CONFEDERATE MISSISSIPPI TROOPS
31st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
- Overview:
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31st Infantry Regiment was organized in March, 1862, using the 6th (Orr's) Mississippi
Infantry Battalion as its nucleus. The unit served in Rust's, L. Hebert's, and Featherston's
Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It was part of the garrison at Vicksburg,
then fought at Baton Rouge and
Jackson. Later it continued the
fight under General Featherson in the Army of Tennessee. The 31st was active throughout the Atlanta Campaign, endured Hood's
winter operations in Tennessee, and saw action in North Carolina. It lost 10 killed and 37
wounded at Baton Rouge, and of the 215 engaged at Peach Tree Creek, seventy-six percent were
disabled. In December, 1864, there were 86 men present for duty, and only a handful surrendered
in April, 1865. The field officers were Colonels J.A. Orr and Marcus D.L. Stephens, Lieutenant
Colonels John W. Balfour and James W. Drane, and Majors Francis M. Gillespie and H.E.
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