* This company subsequently became Company K, 2nd Mississippi Cavalry
In the same company was: E. Weems enlisted in Company K on this same date, no other records
M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organization
** Inasmuch as 4 subsequent muster rolls are in existence, and he is not listed, he would have had to been dropped from the rolls sometime before May 1864. This could have been due to death, resignation, discharge, desertion, capture, etc. The latter is improbable as there are no Federal prison records in the file. Hence, from these records, we do not know of his fate.
Record of Events, Company K (Mrs. Body Guards)
Stationed at Columbus, Mississippi, March 24, 1862
Station not stated, June 30-October 31, 1862.
The company, with the regiment, having marched from
Guntown, Mississippi to Denmark, Tennessee in eight days, when
they engaged in a series of skirmishes at Denmark, Medon and
Bolivar lasting five days inclusive, during which time they
underwent may privations and hardships. Lost three men cap-
tured by the enemy.
After resting one day at Davis' Mill, they returned to Bald-.
wyn, Mississippi. Remained there for a day or two.
September 10.— Marched for Iuka.
September 14.— Reached there and engaged the enemy. Were
repulsed.
September 15.— [Occupied the place], the enemy having
retreated.
Remained at Iuka for one week.
Covered the retreat of the Army to Baldwyn.
Stationed near Mechanicsburg, Mississippi, May-June 1863.
May 21.— The company, with the regiment, left General F. C.
Armstrong's Brigade at Spring Hill, Tennessee to join General
Cosby's Brigade at Canton, Mississippi. Having been exchanged
for Colonel [Thomas G.] Woodard's Kentucky Regiment and after
the regiment arrived in the state of Mississippi, thirty-five of the
company left and went to their houses in Scott County, Missis-
sippi and did not rejoin their company until June 11, 1863.
Stationed at Kosciusko, Mississippi, [July]-October 1863.
Stationed near Marietta, Georgia, May-June 1864.
Stationed at Bear Creek, Georgia, July-August 1864.
Stationed at Courtland, Alabama, September-October 1864.
Stationed at Tuscumbia, Alabama, November-December 1864.
The company, with the regiment, during the months of
November and December marched across the Tennessee River at
Florence, Alabama and aided in the advance of General Hood's
Army. On to Nashville, Tennessee engaging in heavy skirmishes
with the enemy almost daily until we reached Nashville.
December 3.— Marched on Murfreesborough.
Remained several days, when it fell back in the direction of
Columbia. We fell in the rear of the Army of Tennessee and
aided in covering the retreat across the Tennessee River. Had
three men wounded and one captured.
The company behaved well during the whole campaign.
JOHN P. HARRIS,
First Lieutenant,
Commanding, Company.
[M861-Roll #27]
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2nd Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry
2nd Cavalry Regiment [also called 4th and 42nd Regiment] was organized during the spring of 1863. It was formerly the 47th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, which never completed its organization. Its members were from the counties of Adams, Choctaw, Newton, Lee, Lauderdale, Pontotoc, Kemper, and Hinds. The unit was assigned to W. Adams', Mabry's, and F.C. Armstrong's Brigade. After skirmishing in Mississippi it saw action in various conflicts in North Georgia and Alabama. Some of the men were captured in the fight at Selma, and only a remnant surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The field officers were Colonels Edward Dillon and J.L. McCarty, Lieutenant Colonel James Gordon, and Majors J.L. Harris and John J. Perry