1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles

1st Mississippi Rifles 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment 1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles March, 1864 – June 26, 1865 United States 1863 Union Union Army 665 (total) American Civil War Battle of Egypt Station The 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles was a unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Dyer Frederick Henry Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories T. Yoseloff 1908 New York https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0146%3Achapter%3D16%3Aregiment%3Dreg151 and was the only Union Mississippi unit created during the Civil War other than regiments of the United States Colored TroopsBlain William T. Banner" Unionism in Mississippi: Choctaw County 1861-1869 The Mississippi Quarterly 1976 29 2 207–220 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26474411 14 January 2024 History thumb|190px|Captain George Leoni, 1st Battalion Mississippi Mounted Rifles. Transferred from 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment. The battalion was organized in Memphis, Tennessee, in March 1864,Battle Unit Details 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=UMS0001B0T https://web.archive.org/web/20200604155736/https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=UMS0001B0T dead June 4, 2020 US National Park Service 14 January 2024 and consisted of Unionist and anti-Confederate volunteers from Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama. Vicksburg,Attention Volunteers! https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vicksburg-herald-first-mississippi-m/36613298/ 14 January 2024 Vicksburg Herald August 17, 1864 Memphis, and Corinth were recruiting centers for the battalion. Several of the enlistees were former Confederate soldiers who had left Southern service either via desertion or capture by Union forces.Johnson Beau May 11, 2012 1st Mississippi Mounted Rifles: Mississippi's Union Battalion in the Civil War https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/41/ University of Southern Mississippi Honors Theses 41 December 16, 2023 The commanding officers were northerners recruited from Union cavalry regiments. The battalion deployed from Memphis on July 4, 1864 to Grand Gulf, Mississippi alongside the 7th Indiana Cavalry, 2nd New Jersey Cavalry, and 19th Pennsylvania Cavalry in pursuit of Wood's Mississippi Cavalry under General William Wirt Adams operating in the area. The Union expedition skirmished with Confederate forces in the Port Gibson area before returning to Memphis later that month. Lt. Col. Shorey, commanding the battalion, was wounded in a skirmish near Rocky Springs, Mississippi, captured, and exchanged. In August 1864, the battalion along with other Union units led by Colonel Joseph Kargé was sent to Oxford, Mississippi and later Holly Springs to oppose General Forrest's cavalry, returning to Memphis the same month. In December 1864, the battalion took part in General Grierson's raid against the Mobile & Ohio Railroad in Mississippi, guarding the pack train during the Battle of Egypt Station on December 28 while the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry, 4th Missouri Cavalry, and 7th Indiana Cavalry under Colonel Kargé fought the Confederates.United States War Department 1895 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Vol. 45 Serial 93 Washington DC Government Printing Office 849 https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/093/0849 4 April 2024 The battalion returned to Memphis in January, 1865. Later that month the battalion participated in its last action, an excursion into Arkansas and Northeast Louisiana led by Colonel Embury D. Osband. The unit was mustered out of service on June 26, 1865 at Memphis. A total of 665 men organized into five companies (A-G) served in the battalion. Commanders Officers of the 1st Battalion, Mississippi Mounted Rifles:4 1154 Lt. Col. Samuel O. Shorey Capt. George N. Leoni Capt. Napoleon Snyder See also American Civil War List of Mississippi Union Civil War units References Category:Military units and formations established in 1864 Category:1864 establishments in Mississippi Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Category:1865 disestablishments in the United States Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Mississippi