their horses for infantry combat. The 38th joined other cavalry units as part of H.P. Mabry's brigade, tasked with opposing Federal raids across Mississippi. [2]
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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".
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Cooper was born November 1, 1815, most likely in Amite County, Mississippi. [a] His father, David Cooper, was a physician and Baptist minister. [2] His mother was Sarah Davenport. [1] Cooper attended the University of Virginia from 1832 until 1834; his classmates included future Civil War generals Carnot Posey, Lafayette McLaws, and John B ...