As of 08/08/2006

18th Mississippi Infantry
(Previously identified as RG 9, v. 133)

Description Box #
Record of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the 18th Regiment, June 7, 1861 to February 22, 1865, with historical memoranda narrative, March 5, 1865;
News clipping from Canton, Miss. American Citizen for November 9, 1861 regarding the 18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment;
Final statement of 18th Regiment, undated.
283
List of statistics regarding the 18th Regiment, numbers killed, wounded, died of disease, undated;
News clipping from Canton, Miss. American Citizen concerning losses of the 18th Regiment in battle of Leesburg, Virginia, undated;
Fragment of undated roll of the 18th Regiment with brief service records;
Fragment of memoir (?) written on the back of state letterhead, undated.
282
Field Return of Humphreys' Brigade, with casualty statistics of regiment on reverse, undated. 285
Company A (Confederate Rifles of Rankin County):
   Muster roll, April 12, 1861 (2 copies);
   Record of Company A, April 12, 1861 to February 25, 1861.
283
   Roll sent to General W.H. Brown by Captain Joseph M. Jayne, June 11, 1861;
   Statistical recapitulation of casualty figures for Company A, with fragment of historical memoir on obverse, undated;
   Letter to A.Y. Harper asking him to rethink his enlistment, April 26, 1861.
282
Company B (Benton Rifles of Yazoo County):
   Muster roll, April 27, 1861;
   Record of Benton Rifles for April 27, 1861 to February 24, 1865.
283
   List of the men mustered into service by Lieutenant F. Bostick on April 27, 1861;
   MDAH veteran's survey form of William H. Luse, undated.
282
Company C (Confederates of Madison County):
   Muster roll, April 22, 1861 (2 copies);
   Record of Company C from June 7, 1861 to February 25, 1865.
283
   News clipping from the New Orleans Daily Picayune, ca. December 7, 1901 issue, regarding the activities of J.A. Hackett in Company C;
   News clipping from unidentified newspaper "Brave and Gallant Southerners Whose Memories Live Forever," by Major J.J. Hood, undated;
   News clipping, "Departure of the Confederates" from Canton, Miss. American Citizen, June 1, 1861;
   Muster roll, April 22, 1861;
   Typed historical sketch of company, undated;
   MDAH veterans' survey form of J.J. Crane, with letter from Crane to Dunbar Rowland transferring the survey form to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, July 27, 1910.
14576
Company D (Hamer Rifles of Yazoo County):
   Muster roll, April 19, 1861 (2 copies);
   Record of company, April 26, 1861 to February 22, 1865;
   List of company officers and recapitulation, undated.
283
   Muster roll for Hamer Rifles mustered in by W.H. McCardle, April 19, 1861;
   Roll of the Hamer Rifles, May 27, 1861;
   List of members mustered in by Lieutenant F. Bostick at Yazoo City on May 2, 1861;
   MDAH veterans' survey form completed for Charles F. Hamer by Robert Bowman, May (?), 1905.
282
Company E (Mississippi College Rifles of Hinds County):
   Muster roll, April 20, 1861 (2 copies);
   MDAH veterans' survey form of T.H.W. Barrett, undated;
   MDAH veterans' survey form of Fenton LaFayette Fulgham, June 6, 1908;
   Record of Mississippi College Rifles for April 20, 1861 to March 1, 1865.
283
   List of noncommissioned officers sent from J.W. Welborn to Lieutenant W.H. Lewis, April 23, 1861;
   Unit election reports for December 16, 17, 18, 1861;
   Report of strength and condition of company, May 27, 1861;
   Recapitulation of company, undated, with fragment of historical memoir on obverse, March 3, 1865.
282
Company F (McClung Rifles of Yazoo County):
   Muster roll, April 27, 1861 (2 copies);
   Record of the McClung Rifles for April 27, 1861 to March 28, 1865.
283
   List of officers and men sent to Gen. Brown by Capt. G.B. Gerald, undated;
   Article (typescript copy) describing the Battle of the Salient near Spottsylvania, Virginia in May, 1864 by W.M. Harris of Duncansby, Mississippi;
   History of the McClung Rifles sent to Dunbar Rowland, MDAH, by W.H. King, October 14, 1903;
   MDAH veterans' survey forms of George Bruce Gerald, and W.H. King, undated.
282
Company G (Camden Rifles of Madison County):
   Muster rolls, April 29, 1861 (2 copies), undated (2 copies);
   Record of Camden Rifles from June 7, 1861 to March 1, 1865.
283
   Roll of Camden Rifles, undated;
   Captain O.R. Singleton's report to Gen. W.H. Brown concerning the mustering of the Camden Rifles, including roster, April 29, 1861.
282
Company H (Brown Rebels of Hinds County):
   Muster roll, April 29, 1861 (2 copies);
   Record of Brown Rebels, April 29, 1861 to February 27, 1865.
283
   Roster of the Brown Rebels compiled by Emmett A. Butler from an original in his possession, April 4, 1912;
   MDAH veterans' survey form of Emmett A. Butler;
   Letter from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History certifying that Emmett A. Butler was a Confederate veteran, May 22, 1916, with a brief typed record of Butler's service;
   Letter with several sections, apparently copies of several related documents concerning payment of company, dated between January 1, 1861 and January 23, 1862.
282
Company I (Beauregard Rifles of Madison County):
   Muster roll, April 18, 1861.
283
   Roll of Beauregard Rifles mustered into service, April 18, 1861;
   Newsclipping listing a roster of the Beauregard Rifles, paper unidentified and undated;
   Election returns for 18th Regiment, December 16, 1861;
   MDAH veterans' survey form of Henry Clay Sharkey, undated;
282
   Record of 18th Regiment for April 18, 1861, to February 28, 1865. 14576
Company K (Burt Rifles of Hinds County):
   Muster roll, April 22, 1861 (2 copies);
   Company roll, undated;
   Record of Burt Rifles for April 22, 1861 to March 5, 1865.
283
   Letter from Hal L. McGehee to Dunbar Rowland of the Miss. Dept. of Archives and History, April 13, 1903, enclosing undated roll;
   Certified muster roll, with copies of documents pertaining to payment of company on reverse, May 22, 1861;
   Scrap of paper with notation "Mustered into service in Jackson, Miss. April 22nd 1864. Burt Rifles… Muster Roll," undated;
   Letter from P.B. Starke to Captain Burt requesting a copy of his company bylaws, May 25, 1861;
   Extract from "Record of Co. 'K', April 22, 1861 to March 5, 1865" for Tim E. Cooper, undated;
   Pass for three members of the Burt Rifles, May 23, 1861.
282

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