42d Mississippi Infantry Regiment

42d Mississippi Infantry Regiment
Active	1862–65
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Mississippi
Branch	Provisional Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Part of	Davis' Brigade
Nickname	"Forty-second Mississippi"
Facings	Light blue
Arms	Enfield rifled muskets
Campaigns	Civil War Gettysburg Wilderness Spotsylvania Cold Harbor Petersburg Appomattox
Battle honor	Gettysburg
Disbanded	April 12, 1865
Commanders
Commanders	Hugh Miller, † William Feeney, † Andrew Nelson

The 42d Mississippi Infantry Regiment (Forty-second Mississippi) was an infantry formation in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War, and was successively commanded by Colonels Hugh Miller, William Feeney, and Andrew Nelson.^[1]

History

The Forty-second was organized on May 14, 1862 in the Mississippi Volunteers at Oxford from the counties of Carroll, DeSoto, Tishomingo, Calhoun, Yalobusha, Panola, and Itawamba.^[2][3] For a time, it served on provost duty in Richmond, then was assigned to Davis' Brigade, Heth's Division, Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment was active from Gettysburg to Cold Harbor, endured the hardships of the Petersburg siege south of the James River, and saw action around Appomattox.^[4] It lost forty-six percent of the 575 engaged at Gettysburg, had eight disabled en route from Pennsylvania, and had six killed and 25 wounded during the Bristoe Campaign. The regiment surrendered one lieutenant, one chaplain, and five enlisted men on April 9, 1865.^[5]

Regimental order of battle

Units of the Forty-second Mississippi included:

• Company A (Carroll Fencibles)
• Company B (Senatobia Invincibles)
• Company C (Nelson's Avengers)
• Company D
• Company E (Davenport Rifles)
• Company F
• Company G (Gaston Rifles)
• Company H
• Company I (Mississippi Reds)
• Company K^[6]

See also

• Gettysburg order of battle
• Wilderness order of battle
• Spotsylvania order of battle
• Cold Harbor order of battle
• Petersburg order of battle
• Appomattox order of battle

Notes

References

• Crute, Joseph H. Jr. (1987). Units of the Confederate States Army (2nd ed.). Gaithersburg, Md.: Olde Soldier Books. ISBN 0-942211-53-7. 
• Rowland, Dunbar (ed.) (1908). Military History of Mississippi: 1803-1898. Jackson, Miss.: The Reprint Company (published 2011). ISBN 978-0-87152-266-5. LCCN 78-2454. 
• Sifakis, Stewart (1995). Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Mississippi. New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-2292-5. 
• "U.S. Army Campaigns: Civil War". Center of Military History. United States Army. Retrieved 18 January 2015. 
• Williams, T. P. (1999). The Mississippi Brigade of Brig.-Gen. Joseph R. Davis: A Geographical Account of its Campaigns and a Biographical Account of Its Personalities, 1861-1865. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, Inc. ISBN 0-89029-335-X. 
• Wheeler, Maj.-Gen. Joseph; Hooker, Col. Charles E. (1899). Evans, Brig.-Gen. Clement A., ed. Confederate Military History XII. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing. 

Further reading

• Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4. 
• Arms and Equipment of The Confederacy. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books. 1998. ISBN 0-7370-3159-X. 
• Brown, Kent Masterson (2005). Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2921-9. 
• Cannon, Devereaux D. Jr. (1994). The Flags of The Confederacy: An Illustrated History. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 1-56554-109-X. 
• Coddington, Edwin B. (1979). The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command. New York: Touchstone. ISBN 978-0-684-84569-2. 
• C.S. War Dept. (1863). Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1863 (2nd ed.). Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph. Retrieved May 25, 2014. 
• Gottfried, Bradley M. (2002). Brigades of Gettysburg: The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61608-401-1. 
• Heth, Henry (1974). Morrison, James L. Jr., ed. The Memoirs of Henry Heth. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-8371-6389-7. 
• Roberts, Bobby; Moneyhon, Carl (1993). Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-260-9. 
• "U.S. Army Campaigns: Civil War". Center of Military History. United States Army. Retrieved 18 January 2015.