**This company subsequently bercame Company D, 1st (Johnston's) Regiment Mississippi Infantry
In his records you will find a physical description of him. Also joining Company D about the same time was 20 year old Private/4th Corporal John A. Scott.
Officers of Company D (De Sota Greys)
William J. A. Boon, Capt.
L. H. Hall, 1st Lt.
L. L. Jones, Capt.
Thomas G. Tate, 2nd Lt.
J. W. Johnson, 2nd Lt.
D. B. White, 1st Lt.
J. C. Culbertson, 1st Lt
Record of Events
Company D (De Sota Greys)
Station not stated, August 27, 1861-August 27, 1862.
Stationed at Port Hudson, Louisiana, January-February 1863.
Stationed at Columbus, Mississippi, March-April 1864.
Stationed in the field, July-August 1864.
[For record of events, see Company C.]
The company has fortunately lost no men killed or wounded.
Stationed at Smithfield, North Carolina, August 31, 1864-February 28, 1865.
July 28, 1864-February 28, 1865.— The company has been on all the marches and in all the battles with the Army of Tennessee.
Company C (Reuben Davis Rebels)
Stationed at Poplar Springs, August 2, 186I-August 2, 1862.
Stationed at Fort Hudson, Louisiana, January-February 1863.
Stationed at Columbus, Mississippi, March-April 1864.
Stationed at Atlanta, Georgia, July-August 1864.
Since last muster the company has made a long and fatiguing
march in north Mississippi.
July 15.— Participated in the engagement at old Harrisburg near
Tupelo, Mississippi.
Then moved to Meridian and from there to Selma, Alabama
and thence to Montgomery, then to Chehaw Station to aid in
repelling [William Starke] Rosecrans' raiders. Thence we
marched to Opelika and took train for West Point; thence ordered
here by General Bragg. These, especially the march in north
Mississippi, were marches and movements made very rapidly,
when the weather was extremely warm and numbers fell daily
from sunstroke. Since arriving at the Army of Tennessee without
ever being in any decisive engagement, the company has been on
constant picket duty, exposed to fire night and day and has lost
none killed but four wounded.
WILLIAM D. HOWZE,
First Lieutenant,
Commanding Company.