CONFEDERATE MISSISSIPPI TROOPS
2nd Battalion, Mississippi Infantry
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2nd Infantry Battalion was organized at Jackson, Mississippi, during the summer of 1861
with five companies, later increased to six. Ordered to Virginia, the battalion was assigned to
General Garland's and Featherston's Brigade and in April, 1862 totalled 360 men. It was
prominent in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Sharpsburg. Then in Novemer, 1862,
additional companies joined the unit, and it became the 48th Mississippi Regiment. Its
commanders were Lieutenant Colonels Thomas B. Manlove, John G. Taylor, and William S.
Wilson.
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