Creator: Confederate Records (RG 9).

Collection Summary: This collection consists of various files and documents related to individual regiments of the Confederate Army. The amount of material available for each regiment varies greatly. The types of documents found in the collection include: correspondence, officer recommendations, muster rolls, guard reports, service records, soldier testimonies, and quartermaster reports. In addition, there are also questionnaires given to confederate veterans that asked them to supply information such as the original name of their regiment, which cities and communities made up the regiment, names of officers of the regiment, and the names of any soldiers they could remember. The collection inventory is organized alphabetically, but the boxes of the collection often contain documents from multiple regiments and are not necessarily organized alphabetically. More information on each of the regiments covered in the collection can be found in the book "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898," by Dunbar Rowland.

Access Restrictions: None.

Date(s): 1860-1938.

Volume: 30.00 Cubic Feet.

Related Materials: TBD.

Record Group History: The Confederate records in the state government records section come from a variety of sources. Many were part of the Confederate records of the state found in 1902 in the Masonic archives room in Jackson, which had been their hiding place since 1863. Others were collected by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History from former veterans and other state citizens. The act which established the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in 1902 provided in section 6: "That the Department is charged with the duty of making special effort to collect data in reference to soldiers from Mississippi in the war between the United States and the Confederate States both from the War Department at Washington and from private individuals, and to cause the same to be prepared for publication as speedily as possible." Dr. Dunbar Rowland, first archives director, led the effort to collect these records and to compile lists and indexes from its material as well as information about Mississippi soldiers from War Department records in Washington.

1st Battalion Cavalry, State Troops (McNair's)1st Battalion Infantry, Davis' Brigade, Army of Ten Thousand
1st Battalion Minute Men, Mississippi State Troops1st Battalion Mississippi State Troops (Infantry)
1st Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters1st Regiment Mississippi Cavalry
1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment1st Regiment Light Artillery
Mississippi Cavalry 1st Regiment Partisan Rangers1st Regiment Cavalry, State Troops
1st Regiment Infantry, Alcorn's Brigade, Army of Ten ThousandMinute Men, Mississippi Infantry, 1st Regiment
1st Regiment (Infantry): Mississippi State Troops2nd Battalion Cavalry, State Troops (Harris' Battalion)
2nd Battalion Minute Men, Mississippi State Troops2nd Battalion Mississippi Infantry
2nd Battalion, Virginia Infantry2nd Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment2nd Regiment Cavalry, Mississippi State Troops
2nd Regiment Infantry, Alcorn's Brigade, Army of Ten Thousand2nd Regiment Minute Men (Infantry)
2nd Regiment Mississippi State Troops (Infantry)3rd Battalion Minute Men (Infantry)
3rd Battalion Mississippi Infantry3rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
3rd Regiment Cavalry, State Troops (Easterling’s)3rd Regiment Cavalry, State Troops (McGuirk’s)
3rd Regiment Infantry, Alcorn's Brigade, Army of Ten Thousand3rd Regiment Minute Men (Infantry)
4th Brigade Infantry, Army of Mississippi (1861)4th Louisiana Battery Light Artillery
4th Louisiana Infantry Battalion4th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion
4th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment4th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
4th Regiment Infantry, Davis' Brigade, Army of Ten Thousand4th Regiment Minute Men (Infantry)
4th Tennessee Infantry Regiment5th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
5th Mississippi Infantry Regiment5th Infantry Regiment, Davis' Brigade, Army of Ten Thousand
5th Regiment Minute Men, Mississippi State Troops6th Battalion Mississippi Infantry
6th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
7th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment7th Mississippi Infantry Battalion
7th Mississippi Infantry Regiment8th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
8th Mississippi Infantry Regiment8th Regiment, 1st Brigade, Mississippi State Troops
9th Mississippi Infantry Regiment9th Regiment, 1st Brigade, Mississippi State Troops
10th Alabama Infantry Regiment10th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
11th and 17th Arkansas Cavalry Regiments11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (Perrin's Battalion Cavalry)
11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment11th Regiment, 1st Brigade, Mississippi State Troops
12th Mississippi Battalion Cavalry12th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
12th Mississippi Infantry Regiment12th Regiment, 1st Brigade, Mississippi State Troops
13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment14th Confederate Cavalry Regiment (La. and Miss.)
14th Mississippi Infantry Regiment15th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment17th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
18th Battalion Confederate Cavalry (Spann's Battalion)18th Battalion Mississippi Cavalry
18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
20th Mississippi Infantry Regiment21st Mississippi Infantry Regiment
22nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment23rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
24th Mississippi Infantry Regiment25th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
26th Mississippi Infantry Regiment27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment29th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
30th Mississippi Infantry Regiment31st Mississippi Infantry Regiment
32nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
34th Mississippi Infantry Regiment35th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
36th Mississippi Infantry Regiment37th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
38th Mississippi Infantry Regiment39th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
40th Mississippi Infantry Regiment41st Mississippi Infantry Regiment
42nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment43rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
44th Mississippi Infantry Regiment45th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment48th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
Armstrong's Escort Company (Cavalry)Ashcraft's Battalion Cavalry, Mississippi State Troops
Ballentine's Regiment CavalryBankhead's Battery (Artillery)
Blythe's CavalryBolivar Greys Cavalry Company
Brookhaven Light ArtilleryCaperton’s Company, Unattached Cavalry
Chulahoma Cavalry (Bowen's Company)Davenport's Battalion Cavalry
Dunn's Battalion Rangers, Mississippi State TroopsGamblin's Cavalry, Mississippi State Troops
Ham's Battalion Cavalry, Mississippi State TroopsHarvey's Scouts
Jeff Davis Legion CavalryJefferson Flying Artillery
Madison Light Artillery (Miss.)Merrin's Battery (Artillery)
Montgomery's Battalion Cavalry, Mississippi State TroopsMontgomery's Scouts (Cavalry)
Pettus Flying ArtilleryPeyton's Battalion Cavalry, State Troops
Quitman Light ArtilleryQuitman Light Infantry (Abert's Regiment)
Sandford’s Alabama Infantry RegimentSaunders' Battalion, Independent Scouts
Seven Stars ArtillerySmith's - Turner's Battery (Artillery)
Stanford's Battery (Artillery)Statistical table containing data on select Miss. Companies
Stubb's Battalion Cavalry, Mississippi State TroopsStutts' Company of unattached cavalry, Mississippi State Troops
Wilkinson County (Miss.) Battalion Minute MenWirt Adams Cavalry Regiment