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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 .
The Defeat of the Mexican Lancers by the Mississippi Rifles by Samuel Chamberlain (watercolor painted c. 1860) Jefferson Davis, c. 1847 Example of a .54-caliber, muzzle-loading, percussion-fire 1841 Mississippi rifle, as manufactured by Eli Whitney in 1849 (U.S. Military Service Institute via Smithsonian Online)
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.