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11th (Perrin's) Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
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Cavalry regiment of the Confederate States Army
11th (Ashcraft's) Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
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11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
1863–1865
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Confederate States 1865
Mississippi 1861
Confederate States Army
Cavalry
Regiment
Ferguson's Brigade
"Perrin's regiment"
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Facings
American Civil War
Battle of Rocky Face Ridge
Battle of New Hope Church
Battle of Marietta
Battle of Peachtree Creek
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesborough
Battle of Lovejoy's Station
Battle of Ladiga
Siege of Savannah
Carolinas Campaign
Col. Robert O. Perrin (1863–65) Lieut. Col. Henry L. Muldrow (acting) (1865)
Commanding officers
The 11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, also known as Perrin's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, was a cavalry formation of the Confederate States Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War commanded by Colonel Robert O. Perrin from 1863 to March 1865, when he resigned, and Lieutenant Colonel Henry L. Muldrow until disbanded in May 1865.
History
The regiment was organized and mustered into Confederate service on October 6, 1863, in North and Middle Mississippi from new and existing companies of mounted men as Perrin's Mississippi Cavalry Battalion, Mississippi State Troops. It was expanded, reorganized, and redesignated Perrin's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment on December 23, 1863. It took part in the battles of Rocky Face Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, and Ladiga. It was redesignated the 11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment on March 20, 1865, and disbanded on May 5, 1865.Rowland Dunbar Dunbar Rowland 1978 1st pub. Mississippi Department of Archives and History:1908 Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898 Spartanburg, South Carolina The Reprint Company 422–424, 538 978-0-87152-266-5 78-2454 3706088 8348111MEstes Claud 1912 List of Field Officers, Regiments and Battalions in the Confederate States Army, 1861-1865 https://archive.org/stream/listoffieldoffic00este#page/32/mode/2up Macon, Georgia J. W. Burke Company 32 26020215 1728286 6694735M Internet Archive
Regimental order of battle
Units of Perrin's regiment included:
Company A
Company B
Company C
Company D
Company E
Company F
Company G
Company H (Chickasaw Rangers)Lipscomb Dr. W. L. 1909 Young Mrs. Georgia P. A History of Columbus, Mississippi, During the 19th Century https://archive.org/stream/historyofcolumbu00lips_0#page/n241/mode/2up Birmingham, Ala. Press of Dispatch Printing Co. 163 16025391 1738745 6592630M Internet Archive
Company I (Barksdale Avengers)
Company K
See also
List of Confederate units from Mississippi
Notes
References
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Bibliography
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Campbell W. A. December 1920 Cunningham S. A. Sumner Archibald Cunningham Humors of the March https://archive.org/details/confederateveter01conf/page/216/mode/2up Confederate Veteran I 7 Nashville, Tenn. S. A. Cunningham 216 1564663 Internet Archive
Douglas G. M. December 1920 Cunningham S. A. Sumner Archibald Cunningham A Skirmish at Lost Mountain https://archive.org/details/confederateveter2819conf/page/452/mode/2up Confederate Veteran XXVIII 12 Nashville, Tenn. S. A. Cunningham 452 1564663 Internet Archive
Lee Stephen D. Stephen D. Lee 1909 Riley Franklin L. Franklin Lafayette Riley Jr. The War in Mississippi After the Fall of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863 https://archive.org/details/publicationsofmi10miss/page/n91/mode/2up Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society X Oxford, Mississippi Mississippi Historical Society 47–62 0885-792X 10020861 22890925M Internet Archive
Roby William A. October 1908 Cunningham S. A. Sumner Archibald Cunningham Scouting in Georgia https://archive.org/details/confederateveter1619conf/page/518/mode/2up Confederate Veteran XVI 10 Nashville, Tenn. S. A. Cunningham 519–520 1564663 Internet Archive
External links
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