3d Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

3d Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
Active	1863–1865
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Mississippi
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Cavalry
Size	Regiment
Nickname(s)	"McGuirk's regiment"
Facings	Yellow
Engagements	American Civil War Meridian Expedition Atlanta Campaign
Disbanded	May 12, 1865
Commanders
Commanding officer	Col. John McGuirk

The 3d Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (also known as "McGuirk's regiment") was a cavalry formation in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, commanded by Colonel John McGuirk.^[1]

History

The regiment was established on June 9, 1863, in the Mississippi Militia at Panola of cavalry from new and existing companies, as the 3d Mississippi State Cavalry Regiment and assigned to the 5th Military District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.^[2] It was reorganized in April, 1864, and mustered into Confederate service on May 3, 1864, as the 3d Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. The regiment was disbanded on May 12, 1865, at Gainesville, Alabama.^[3]

Regimental order of battle

Units of McGuirk's regiment included:

• Company A
• Company B
• Company C
• Company D
• Company E
• Company F
• Company G
• Company H
• Company I
• Company K^[4]

See also

• List of Mississippi Civil War Confederate units

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. OL 8443216M. 
• Evans, Brig. Gen. Clement A., ed. (1899). Confederate Military History. Volume VII. Atlanta, Ga.: Confederate Publishing Company. LCCN 02017198. OCLC 951143. OL 6918120M. 
• Rowland, Dunbar, ed. (1908). Military History of Mississippi: 1803-1898. Spartanburg, S.C.: The Reprint Company (published 2011). ISBN 978-0-87152-266-5. LCCN 78-2454. OCLC 881684681. 
• Sifakis, Stewart (1995). Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Mississippi. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 0-8160-2292-5. LCCN 90023631. OCLC 31712711. 

Further reading

• Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4. LCCN 2008018253. OCLC 227191547. OL 16839816M. 
• Jordon, [Brig.] Gen. Thomas; Pryor, J. P. (1868). The Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's Cavalry, with Portraits, Maps and Illustrations. New Orleans, La., Memphis, Tenn., and New York: Bielock & Company. LCCN 02017133. OL 22938592M. 
• Roberts, Bobby; Moneyhon, Carl (1993). Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-260-9. LCCN 92021637. OCLC 636462586. OL 1718833M. 
• Smith, Timothy B. (2012). James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press. ISBN 978-1-61703-231-8. LCCN 2011024062. OCLC 731192042. OL 25343440M.