As of 01/07/2011

Mississippi Cavalry Wirt Adams' Cavalry Regiment (later Wood's Cavalry Regiment)
(Previously identified as RG 9, v. 22)

Description Box #
Headquarters
   Letter (copy), Colonel Robert C. Wood, Jr., to General Wirt Adams, describing engagement with the enemy in Jefferson County, July 5, 1864; Letter (copy), Colonel Robert C. Wood, Jr.,
       to Captain W.S. Yerger, giving instructions for harassment of the enemy, July 1864.		 16598
Company A (Captain Abel Johnson's Company of Yazoo County):
   Letter from Elijah Corbin Houck to Dunbar Rowland transferring a Confederate veteran survey form to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, January 11, 1905;
   MDAH veterans' survey form completed for Abel B. Johnson's Company of Wirt Adams' Cavalry by Robert Bowman, January 4, 1905;
   MDAH veterans' survey forms of Elijah Conklin and Benjamin Young Wade, undated.		 16598
Company A (Tensas Cavalry of Louisiana):
   MDAH veterans' survey form of Solomon Claiborne Martin, undated.		 16598
Company B (Desoto Light Dragoons of Desoto County):
   Muster rolls of Company B, typescript and ditto copy, ca. 1939;
   MDAH veterans' survey form of James L. Shinault, October 3, 1904;
   Partial handwritten history of company through June, 1864, undated.		 16598
Company D (Captain A.P. Hill's Partisan Ranger Company of Madison and Leake Counties):
   Roster of Company D compiled by A. Purviance and sent to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, including letter of transfer, February 29, 1904;
   MDAH veterans' survey form completed by Cornelius Washington Grafton, undated.
   Muster roll of Captain A.P. Hill’s Company, Partisan Rangers, July 29, 1862.		 16598
Company G (Captain Albert G. Cage's Company from Louisiana):
   MDAH veterans' survey form of Sergeant Smith Prentiss, August 5, 1904;
   Typescript copy of brief biographical sketch of Sergeant S. Prentiss, May 23, 1900;
   Letter from Sergeant S. Prentiss to Dunbar Rowland relating information about Mississippi veterans currently living in Louisiana, August 5, 1904;
   Newspaper clippings regarding Sergeant S. Prentiss, one unidentified, one from February 22, 1891 issue of the New Orleans Daily Picayune;
   Confederate States Cavalry reunion ribbon, New Orleans, February 13, 1888;
   Order appointing S.S. Prentiss Judge Advocate General, Eastern Department, United Confederate Veterans, March 24, 1892;
   Roll of officers and privates typed on decorative certificate, undated (shown on roll as "Company F").		 305
Company H (Lowndes Rangers of Lowndes County, Alabama):
   Historic roll of Company H, undated.		 305
Company I (? of Clarke and Baldwin Counties, Alabama):
   Historic roll of Company I, undated.		 16598
Company K (Yerger's/Barnett's Company, aka the Anding Hussars of Yazoo County):
   Letter from S.M. Gassaway to Lieutenant W.S. Yerger describing his capture near Bowling Green, Kentucky, April 21, 1862;
   MDAH veterans' survey form describing W.S. Yerger's Company of Cavalry, including list of men from Company K captured by Federal troops, completed by Robert Bowman, June 1905;
   MDAH veterans' survey form describing Barnett's Cavalry Company, completed by Robert Bowman, June 1, 1905.		 16598
Company L:
   Descriptive list of deceased Mississippi soldiers in Captain A.J. Carnahan's Company (fragment), undated.		 16598
Company M (McKie Cavalry of Madison County):
   A brief history of Company M, Woods' Cavalry Regiment, June 10, 1864;
   Muster roll of Captain W.R. Luckett's Cavalry Company, May 3, 1862;
   Letter, W.A. Harman to Elijah Fleming, enclosing roster of Company M, August 6, 1903;
   Letter, Elijah Fleming to Dunbar Rowland, transferring company roster received from W.A. Harman, August 10, 1903;
   Election return, May 3, 1862;
   Fragment of a letter from George H. to his sister Helen describing an article that recalled activities of Company M, September 29, 1902;		 16598

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