CONFEDERATE MISSISSIPPI TROOPS
39th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
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39th Infantry Regiment was organized at Jackson, Mississippi, during the late spring of
1862. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Simpson, Rankin, Scott, Newton, Hinds,
and Monroe. About twenty-five percent of this unit was sick in June, and there were 29 officers
and 541 men present for duty in July. Company I took part in the fight at Baton Rouge, then, assigned to General
Beall's command, the regiment was captured at Port Hudson in July, 1863. After the
exchange in December it totalled 220 effectives. Attached to Ross' and Sears' Brigade it was
involved in the Atlanta Campaign, Hood's Tennessee operations, and the defense of Mobile. The
regiment reported 7 casualties at New Hope Church, 30 at Kenesaw Mountain, 5 at the Chattahoochee River, and 48 in the Battle
of Atlanta. Few surrendered with
the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. Its commanders were Colonel W.B.
Shelby, Lieutenant Colonel William E. Ross, and Majors R.J. Durr and W.Monroe
Quin.
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