CONFEDERATE MISSISSIPPI TROOPS
8th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
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8th Infantry Regiment was organized at Enterprize, Mississippi, during the spring of 1861.
Many of its members were from Jones, Wilkinson, and Clarke counties. The unit served in
Florida and Mississippi, then was assigned to General J.K. Jackson's, Gist's, and Lowry's
Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It participated in the campaigns of the army from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, was with Hood in Tennessee, and
saw action in North Carolina. This regiment lost forty-seven percent of the 282 at Murfreesboro
and twenty-three percent of the 375 at Chickamauga. In December, 1863, it
totalled 287 men and 169 arms. Its casualties at the Battle of Atlanta were 13 killed, 71
wounded, and 3 missing, and few surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonels
G.C. Chandler, Guilford G. Flynt, and John C. Wilkinson; Lieutenant Colonels James T. Gates,
Aden McNeill, and John F. Smith; and Majors Andrew E. Moody, George F. Peek, and William
Watkins.
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