Creator: Confederate Records (RG 9).

Collection Summary: Documents and items relating to claims of payment owed to Mississippi soldiers who died or were killed in service. The material in the collection is comprised of a bound volume detailing the claims on record for deceased soldiers from the 1st to 46th Mississippi regiments. In addition to the bound volume, the collection contains documents covering certificates of payment of claims for deceased soldiers, accompanying final statements, affidavits, correspondence, applications for money due the deceased, lists of claims paid, and inventories of effects left at time of death. Also, included in the collection is a partial list of deceased Mississippi soldiers and includes information on each solider such as age, native state, profession, when and where they enlisted, location and cause of death, and special remarks. The amount of information available on each soldier will vary, however. 

Access Restrictions: None

Date(s): 1861-1865

Volume: 2.75 Cubic Feet 

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in August 2024 

Related Materials: TBD

Record Group History:  Records related to the Confederate government that are associated with the state of Mississippi. Most of the records are related to Mississippi’s involvement in the Civil War and the state’s roll within the Confederate Army.

Collection Inventory:
Box Content 

Box Number

"Deceased Soldiers' Claims 1861-1865" (bound volume)

12055

1st - 17th Mississippi Infantry Regiments: 1861-1865

12057

18th - 28th Mississippi Infantry Regiments: 1861-1865

12058

29th - 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiments: 1861-1865

12059

List of Mississippi soldiers who died (partial): 1861-1865 

347

Various Mississippi units -- infantry, artillery, cavalry: 1861-186512060